User manual

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).

Specifications

• Silicon Image SIL3114 Serial ATA (SATA) host controller chipset

• Compliant with Serial ATA Specification Revision 1.0

• Supports Serial ATA Generation 1 transfer rate of 1.5Gb/s (150MB/s)

• Compliant with PCI Specification Revision 2.2

• Compliant with PCI IDE Controller Specification Revision 1.0

• Compliant with Programming Interface for Bus Master IDE Controller Revision 1.0

• Supports four independent Serial ATA channel

• Independent 256-byte FIFOs per Serial ATA channel for host reads and writes

RAID Functions (Optional)

• Supports RAID functions 0, 1 or 0+1

• Supports co-exist RAID set and Non-RAID HDD

• Allow HDDs with different sizes to be configured in a RAID set

Accessories

• One User Manual

• One Serial ATA host controller card

• Two Serial ATA cables

• One Driver CD

How to install the Serial ATA host controller card into your computer

1. Turn off your computer and all external devices connect to it.

2. Disconnect your computer from the power sources.

3. Open the computer case. Refer to your computer user manual for more details.

4. Find an available PCI slot and remove the slot bracket. Save the bracket screw for later use.

5. Align the Serial ATA host controller card horizontally with respect to the PCI slot and insert it into the slot

firmly and evenly. Take care not to force it into the slot. Once you have properly positioned the Serial ATA

host controller card into the slot, fasten it to the computer case with the bracket screw you have saved.

6. Connect the HDD LED connector from the computer case to the HDD Busy LED connector (JP4) on the

Serial ATA host controller card.

7. Connect any Serial ATA device to the connector(s) of the Serial ATA host controller card with the provided

Serial ATA cable.

8. Close the computer case. Make sure to reconnect all the external devices to your computer.