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 SATA300 TX4302 Controller.
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 NCQ/TCQ Command queuing increases I/O performance
by intelligent reordering data requests to access
your data more quickly.
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.
Built-in SMBus connector Supports Promise SuperSwap 4100 and 1100
disk drive enclosures.
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 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
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 and flash the latest BIOS version
from the Promise website
Configuration Utility for
Windows
Installed automatically, appears as a taskbar
icon, use for controller monitoring, firmware
upgrades, drive information and SMART status.