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SATAII150 AND SATA 300
TX SERIES
QUICK START GUIDE
Version 1.5
© 2005 Promise Technology, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
SATAII150 and SATA300 TX Series Quick Start Guide
SATAII150 TX Series Task List
Installation and setup consists of the following steps:
1.Unpack Your SATAII150 or SATA300 Card, below
2.Install the SATAII150 or SATA300 Card (page 3)
3.Install the Disk Drives:
SATAII150 TX2plus or SATA300 TX2plus (page 4) SATAII150 TX4 (page 5)
SATA300 TX4 (page 7)
4.Install Driver (page 9)
Step 1: Unpack Your SATAII150 or SATA300 Card
When you receive the SATAII150 or SATA300 TX2plus card, the package should contain the items listed below:
•SATAII150 or SATA300 TX2plus Serial ATA Controller card
•Quick Start Guide
•Two 0.65 m (26 inch) Serial ATA data cables. 1.5 Gb cables for SATAII150, 3.0 Gb cables for SATA300
•One 80-wire 40-pin ATA cable
•CD with drivers and SATAII150 and SATA300 TX Series User Manual
When you receive the SATAII150 or SATA300 TX4 card, the package should contain the items listed below:
•SATAII150 or SATA300 TX4 Serial ATA Controller card
•Quick Start Guide
•Four 0.65 m (26 inch) Serial ATA data cables. 1.5 Gb cables for SATAII150, 3.0 Gb cables for SATA300
•CD with drivers and SATAII150 and SATA300 TX Series Manual
If ANY of the contents are missing or appear to be damaged, please contact your dealer or distributor immediately.
Warning
Before installing the adapter into an existing system, backup any important or useful data. Failure to follow this accepted PC practice could result in data loss.
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Step 2: Install the SATAII150 or SATA300Card
Warning
The SATAII150 or SATA300 TX Series Serial ATA Controller cards, like other parts of your system, are subject to damage by static electricity. Be sure that you're properly grounded (Promise recommends that you wear an anti-static strap or touch a grounded object) and that you unplug your system before installing the SATAII150 or SATA300 TX2plus and TX4.
Step 2: Install the SATAII150 or SATA300Card
The SATAII150 or SATA300 TX2plus or TX4 Serial ATA Controller card fits into any available PCI slot on your PC's motherboard (below):
•32-bit PCI slot (must be PCI 2.2 or 2.3 compliant)
•The 32-bit portion of a 64-bit PCI or PCI-X slot
Attaching screw 
System frame
Bracket 
SATAII150 or
SATA300
Controller card
Motherboard
PCI slots
•Remove the cover of your system.
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SATAII150 and SATA300 TX Series Quick Start Guide
5.Remove the inside slot cover of an available 32-bit PCI slot on the motherboard.Install the SATAII150 or SATA300 card into the open PCI slot. Secure the bracket to the system's frame.
6.Attach your system case's 2- or 4-pin LED cable to the LED connector on the SATAII150 or SATA300 card (see Install the Disk Drives, below). Make sure that pin 1 on the connector is aligned with pin 1 of the cable.
7.Fasten the controller card bracket to the system case.
Note
The SATAII150 or SATA300 TX2plus and TX4 Controllers are PCI Plug-n-Play (PnP) devices. No changes are necessary in the Motherboard CMOS Setup for resources or drive types in most applications.
Step 3: Install the Disk Drives
SATAII150 or SATA300 TX2plus
The SATAII150 or SATA300 TX2plus supports up to two Serial ATA drives and up to two Parallel ATA drives.
Caution
Use of removable disk drive enclosures other than Promise Technology's SuperSwap is not supported and may result in performance loss or other undesired results.
Note
If you are using a Promise SuperSwap 1100 or 4100 enclosure in your PC:
•Connect the power cables to the SuperSwap enclosure.
•Attach a SMBus cable from the Management Connector on the SATAII150 or SATA300 TX2plus card to the Management Connector on the first enclosure
These actions are described in Chapter 2 of the SuperSwap User Manual.
1.Install the disk drives into the drive bays of your system.
2.Attach the power cables to the disk drives.
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Step 3: Install the Disk Drives
3.Attach one Serial ATA data cable to each Serial ATA disk drive. Then attach the other ends of the cables to the connectors on the SATAII150 or SATA300 TX2 plus card (below).
Individual LED
Connectors Parallel Port
Port 3 / Channel 3
Aggregate LED
Connectors
Port 2 /
Channel 2
Port 1 /
Channel 1
TX2plus
ATAII150
Management Connector
SATAII150 or SATA300 TX2plus Serial ATA Controller card
4.Attach a black connector of the Ultra ATA cable to each Parallel ATA hard drive.
5.Verify that the Master and Slave drives each have the appropriate pin settings. Check the drive manufacturer’s documentation for more information.
6.Attach the blue cable connector to the Port 3 Parallel connector on the SATAII150 or SATA300 TX2plus controller card. The colored edge of the cable(s) indicates pin 1.
SATAII150 TX4
The SATAII150 TX4 supports up to four Serial ATA drives.
Caution
Use of removable disk drive enclosures other than Promise Technology's SuperSwap is not supported and may result in performance loss or other undesired results.
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