SATAII150 AND SATA 300 TX SERIES QUICK START GUIDE Version 1.5 © 2005 Promise Technology, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
SATAII150 and SATA300 TX Series Quick Start Guide SATAII150 TX Series Task List Installation and setup consists of the following steps: 1. Unpack Your SATAII150 or SATA300 Card, below 2. Install the SATAII150 or SATA300 Card (page 3) 3. Install the Disk Drives: SATAII150 TX2plus or SATA300 TX2plus (page 4) SATAII150 TX4 (page 5) SATA300 TX4 (page 7) 4.
Step 2: Install the SATAII150 or SATA300Card Warning The SATAII150 or SATA300 TX Series Serial ATA Controller cards, like other parts of your system, are subject to damage by static electricity. Be sure that you're properly grounded (Promise recommends that you wear an anti-static strap or touch a grounded object) and that you unplug your system before installing the SATAII150 or SATA300 TX2plus and TX4.
SATAII150 and SATA300 TX Series Quick Start Guide 5. Remove the inside slot cover of an available 32-bit PCI slot on the motherboard.Install the SATAII150 or SATA300 card into the open PCI slot. Secure the bracket to the system's frame. 6. Attach your system case's 2- or 4-pin LED cable to the LED connector on the SATAII150 or SATA300 card (see Install the Disk Drives, below). Make sure that pin 1 on the connector is aligned with pin 1 of the cable. 7.
Step 3: Install the Disk Drives 3. Attach one Serial ATA data cable to each Serial ATA disk drive. Then attach the other ends of the cables to the connectors on the SATAII150 or SATA300 TX2 plus card (below). Individual LED Connectors Parallel Port Port 3 / Channel 3 Aggregate LED Connectors Port 2 / Channel 2 Port 1 / Channel 1 TX2plus ATAII150 Management Connector SATAII150 or SATA300 TX2plus Serial ATA Controller card 4.
SATAII150 and SATA300 TX Series Quick Start Guide Note If you are using a Promise SuperSwap 1100 or 4100 enclosure in your PC: • Connect the power cables to the SuperSwap enclosure. • Attach a SMBus cable from the Management Connector on the SATAII150 TX4 card to the Management Connector on the first enclosure These actions are described in Chapter 2 of the SuperSwap User Manual. 1. Install the disk drives into the drive bays of your system. 2. Attach the power cables to the disk drives. 3.
Step 3: Install the Disk Drives SATA300 TX4 The SATA300 TX4 supports up to four Serial ATA drives. Caution Use of removable disk drive enclosures other than Promise Technology's SuperSwap is not supported and may result in performance loss or other undesired results. Note If you are using a Promise SuperSwap 1100 or 4100 enclosure in your PC: • Connect the power cables to the SuperSwap enclosure.
SATAII150 and SATA300 TX Series Quick Start Guide 3. Attach one Serial ATA data cable to each Serial ATA disk drive. Then attach the other ends of the cables to the connectors on the SATA300 TX4 card (below).
Step 4: Install Drivers Step 4: Install Drivers • Make a Driver Installation Diskette (Windows), below • Windows Server 2003 • • • • • New, page 10 • Exsting, page 10 • Confirm, page 11 Windows XP • New, page 11 • Exsting, page 12 • Confirm, page 12 Windows 2000 • New, page 12 • Exsting, page 13 • Confirm, page 14 RedHat Linux • New, page 14 • Exsting, page 15 SuSE Linux • New, page 15 • Exsting, page 16 Following are driver installation procedures for the Windows operatin
SATAII150 and SATA300 TX Series Quick Start Guide 7. Click the Create button in the Utility. A confirmation box appears. 8. Click the Yes button in the confirmation box. The utility prepares your driver installation diskette. When the utility is finished, it displays a message. 9. In the message, click the OK button. 10. Click the Exit button to close the Promise CD.
Step 4: Install Drivers 2. Choose Install the software automatically and press the Enter key. 3. Choose Windows Promise SATAII150/SATA300TX2plus [or TX4] (tm) IDE Controller from the list that appears on screen, and then press the Enter key. 4. If using a driver that has not been digitally signed by Microsoft, you will be asked if you want to continue the installation. Click Continue anyway. 5. When the New Hardware Wizard has finished installing the SATAII150 or SATA300 driver, click Finish.
SATAII150 and SATA300 TX Series Quick Start Guide 7. From the Windows XP Setup screen, press the Enter. Setup will now load all device files and then continue the Windows XP installation. Existing Installation After installing the SATAII150 or SATA300 Serial ATA Controller card and rebooting your system, Windows XP setup will show a “Found New Hardware” dialog box. 1. Insert the driver diskette into the A:\ drive. 2. Choose Install the software automatically and press the Enter key. 3.
Step 4: Install Drivers 5. The Windows 2000 Setup screen will appear again saying “Setup will load support for the following mass storage devices:” The list will include “Windows Promise SATAII150/SATA300TX2plus [or TX4] (tm) IDE Controller”. NOTE: If there are any additional devices to be installed, specify them now. When all devices are specified, continue to the next step. 6. From the Windows 2000 Setup screen, press Enter.
SATAII150 and SATA300 TX Series Quick Start Guide Confirm Installation 1. Right-click on the My Computer icon and select Manage from the popup menu. 2. From the left panel, select Device Manager. 3. Click the “+” in front of SCSI controllers. “Windows Promise SATAII150/ SATA300TX2plus [or TX4] (tm) IDE Controller” should appear. RedHat Linux Prepare a driver diskette: 1. Download the RedHat Linux driver from the Promise website at www.promise.com 2.
Step 4: Install Drivers NOTE: Red Hat Linux will not provide onboard IDE as standard ide0 and ide1 on some mother boards. To solve this condition, append the boot parameters as follows. ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 ide1=0x170,0x376,15 ide2=0 ide3=0 ide4=0 ide5=0 ide6=0 ide7=0 ide8=0 ide9=0 Existing Installation 1. Boot the Linux system and log in as root. 2. Insert SATAII 150 Driver Disk 3.
SATAII150 and SATA300 TX Series Quick Start Guide NOTE: There is a SMP issue on the SuSE Linux SMP kernel. If you encounter problems on SuSE with SMP system, append “acpi=off” parameters into boot loader or select “Installation – ACPI Disabled” on SuSE Linux SMP. Existing Installation 1. Boot the Linux system and log in as root. 2. Insert SATAII 150 Driver Disk 3.
