Promise Technology FAST TRAK100TM user manual Installing The Hard Drives, Jumper Settings

FastTrak100 User Manual

Installing The Hard Drives

WARNING: If you wish to include your current bootable drive using the Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 operating system as part of a bootable Mirrored (RAID 1) array on your FastTrak100, do NOT connect the hard drive to the FastTrak100 controller yet. You MUST install the Windows NT4 or 2000 driver software first (see

page 34) to this drive while it is still attached to your existing hard drive controller. For all other Operating Systems, proceed here.

Hard drives must be Ultra ATA/100, Ultra ATA/66, Ultra ATA/33, EIDE and/or Fast ATA-2 compatible to operate with the FastTrak100 RAID Adapter. For optimal performance, install all identical drives of the same model and capacity. The drives’ matched performance allows the array to function better as a single drive.

1.Promise recommends using identical drives as part of a FastTrak100 array. If striping for performance, use up to four new drives. If mirroring for protection, you can use two new drives OR use an existing drive and a new drive (the new drive must be the same size or larger than the existing drive).

2.Configure the jumpers of the hard drive you’re preparing to connect to the FastTrak100 using the correct “Master” or “Cable-Select” settings in the positions described in the table below.

NOTE: Sometimes the Master drive with no slave attached is called “Single.” The master slave setting differentiates two drives chained on the same connector.

Jumper Settings

# of Drives	IDE Channel 1	IDE Channel 2
1	M	----
2	M	M
3	M & S	M
4	M & S	M & S
	M = Master, S = Slave

3.Install the hard drives into the hard drive bays of your system, including the power cables.

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