Lindy 70538 manual

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    © LINDY ELECTRONICS LIM ITED & LINDY -ELEKTRONIK GM BH - FIRST EDITIO N (Novem ber 2004) SATA Raid+USB2.0 +1394a 9 port PCI Card User Manual English LINDY No. 70538 w w w .LIN DY .com[...]

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    - 2 - 1. Introduction This PCI Host Adapter is a PCI controller board which can upgrade your d e s k t o p com puter to have dual independent Serial A T A Channel s to support RA ID 0 and RAID 1 features, three 1394 ( FireW ire ) ports and four US B2.0 / USB 1.1 ports. The board support s a 32-bit 33 MHz P CI bus revi sion 2.2, 1394 transfer rate o[...]

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    - 3 - Full y com pli ant w i th Serial ATA 1.0 specifi cations. Independent 256-byte FIFOs (32 bit * 64 deep) per Serial ATA channel for host reads and w r ites. Supports S pread Spectrum in recei ver. Features Serial ATA to PCI interrupt m aski ng. Features W atch Dog Ti m er for fault resi liency. 1.1.3. USB Interface Com pli ant w i th Universal[...]

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    - 4 - Disk Str iping (RAID 0) S tri ping i s a perform ance-oriented, non-redundant data m appi ng technique. W hil e S tri ping is di scussed as a RA ID Set type, it is actual ly does not provi de fa ul t t o l er a nc e. W i th m odern SA T A bus m astering technol ogy , m ul tiple I/O operati ons can be done in parall el, enhancing perform ance.[...]

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    - 5 - 3.2. Creating M irrored Set s (RA I D 1) 1. As the BIOS boot s, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the rai d bios ut ility . 2. Select Create RA ID set. Press Ent er . 3. Select Mi rrore d then press Ent er . 4. Select Au to co n fig u ration . Press Ente r. 5. Press Y to save your settings. 6. Press CT RL+E and then press Y to exit the setup. 7. Co[...]

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    - 6 - to function properl y , thi s ol d met adat a m ust be fi rst overw ri tten w i th the new m etadat a. T o r e s o l v e this, select Resolve Conflict s , and the correct m etadat a, i ncludi ng the c or r ec t drive connecti on inform ati on, w ill be w rit ten to t he r ep lace m en t dis k. 4. Sof tw are Inst allation 4.1. W indows 2000 / [...]

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    - 7 - ' Next '. 4. Under ' Optional sear ch locations ' insure that ' CD-ROM drives ' is only checked. 5. Insert the CD Driver into CD-ROM drive and cli ck ' Next '. 6. W hen the wizard i ndicates that it found a dri ver for the device cli ck ' Next '. 7. The wiz ard w ill now cop y th e r equired f[...]

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    - 8 - correctl y . 1 . Right cl ick on ' My Comp ut er ' ic on, sele ct ' Proper ties ', lef t c lick on ' Hard wa re ' t ab, and then on ' Dev ice Manager ' button. 2 . Double cl ick on ' Sy stem dev ices ', then l ef t cl ick on ' P C I s t a n d a r d PCI -to-PCI bri dge ' . If there i [...]

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    - 9 - 'Syst em Pro pe rtie s ' , sel ect 'Dev ice Manager ' , ri ght cli ck on the '? PC I RAID co ntro ll er' and select 'Pr operties' from the contex t menu. 6. Cli ck 'Dri ver' , 'Upd ate Driv er' and select 'Au tomatic search for a better dr iver [Recom mended] ' . Insert the[...]

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    - 10 - 16. S el ect ' CD-ROM driv e ' and click ' Next ', Select ' T he U pdated driv er (Recom mended) ' NEC P CI T o USB E nhanced Host Control ler cli ck ' Next '. 17. W hen the wizard i ndicates that it found a dri ver for the device cli ck ' Next '. Then cl ick ' Fin ish ' to ex i t t[...]

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    - 11 - Reboot the system i f your W indows M E drive is connected on the SiI 31 12 Controller . 4 . 8 . V erify ing The inst allation under W indow s 98SE and ME Foll ow the i nstructions i n this section to veri fy that the controll er w as i n s t a l l e d correctl y . 1. Right cl ick on ' My C omp ute r ' icon, sel ect ' Pr opert[...]

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    - 12 - Thi s de v ice com p li es w i th Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operat ion is s ubj ect to t he f o ll owin g two conditi ons: (1) t h i s de v i ce m ay not cause harmf ul interf erence, and (2) t h i s de v i ce m ust accept any i n t erfer ence receiv ed, i ncludi n g interf erence t hat may cause undesired oper ati ons .[...]