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FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual
Understanding Disk Array Concepts
About FastTrak TX2000 Disk Array Adapter
FastTrak TX2000 is a high performance Ultra ATA/EIDE RAID controller card that features
concurrent data channel operation and onboard BIOS. The channels on the FastTrak TX2000
support concurrent operation that allows for overlapped I/O under multi-tasking operating
systems and sharing the workload between multiple drives.
About Adapter BIOS
The FastTrak TX2000 card contains a BIOS code that extends the standard disk service routine
provided through Int13. The BIOS is bootable for DOS and other operating systems that rely on
the system BIOS for drive operation. When the FastTrak TX2000 BIOS appears during bootup,
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users can press <Ctrl-F> to enter the FastBuild
setup to select from menu settings.
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FastBuild
Auto Menu Setup
This setup utility is used to build and manage FastTrak TX2000 disk arrays. The utility is menu
driven and features the <1> Auto Setup option that uses a simple, interactive setup process.
Once the array is built, all the array members store the configuration information in the drive's
reserved area. See Chapter 4, which provides descriptions of individual functions.
Reserved Sector
Array configuration data about the drive member and other members in the disk array are
saved on a special location on the disk drives called the reserved sector. If any member of the
array becomes corrupt or lost, the redundant configuration data on the other members can be
used for rebuilds.
Disk array members do not have a "memory" of their drive positions. This allows drives to be
placed on different FastTrak TX2000 connectors or cards within the system without
reconfiguring or rebuilding.
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