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ACARD AEC-6880M
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For two pairs striping with 4 hard drives, the Jumper setting can
not be set as both “Master” or both “Slave” in same connector cable.
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In order to get a better performance, use Ultra ATA 66, 100 or 133
hard drive in same model .
Mirroring 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 it
as total available disk capacity.
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For one pair of mirroring connection using 2 HDDs, the jumper
setting on the hard drives must be set as the same “Master” or
“Slave” mode. The two hard drives must connect with two indepen-
dent ATA-133 cables on ACARD AEC-6880M.
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For two pairs of mirroring connection using 4 HDDs, the jumper
setting on every 2 hard drives must be set as “Master” and “Slave”
on each IDE port.
Normal Mode
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Two IDE connectors of ACARD AEC-6880M can be regarded as
normal IDE port extension.
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When using two hard drives to connect to ACARD AEC-6880M at
the same IDE port (on the same cable), the hard drives’ Jumper
setting must be set as one “Master” and one “Slave” positions. The
two hard drives cannot be set as “Master” or “Slave” at the same
time on the same cable.
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In order to get a better performance, use Ultra ATA 66, Ultra ATA
100 or Ultra ATA 133 hard drives.
