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Specifications: FastTrak100 PCI Card User's Guide

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Specifications: FastTrak100™ PCI Card User's Guide

General RAID SupportATA Drive Interface Host InterfaceOnboard BIOSOperating SystemsPhysical Environmental

General

Manufacturer Promise Technology, Inc.
Model number FastTrak100
Controller type Bus master Ultra ATA/100 RAID controller
Board controller type PCI
Included cabling Two (2) 80-wire/40-pin drive cables
 

RAID Support

RAID Levels supported 0 (Striping), 1 (Mirroring)
Maximum # of arrays per card 2
RAID 0 drive support From 1 to 4 drives
(Dell recommends creating 2-drive RAID 0 arrays only)
RAID 1 drive support 2 drives only
# of drive channels 2 (supports up to 4 drives)
FastBuild Configuration Utility Can automatically create RAID arrays from attached drives; identifies drives assigned to array; delete and rebuild arrays
FastCheck Monitoring Utility GUI supports Windows interface for local monitoring of FastTrak arrays; perform array maintenance; create system event logs for administration
 

ATA Drive Interface

Types supported Ultra ATA/100, Ultra ATA/66, Ultra ATA/33, EIDE, Fast ATA-2
Maximum # of drives supported 4 (2 drives per cable)
Drive modes Ultra DMA 5/4/3/2, PIO 4/3/2, DMA 2/1/0
Data transfer rate 100MB/sec burst transfers with Ultra ATA/100 drives
# of drive channels 2 (supports up to 4 drives)
Device timing Independent timing for each drive/device attached to cable
 

Host Interface

Bus support PCI local bus spec 2.1 and higher
Bus speed 33MHz
Maximum data transfer rate across bus 133MHz
Bus mastering 32-bit PCI bus mastering with 0-wait state
DMA operation Hardware scatter/gather for efficient command processing
Interrupt request (IRQ) requirement Uses one shareable IRQ for both data channels
 

Onboard BIOS

Drive capacity Extended Int32 support recognizes drives up to and larger than 8.4GB each up to 128GB
Device recognition Automatically identifies & configures drive type (EIDE or Ultra DMA mode) without system CMOS setup
Ultra DMA support Automatically supports Ultra DMA mode data transfers
Error checking Supports Cyclical Redundancy Checking (CRC) of Ultra ATA drives
Data transfer modes Supports LBA (Logical Block Address) or normal CHS data transfer modes
Bootability Allows booting from all FastTrak arrays
Upgradeability Supports Flash BIOS functions
 

Operating Systems

Compatibility Windows NT 4.0/Windows 2000/Windows 98
 

Physical

Height 66.7 mm (2.625 inches)
Width 120.7 mm (4.75 inches)
 

Environmental

Operating temperature (optimum) 0 to 50 °C (32 to 122 °F)
Relative humidity 5% -95% non-condensing
Voltage 5V±5%

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