What Is RAID, Package Contents

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. USB Interface

Compliant with Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 2.0 (Data Rate 1.5/12/480 Mbps).

Compliant with Open Host Controller Interface Specification for USB Rev 1.0a. Compliant with Enhanced Host Controller Interface Specification for USB Rev 0.95, All USB ports can handle high-speed (480 Mbps), full-speed (12 Mbps), and low-speed (1.5 Mbps) transaction.

1.1.4. 1394 ( FireWire ) Interface

Compliant with 1394 Open Host Controller Interface specification release 1.1 and IEEE Std 1394a-2000.

Provides three 1394 ports at 100/200/400 Mbps.

Built-in FIFOs for isochronous transmit (2048 bytes), asynchronous transmit (2048 bytes), and receive (3072 bytes).

32-bit CRC generation and checking for receive/transmit packets.

1.2. Package Contents

SATA Raid + USB2.0 + 1394a 3-In-1 9 Port PCI Host Adapter

This User’s Manual

Driver Diskette

2. What Is RAID

RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disks

RAID technology manages multiple disk drives to enhance I/O performance and provide redundancy in order to withstand the failure of any individual member, without loss of data. This card provides two RAID Set types, Striped (RAID 0) and Mirrored (RAID 1).

- 3 -