Rosewill RC-219 User Manual

eSATA II 2 Port PCIe HDD Controller

RC-219

User Manual

eSATA II 2 port PCIe HDD Controller RC-219 User Manual

1. Introduction

The Low Profile PCI-Express controller board supports Low profile PCI and

regular size PCI both. The card can upgrade your desktop computer to have 2 ports

Serial ATA transfer rate of 3 Gb/s (300 MB/s).

SATA port can access SATA storage media such as hard disk drive, Zip drive,

CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM.
It comes with universal drivers for Windows Vista, NT4.0, XP, 2000, Server2003.

1.1. Features

z 48 bits LBA can Break Capacity-Limit to Support HDD larger than 137GB

z Supports 1-lane 2.5Gbps PCI Express

z Hot-plug capability

z Supports SATA II transfer rate of 3.0Gbps

z Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications

z Supports two independent Serial ATA channels

z Independent Link, Transport, and data FIFO

z Independent command fetch, scatter/gather, and command execution

z Supports Legacy Command Queuing (LCQ)

z Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ)

z Supports Non-zero offsets NCQ

z Supports Out of order data delivery NCQ

z Supports FIS-based switching with Port Multipliers

z 31 Commands and Scatter/Gather Tables per Port

z Two Pin headers on board for LED connection

z Completely with drivers for Windows Vista, NT, 2000, XP and Server 2003

1.2. Package Contents

z RC-219

z User’s Manual

z Driver CD

z Low profile bracket

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