User`s manual

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Introduction
What is the MBFastTrak133 Lite RAID controller?
Promise designed its MBFastTrak133 Lite to provide a cost-effective, high performance RAID solution that
adds performance and/or reliability to PC desktops and/or servers using Ultra ATA/133, Ultra ATA/100, Ultra
ATA/66.
MBFastTrak133 Lite supports striping (RAID 0) or mirroring (RAID 1) for master only.
With striping, identical drives can read and write data in parallel to increase performance. Mirroring increases
read performance through load balancing and elevator sorting while creating a complete backup of your files.
A MBFastTrak133 Lite striped array can double the sustained data transfer rate of Ultra ATA/133 drives.
MBFastTrak133 Lite fully supports Ultra ATA/133 specification of up to 133 MB/sec per drive, depending on
individual drive specifications.
MBFastTrak133 Lite also offers fault tolerant, data redundancy for entry-level network file servers or simply
for desktop PC users wanting to continually protect valuable data on their PC. MBFastTrak133 Lite offers
RAID 1 mirroring (for two drives) to protect data. Should a drive that is part of a mirrored array fail,
MBFastTrak133 Lite uses the mirrored drive (which contains identical data) to assume all data handling.
When a new replacement drive is later installed, MBFastTrak133 Lite rebuilds data to the new drive from the
mirrored drive to restore fault tolerance.
MBFastTrak133 Lite's bootable BIOS supports individual drives larger than 128GB. With FAT32 and NTFS
partitioning, the array can be addressed as one large single volume.
These 2 channels (it might be channel 3, 4 on MB) that PDC20276 support only connect HDD.
MBFasttrak133Lite don’t support ATAPI device. Please move your ATAPI device to onboard IDE channel.
However, if there is no set up through RAID then these 2 channels will act as individual IDE HDD.