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ACARD AEC-6880M
Chapter 2 Hardware Installation
The hardware installation is a simple RAID host adapter installation.
Please follow the instructions given below.
Before installing an IDE device into the ACARD AEC-6880M, the IDE
device should be adjusted as “Master” or “Slave” mode through the
jumper setting. Since the hard drive may contain some data that might
cause the Mac OS installation difficult under striping mode, please adjust
ACARD AEC-6880M DIP Switch to a normal mode at first.
When attaching an IDE hard drive to ACARD AEC-6880M, which already
contains data or any version of Mac OS, it is strongly recommended to
back up the old data before installating the adapter. The hard drive must
be initialized first under the normal mode of ACARD AEC-6880M. After
doing “initialize” under normal mode, adjust AEC-6880M DIP Switch to
striping mode or mirroring mode to “initialize” drive again.
2.1 Quick hardware installation
1. Open the Mac case (please refer to Mac’s manual).
2. Choose an empty PCI slot and plug in ACARD AEC-6880M.
3. Install the hard drive into the Mac.
4. Connect the adapter and the hard drive with an ATA-133 cable.
5. Close the Mac case.
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Connect 2 hard drives in the same channel, check the
Master / Slave jumper.
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Set ACARD AEC-6880M adapter DIP Switch to normal
mode as an IDE extension port.
