Features and Benefits Compliant with one-lane 2.5Gb/s PCI Express specification Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specification Supports Serial ATA Generation 2 transfer rate of 3.0Gb/s Supports Native Command Queue (NCQ) on SATA ports Supports Hot Plugging like USB on SATA port Provides three independent channels to connect two SATA and two PATA hard disk drives Supports up to UDMA6 transfer mode of PATA...
ATA 133 IDE Cable Hardware Description Note: There are four SATA ports in PCIe SATA II 300 + PATA Raid Card. We name these ports CON1 to CON4. Ports CON3 & CON4 are external SATA ports and CON1 & CON2 are internal SATA ports.
Jumper Settings Description Active Port J1-J4 1-2 close Enable SATA Port CON1 2-3 close Enable SATA Port CON3 J5-J8 1-2 close Enable SATA Port CON2 2-3 close Enable SATA Port CON4 MN2000000143 Page 4 ...
Replace the slot bracket’s holding screw to secure the card. Replace the computer cover and reconnect the power cord. RAID Arrays RAID Arrays are setup in the PCIe SATA II 300 + PATA Raid Card’s BIOS. There are four configurations supported:...
RAID 0+1 Disk Striping + Mirroring JBOD Disk Concatenation 2 or 3 or 4 RAID 0 (Striping) As the BIOS boots press Ctrl+J when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS. At the next screen select Create RAID Disk Drive, press Enter. Enter RAID name, press Enter.
BIOS. RAID 1 (Mirroring) As the BIOS boots press Ctrl+J when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS. At the next screen select Create RAID Disk Drive, press Enter. Enter RAID name, press Enter. Please use arrow keys ↑ and ↓to switch the RAID level to 1-Mirror, then press Enter.
RAID BIOS. At the next screen select Create RAID Disk Drive, press Enter. Enter RAID name, press Enter. Please use arrow keys ↑ and ↓to switch the RAID level to JBOD-Concatenate, then press Enter. Please use arrow keys ↑ and ↓to switch the disk, use the “space”...
01-Stripe+Mirror, then press Enter. Please use arrow keys ↑ and ↓ to select chunk size from 4K, 8K, 16K, 32K, 64K or 128K, then press Enter. Input the RAID size, press Enter. When asked Created RAID on the select HDD (Y/N)?, press Y to accept.
Solve Mirror Conflict When a RAID set is created, then metadata written to the disk includes drive connection information. If, after a disk failure, the replacement disk was previously part of a RAID set (or used in another system), it may have conflicting metadata.
Enter. When asked Save to disk &Exit (Y/N)?, press Y to exit the BIOS. BIOS Configuration The PCIe SATA II 300 + PATA Raid Card BIOS will appear every time your system starts up. During this (POST) process, the BIOS will show up and indicate the devices attached to it.
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Cancel button to cancel the driver installation for the device at this moment. The driver for this device will be installed in the next step. Please insert the CD driver bound with PCIe SATA II 300 + PATA Raid Card into your CD-ROM Drive. MN2000000143 ...
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At the Windows desktop, click Start, then Run. Type D:\PCIe\JMB36X\Setup.exe, click OK. (Change D:\ to match your CD-ROM drive letter) Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation. Restart Windows to complete the installation. For Windows® XP-x64/Server 2003-x64 For A New Installation A new installation requires a floppy disk for the driver installation.
The driver for this device will be installed in the next step. Please insert the CD driver bound with PCIe SATA II 300 + PATA Raid Card into your CD-ROM Drive. At the Windows desktop, click Start, then Run.
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installation. To make this floppy disk, copy the contents of the “ PCIe\JMB36X\Floppy32” folder, found on the driver CD, onto a blank floppy disk then follow the directions below. Setup the RAID Array prior to Windows installation. Follow Microsoft’s Windows installation procedure. At the Windows Setup screen, press Load Driver to install the driver.
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Please insert the CD driver bound with PCIe SATA II 300 + PATA Raid Card into your CD-ROM Drive. At the Windows desktop, click Start, then Run. Type D:\PCIe\JMB36X\Setup.exe, click OK. (Change D:\ to match your CD-ROM drive letter) Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
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The driver for this device will be installed in the next step. Please insert the CD driver bound with PCIe SATA II 300 + PATA Raid Card into your CD-ROM Drive. At the Windows desktop, click Start, then Run.
To Verify Driver Installation Right click My Computer and click Manage. Select Device Manager. Look for the following: Windows® 2000/XP/2003: Double click SCSI and RAID Controller: -JMicron JMB36X Controller should be displayed Windows® Vista: Double click Storage controllers: -JMicron JMB36X Controller should be displayed MN2000000143 ...
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