Lindy 70538 User Manual

Sata raid+usb2.0 +1394a 9 port pci card

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SATA Raid+USB2.0
+1394a 9 port PCI Card
User Manual
English
LINDY No. 70538
www.LINDY.com
© LINDY ELECTRONICS LIMITED & LINDY-ELEKTRONIK GMBH - FIRST EDITION (November 2004)

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  • Page 1 SATA Raid+USB2.0 +1394a 9 port PCI Card User Manual English LINDY No. 70538 www.LINDY.com © LINDY ELECTRONICS LIMITED & LINDY-ELEKTRONIK GMBH - FIRST EDITION (November 2004)
  • Page 2: Pci Interface

    1. Introduction This PCI Host Adapter is a PCI controller board which can upgrade your desktop computer to have dual independent Serial ATA Channels to support RAID 0 and RAID 1 features, three 1394 ( FireWire ) ports and four USB2.0 / USB1.1 ports. The board supports a 32-bit 33 MHz PCI bus revision 2.2, 1394 transfer rate of 400 Mb/s, USB transfer rate of 1.5Mb/s, 12Mb/s, 480Mb/s and the Serial ATA Generation 1 transfer rate of 1.5 Gb/s (150 MB/s).
  • Page 3: Usb Interface

    Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications. Independent 256-byte FIFOs (32 bit * 64 deep) per Serial ATA channel for host reads and writes. Supports Spread Spectrum in receiver. Features Serial ATA to PCI interrupt masking. Features Watch Dog Timer for fault resiliency. 1.1.3.
  • Page 4: Disk Striping (Raid 0)

    Disk Striping (RAID 0) Striping is a performance-oriented, non-redundant data mapping technique. While Striping is discussed as a RAID Set type, it is actually does not provide fault tolerance. With modern SATA bus mastering technology, multiple I/O operations can be done in parallel, enhancing performance.
  • Page 5: Deleting Raid Sets

    3.2. Creating Mirrored Sets (RAID 1) 1. As the BIOS boots, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility. 2. Select Create RAID set. Press Enter. 3. Select Mirrored then press Enter. 4. Select Auto configuration. Press Enter. 5.
  • Page 6: Software Installation

    to function properly, this old metadata must be first overwritten with the new metadata. To resolve this, select Resolve Conflicts, and the correct metadata, including the correct drive connection information, will be written to the replacement disk. 4. Software Installation 4.1.
  • Page 7: Windows Xp Installation

    'Next'. 4. Under 'Optional search locations' insure that 'CD-ROM drives' is only checked. 5. Insert the CD Driver into CD-ROM drive and click 'Next'. 6. When the wizard indicates that it found a driver for the device click 'Next'. 7. The wizard will now copy the required files to the system and start the Driver. After starting the driver the wizard will display a completion dialog, click 'Finish' to exit the wizard.
  • Page 8 correctly. 1. Right click on 'My Computer' icon, select 'Properties', left click on 'Hardware' tab, and then on 'Device Manager' button. 2. Double click on 'System devices', then left click on 'PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge '. If there is no yellow '!' or '?' in front of 'PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge' the driver has started correctly.
  • Page 9: Windows 98Se Installation

    'System Properties ' , select 'Device Manager', right click on the '?PCI RAID controller' and select 'Properties' from the context menu. 6. Click 'Driver', 'Update Driver' and select 'Automatic search for a better driver [Recommended] '. Insert the driver diskette into floppy drive. Click 'Next' and complete the driver installation.
  • Page 10: Windows Me Installation

    16. Select 'CD-ROM drive' and click 'Next', Select 'The Updated driver (Recommended)' NEC PCI To USB Enhanced Host Controller click 'Next'. 17. When the wizard indicates that it found a driver for the device click 'Next'. Then click 'Finish' to exit the wizard. 18.
  • Page 11 Reboot the system if your Windows ME drive is connected on the SiI 3112 Controller. 4.8.Verifying The installation under Windows 98SE and ME Follow the instructions in this section to verify that the controller was installed correctly. 1. Right click on 'My Computer' icon, select 'Properties', left click on 'Device Manager' tab.
  • Page 12 This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operations.

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