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FASTTRAK S150 TX4 USER MANUAL Version 1.3

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 6 Installing the FastTrak Card The FastTrak TX4 Serial ATA RAID card fits into any available PCI slot on your PC’s mo

Chapter 2: Installation 7 Installing the Hard Drives Important If you wish to include your current bootable Serial ATA drive using the Windows NT

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 8 TX4FastTrak150 Figure 2. FastTrak S150 TX4 card 3. Attach the Y-cable power splitters to the Serial ATA hard dr

Chapter 2: Installation 9 Creating Your Disk Array You will now use the onboard FastBuild™ BIOS utility to create your array using the attached driv

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 10 FastBuild (tm) Utility 2.xx (c) 2002-2005 Promise Technology, Inc. [Auto Setup Options Menu] Optimize Array fo

Chapter 2: Installation 11 Creating a Security Array with New Drives Use this setting to create a Mirrored (RAID 1) array with two new hard drives.

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 12 Creating a Security Array with an Existing Data Drive Use this setting to create a Mirrored (RAID 1) array with a n

Chapter 2: Installation 13 Source Disk Channel:ID Drive Model Capacity (MB) ----- ----- ----- Target Disk Channel:ID Drive Model Capacity (MB)

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 14 Creating a Security Array with Quick Initialization Use this setting to create a Mirrored (RAID 1) array with one o

15 Chapter 3: Using FastBuild Configuration Utility The FastBuild Configuration Utility offers several menu choices to create and manage the drive a

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual ii Copyright © 2003 Promise Technology, Inc. Copyright by Promise Technology, Inc. (Promise Technology). No part of th

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 16 If your array goes Offline, contact Promise Technical Support for assistance. See Appendix B. Navigating the FastBu

Chapter 2: Getting Started 17 Creating Arrays Automatically The Auto Setup (1) selection from the Main Menu can intuitively help create your disk ar

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 18 Note FastTrak S150 TX4 permits striped arrays using 1, 2, 3, or 4 drives attached in Auto Setup mode. Under the S

Chapter 2: Getting Started 19 Using a Hot Spare Drive If a third drive is attached and is not assigned to a mirrored two-drive disk array (one optim

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 20 Viewing Drive Assignments The View Drive Assignments (2) option in the Main Menu displays whether drives are assign

Chapter 2: Getting Started 21 Manually Creating an Array The Define Array (3) option from the Main Menu allows users to begin the process of manual

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 22 Selecting Array Type 1. Under the Definition section of this menu, highlight the Array # for which you want to ass

Chapter 2: Getting Started 23 Gigabyte Boundary The Gigabyte Boundary feature is designed for mirrored arrays (RAID 1 or RAID 0+1) in which a drive

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 24 Creating a Striped Array As described in the Drive Assignments Option section above, if you selected a performance

Chapter 2: Getting Started 25 Adding Fault Tolerance to an Existing Drive FastTrak S150 TX4 will create a mirrored array using an existing system dr

iii Contents Chapter 1: Introduction... 1 FastTrak S150 TX4 ..

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 26 Source Disk Channel:ID Drive Model Capacity (MB) Target Disk Channel:ID Drive Model Capacity (MB) [Please Se

Chapter 2: Getting Started 27 Array has been created. <Press Any Key to Reboot> 8. Press any key to reboot the system. Creating a Hot Spare

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 28 Deleting an Array The Delete Array (4) Menu option allows for deletion of disk array assignments. This is not the s

Chapter 2: Getting Started 29 FastBuild (tm) Utility 2.xx (c) 2002-2005 Promise Technology, Inc. [ Define Array Menu ] Array No RAID Mode Tot

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 30 Rebuilding a Mirrored Array The Rebuild Array (5) Menu option can be used to recover from an error in a mirrored di

Chapter 2: Getting Started 31 FastBuild (tm) Utility 2.xx (c) 2002-2005 Promise Technology, Inc. [ Rebuild Array Menu ] Array No RAID Mode To

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33 Chapter 4: Installing Software Drivers Following are driver installation procedures for the Windows operating systems that support the FastTrak S1

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 34 New Windows XP Installation The following details the installation of the FastTrak TX4 drivers while installing Win

Chapter 4: Installing Software Drivers 35 Existing Windows XP Installation After installing the FastTrak S150 TX4 card and rebooting your system, Wi

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual iv Existing Windows ME Installation... 39 Confirming Windo

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 36 New Windows 2000 Installation The following details the installation of the FastTrak TX4 drivers while installing W

Chapter 4: Installing Software Drivers 37 Existing Windows 2000 Installation After installing the FastTrak S150 TX4 card and rebooting your system,

