SIIG 04-0373C - Manual

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Serial ATA PCI RAID
Quick Installation Guide
04-0373C
Introducing the Serial ATA PCI RAID
The Serial ATA PCI RAID is an ultra high-speed two
channel Serial ATA controller board for use in
Pentium-class computers. It achieves burst data transfer
rates up to 150MB/s (1.5Gb/s) and supports various
brands of hard disk drives with capacities greater that
137GB.
Features and Benefits
• Increased performance and security with
Serial ATA RAID
• Supports 32-bit wide PCI bus at 66MHz and data
transfer rates up to 1.5Gb/s (150MB/s)
• Supports RAID 0 (stripe) for performance and
RAID 1 (mirror) for data reliability
• Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 and PCI 2.2
specifications
• Coexists with on-board controller
• Features independent 256-byte FIFOs per channel
for host reads and writes
• Feature Watch Dog timer for fault resiliency and
flash memory for future BIOS updates
• Breaks the 137GB barrier! Works with various
brands of large capacity Serial ATA hard disks