SATA105G/ATA 133 RAID Controller Card RC215
User Manual
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Features and Benefits
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Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specification
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Compliant with PCI Specification, revision 2.2
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Provides three independent channels to connect two SATA and one
PATA hard disk drive
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Supports up to UDMA6 transfer mode of PATA
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Supports up to 4 storage device connection
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Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and JBOD functions
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Supports drives with capacities larger than 137GB
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Supports Windows® 2000, XP/2003 32/64 bit, Vista 32/64 bit
Important Message for User before Installing RC-215:
Windows Device Manager can NOT recognize the hard drives that without
correct RAID setting before.
The working data on your existing HDD may NOT work when you migrate it to
RAID Host Card.
Raid sets can be created and managed by the BIOS utility setting.
For RAID creating, BIOS utility allow the random creating.
The “Rebuilding” function on Raid 1 or Raid 10 may spend long hours for
component ready and function available, please be patient for that.
Raid 0 and Raid1 need at least 2 drives, and Raid10 need 4 drives.
1.
Backup all your data in HD before setting any RAID. Setting RAID 0/0+1
will destroy all original data of your HD.
2.
New HD connecting to RC-215 must process “initial (F-disk)” and
“format” before using. Otherwise, PC might find nothing in the system.
3.
If you want to boot from correct HD connecting to either motherboard
or RC-215, please change correct HD source from CMOS “booting
sequence”.
4.
Although SATA HD is a “hot swap” design, it is strongly recommended