Lindy 70538 User Manual
SATA Raid+USB2.0
+1394a 9 port PCI Card
User Manual
English
LINDY No. 70538
www.LINDY.com
© LINDY ELECTRONICS LIMITED & LINDY-ELEKTRONIK GMBH - FIRST EDITION (November 2004)
1. Introduction
This PCI Host Adapter is a PCI controller board which can upgrade your desktop
computer to have dual independent Serial ATA Channels to support RAID 0 and RAID 1
features, three 1394 ( FireWire ) ports and four USB2.0 / USB1.1 ports.
The board supports a 32-bit 33 MHz PCI bus revision 2.2, 1394 transfer rate of 400 Mb/s,
USB transfer rate of 1.5Mb/s, 12Mb/s, 480Mb/s and the Serial ATA Generation 1
transfer rate of 1.5 Gb/s (150 MB/s).
It comes completely with drivers for Windows.
RAID, Redundant Array of Independent Disks, greatly enhances two main areas of data
storage: performance and data integrity. By using RAID 0, also known as Striping,
performance of sustained data transfer rates is greatly enhanced by simultaneously
writing data to 2 drives. The second benefit of RAID is data redundancy. RAID 1,
Mirroring, writes identical data on two drives, thus protecting the data from a disk failure. If,
for any reason, one drive were to fail, your data is secure and available from the mirrored
second drive.
1.1. Features
1.1.1. PCI Interface
Compliant with PCI Specification, revision 2.2.
Compliant with PCI IDE Controller Specification, revision 1.0.
Compliant with Programming Interface for Bus Master IDE Controller revision 1.0.
32 bit, 33Mhz fully compliant PCI host interface.
Integrated PCI DMA engines.
1.1.2. High Speed Serial ATA Interface
Dual high speed serial ATA interface ports, each supporting 1st generation
Serial ATA data rates (1.5Gb/s).
Provides RAID 0 (Stripping) to greatly increase the performance of data
transfer by simultaneously writing data to 2 drives.
Provides RAID 1 (Mirroring) to protect the data from a disk failure by writing
identical data on 2 drives.
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Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications.
Independent 256-byte FIFOs (32 bit * 64 deep) per Serial ATA channel for host
reads and writes.
Supports Spread Spectrum in receiver.
Features Serial ATA to PCI interrupt masking.
Features Watch Dog Timer for fault resiliency.
1.1.3. USB Interface
Compliant with Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 2.0 (Data Rate
1.5/12/480 Mbps).
Compliant with Open Host Controller Interface Specification for USB Rev 1.0a.
Compliant with Enhanced Host Controller Interface Specification for USB Rev
0.95, All USB ports can handle high-speed (480 Mbps), full-speed (12 Mbps),
and low-speed (1.5 Mbps) transaction.
1.1.4. 1394 ( FireWire ) Interface
Compliant with 1394 Open Host Controller Interface specification release 1.1
and IEEE Std 1394a-2000.
Provides three 1394 ports at 100/200/400 Mbps.
Built-in FIFOs for isochronous transmit (2048 bytes), asynchronous transmit
(2048 bytes), and receive (3072 bytes).
32-bit CRC generation and checking for receive/transmit packets.
1.2. Package Contents
SATA Raid + USB2.0 + 1394a 3-In-1 9 Port PCI Host Adapter
This User’s Manual
Driver Diskette
2. What Is RAID
RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RAID technology manages multiple disk drives to enhance I/O performance and provide
redundancy in order to withstand the failure of any individual member, without loss of
data. This card provides two RAID Set types, Striped (RAID 0) and Mirrored (RAID 1).
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Disk Striping (RAID 0)
Striping is a performance-oriented, non-redundant data mapping technique. While Striping
is discussed as a RAID Set type, it is actually does not provide fault tolerance. With
modern SATA bus mastering technology, multiple I/O operations can be done in parallel,
enhancing performance. Striping arrays use multiple disks to form a larger virtual disk.
Disk Mirroring (RAID 1)
Disk mirroring creates an identical twin for a selected disk by having the data simultaneously
written to two disks. This redundancy provides instantaneous protection from a single disk
failure. If a read failure occurs on one drive, the system reads the data from the other
drive.
3. RAID BIOS Installation
Creating and deleting RAID sets is a function found in the BIOS. During boot up, the RAID
setting message will appear and pause for a few moments to allow the user to choose what
to do.
This board will act as normal NON-RAID card when BIOS not configured for RAID. Just
proceed to Software Installation section directly.
If you use traditional parallel ATA HDD, make sure your hard drives be set up as master
mode before the RAID setting.
3.1. Creating Striped Sets (RAID 0)
1. As the BIOS boots, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility.
2. Select Create RAID set. Press Enter.
3. Select Striped then press Enter.
4. Select Auto configuration. Press Enter.
5. Press Y to save your settings.
6. Press CTRL+E and then press Y to exit the setup.
7. Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps as if you are installing a conventional
hard drive.
8. Your RAID configuration is complete. Please proceed to software installation section.
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