Serial-ATA IDE Card.pdf

Serial-ATA IDE Card Version 1.2 2 Contents 1.0 Features … … … … ...........… … … … … … … … … … … … .P.3 2.0 System Requirement … … … … … … … … … … … … .P.3 3.0 Driver Installation … … … … … .… … … … … … … … … .P.3 4.0 GUI Installation … .… … … … … .… … … … … … … … … .P.8 5.0 RAID Explained … … … … … .… … … … … … … … … .P.9 3 Introduction The PCI Serial-ATA IDE Controller Card provides an inexpensive way for users to increase the speed or fault-tolerance of their PC. It can upgrade your desktop computer to have dual Serial ATA channels. It is fully compliant Serial ATA ports on the device side to access Serial ATA storage media such as hard disk drives, floppy disk drives, CD-ROM drives, CD-RW and DVD-ROM drives! 1.0 Features This is a true 32-bit PCI-Bus IDE card. It supports the following I/O features: ?? PCI “Plug and Play” compatibility ?? Serial ATA Specifications 1.0 compatible ?? Provides dual Serial ATA channels (up to 2 drives) ?? Co-resides with motherboard IDE devices ?? 1.5GB/second maximum burst rate ?? Integrated PCI DMA engines ?? Supports Spread Spectrum in receiver 2.0 System Requirements ?? Available PCI slot. ?? Serial ATA drive. ?? Serial ATA cables. ?? Driver support Windows 98/ME, Windows NT4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. 3.0 Driver Installation ??Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000/XP Fresh Installation Follow the instructions in this section if you are performing a new installation of Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000/XP, and you wish to boot from a device attached to the SATA2000. 1. Power off the system. Insert the SATA2000 card into an available PCI slot. Connect serial ATA cable(s) between the SATA2000 card and the serial ATA device(s). Power up the system. 2. Copy all files from “DC-SATA150-2C” directory into the diskette. 3. Put your Windows NT/2000/XP CD into the CD-ROM/DVD drive, or the NT/2000 boot diskette #1 in the fl