Chapter 2: Installation
Installing the Hard Drives
Important
If you wish to include your current bootable Serial ATA drive using the Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, or Windows XP operating system as part of a bootable Mirrored (RAID 1) array on your FastTrak Serial ATA RAID card, do NOT connect the hard drive to the FastTrak yet.
You MUST install the Windows NT4, 2000, or XP driver software first onto this drive while it is still attached to your existing hard drive controller.
The FastTrak Serial ATA RAID card supports up to two Serial ATA hard drives and up to two Ultra ATA/133 drives. For optimal performance, install two identical Serial ATA drives and two identical Ultra ATA drives of the same model and capacity. The drives’ matched performance allows the array to function better as a single drive.
If you are striping (RAID 0) for performance, use up to four new drives. If mirroring (RAID 1) 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).
1.Install the hard drives into the hard drive bays of your system, including the power cables.
Caution
Use of removable hard drive enclosures other than Promise Technology’s SuperSwap is not supported and may result in performance loss or other undesired results.
2.Attach one Serial ATA data cable to each Serial ATA hard drive. Then attach the other ends of the cables to the connectors on the FastTrak TX2plus RAID card.
3.Attach a black connector of the Ultra ATA cable to each Parallel ATA hard drive.
4.Attach the blue cable connector to the Port 3 Parallel connector on the FastTrak S150 TX2plus controller card. The colored edge of the cable(s) indicates pin 1 (see Figure 2).
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