SATA II / ATA 133 PCIe Card RC216 User Manual
User Manual SATA II / ATA 133 PCIe Card RC216 Content • Features and Benefits ...................................................................... 01 • Connectors ........................................................................................ 01 • System requirement .......................................................................... 01 • Package contents ............................................................................. 01 • Hardware Description ...............................
User Manual SATA II / ATA 133 PCIe Card RC216 SATA II / ATA 133 PCIe Card Features and Benefits • • • • • • • • • Compliant with one-lane 2.5Gb/s PCI Express specification Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specification Supports Serial ATA Generation 2 transfer rate of 3.
User Manual SATA II / ATA 133 PCIe Card RC216 Hardware Description IDE (ATA) Con 1 (SATA) Con 2 (SATA) Con 3 (eSATA) Con 4 (eSATA) 3 2 1 J4 Con 1 Con 2 Con 3 Con 4 Jumper J3 SATA Connector (internal) SATA Connector (internal) eSATA Connector (external) eSATA Connector (external) J2 J1 3 2 1 J8 J7 J6 J5 JP J1-J4 J5-J8 Jumper Settings Description Active port 1-2 close Enable SATA Connector Con 1 2-3 close Enable SATA Connector Con 3 1-2 close Enable SATA Connector Con 2 2-3 close Enable SATA
User Manual SATA II / ATA 133 PCIe Card RC216 Step by step photo installation of Magic Switch There are four SATA ports in RC216 RAID adapter. We named these ports character Con1 through Con4. Con1 and Con2 are internal SATA ports. Con3 and Con 4 are external eSATA ports. By changing the jumper setting on RC216 that allows you to utilize 2 ports of this card. Please reference our photos below for the proper jumper setting.
User Manual SATA II / ATA 133 PCIe Card RC216 Mode 3 - Con4 Con3 Active 2 & 3 PIN close 2 & 3 PIN close Con3 Con4 Con2 Con1 Con2 Con1 Mode 4 - Con2 Con3 Active 2 & 3 PIN close 1 & 2 PIN close Con3 Con4 Note: By default, Con1 and Con2 are working. Con3 and Con4 are deactive. Hardware Installation 1. Turn Off the power to your computer. 2. Unplug the power cord and remove your computer’s cover. 3. Remove the slot bracket from an available PCIe slot. 4.
User Manual SATA II / ATA 133 PCIe Card RC216 RAID level/Type RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 0+1 JBOD Disk Configurations Disk Striping Disk Mirroring Disk Striping + Mirroring Concatenation Number of disks needed 2 or 3 or 4 2 4 2 or 3 or 4 RAID 0 (Striping) 1. As the BIOS boots press Ctrl+J when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS. 2. At the next screen select Create RAID Disk Drive, press Enter. 3. Enter RAID name, press Enter. 4.
User Manual SATA II / ATA 133 PCIe Card RC216 5. Please use arrow keys ↑ and ↓ to switch the disk, use the “space” key to mark the selected disk, then press Enter. 6. Input the RAID size, press Enter. 7. When asked Created RAID on the select HDD (Y/N)?, press Y to accept. 8. At the next screen select Save And Exit Setup, press Enter. When asked Save to disk &Exit (Y/N)?, press Y to exit the BIOS. RAID 0+1 (Striping + Mirroring) 1. As the BIOS boots press Ctrl+J when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS. 2.
User Manual SATA II / ATA 133 PCIe Card RC216 Rebuild Mirror Drive When a failure to one member occurs, you will be notified by the RAID BIOS during boot. The steps below will guide you in rebuilding a failed mirror set. 1. Replace he failed drive(s) with one of equal or greater capacity, then start the computer. 2. During boot press Ctrl+J to enter the RAID BIOS. 3. Select Rebuild Mirror Drive press Enter. 4. Please use arrow keys↑ and ↓ to select the array you want to rebuild, press Enter. 5.
User Manual SATA II / ATA 133 PCIe Card RC216 For An Existing Installation 1. Setup the RAID Array prior to driver installation and boot up to Windows. 2. At the Found New Hardware Wizard window pop-up, please click Cancel button to cancel the driver installation for the device at this moment. The driver for this device will be installed in the next step. 3. Please insert the CD driver bound with PCIe SATA II 300 + PATA Raid Card into your CD-ROM Drive. 4. At the Windows desktop, click Start, then Run. 5.
User Manual SATA II / ATA 133 PCIe Card RC216 For Windows® Vista 32 bit For New Installation A new installation requires a floppy disk for the driver installation. To make this floppy disk, copy the contents of the “RC-216\Floppy32” folder, found on the driver CD, onto a blank floppy disk then follow the directions below. 1. Setup the RAID Array prior to Windows installation. 2. Follow Microsoft’s Windows installation procedure. 3. Restart the computer when prompted by Windows’ installation. 4.
User Manual SATA II / ATA 133 PCIe Card RC216 For An Existing Installation 1. Setup the RAID Array prior to driver installation and boot up to Windows. 2. At the Found New Hardware Wizard window pop-up, please click Cancel button to cancel the driver installation for the device at this moment. The driver for this device will be installed in the next step. 3. Please insert the CD driver bound with PCIe SATA II 300 + PATA Raid Card into your CD-ROM Drive. 4. At the Windows desktop, click Start, then Run. 5.
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