Rosewill RC210 user manual Introtuction, Features

E-SATA 1.5G 1+1 Port PCI Adaptor RC210 User Manual

This Manual for the Models of 2 Channels SATA HBA:

1.Introtuction

The Low Profile Serial ATA 2 Channels PCI Host Adapter is a PCI to dual Serial ATA 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 Serial ATA ports on the device side to access SATA storage media such as hard disk drive, ZIP drive, CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM.

The board can be used to upgrade your desktop computer to have dual Serial ATA Channels. 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 a 32-bit 33/66 MHz PCI bus revision 2.2 and the 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.

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 Serial ATA Interface

•Dual high speed Serial ATA interface Channels, each supporting 1st generation Serial ATA data rates (1.5Gb/s).

•Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications.

•Supports Spread Spectrum in receiver.

•Independent 256-byte FIFOs (32 bit * 64 deep) per Serial ATA channel for host reads and writes.

1.1.3. The Individual features for different Models

1.1.3.1. External 1 Port + Internal 1 Port

•Supports one External Port and one Internal Port.

•One Special Shell SATA connector on External Port to support Mobile HDD, Mobile CD-ROM,