User manual

Chapter 1: Introduction
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Key Features and Benefits
The following information offers an overview of the major features of your new
Promise SATAII150 or SATA300 TX Series.
Advanced Hardware Design
Features Benefits
Supports 66MHz PCI bus
motherboards (automatically
backward compatible with
33MHz PCI slots)
Allows maximum data transfers of up to 266MB
per second (133 MB/s in 33 MHz slot) over the
bus to dramatically reduce the time to save and
retrieve large files.
Supports Serial ATA
Specification 1.0a
Burst data transfer rates up to 150MB/sec from
Serial ATA drives to boost overall system
performance.
Supports Serial ATA
Specification II
Burst data transfer rates up to 300MB/sec from
Serial ATA drives to boost overall system
performance.
Independent data channels
for Serial ATA drives
Drives can multiply their data transfer
performance when striped together and each
drive uses a separate data channel.
Master/slave data channel for
Parallel ATA drives
Conventional master/slave arrangement allows
two disk drives on one controller port.
PCI Plug-n-Play, PCI Interrupt
sharing and coexists with
motherboard IDE and SCSI
controllers
Easy to install; supports up to 4 Serial ATA
drives on the SATAII150 and SATA300 TX4
Controller card while still supporting 4 devices
on motherboard ATA controller.
Employs the latest Promise
PCI Serial ATA ASIC
technology
Fully supports Serial ATA specifications with 150
and 300 MB/sec timing and CRC error-checking
at high speeds.
DOS based flash upgrade of
BIOS and Firmware
Verifies proper file, option to backup existing file.
Download files from Promise website
Configuration Utility for
Windows
Installed automatically, appears as a taskbar
icon, use for controller monitoring, firmware
upgrades, drive information and SMART status.