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    SA T A II / A T A 133 PCIe Card RC216 User Manual[...]

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    SA T A II/A T A 133 PCIe Card RC216 U s e r M a n u a l 2 Features an d Benefits z Compliant with one-lane 2.5Gb /s PCI Expr ess specificat ion z Compliant with Serial A T A 1.0 specification z Supports Serial A T A Generation 2 transfer rat e of 3.0Gb/s z Supports Native Command Qu eue (NCQ ) on SA T A port s z Provides three independent chan nels[...]

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    SA T A II/A T A 133 PCIe Card RC216 U s e r M a n u a l 3 z 1x Manual z 1x Driver CD z 1x SA T A Data Cable z 1x A T A 133 IDE Cable Note : Contents may vary dep ending on country/market.[...]

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    SA T A II/A T A 133 PCIe Card RC216 U s e r M a n u a l 4 Hardwar e Description G (Jumper Settings) JP Descript ion Active Port 1-2 close Enable SA T A Port C ON1 J1-J4 2-3 close Enable SA T A Port C ON3 1-2 close Enable SA T A Port C ON2 J5-J8 2-3 close Enable SA T A Port C ON4 Note: There are four SA T A ports i n PCIe SA T A II 3 00 + P A T A Ra[...]

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    SA T A II/A T A 133 PCIe Card RC216 U s e r M a n u a l 5 changing the jumper setting on the PCIe SA T A II 300 + P A T A R aid Card that allows you to s elect between exter nal and int ernal ports t o use. By default, Port CON1 & CON2 are working. Ha rdw a re I ns t al la t io n 1. T urn Off the pow er to your compu ter . 2. Unplug the power c[...]

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    SA T A II/A T A 133 PCIe Card RC216 U s e r M a n u a l 6 RAID 0+1 Disk Striping + Mirroring 4 JBOD Disk Concatenation 2 or 3 or 4 RAID 0 (Stripin g) 1. As the BIOS boots press Ctrl+J when prompted t o enter the RAID BIOS. 2. At the next screen select Create RAID Disk Drive , pr ess Enter . 3. Enter RAID name, press Enter . 4. Please use arrow ke y[...]

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    SA T A II/A T A 133 PCIe Card RC216 U s e r M a n u a l 7 BIOS. 2. At the next screen select Create RAID Disk Drive , pr ess Enter . 3. Enter RAID name, press Enter . 4. Please use arrow ke ys ↑ and ↓ to switch the RAID leve l to 1-Mirror , then press Enter . 5. Please use arrow key s ↑ and ↓ to switch the disk, use th e “space” key to [...]

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    SA T A II/A T A 133 PCIe Card RC216 U s e r M a n u a l 8 7. When asked Create d RAID on the select HDD (Y/N)? , press Y to accept. 8. At the next screen select Save An d Exit Setup , press Enter . Wh en asked Save t o disk &Exit (Y/N )? , press Y to exit the BIOS. RAID 0+1 (Striping + Mirroring) 1. As the BIOS boots press Ctrl+J when prompted [...]

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    SA T A II/A T A 133 PCIe Card RC216 U s e r M a n u a l 9 2. At the next screen select Delete RAID Disk Drive , press Enter . 3. Please use arrow ke ys ↑ and ↓ to select the arra y you want to delete, use the “ space” key to mark the selected arr ay , then press DEL . 4. When asked ALL DA T A ON THE RAID WILL LOST!! ARE YOU SURE TO DELE TE [...]

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    SA T A II/A T A 133 PCIe Card RC216 U s e r M a n u a l 10 start the computer . 2. During boot press Ctrl+J to enter the RAID BIOS. 3. Select Rebuild Mirror Drive press Enter . 4. Please use arrow ke ys ↑ and ↓ to select the arra y you want to rebuild, pr ess En ter . 5. Please use arrow ke ys ↑ and ↓ to select the destinati on disk, press [...]

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    SA T A II/A T A 133 PCIe Card RC216 U s e r M a n u a l 11 directions below . 1. Setup the RAID Array prior to Windows installation. 2. Follow Microsoft’ s Windows instal lation procedure. 3. Restart the computer when prompted b y Windows’ instal lation. 4. At the Windows Setup screen, press F6 to install the RAID driver . 5. When prompted, pre[...]

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    SA T A II/A T A 133 PCIe Card RC216 U s e r M a n u a l 12 CD-ROM drive letter) 6. Follow the o n-screen instr uctions to complete the installa tion. 7. Restart Windows to comp lete the installatio n. For Windows® XP-x64/Server 2003-x64 For New Installation A new installation r equires a floppy disk for the driver installa tion. T o make this flop[...]

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    SA T A II/A T A 133 PCIe Card RC216 U s e r M a n u a l 13 Windows. 2. At the Fo und Ne w H ardw are W iz ard window po p-up, please click Cancel button to cancel the driver instal lation for th e device at this moment. The driver for this device will be installed in the next step. 3. Please insert th e CD driver bound with PCIe SA T A II 300 + P A[...]

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    SA T A II/A T A 133 PCIe Card RC216 U s e r M a n u a l 14 5. Insert the floppy disk, please select JMicr on JMB36X Controller (A:jraid_f.inf) , then press Next . (Change A: to match your floppy drive letter) 6. Follow the on-scr een instructio ns to complete the Windows installation. For An Existi ng Installation 1. Setup the RAID Array prior to[...]

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    SA T A II/A T A 133 PCIe Card RC216 U s e r M a n u a l 15 make this floppy disk, co py the content s of the “ RC-216Floppy32 ” folder , found on t he driver CD, ont o a blank floppy disk then follow the directions below . 1. Setup the RAID Array prior to Windows installation. 2. Follow Microsoft’ s Windows in stallation procedure. 3. Restar[...]

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    SA T A II/A T A 133 PCIe Card RC216 U s e r M a n u a l 16 5. Ty p e D: RC-216Setup.exe , click OK . (Chang e D: to match your CD-ROM drive letter) 6. Follow the o n-screen instr uctions to complete the installa tion. 7. Restart Windows to comp lete the installatio n. T o V erify Driver Installation Click on the “Device Mana ger” tab in Syst[...]