P6LX2-A User’s Manual
2:
Using Your Mainboard – 2.10
The RAIDport™ & Onboard SCSI
The RAID
port
™ and onboard SCSI controller and ports are
optional hardware which are not installed on some versions of
this mainboard.
The Adaptec RAID
port
™ technology is a slot extension that
extends the PCI4 slot into an expansion slot for the Adaptec ARO-
1130 RAID controller card. With this card installed you can set
up RAID arrays using the supported RAID levels. You can use
either or both of the onboard SCSI ports to connect hard disks
for the array.
The Ultra Wide SCSI port will support up to fifteen devices,
the Wide SCSI port will support up to seven. If you connect an
array to one of the ports, you can still use the other port to con-
nect other SCSI devices, for example, a SCSI CD–ROM drive.
This also allows you to configure one SCSI port as an external
port while still maintaining one port for RAID (or other) use.
The documentation that accompanies the SCSI software on
the Support Disk has further explanation of how to use the
RAID
port
™ to set up a RAID array. There is also information on
the ARO-1130 RAID controller card.
IR Ports
There is one standard and one optional connector on the main-
board which support an IR (infrared) port module that enables
wireless communication between the computer and other com-
puters and devices with an infrared port. The default IR connec-
tor, IR, is for IrDA or ASKIR infrared modules and the optional
FIR connector is for Fast IR.
The infrared port module is an optional component. If it is
installed, you must set the UART 2 line in the Integrated Periph-
erals section of the CMOS Setup utility to the appropriate IR
mode used by the module.
Support software and documentation for the IR port is on the
Support Disk that comes with the mainboard.