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  • Page 1

    © LINDY ELECTRONICS LIM ITED & LINDY -ELEKTRONIK GM BH - FIRST EDITIO N (Novem ber 2004) RAID Native SATA–150 4 Ports PCI Host User Manual English LINDY No. 70541 (Internal 4 Port) LINDY No. 70542 ( External 2 Por t + Internal 2 Port ) w w w .LIN DY .com[...]

  • Page 2

    - 2 - 1. Introduction T hi s RAID Native SA T A-150 4Port s PC I Ho st A dapter i s a P CI to 4Ports Serial A T A host controll er board. I t p ro vid es a 32bit, 33/66 MH z PCI interface on the host side and dual , full y com pli ant Serial A T A ports on the device side to access SA T A Hard di sk drive. The board can be used to upgrade your desk[...]

  • Page 3

    - 3 - F o u r high speed Serial ATA inte rface ports, each supporting 1st generation Serial ATA data rates (1.5Gb/s). P rovi des RA ID 0 (Stripping) to greatl y increase the perform ance of d at a transfer by sim ultaneousl y w ri ting data to 2 drives. Provides RAID 1 (M i rroring) to protect the data from a di sk fail ure by w ri ting identi cal [...]

  • Page 4

    - 4 - 2. What Is RA ID RAID - Redundant Ar ray of Independent Disks RAID technology m anages m ulti ple di sk drives to enhance I/O perform ance and provide redundancy in order to withstand the failure of any i ndivi dual m em ber , w it hout loss of dat a. This card provides tw o RAID Set types, S tri ped (RA ID 0) and Mirrored (RAID 1). Disk Str [...]

  • Page 5

    - 5 - 4. Select Au to co n fig u ration . Press Ente r. 5. Press Y to save your settings. 6. Press CT RL+E and then press Y to exit the setup. 7. Continue w i th conventional Fdisk and Form at steps as if you are i ns ta l li ng a conventional hard drive. 8. Y our RAID configurati on is com pl ete. Please proceed to sof tware i n sta l l at i o n s[...]

  • Page 6

    - 6 - 1. After replacing the fai led hard drives boot the BIOS, Press CTRL+ S or F4 to enter the ra id bio s ut ility . 2. Select re buil di ng Mi rrored se t. Press Enter . 3. Select Online r e bu ild or Offline rebu ild . 4. Answ er Y to rebui ld the Mirrored set of hard drive. 3.5. Resolving Confli ct W hen a RAID set is created, the m etadat a [...]

  • Page 7

    - 7 - CD-ROM/DVD i s E :) and c li c k Browse . 8. Points specify a locati on, ex ample E : S A T A Raid_4Por tSil31 14Win 98_me _ 2000_ xp_nt4.0 , cli ck OK and then N ext . 9.Cli ck Next and then Fin ish . 10. Rem ove the Driver CD and cl ick Y es to restart W indows to com plete dri ver ins t allat ion. For Existing Windows 98/98 SE Systems [...]

  • Page 8

    - 8 - 2. At the Add New Hard ware Wizard , check S pecify th e location of the d ri v er (A dvan ced), and cl ick Next . 3. Insert the D river CD, check S pecify a location , uncheck the other b ox e s, and cli ck Browse . 4.Points specify a locati on, ex ample E : S A T A Raid_4Por tSil31 14Win 98_me _ 2000_ xp_nt4.0 , cli ck OK and then N ext [...]

  • Page 9

    - 9 - _ 2000_ xp_nt4.0Sl31 14r .inf , click Op en then OK . 5. Highl ight Silicon I mage Sil 31 14 SA T ARaid Controller and click OK . 6.If the I nsert Disk dial og appears, cli ck OK then Br owse. 7.Highl ight Sl31 14r .sys and click Op en then OK . V erification of the Proper Inst allation for Window s NT 4.0 1. Double cl ick My Co m p u ter/Co[...]

  • Page 10

    - 10 - For New Window s XP Sy stems (Fresh Inst allation) 1. Before installati on, copy all the fil es under directory E:SA T A Rai d_4Port S i l31 14 W i n98_m e _ 2000_ x p_nt4.0dri ver *.* to a bl ank floppy di sk 2. Af ter the SA T A RAID PCI H ost Adapter and att ached drives are confi gured, follow Microsof t procedures to install W i nd[...]

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    - 11 - Thi s de v ice com p li es w i th Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operat ion is s ubj ect to t he f o ll owin g two conditi ons: (1) t h i s de v i ce m ay not cause harmf ul interf erence, and (2) t h i s de v i ce m ust accept any i n t erfer ence receiv ed, i ncludi n g interf erence t hat may cause undesired oper ati ons .[...]