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CE European Union Compliance Statement

EMC compliance:
Emissions:

EN55022: 1998, Class B

Immunity:

EN55024: 1998
EN61000-4-2: 1995+A1: 1998
EN61000-4-3: 1995+A1: 1998
EN61000-4-4: 1995
EN61000-4-6: 1996
EN61000-4-8: 1993

SeriTek/1V4 TSLKC2KE0126

Summary of Contents for SeriTek/1V4

Page 1: ...Store and Share your Digital Creations SeriTek 1V4 Four Internal Port Serial ATA PCI X Host Adapter User Manual for Power Macintosh...

Page 2: ...ve owners Changes FirmTek reserves the right to make any changes to product design specifications or details without notice Actual product photos or screenshots may look different from those provided...

Page 3: ...CONTENTS I Introduction 1 II Installing the SeriTek 1V4 4 III Formatting Hard Drives 5 IV Troubleshooting 14 V Product Support 16 VI Product Warranty and Disclaimers 17 VII Regulatory Compliance State...

Page 4: ...dable way for Macintosh users to add inexpensive high speed storage With four internal Serial ATA ports each offering 1 5Gbits sec performance the SeriTek 1V4 provides the high bandwidth to meet the n...

Page 5: ...ion Supports OS X RAID OS 9 Software RAID third party software and other storage utilities Reduced setting on storage devices no master slave means easier installation and replacement Ideal for a vari...

Page 6: ...odes 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Advanced Data Features Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1 0a specification Bus Mastering off loads data I O handling from CPU Complete 32 bit CRC error checking for all bits transmit...

Page 7: ...to the card by static electricity Introduction This section describes the proper method of installing your SeriTek 1V4 SeriTek PCI Host Adapter Installation 1 Properly shut down your Macintosh and dis...

Page 8: ...8 through 11 to install additional hard drives or peripherals 13 Caution The Serial ATA data cable has keyed L shaped 7 pin connectors at each end Be sure to connect the cable using the proper orienta...

Page 9: ...Figure 1 Finding Apple s Drive Setup Utility...

Page 10: ...3 Locate and double click on the Drive Setup application program utility see Figure 2 Figure 2 Running Apple s Drive Setup Utility...

Page 11: ...by clicking on it See Figure 3 If this is a new unformatted drive it may show up as not initialized Note For ideal performance and compatibility SeriTek 1V4 uses SCSI emulation which allows your Seria...

Page 12: ...typing your own name or description for your new drive 8 Repeat steps 4 through 7 if you wish to format additional hard drives connected to SeriTek 1V4 9 Select the File pull down menu within Apple s...

Page 13: ...drives typically have no volume names listed Carefully select the drive you wish to format Note Some versions of Apple Disk Utility incorrectly display Serial ATA hard drives as having the Connection...

Page 14: ...e you wish to format select the Erase tab in Apple s Disk Utility see Figure 8 Figure 8 Selecting the Erase tab in Apple s Disk Utility 5 For Volume Format the most common choice is Mac OS Extended 6...

Page 15: ...mproved when the data is read and written across multiple drives simultaneously No data integrity is provided with striping however and since data is spread across multiple drives if one of the hard d...

Page 16: ...member of the new RAID volume onto the Disk status window 6 Repeat step 5 for each member for the RAID volume 7 Choose a RAID Scheme Stripe or Mirror 8 Name the new RAID volume 9 For Volume Format th...

Page 17: ...roperly oriented to the connectors on the SeriTek 1V4 host adapter and the external enclosure Ensure the hard drives in the enclosure are properly powered Apple s Drive Setup utility OS 9 XX or Disk U...

Page 18: ...t Repeat steps 1 through 3 If the SeriTek 1V4 still doesn t show up in the Apple System Profiler try moving it to another PCI slot Apple System Profiler under Mac OS X 1 Open the Apple System Profiler...

Page 19: ...el ATA drive which I am trying to use with a Parallel ATA to Serial ATA converter but it doesn t seem to work Some older Parallel ATA drives do not comply with current ATA standards Parallel ATA to Se...

Page 20: ...a license under any patent rights copyrights trademark rights or any other intellectual property rights of FirmTek LLC or third parties VII Regulatory Compliance Statements Federal Communications Com...

Page 21: ...n Compliance Statement EMC compliance Emissions EN55022 1998 Class B Immunity EN55024 1998 EN61000 4 2 1995 A1 1998 EN61000 4 3 1995 A1 1998 EN61000 4 4 1995 EN61000 4 6 1996 EN61000 4 8 1993 SeriTek...