Rosewill SATA II 4 Port PCI RAID Card RC217 User Manual
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SATAII 4 port PCI RAID Card
RC217 User Manual
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Q23: After Raid5 card installation, Windows can’t restart and hang during booting, unless CD Shutoff.
A23: It sounds the issue on Mother board BIOS, Please contact Mother board maker to have the latest BIOS update.
You may also contact agent and try to update the BIOS of Raid5 card
.
1. Introduction
This RAID5 Host Adapter provides a 64bit / 133 MHz PCI-x (or 32bit / 66Mhz PCI or 4GB/s PCI-e 8X) bus interface on
the host side and four, fully compliant Serial ATA II – 3Gbps ports on the device side to access SATA Hard disk and
optical drive.
The board can be used to upgrade your desktop computer to have 4Ports Serial ATA Channels and support RAID 5, RAID
0+1, RAID 0, RAID 1 and JBOD features.
The board supports Serial ATA Generation 1 & Generation 2 transfer rate of 1.5 Gbps / 3Gbps. It comes completely with
drivers for Windows Vista, 2000, XP, 2003.
1.1. Features
1.1.1. PCI Interface (optional)
Compliant with PCI Specification revision 2.2
Integrated PCI DMA engines.
32bit / 66MHz fully compliant PCI host interface.
1.1.2. PCI-X Interface (optional)
Compliant with PCI-X Specification, revision 1.0a
Supports 133 MHz PCI-X with 64-bit data
1.1.3. PCI-e Interface (optional)
x8 PCI Express Bus
PCI Express Specification, Revision 1.0a
Maximum realized bandwidth on PCI Express interface is 2 GB/s in each direction simultaneously,
for an aggregate of 4 GB/s
1.1.4. High Speed Serial ATA Interface
Four high speed Serial ATA interface ports, each supporting 1st generation & 2
nd
generation Serial ATA
data rates 1.5Gbps/ 3Gbps.
Provides RAID 0 (Stripping) to greatly increase the performance of data transfer by simultaneously writing
data to 2 drives.