User`s manual

FastTrak100 TX/LP™ Series User Manual
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Keys Features and Benefits
The following information offers an overview of the major features of your new
Promise FastTrak100 TX4, TX2 or LP card. The table is divided into two areas:
Advanced Hardware Design, and Compatibility.
Advanced Hardware Design
Features Benefits
Supports 66MHz PCI bus
motherboards (automatically
backward compatible with 33MHz
PCI slots)
Allows maximum data transfers of up to 200MB
per second (133 MB/s in 33 MHz slot) over the
bus to dramatically reduce the time to save and
retrieve large files.
Supports data striping (RAID 0),
mirroring (RAID 1), and
striping/mirroring combination
(RAID 0+1)
Provides dramatic increase in drive performance
and/or fault tolerant options. Offers
performance customization and data rebuilds
from the BIOS menu.
Supports Ultra DMA 5/4/3/2/1/0,
DMA 2/1/0
Burst data transfer rates up to 100MB/sec from
Ultra ATA/100 drives to boost overall system
performance.
Independent data channels Drives can multiply their data transfer
performance when striped together and each
drive uses a separate data channel.
PCI Plug-n-Play, PCI Interrupt
sharing and coexists with
mainboard IDE controllers
Easy to install; support four ATA drives on the
FastTrak100 while still supporting 4 devices on
motherboard ATA controller.
Supports concurrent IDE channel
operation
Drive workload is distributed in parallel between
members of the array.
Supports IDE bus master operation Allows multitasking during disk transfers that
increase CPU efficiency. The CPU is free to
process tasks during IDE data transfers through
the PCI Bus to/from system memory.
Utilizes FastBuild
TM
automenu
from the FastTrak100 onboard
BIOS
Offers pre-set application specific settings that
can be optimized for Desktop, Server, or A/V
Editing. Has "Auto Setup" option for quick and
easy array builds.
Displays status and error checking
messages during bootup
Notifies user of possible errors and allows for
recovery of mirrored drive arrays directly from
FastBuild
TM
.
Employs the latest Promise PCI
Ultra ATA/100 ASIC technology
Fully supports Ultra ATA/100 specifications with
100 MB/sec timing and CRC error-checking at
high speeds.
Mirroring supports automatic
background rebuilds
Fault tolerance can be restored automatically
without rebooting.