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MANL-SIL3114-EN-240604

SERIAL ATA

HOST CONTROLLER CARD

USER MANUAL

SA3114-4I

SA3114-4IR

SA3114-2E2I

SA3114-2E2IR

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WARNING

Before installing and activating RAID function, pleas

make sure you have a complete backup of your existin

data from hard drives. Manufacturer is not responsible fo

data loss due to abuse, misuse, or neglect. Should yo

have any installation problem, please contact your deale

for assistance.

Summary of content (6 pages)

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MANL-SIL3114-EN-240604 SERIAL ATA HOST CONTROLLER CARD USER MANUAL SA3114-4I SA3114-4IR SA3114-2E2I SA3114-2E2IR WARNING Before installing and activating RAID function, please make sure you have a complete backup of your existing data from hard drives. Manufacturer is not responsible for data loss due to abuse, misuse, or neglect. Should you have any installation problem, please contact your dealer for assistance.
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Features This Serial ATA host controller card is designed to offer a high performance, cost effective and reliability solution to user who needs to accommodate storage peripherals with the new Serial ATA interface. It can control four independent Serial ATA channel, each channel has its own Serial ATA bus and will support one Serial ATA device. This card supports the Serial ATA (Generation 1) transfer rate of 1.5Gb/s (150MB/s).
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Driver Installation Note: Current drivers can only support Windows 98/98SE, ME, NT, 2000 and XP. Driver Locations This Serial ATA host controller card has two sets of drivers. a) SIL3114RAID b) SIL3114 : Serial ATA host controller card (BIOS with RAID function). : Serial ATA host controller card (BIOS without RAID function). These two sets of drivers can be located in these two directories respectively of the Driver CD. 1. SIL3114RAID 2.
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(a) BIOS with RAID function: Copy the /Silicon_Image/SIL3114RAID/Win_Drv driver from the Driver CD to the diskette. (b) BIOS without RAID function: Copy the /Silicon_Image/SIL3114/Win_drv driver from the Driver CD to the diskette. Step 2: Make sure the SATA hard drive is properly connected to the Serial ATA host controller card and the card is properly installed into a PCI slot.
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(2) Click “OK” to continue. Step 7: Click “Yes” to restart your computer to complete driver installation. Step 8: Finally, switch off your system. Connect the SATA hard disk from the mainboard’s SATA controller to the Serial ATA host controller card and start Windows NT. Installing drivers to an existing SATA hard drive with Windows 2000/XP: If you are already using a SATA hard drive with Windows N.
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Installing RAID Management Software This software is use to monitor and manage the RAID set under Windows environment. To install this RAID Management software, please follow these steps: Step 1: Start Windows. Step 2: Click “Start”, and then “Run”. Step 3: Insert the Driver CD into the CDROM drive and select “Browse” button. • Select CDROM drive • Select folder “Silicon_Image” • Select folder “SIL3114RAID” • Select folder “Utility” • Select “JAVA_RUNTIME_ENVIRO.