Quantum DLT-V4 SATA HBA COMPATIBILITY User Manual

DLT-V4 SATA Notes

1 Tested HBA’s and Onboard Chipsets

HBA / Motherboard HBA Firmware / BIOS Comments

Adaptec ASH 1205SA A.2.11 Dell Onboard - Intel ICH5 82801EB N/A Gateway Onboard - Intel ICH7R 82801GB-27C0 N/A White Box PC Onboard - ABIT IC7 (ICH5) N/A See Section 2.2 Promise SATAII150 TX4 1.00.0.34 SIIG SD-SATA3112-150R 4.2.02 Silicon Image SIL3112 4.1.50 See Section 2.3 Silicon Image SIL3114 5.0.18B See Section 2.3 Silicon Image SIL3124 6.0.17 See Section 2.3 Silicon Image SIL3512A 4.3.47 See Section 2.3

2 Troubleshooting Tips

2.1 Motherboard ICH 5/6/7 SATA:

1 If the onboard controller is designed to control both SATA and

IDE (ATA) devices, changes in the BIOS configuration are likely for all devices to function properly. An understanding of BIOS configuration is required if there is a mix of IDE and SATA devices in the system and resource conflicts occur.

2 Microsoft Windows (atapi.sys) will enable PIO by default for the

DLT-V4 tape device. Microsoft Windows will enable PIO mode by default in the following situations:

For ATAPI devices, except DVD and CD-R/RWW drives, Windows enables PIO by default on ATAPI tape drives, CD-ROM drives, and ATAPI removable drives such as magneto-optical (MO) drives. The user can, however, enable DMA on an ATAPI device through Device Manager.

2.1.1 To enable DMA mode using the Microsoft Windows Device Manager

1 Open Device Manager. 2 Double-click IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers to display the list of

controllers and channels.

3 Right-click the icon for the channel to which the device is

connected, select Properties, and then click the Advanced

Settings tab.

4 In the Current Transfer Mode drop-down box, select DMA if

Available if the current setting is "PIO Only."

5 If the drop-down box already shows "DMA if Available" but

the current transfer mode is PIO, then the user must toggle the settings. That is:

6 Change the selection from "DMA if available" to PIO only, and

click OK.

7 Then repeat the steps above to change the selection to DMA if

Available.

2.2 Example Configuration (BIOS):

1. OS: XP, Service Pack 2

2. Motherboard: ABIT IC7 (ICH5)

• 2 x ATA/100 IDE connectors (ICH5)

• 2 x SATA 1.5Gb connectors (ICH5R) with RAID 0 support

• Serial ATA RAID 0

3. System Devices:

• CDROM - IDE Master (Secondary IDE Channel)

• HDD - IDE Master (Primary IDE Channel)

• HDD - IDE Slave (Primary IDE Channel)

• DLT-V4 - SATA Slave (Secondary IDE Channel) - Attached

to port labeled “SATA 1”

• Note:

4. BIOS Configuration:

• IDE Bus Master:

• OnChip IDE-1 Controller:

• OnChip IDE-2 Controller:

• OnChip Serial ATA Setting

5. Motherboard SATA HBA: If the motherboard SATA controller

is an onboard HBA (Sil3112) the DLT-V4 tape device will function properly as the connection is point-to-point and the

With mixed IDE / SATA devices, requires IDE,

Master/Slave Setup.

Enabled

 Master Drive PIO Mode:  Slave Drive PIO Mode:  Master Drive Ultra DMA:  Slave Drive Ultra DMA:

 OnChip Serial ATA mode:  OnChip Serial ATA:  Serial ATA 1 Mode:  Serial ATA 2 Mode:

Enabled

Auto

Enabled

Auto

IDE

Combined Mode

IDE-2 Slave IDE-4 Master

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