1. Introduction This RAID SATA II –3Gbps 4Ports PCI-X Host Adapter is a PCI to 4Ports Serial ATA host controller board. It provides a 64bit, 133 MHz PCI interface on the host side and four, fully compliant Serial ATA II – 3Gbps ports on the device side to access SATA Hard disk drive.
Four high speed Serial ATA interface ports, each supporting 1st generation & generation Serial ATA data rates 1.5Gbps/ 3Gbps. Provides RAID 0 (Stripping) to greatly increase the performance of data transfer by simultaneously writing data to 2 drives. Provides RAID 1 (Mirroring) to protect the data from a disk failure by writing identical data on 2 drives.
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data. This card provides two RAID Set types, Striped (RAID 0) and Mirrored (RAID 1). 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.
8. Your RAID configuration is complete. Please proceed to software installation section. 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.
3.5. Resolving Conflict When a RAID set is created, the metadata written to the disk includes drive connection information (Primary and Secondary). 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, specifically in reference to the drive connection information.
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required. 8. See instructions in section 4.4 to verify HBA was installed correctly. 4.2. Adding the HBA to an existing Windows NT Installation Follow the instructions in this section to install this HBA on a system already running Windows NT 4.0. 1.
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8. 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. 9. See instructions in section 4.4 to verify controller was installed correctly. 4.4.
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4.6. Update new RAID driver on Windows 2000/XP with existing old driver 1. Right click on 'My Computer' and select 'Properties'. Under the 'System Properties' section, click on 'Hardware' tab, and then on 'Device Manager' click 'SCSI and RAID Controller' and right click 'Silicon Image Ultra-133 Medley ATA Raid Controller'. 2.
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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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