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ACARD AEC-6880M
2.2 ACARD AEC-6880M adapter compatibility
ACARD AEC-6880M is designed specifically for DMA hard drive, and
has been fully tested with many kinds of hard drives. AEC-6880M
supports many ATA 66/100/133 hard drives produced by the following
manufacturers:
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FUJITSU
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IBM
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MAXTOR
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QUANTUM
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SEAGATE
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WESTERN DIGITAL
2.3 What you should know before the installation
Before installing the ACARD AEC-6880M, please follow the instructions
below to get the best performance:
Striping Mode
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If two hard drives are in different storage capacity, ACARD AEC-
6880M will treat the smaller one as standard capacity, and double
the standard capacity as total disk capacity.
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For one pair of striping connection using 2 HDDs, the jumper
setting on each hard drive must be set as the same mode; that is,
either “Master” or “Slave”. The two hard drives must connect with
two independent ATA-133 cables on ACARD AEC-6880M.
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For two pairs of striping connection using 4 HDDs, the jumper
setting on every 2 hard drives must be set as “Master” and “Slave”
on each IDE port (see Figure 1).
