Promise Technology 150TX2 - Manual (Page 34)

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual
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Adding Fault Tolerance to an Existing 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).
You can create a RAID 1 (Mirroring) array by combining hard
drives on:
•
Channels 1 and 2 (Serial ATA only)
• Channels 1 and 3 (one Serial, one Parallel)
• Channels 2 and 3 (one Serial, one Parallel)
FastTrak S150 TX2plus will create a mirrored array using an existing system
drive with data. You must assign the existing drive and another drive of same or
larger capacity to the Mirroring array. The BIOS will send the existing data to the
new blank drive.
Warning
Backup any necessary data before proceeding. Failure to
follow this accepted PC practice could result in data loss.
Important
If you wish to include your current bootable drive using the
Windows NT 4.0, 2000 or XP operating system as part of a
bootable Mirrored (RAID 1) array on your FastTrak S150
TX2plus, You MUST install the driver software while the
bootable drive is still attached to your existing hard drive
controller. See Chapter 4.
1. Assign the drives to a Mirroring array.