Works with various brand of Ultra ATA 133/100/66/33 hard disk drives System Requirements Pentium-class computer with an available PCI slot Windows® 98SE/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP/Server 2003 Package Contents UltraATA 133 PCI Adapter Driver CD User Manual ATA 133 IDE cable x2 RC200 User Manual...
ULTRA ATA/133 PCI RAID Card RC200 User Manual Note: For proper operation of the Ultra ATA 133 PCI RAID card, the jumper must remain on. 1. Turn Off the power to your computer and any other connected peripheral devices. 2. Unplug the power cord from the back of the computer.
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Note: The ribbon cable has two connectors. If you have one hard disk drive, connect it to the end connector of cable. If you have a second hard disk drive, connect it to the middle connector of cable. RC200 User Manual...
4. If you want to boot from correct HD either from motherboard HD or RC-200 HD, please change from BIOS “booting sequence”.(You can download this document from Rosewill website.) 5. If you want to use RC-200 as a un-RAID card, please do not enter the RAID BIOS and set any RAID set at the beginning of booting.
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5. Enter the number of hard drives in the stripe set. 6. Press Y to accept the configuration. 7. Configure another RAID set or press ESC to reboot. 8. Continue with FDISK and FORMAT steps as if you are installing a conventional hard drive. RC200 User Manual...
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1. As the BIOS boots press F3 when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS. 2. Press F2 to enter the RAID setup screen. 3. Press F2 to from RAID set 1. 4. Answer N to Automatic setup. RC200 User Manual...
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ULTRA ATA/133 PCI RAID Card RC200 User Manual 5. Assign Source drive, then assign Destination drive. 6. Press Y to copy from Source to Destination drive. 7. Press N to Offline copy. 8. Answer Y to enable Auto-Rebuild. 9. When asked Are You Sure?, press Y to accept.
10. Answer N for automatic setup. 11. Enter the number of the Source (good) drive. 12. Enter the number of the Destination (new) drive. 13. Answer Y to copy from Source to Destination drive. 14. Answer N to decline Offline Copy. RC200 User Manual...
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8. Enter Y to accept the RAID configuration. 9. On the following screen press ESC to exit the RAID configuration utility and reboot the computer. 10. Continue with FDISK and FORMAT steps as if you were installing a conventional hard drive. RC200 User Manual...
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5. When asked Are You Sure?, Press Y to accept. 6. Press ESC to exit the RAID BIOS and reboot the computer. 7. Continue with FDISK and FORMAT steps as if you were installing a conventional hard drive. RC200 User Manual...
After RC-200 is installed complete, you can add HD and set the RAID by RAID BIOS. 2. If you want to add RC-200 to a new PC without any OS, you need to boot the OS from RC200 User Manual...
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ULTRA ATA/133 PCI RAID Card RC200 User Manual HD connecting to RC-200 instead of motherboard. Please follow below steps a~f to complete the installation. a. Put the driver (the driver must fit the OS you want to install to the HD) into a floppy disk and keep it in the floppy drive.
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ULTRA ATA/133 PCI RAID Card RC200 User Manual shows as the following picture. Choose the correct OS for your future system.
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ULTRA ATA/133 PCI RAID Card RC200 User Manual If below screen happens, please choose “Standard PC with C-Step i486”.
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ULTRA ATA/133 PCI RAID Card RC200 User Manual Keep the floppy disk in floppy drive. PC will notice you as below if you take it off from the drive.
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ULTRA ATA/133 PCI RAID Card RC200 User Manual The installation of RC-200 by floppy drive will be completed and the system will detect the HD which now plug on the card. After you install RC-200 successfully by floppy disk, installation will lead you back to...
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HD will copy to fresh HD and boot as RAID 1. In addition, based on the above situation, if a bootable HD on the RC200 is desired. It means in this case you will boot our computer from RC200 instead of motherboard. Please follow the following instructions.
4. Select Driver tab, then click Update Driver button. 5. Insert the driver CD into the CD-ROM Drive and click Next. 6. Select Search for the best driver for your device(Recommended) from the following dialog box and type RC200 User Manual...
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9. Restart Windows to complete driver installation. For Windows® ME * For New Windows® ME Installation 1. Setup the RAID Array prior to Windows installation. 2. Install the board and follow Microsoft procedures to install Windows® ME accordingly. RC200 User Manual...
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7. D:\RC-200\raid (Note: “D:\” represents the drive letter assigned to the CD-ROM drive you are using. If D is not letter of your CD-ROM drive, substitute D with the correct drive letter), then click Next. RC200 User Manual...
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3. At the Windows NT Setup screen, press F6 to specify and add the driver. 4. Press S, select Other, then press Enter. 5. Insert the driver diskette and press Enter. 6. Select Silicon Image SiI 0680 ultra-133 Medley ATA Raid Controller and press Enter. RC200 User Manual...
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Adapters listing and click Properties. A message this device is working properly is displayed in the dialog box, the driver has been correctly installed. For Windows® 2000 * For New Windows® 2000 Installation A new installation requires a floppy disk for the driver installation. To make this floppy disk, RC200 User Manual...
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CD-ROM drive you are using. If D is not letter of your CD-ROM drive, substitute D with the correct drive letter), then click OK. 7. Click Next again, then Finish. 8. Restart Windows to complete driver installation. RC200 User Manual...
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3. At the Found New Hardware Wizard, click Next. 4. Choose “Install from a list or specific location(Advanced), and then click Next to continue. 5. Choose Search for the best driver in these location and check the option Include this location in the search. RC200 User Manual...
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Thank you for purchasing a quality Rosewill Product. Please register your product at : www.rosewill.com/ for complete warranty information and future support for your product. RC200...
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