User Guide

VT6410 User Manual – IDE RAID Controller

Preliminary Revision 0.2, November 11, 2002 4 Installing The Hard Drives

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Hard disk drives must be Ultra ATA/133, Ultra ATA/100, Ultra ATA/66, Ultra ATA/33, or ATA-3 compatible to operate with the

VT6410 IDE RAID controller. For optimal performance, it is recommended to install all identical drives of the same model and

capacity.

1. Striping (RAID 0) and JBOD require at least two drives and has a limit of four drives. Mirroring (RAID 1) requires two

drives. Striping and mirroring (RAID 0 +1) requires four drives. Set the jumpers of each hard drive to “Master” (“Device 0”)

or “Slave” (“Device 1”) according to the following table.

Number of Drives IDE Channel 1 IDE Channel 2

1 Master ------

2 Master Master

3 Master & Slave Master

4 Master & Slave Master & Slave

2. Connect the IDE cables and the power cables to the hard drives. When connecting hard drives, pay attention to its Master –

Slave jumper setting. If two hard drives are connected to one IDE cable, then one drive must be set as master while the other

as slave.

3. Attach the IDE cables into the connectors on the VT6410 IDE RAID controller.