Rosewill RC-209-EX Logical Drive Info, Bios Configuration, Driver Installation, Quick guide

e-SATA 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC-209-EX User Manual

Logical Drive Info

This menu item allows the display of the assignment of physical drives within a logical set(RAID0, RAID1, etc.). This is display only function.

BIOS Configuration

The Serial ATA 4-Channel RAID adapter BIOS will appear every time your system starts up. If the BIOS doesn’t show, please try your controller in another PCI slot. During this (POST) process, the BIOS will show up and indicate the devices attached to it.

Driver Installation

Quick guide:

1.If you want to add RC-209-EX to an existing OS, set up RC-209-EX into a PCI slot. Enter the OS and install RC-209-EX with driver disk. In this case, PC is booting up by an existing HDD connecting to motherboard. After RC-209-EX is installed complete, you can add HDD and set the RAID by RAID BIOS.

2.If you want to add RC-209-EX to a new PC without any OS, you need to boot the OS from HD connecting to RC-209-EX instead of motherboard.

Please follow below steps a~f to complete the installation.

a.Put the driver (the driver must fit the OS you want to install to the HDD) into a floppy disk and keep it in the floppy drive.

b.Plug the HDD. Turn on PC, enter and complete the RAID set. After you complete, save and left the setting.

c.Inset Windows installation disk and start the windows installation.

d.Press F6 at the beginning as the blue screen scanning.

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