SATA 150 RAID 2 Port PCI Host
RC201 User Manual
Important Message:
1.
Before controller card installation, we recommend to study the PDF file of SATA Raid manual at
enclosed CD folder \ SATA Raid_2Port \ SiI3x12 \ Win98_me_2000_xp_nt4.0 \ Gui first. This Raid
manual has more information on Raid architecture, Raid features, Raid installation, Raid
setting and Management software for Raid GUI (Graphical User Interface).
2.
After driver installation, if you like, you can install SATARaid GUI for Raid management. Before
SATARaid GUI installation, you must remove all the existing SATARaid GUI (or Java SATARaid GUI)
to ensure your new SATARaid GUI can work properly.
i.e. : (\ Start \ Control Panel \ Add or Remove Programs \ Select all SATARaid \ Remove)
3.
For the creating and management of Raid sets, you can either use BIOS utility setting before Windows
operation or use GUI setting under Windows.
Backup all your data in HD before setting any RAID.
4.
New HD connecting to RC-201 is recommended to “initial” and “format” before setting a RAID.
Otherwise, PC might find nothing in the system.
5.
Please read the PDF file of “SATARAID5-UserGuide_v1.40” for basic RAID knowledge. You can
download this document from Rosewill website.
6.
If you have trouble booting from correct HD either from motherboard HD or RC-201 HD, please
change the selection from BIOS “booting sequence”.
7.
Although SATA HD is a “hot swap” design, it is strongly recommended that all users turn off the power
before you add any HD to PC.
1. Introduction
This SATA RAID 2 Port PCI Host Adapter is a PCI to dual Serial ATA host controller board. It provides
a 32bit, 33/66 MHz PCI interface on the host side and dual, fully compliant Serial ATA ports on the
device side to access SATA storage devices.
The board can be used to upgrade your desktop computer to have dual Serial ATA Channels and
support RAID 0 and RAID 1 features. It accepts host commands through the PCI bus, processes
them and transfers data between the host and Serial ATA devices. The board should be connected to
SATA target device and will take the data, serialize it and output it for transmission over the SATA
interface. The board can control two independent Serial ATA channels. Each channel has its own
Serial ATA bus and will support one Serial ATA device.
The board supports Serial ATA Generation 1 transfer rate of 1.5 Gb/s (150 MB/s). It comes completely
with drivers for Windows 98, Windows Millennium, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and XP.
RAID, Redundant Array of Independent Disks, greatly enhances two main areas of data storage:
performance and data integrity. By using RAID 0, also known as Striping, performance of sustained
data transfer rates is greatly enhanced by simultaneously writing data to 2, 3 or 4 drives. The
second benefit of RAID is data redundancy. RAID 1, Mirroring, writes identical data on two drives or sets
of drives, thus protecting the data from a disk failure. If, for any reason, one drive were to fail, your data is
secure and available from the mirrored second drive.
1.1. Features
1.1.1. PCI Interface
Compliant with PCI Specification, revision 2.2.
Integrated PCI DMA engines.
32 bit, 33/66MHz fully compliant PCI host interface.
Sufficient power current 1.5A5V and 2A12V to supply External Device
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