Lindy manual Introduction, Features, PCI Interface, High Speed Ultra ATA-133 Interface

Low Profile Ultra ATA-133 RAID PCI Host

1. Introduction

This Low Profile Ultra ATA-133 RAID PCI Host Adapter is a PCI to dual Ultra ATA-133 host controller board which can support Low profile PCI and regular size PCI both. It provides a 32bit, 33/66 MHz PCI interface on the host side and dual, fully compliant Ultra ATA-133 ports on the device side to access ATA Hard disk drive.

The board can be used to upgrade your desktop computer to have dual Ultra ATA-133 Channels and support RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 features. 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.

1.1.2. High Speed Ultra ATA-133 Interface

Supports two independent ATA channels. =Supports ATA 133.

Supports full speed burst transfers on the ATA bus.

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