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Important Message:
1. Before controller card installation, we recommend to study the PDF file of SATA
Raid5 manual at enclosed CD folder \ Raid5 SATA2_4Port \ SiI3124 \ Windows \
Gui first. This Raid manual has more information on Raid architecture, Raid
features, Raid installation, Raid setting and Management software for Raid5
GUI (Graphical User Interface).
2. After driver installation, if you like, you can install SATARaid5 GUI for Raid
management. Before SATARaid5 GUI installation, you must remove all the
existing SATARaid GUI (or Java SATARaid GUI) to ensure your new SATARaid5
GUI can work properly.
i.e. : (\ Start \ Control Panel \ Add or Remove Programs \ Select all
SATARaid \ Remove)
3. Raid sets can be created and managed by either the BIOS utility setting or the
SATARAID5 GUI setting under Windows.
4. For RAID creating, BIOS utility allow the random creating but GUI just supports
the building by sequential SATA Port1, Port2, Port3 ……..
1. Introduction
This RAID SATA II –3Gbps 4Ports PCI-X Host Adapter is a PCI to 4Ports Serial ATA host
controller board. It provides a 64bit, 133 MHz PCI interface on the host side and four,
fully compliant Serial ATA II – 3Gbps ports on the device side to access SATA Hard disk
drive.
The board can be used to upgrade your desktop computer to have 4Ports Serial ATA
Channels and support RAID 5, RAID 0+1, RAID 0, RAID 1 and JBOD 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 four 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 & Generation 2 transfer rate of 1.5 Gbps /
