SATA 150 RAID 2 Port PCI Host RC201 | User Manual | |
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Important Message:
1.Before controller card installation, we recommend to study the PDF file of SATA Raid manual at enclosed CD folder \ SATA Raid_2Port \ SiI3x12 \ Win98_me_2000_xp_nt4.0 \ Gui first. This Raid manual has more information on Raid architecture, Raid features, Raid installation, Raid setting and Management software for Raid GUI (Graphical User Interface).
2.After driver installation, if you like, you can install SATARaid GUI for Raid management. Before SATARaid GUI installation, you must remove all the existing SATARaid GUI (or Java SATARaid GUI) to ensure your new SATARaid GUI can work properly.
i.e. : (\ Start \ Control Panel \ Add or Remove Programs \ Select all SATARaid \ Remove)
3.For the creating and management of Raid sets, you can either use BIOS utility setting before Windows operation or use GUI setting under Windows.
Backup all your data in HD before setting any RAID.
4.New HD connecting to
5.Please read the PDF file of
6.If you have trouble booting from correct HD either from motherboard HD or
7.Although SATA HD is a “hot swap” design, it is strongly recommended that all users turn off the power before you add any HD to PC.
1.Introduction
This SATA RAID 2 Port PCI Host Adapter is a PCI to dual Serial ATA host controller board. It provides a 32bit, 33/66 MHz PCI interface on the host side and dual, fully compliant Serial ATA ports on the device side to access SATA storage devices.
The board can be used to upgrade your desktop computer to have dual Serial ATA Channels and support RAID 0 and RAID 1 features. It accepts host commands through the PCI bus, processes them and transfers data between the host and Serial ATA devices. The board should be connected to SATA target device and will take the data, serialize it and output it for transmission over the SATA interface. The board can control two independent Serial ATA channels. Each channel has its own Serial ATA bus and will support one Serial ATA device.
The board supports Serial ATA Generation 1 transfer rate of 1.5 Gb/s (150 MB/s). It comes completely with drivers for Windows 98, Windows Millennium, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and XP.
RAID, Redundant Array of Independent Disks, greatly enhances two main areas of data storage: performance and data integrity. By using RAID 0, also known as Striping, performance of sustained data transfer rates is greatly enhanced by simultaneously writing data to 2, 3 or 4 drives. The second benefit of RAID is data redundancy. RAID 1, Mirroring, writes identical data on two drives or sets of drives, thus protecting the data from a disk failure. If, for any reason, one drive were to fail, your data is secure and available from the mirrored second drive.
1.1. Features
1.1.1.PCI Interface
Compliant with PCI Specification, revision 2.2.
Integrated PCI DMA engines.
32 bit, 33/66MHz fully compliant PCI host interface.
Sufficient power current 1.5A5V and 2A12V to supply External Device
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