FASTTRAK S150 TX2PLUS QUICK START GUIDE Version 1.
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Quick Start Guide Step 1: Unpack Your FastTrak Card When you receive the FastTrak S150 TX2plus card, the package should contain the items listed below: • • • • • • • FastTrak S150 TX2plus RAID Controller Card Quick Start Guide FastTrak S150 TX2plus driver diskette Two internal 4-wire Serial ATA hard drive data cables One internal 40-pin Parallel ATA data cable One Y power splitter cable CD with Drivers, Promise Array Management (PAM) utility, PAM User Manual and FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual If ANY
FastTrak S150 TX2plus Step 2: Install the FastTrak Card The FastTrak TX2plus Serial ATA RAID card fits into any available PCI slot on your PC’s motherboard (see Figure 1, below): • • 1. 32-bit PCI slot (must be PCI 2.2 or 2.3 compliant) The 32-bit portion of a 64-bit PCI slot Remove the cover of your system. 2. Remove the inside slot cover of an available 32-bit PCI slot on the motherboard. 3. Install the FastTrak Serial ATA RAID card into the open slot (see Figure 1 below).
Quick Start Guide Step 3: Install the Hard Drives Important If you wish to include your current bootable Serial ATA drive using the Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, or Windows XP operating system as part of a bootable Mirrored (RAID 1) array on your FastTrak Serial ATA RAID card, do NOT connect the hard drive to the FastTrak yet. You MUST install the Windows NT4, 2000, or XP driver software first onto this drive while it is still attached to your existing hard drive controller.
FastTrak S150 TX2plus Port 2 (Serial) for future use FastTrak Port 3 (Parallel) Port 1 (Serial) Pin 1 TX2 plus 150 LED Pins Figure 2. FastTrak S150 TX2plus card 5. Attach the Y-cable power splitters to the Serial ATA hard drives. 6. Use existing power cables for the Parallel ATA hard drives. Note The FastTrak S150 TX2plus RAID controller is a PCI Plug-n-Play (PnP) device. No changes are necessary in the Motherboard CMOS Setup for resources or drive types in most applications.
Quick Start Guide Step 4: Create Your Disk Array You will now use the onboard FastBuild™ BIOS utility to create your array using the attached drives. There are three different scenarios in creating this array. You can create an array for: • • • • Performance 1. Boot your system. If this is the first time you have booted with the FastTrak S150 TX2plus card and drives installed, the Promise onboard BIOS will display the following screen.
FastTrak S150 TX2plus FastBuild (tm) Utility 2.xx (c) 2002-2005 Promise Technology, Inc. [Auto Setup Options Menu] Optimize Array for: Performance [ Auto Setup Configuration ] Mode ....................................................................... Stripe Spare Drive ............................................................. 0 Drives used in Array ................................................ 2 Array Disk Capacity.................................................
Quick Start Guide Creating a Security Array with New Drives Caution With some models of hard drives, if the Master hard drive fails, it may cause the Slave hard drive to be unrecognized by the computer's operating system. Where a RAID 1 (Mirroring) array exists on the Master/Slave pair, this condition may cause the operating system to freeze. Do NOT create a RAID 1 (Mirroring) array with two Parallel ATA hard drives using the Master/Slave arrangement on Channel 3 (the Parallel ATA port).
FastTrak S150 TX2plus 5. A window will appear almost immediately confirming that your Security array has been created. Press any key to reboot the system. Array has been created. 6. 7. Proceed with normal FDISK and format procedures as if you had just installed a new hard drive. Once the arrayed drives have been formatted, proceed to Chapter 4 of this Manual to install your operating system and/or FastTrak driver.
Quick Start Guide Creating a Security Array with an Existing Data Drive Caution With some models of hard drives, if the Master hard drive fails, it may cause the Slave hard drive to be unrecognized by the computer's operating system. Where a RAID 1 (Mirroring) array exists on the Master/Slave pair, this condition may cause the operating system to freeze. Do NOT create a RAID 1 (Mirroring) array with two Parallel ATA hard drives using the Master/Slave arrangement on Channel 3 (the Parallel ATA port).
FastTrak S150 TX2plus 2. Press Ctrl-Y to Save your selection. The window below will appear. Do you want the disk image to be duplicated to another or do quick initialize or create only? Y - Create and Duplicate N - Create Only I - Create and Quick Initialize 3. Press Y for the Create and Duplicate option. The window below will appear asking you to select the Source drive to use. FastBuild will copy all data from the Source drive to the Target drive.
Quick Start Guide 7. Once complete, the following screen will appear confirming that your Security array has been created. Press any key to reboot the system. Array has been created. 8. Once the arrayed drives have been formatted, proceed to Chapter 4 of this Manual to install your operating system and/or FastTrak driver.
FastTrak S150 TX2plus Creating a Security Array with Quick Initialization Caution With some models of hard drives, if the Master hard drive fails, it may cause the Slave hard drive to be unrecognized by the computer's operating system. Where a RAID 1 (Mirroring) array exists on the Master/Slave pair, this condition may cause the operating system to freeze. Do NOT create a RAID 1 (Mirroring) array with two Parallel ATA hard drives using the Master/Slave arrangement on Channel 3 (the Parallel ATA port).
Quick Start Guide Do you want the disk image to be duplicated to another or do quick initialize or create only? Y - Create and Duplicate N - Create Only I - Create and Quick Initialize 4. Press I for the Create and Quick Initialize 5. A window will appear almost immediately confirming that your Security array has been created. Press any key to reboot the system. Array has been created. 6. Proceed with normal FDISK and format procedures as if you had just 7.
FastTrak S150 TX2plus Step 5: Install Software Drivers Drivers for the Windows operating systems are included on the software CD and driver diskette that came with your FastTrak S150 TX2plus Controller. Windows systems usually recognize the FastTrak Controller, prompt you for the CD or diskette and perform the driver installation automatically.
