AOpen RAID User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

  • It supports combinations of data stripping (RAID 0) and mirroring ( RAID 1).
  • Significant improvement in the speed of drives and fault tolerant features.
  • Ultra ATA/100/66/33 are supported.
  • Transfer rate of up to 100MB/s burst with Ultra ATA/100 drives.
  • Has PCI Plug-and-Play and interrupts sharing with PCI.
  • Allows the addition of four ATA drives on the FastTrak100 Lite.
  • Allows the simultaneous dual operation of the IDE controller.
  • MST IDE simultaneously supports one or more Bus Master operations for disk transfers.
  • Automated FastBuild™ menu for configuration.
  • Presents status and error checking messages at boot time.
  • Automatically restores the contents of mirrored drives in the background.
  • Accepts drive size above 8.4 gigabytes.
  • It is compatible with FAT32 and NTFS partitioning schemes.
  • It utilises Promise PCI Ultra ATA/100 ASIC technology.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What levels of RAID does the FastTrak100 Lite support?

A: Supports RAID 0, which is stripping, and RAID 1, which is mirroring.

Q: What is the transfer rate of the data supported on the FastTrak100 Lite?

A: Upto 100MB/s burst data transfer rate.

Q: Is it possible to use drives of different sizes with the FastTrak100 Lite?

A: Yes, but for RAID 1 application it is a must that the new drive that is added is equal or larger than the existing drive.

Q: Is the installation included in the packages complicated?

A: It does not appear too complex, it is assembled with the sole purpose of being simple, and it even provides automated installation by using the FastBuild utility.

Q: What is the status of the array if one of the drives in a mirrored array gets damaged?

A: FastTrak100 Lite can work with only one of the drives and will be able to use an array that is set in a “Critical” state i.e till the damaged drive is added and the array is reconstructed.

Q: Are there any extra drivers necessary for the FastTrak100 Lite?

A: For certain operating systems like Windows, drivers would be necessary but it is not mandatory for DOS and Windows 3.1x.

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