Installation guide

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Introduction

In this Chapter

The Adaptec

AAA

™

-UDMA RAID card provides powerful disk

array support in systems that have a PCI bus. The AAA-UDMA is a

full-size PCI UDMA RAID card with four, 40-pin internal UDMA

connectors. A single UDMA drive can be connected to each of the

four internal UDMA connectors on the AAA-UDMA (four UDMA

drives total).

Note:

The AAA-UDMA supports UDMA (UDMA 33 or 66)

hard disk drives only. Any combination of UDMA 33 or 66

hard disk drives can be connected to the AAA-UDMA.

Throughout the industry, these drives are also often referred

to as

ATA

EIDE

IDE

, or

Ultra DMA

. The AAA-UDMA does

not support CD-ROM, tape drives, or other non-hard disk

drive devices.

➤ System Requirements

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➤ Installation Overview

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