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SATA Raid+USB2.0
+1394a 9 port PCI Card
User Manual
English
LINDY No. 70538
www.LINDY.com
© LINDY ELECTRONICS LIMITED & LINDY-ELEKTRONIK GMBH - FIRST EDITION (November 2004)
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1. Introduction This PCI Host Adapter is a PCI controller board which can upgrade your desktop computer to have dual independent Serial ATA Channels to support RAID 0 and RAID 1 features, three 1394 ( FireWire ) ports and four USB2.0 / USB1.1 ports. The board supports a 32-bit 33 MHz PCI bus revision 2.2, 1394 transfer rate of 400 Mb/s, USB transfer rate of 1.5Mb/s, 12Mb/s, 480Mb/s and the Serial ATA Generation 1 transfer rate of 1.5 Gb/s (150 MB/s). It comes completely with drive
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Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications. Independent 256-byte FIFOs (32 bit * 64 deep) per Serial ATA channel for host reads and writes. Supports Spread Spectrum in receiver. Features Serial ATA to PCI interrupt masking. Features Watch Dog Timer for fault resiliency. 1.1.3. USB Interface Compliant with Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 2.0 (Data Rate 1.5/12/480 Mbps). Compliant with Open Host Controller Interface Specification for USB Rev 1.0a. Compliant
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Disk Striping (RAID 0) Striping is a performance-oriented, non-redundant data mapping technique. While Striping is discussed as a RAID Set type, it is actually does not provide fault tolerance. With modern SATA bus mastering technology, multiple I/O operations can be done in parallel, enhancing performance. Striping arrays use multiple disks to form a larger virtual disk. Disk Mirroring (RAID 1) Disk mirroring creates an identical twin for a selected disk by having the data simultaneousl
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3.2. Creating Mirrored Sets (RAID 1) 1. As the BIOS boots, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility. 2. Select Create RAID set. Press Enter. 3. Select Mirrored then press Enter. 4. Select Auto configuration. Press Enter. 5. Press Y to save your settings. 6. Press CTRL+E and then press Y to exit the setup. 7. Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps as if you are installing a conventional hard drive. 8.Your RAID configuration is complete. Please proceed to software inst
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to function properly, this old metadata must be first overwritten with the new metadata. To resolve this, select Resolve Conflicts, and the correct metadata, including the correct drive connection information, will be written to the replacement disk. 4. Software Installation 4.1. Windows 2000 /XP Fresh OS installation Follow the instructions in this section if you are performing a new installation of Windows 2000/XP, and you wish to boot from a device attached to the SATA port. 1. Powe
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'Next'. 4. Under 'Optional search locations' insure that 'CD-ROM drives' is only checked. 5. Insert the CD Driver into CD-ROM drive and click 'Next'. 6. When the wizard indicates that it found a driver for the device click 'Next'. 7. The wizard will now copy the required files to the system and start the Driver. After starting the driver the wizard will display a completion dialog, click 'Finish' to exit the wizard. 8. Windows will display the 'Found New Hardware Wizard'. Click 'Next'.
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correctly. 1. Right click on 'My Computer' icon, select 'Properties', left click on 'Hardware' tab, and then on 'Device Manager' button. 2. Double click on 'System devices', then left click on 'PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge '. If there is no yellow '!' or '?' in front of 'PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge' the driver has started correctly. 3. Double click on 'IEEE 1394 Bus host controllers' If there is no yellow '!' or '?' in front of 'NEC OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller' the drive
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'System Properties ' , select 'Device Manager', right click on the '?PCI RAID controller' and select 'Properties' from the context menu. 6. Click 'Driver', 'Update Driver' and select 'Automatic search for a better driver [Recommended] '. Insert the driver diskette into floppy drive. Click 'Next' and complete the driver installation. 7. System will go through the enumeration process and install the driver. At the end of the process, click 'Yes' to reboot your system. 8. See instructions i
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16. Select 'CD-ROM drive' and click 'Next', Select 'The Updated driver (Recommended)' NEC PCI To USB Enhanced Host Controller click 'Next'. 17. When the wizard indicates that it found a driver for the device click 'Next'. Then click 'Finish' to exit the wizard. 18. The Hardware wizard will display that it found 'NEC Firewarden OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller', click 'Next' 19. Select 'Search for the best driver for your device (Recommended)'. Click 'Next'. 20. Select 'CD-
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Reboot the system if your Windows ME drive is connected on the SiI 3112 Controller. 4.8.Verifying The installation under Windows 98SE and ME Follow the instructions in this section to verify that the controller was installed correctly. 1. Right click on 'My Computer' icon, select 'Properties', left click on 'Device Manager' tab. 2. Double click on 'System devices', then left click on 'PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge'. If there is no yellow '!' or '?' in front of 'PCI standard PCI-to-PCI
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This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operations. - 12 -
