User Guide

Introduction: FastTrak100 Ultra ATA/100 RAID Card User's Guide

Introduction: FastTrak100™ Ultra ATA/100 RAID Card User's Guide

Overview

Thank you for your recent purchase.The Dell® PC which you are using either already contains a Promise Technology® FastTrak100 RAID card installed by Dell or you have acquired a FastTrak100 Upgrade Kit from Dell for your existing Dell PC and will be installing the card yourself.

For Dell PCs with a Dell-installed Promise Technology® FastTrak100 card, consult the Troubleshooting section of the manual if you are experiencing any difficulties with the hard drive being recognized by the card. If your operating system has crashed for some reason or you have received updated drivers from Dell, you may be required to install software drivers for the FastTrak100 card. Use the Installing Drivers section.

For Dell PC owners wishing to install their Promise Technology® FastTrak100 Upgrade Kit from Dell, proceed to the Setup section, then continue with the Installing Drivers section.

Performance Features

The FastTrak100 controller card has the following features:

Transfer rates up to 100MB/sec
Up to 133MB/sec burst transfer rates (through PCI bus)
Doubles sustained data transfers of attached drives under RAID 0 striping
Places identical data on to two drives on every save operation for data redundancy protection under RAID 1 mirroring
Maintains data storage and PC operation in case one drive fails under RAID 1 mirroring
CRC checking with Ultra ATA hard drives
Dual independent channel PCI IDE bus master RAID controller
PCI "Plug & Play" compatibility
Coexists with IDE and SCSI controllers
Onboard BIOS with LBA translation and Extended Int 13 support
BIOS includes FastBuild automatic setup utility to configure RAID array
Supports ATA hard drives up to 128GB
Flashable BIOS allows easy upgrades
FastCheck GUI continually monitors array status, controls data maintenance operations (RAID 1) and drive rebuilds (RAID 1)

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