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 38 New Windows ME Installation The following details the installation of the FastTrak TX4 drivers while installing Win

Chapter 4: Installing Software Drivers 39 Existing Windows ME Installation The following section details the installation of FastTrak TX4 drivers on

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 40 New Windows NT4.0 Installation The following details the installation of the FastTrak TX4 drivers while installing

Chapter 4: Installing Software Drivers 41 Existing Windows NT4.0 Installation The following section details the installation of FastTrak TX4 drivers

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 42 New Windows 98 Installation The following section details the installation of the FastTrak TX4 drivers while instal

Chapter 4: Installing Software Drivers 43 Existing Windows 98 Installation The following section details the installation of FastTrak TX4 drivers on

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45 Chapter 5: Disk Array Concepts About FastTrak S150 TX4 FastTrak S150 TX4 is a high performance Serial ATA/Ultra ATA RAID controller card that feat

1 Chapter 1: Introduction Thank you for purchasing Promise Technology’s FastTrak S150 TX4 RAID controller card. The PC which you are using either alr

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 46 Disk Array Terms Disk Array Description A disk array is formed from a group of two or more disk drives that appear

Chapter 5: Disk Array Concepts 47 About RAID Levels Striping (RAID 0) Reads and writes sectors of data interleaved between multiple drives. When any

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 48 Mirroring (RAID 1) Writes duplicate data on to a pair of drives while reads are performed in parallel. ATA RAID 1 i

Chapter 5: Disk Array Concepts 49 Striping / Mirroring (RAID 0+1) A combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1 arrays. It can increase performance by reading

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 50 About Dual Data Redundancy One unique (though rarely occurring) feature of RAID 0+1 is dual fault tolerance. In som

51 Chapter 6: Troubleshooting & Tips This section is used to assist with troubleshooting conflicts and FastTrak S150 TX4 installation problems. A

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 52 System CMOS Issues Set Motherboard CMOS Boot sequence to boot to FastTrak S150 TX4 On some Motherboard BIOS, it is

Chapter 6: Troubleshooting & Tips 53 Drive-Related Errors Critical Array Status Error Reported during Boot If a critical status error message ap

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 54 Unable to Partition or Format Array This condition may occur when the Reserve Sector of one of the drives has becom

Chapter 6: Troubleshooting & Tips 55 Array Constantly Goes Into Critical or Offline Mode During Reboot See Unable to Partition or Format array,

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 2 Promise Array Management Utility (PAM) The Promise Array Management (PAM) utility offers local and remote management

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 56 Operating System-Related Issues Different drive lettering under Windows NT This may happen when using a SCSI card i

Chapter 6: Troubleshooting & Tips 57 “No Hard Drives Found” Message Appears During CD-ROM Install of Windows NT, 2000, or XP The F6 key was not

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 58 Performance Tips Here are some tips that may optimize performance in a RAID 0 striped array. If you are using an au

Chapter 6: Troubleshooting & Tips 59 Change Setting of PCI Bus Utilization Certain brands of video capture cards can produce a glitch on play ba

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61 Appendix A: Frequently Asked Questions This section lists frequently asked questions involving pre-installation, drive issues, installation, and p

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 62 Q: How does the FastTrak S150 TX4 RAID controller provide storage and/or data protection with their arrays? A: Fa

Appendix A: FAQs 63 Q: Can I take a drive used in a FastTrak S150 TX4 array and access it directly with a different controller, such as the one in

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 64 Installation Issues (Capacity, Booting) Q: Why are some drives recognized by the FastTrak S150 TX4 Array Setup ut

65 Appendix B: Technical Support Promise Technical Support provides several support options for Promise users to access information and updates. We en

Chapter 1: Introduction 3 Key Features and Benefits The following information offers an overview of the major features of your new Promise FastTrak S

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 66 Pacific Rim Sales Office E-mail Support [email protected] Fax Technical Support +886-3-578-2390 Attention:

Appendix B: Technical Support 67 Limited Warranty Promise Technology, Inc. (“Promise”) warrants that for Three (3) years from the time of the delive

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 68 No other document, statement or representation may be relied on to vary the terms of this limited warranty. Promise

Appendix B: Technical Support 69 Returning Product for Repair If you suspect a product is not working properly, or if you have any questions about y

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FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual 4 Employs the latest Promise PCI Serial ATA ASIC technology Fully supports Serial ATA specifications with 150 MB/sec

5 Chapter 2: Installation This section is designed to quickly get your FastTrak S150 TX4 Serial ATA RAID controller card up and running using the def