Lindy 70548 manual

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    © LINDY ELECTRONICS LIM ITED & LINDY -ELEKTRONIK GM BH - FIRST EDITIO N (Novem ber 2004) RAID SATA II – 3Gbps 4 Ports PCI-X Host User Manual English LINDY No. 70548 (External) LINDY No. 70549 ( I n t e r n a l ) w w w .LIN DY .com[...]

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    - 2 - 1. Introduction This R AI D S A T A II –3 Gb p s 4 P ort s PCI-X Host Adapter i s a PCI to 4P ort s Serial A T A host controll er board. I t p ro vid es a 64bit, 133 MH z PCI interface on the host side and four , full y com pli ant Serial A T A II – 3Gbps port s on the device si de to access SA T A Hard di sk drive. The board can be used [...]

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    - 3 - F o u r high speed Serial ATA inte rface ports, each supporting 1st generati on & 2 nd generation Serial ATA data rates 1.5Gbps/ 3Gbps. 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 [...]

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    - 4 - dat a. This card provides tw o RAID Set types, S triped (RAID 0) and M i rrored (RAID 1). Disk Str iping (RAID 0) S tri ping i s a perform ance-ori ented, non-redundant dat a m appi ng technique. W hil e S tripi ng is di scussed as a RA ID Set type, it is actual ly does not provi de fa ul t t o l er a nc e. W i t h m odern SA T A bus masterin[...]

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    - 5 - 8. Y our RA ID configurati on is com pl ete. P lease proceed to softw are i ns tal l a ti o n s ec ti o n. 3.2. Creating M irrored Set s (RA I D 1) 1. As the BIOS boots, Press CTRL+ S or F4 to enter the raid bios ut ilit y . 2. Select Create RA ID set. Press Ent er . 3. Select Mi rrore d then press Ent er . 4. Select Au to co n fig u ration .[...]

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    - 6 - 3.5. Resolving Confli ct W hen a RAID set is created, the m etadat a written to the di sk incl udes drive connection inform ation (Primary and S econdary). If, after a disk fai lure, the re pla ce m en t di sk w as previousl y p art of a RAID set (or used in another system ), i t m a y h a v e c o n f l i c t i n g m etadat a, speci ficall y [...]

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    - 7 - required. 8. See instructi ons in section 4.4 to veri fy HBA was installed correctl y . 4.2. A dding the HB A to an exi sting W indows NT Installation Follow the instructions in this section to install this HBA on a system already running Windows NT 4.0. 1. Pow er off the system . Connect the hard drives to the HBA and insert the HBA i nto a [...]

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    - 8 - 8. The w iza rd w ill no w cop y th e r equired fil es to the system and start the driver . Af ter st art ing t he d rive r th e w iza rd w ill dis play a c om ple tion dialo g, c lick 'Finis h' t o ex it th e wi z ar d . 9. See instructi ons in secti on 4.4 to verify controll er w as i nst al led correctl y . 4.4. Verify ing HBA in[...]

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    - 9 - 4.6. Update new RA ID dri ver on W indow s 2000/XP wi th exi sting old driver 1. Right cl ick on 'My Com puter' and sel ect 'Properties'. Under the 'S ystem Properties' section, cl ick on 'Hardw are' tab, and then on 'Device Manager' click 'SCSI and RA ID Controll er' and right cli c[...]

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    - 10 - 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 .[...]