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SATA II/ATA 133 PCIe Card 

RC216

                                                               

                User Manual     

 

     

 

 

10

start the computer.

 

2.

 

During boot press 

Ctrl+J 

to enter the RAID BIOS.

 

3.

 

Select 

Rebuild Mirror Drive 

press 

Enter

.

 

4.

 

Please use arrow keys 

 

and 

to

 

select the array you want to 

rebuild, press 

Enter

.

 

5.

 

Please use arrow keys 

 

and 

to

 

select the destination disk, 

press 

Enter

.

 

6.

 

When rebuilding is finished, select 

Save And Exit Setup

, press 

Enter

. When asked 

Save to disk &Exit (Y/N)?

, press 

to exit the 

BIOS.

 

 

BIOS Configuration 

The PCIe SATA II 300 + PATA Raid Card BIOS will appear every time your 

system starts up. During this (POST) process, the BIOS will show up and 

indicate the devices attached to it.

 

 

Driver Installation 
 

For Windows® 2000, XP and Server 2003 

For New Installation 

A new installation requires a floppy disk for the driver installation. To 

make this floppy disk, copy the contents of the

 

RC-216\Floppy32

” 

folder, found on the driver CD, onto a blank floppy disk then follow the 

Summary of Contents for RC216

Page 1: ...SATA II ATA 133 PCIe Card RC216 User Manual ...

Page 2: ...nt channels to connect two SATA and one PATA hard disk drive z Supports up to UDMA6 transfer mode of PATA z Supports up to 4 storage device connection z Supports RAID 0 1 0 1 and JBOD functions z Supports Windows 2000 Windows XP 2003 and Vista Connectors z 2 x internal SATA connectors z 2 x external eSATA connectors z 1 x PATA connector System Requirements z Windows 2000 XP Server 2003 Vista z PCI...

Page 3: ...SATA II ATA 133 PCIe Card RC216 User Manual 3 z 1x Manual z 1x Driver CD z 1x SATA Data Cable z 1x ATA 133 IDE Cable Note Contents may vary depending on country market ...

Page 4: ... close Enable SATA Port CON1 J1 J4 2 3 close Enable SATA Port CON3 1 2 close Enable SATA Port CON2 J5 J8 2 3 close Enable SATA Port CON4 Note There are four SATA ports in PCIe SATA II 300 PATA Raid Card We name these ports CON1 to CON4 Ports CON3 CON4 are internal SATA ports and CON1 CON2 are external SATA ports By ...

Page 5: ...e PCIe slot 4 To install the bard carefully align the card s bus connector with the selected PCIe slot on the motherboard Push the board down firmly 5 Attach your internal or external devices to the PCIe SATA II 300 PATA Raid Card 6 Replace the slot bracket s holding screw to secure the card 7 Replace the computer cover and reconnect the power cord RAID Arrays RAID Arrays are setup in the PCIe SAT...

Page 6: ...ID level to 0 Stripe then press Enter 5 Please use arrow keys and to switch the disk use the space key to mark the selected disk then press Enter 6 Please use arrow keys and to select chunk size from 4K 8K 16K 32K 64K or 128K then press Enter 7 Input the RAID size press Enter 8 When asked Created RAID on the select HDD Y N press Y to accept 9 At the next screen select Save And Exit Setup press Ent...

Page 7: ...reated RAID on the select HDD Y N press Y to accept 8 At the next screen select Save And Exit Setup press Enter When asked Save to disk Exit Y N press Y to exit the BIOS CONCATENATION JBOD 1 As the BIOS boots press Ctrl J when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS 2 At the next screen select Create RAID Disk Drive press Enter 3 Enter RAID name press Enter 4 Please use arrow keys and to switch the RAID l...

Page 8: ...eate RAID Disk Drive press Enter 3 Enter RAID name press Enter 4 Please use arrow keys and to switch the RAID level to 01 Stripe Mirror then press Enter 5 Please use arrow keys and to select chunk size from 4K 8K 16K 32K 64K or 128K then press Enter 6 Input the RAID size press Enter 7 When asked Created RAID on the select HDD Y N press Y to accept 8 At the next screen select Save And Exit Setup pr...

Page 9: ...part of a RAID set or used in another system it may have conflicting metadata If so this will prohibit the RAID set from being either created or rebuilt in order for the RAID set to function properly this old metadata must be first overwritten with the new metadata To resolve this from the main BIOS window select Solve Mirror Conflict then press Enter the correct metadata including the correct dri...

Page 10: ...Exit Setup press Enter When asked Save to disk Exit Y N press Y to exit the BIOS BIOS Configuration The PCIe SATA II 300 PATA Raid Card BIOS will appear every time your system starts up During this POST process the BIOS will show up and indicate the devices attached to it Driver Installation For Windows 2000 XP and Server 2003 For New Installation A new installation requires a floppy disk for the ...

Page 11: ...ID AHCI Driver for JMicron JMB36X Controller then press Enter 8 Press Enter to finish driver installation then follow the on screen instructions to complete the Windows installation For An Existing Installation 1 Setup the RAID Array prior to driver installation and boot up to Windows 2 At the Found New Hardware Wizard window pop up please click Cancel button to cancel the driver installation for ...

Page 12: ...ions below 1 Setup the RAID Array prior to Windows installation 2 Follow Microsoft s Windows installation procedure 3 Restart the computer when prompted by Windows installation 4 At the Windows Setup screen press F6 to install the driver 5 When prompted press S to specify the location of the driver 6 Insert the floppy disk then press Enter 7 Select Windows XP 2003 x64 RAID AHCI Driver for JMicron ...

Page 13: ...to match your CD ROM drive letter 6 Follow the on screen instructions to complete the installation 7 Restart Windows to complete the installation For Windows Vista For New Installation A new installation requires a floppy disk for the driver installation To make this floppy disk copy the contents of the RC 216 Floppy32 folder found on the driver CD onto a blank floppy disk then follow the directio...

Page 14: ...op up please click Cancel button to cancel the driver installation for the device at this moment The driver for this device will be installed in the next step 3 Please insert the CD driver bound with PCIe SATA II 300 PATA Raid Card into your CD ROM Drive 4 At the Windows desktop click Start then Run 5 Type D RC 216 Setup exe click OK Change D to match your CD ROM drive letter 6 Follow the on scree...

Page 15: ...the floppy disk please select JMicron JMB36X Controller A jraid_f inf then press Next Change A to match your floppy drive letter 6 Follow the on screen instructions to complete the Windows installation For An Existing Installation 1 Setup the RAID Array prior to driver installation and boot up to Windows 2 At the Found New Hardware Wizard window pop up please click Cancel button to cancel the driv...

Page 16: ...plete the installation To Verify Driver Installation Click on the Device Manager tab in System Properties which you access from the Windows Control Panel You should see an JMicron JMB36X Controller installed under SCSI and RAID controllers item Thank you for purchasing a quality Rosewill Product Please register your product at www rosewill com for complete warranty information and future support f...

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