User guide

Hints for the Performance-Tuning:
Your Lite CopyStation can only achieve an optimal performance in case both boards of the module
are connected to two independent and fast USB Host Controllers. To give an example: By property
attaching the Lite CopyStation module to an ASUS P5B mother board including an Intel ICH8 chip
set with USB EHCI 2836/283A Host Controllers, Celeron D 3.46GHz CPU and 4GB memory a
cummulative performance across all 8 slots or more than 70 MB/s has been observed.
Mostly, many of the USB ports on mother boards share a single USB Host Controller. Hence they
also share its bandwidth. The user manuals of the mother boards do often not contain any
information about which USB port is connected to which USB Host Controller, although this would
make the selection of proper USB ports rather easy. In those cases the only way for finding an
optimal connection is by doing the via trial&error, unfortunately.
Notice: When it turns out that all of the internal USB ports share one and the same USB Host
Controller, you might try using a standard USB cable and attach it to USB ports which are normally
intended for external equipment (hence you need to feed back the cable into the computer
somehow).
When there is no second USB Host Controller available at all, the only way for gaining speed is the
use of an additional add-on card (PCI or PCI Express) with another USB Host Controller. Such an
add-on PCI card is also provided as optional accessory for the Lite CopyStation. However, with this
card there has been only detected a slight performance gain of approx. 25% (from 40MB/s to 50
MB/s).
After the installation of the CopyModul start the PowerSoftware to check if the operation was
successfully done. It might be possible that you need to adjust the slot assignment (See Chapter
3.16).
2.3 IQ CopyStation
2.3.1 Product description of the IQ CopyStation
The IQ CopyStation allows very fast copying of date images to up to 20 or 21 flash memory cards
(see chapter 4.2.1). The maximum internal data bandwidth of 2000 MBytes/s makes it currently the
fastest system for duplicating card images which is available worldwide. The design architecture
and the firmware update option allows the IQ CopyStation to be adapted to future memory card
standards as they become available. Models are available for a range of different flash memory
card types. The actual copy speed is limited by the internal data interface of the memory card type
and is shown in the data sheet of the respective model. The IQ CopyStation can function in two
operating modes, stand alone mode and host based mode.
In addition to the „Parallel Copy“ mode of other altec CopyStations, the IQ CopyStation also
supports the new „Copy on Insertion™“ mode. This mode further increases the card throughput
since the copy process starts automatically as soon as the memory card is inserted in the slot. It
allows more or less continuous copying, since it avoids the separate phases of inserting all of the
memory cards,waiting until the copying is finished and removal of all of the memory cards.
Stand alone mode provides you with basic copy functions and does not require a PC. To start
copying you only need to connect the IQ CopyStation to the external power supply. LEDs next to
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