Promise Technology FastTrak S150 User Manual

FASTTRAK S150 TX2PLUS USER MANUAL Version 1.3

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 6 Installing the FastTrak Card The FastTrak TX2plus Serial ATA RAID card fits into any available PCI slot on your

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 TX2plus User Manual 8 TX2 plusFastTrak150 Figure 2. FastTrak S150 TX2plus card 5. Attach the Y-cable power splitters to the Seria

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 TX2plus User Manual 10 FastBuild (tm) Utility 2.xx (c) 2002-2005 Promise Technology, Inc. [Auto Setup Options Menu] Optimize Arra

Chapter 2: Installation 11 Creating a Security Array with New Drives Caution With some models of hard drives, if the Master hard drive fails, it ma

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 12 5. A window will appear almost immediately confirming that your Security array has been created. Press any key

Chapter 2: Installation 13 Creating a Security Array with an Existing Data Drive Caution With some models of hard drives, if the Master hard drive

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 14 Do you want the disk image to be duplicated to another or do quick initialize or create only? Y - Create and D

Chapter 2: Installation 15 Array has been created. <Press Any Key to Reboot> 8. Once the arrayed drives have been formatted, proceed to Cha

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual ii Copyright © 2003 Promise Technology, Inc. Copyright by Promise Technology, Inc. (Promise Technology). No part o

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 16 Creating a Security Array with Quick Initialization Caution With some models of hard drives, if the Master har

Chapter 2: Installation 17 3. The window below will appear. Do you want the disk image to be duplicated to another or do quick initialize or crea

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

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 20 Critical – Degraded array condition due to a failed or removed disk drive. Applies to mirrored arrays (RAID 1 a

Chapter 2: Getting Started 21 Notes After you install the FastTrak S150 TX2plus card and configure an array using FastBuild, use FDISK to format th

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 22 Note FastTrak S150 TX2plus permits striped arrays using 1, 2, 3, or 4 drives attached in Auto Setup mode. Und

Chapter 2: Getting Started 23 Using a Hot Spare Drive Caution With some models of hard drives, if the Master hard drive fails, it may cause the Sla

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 24 Creating Multiple Arrays If you plan to create multiple arrays, 1. Attach only the drives necessary to create

Chapter 2: Getting Started 25 Manually Creating an Array The Define Array (3) option from the Main Menu allows users to begin the process of manual

iii Contents Chapter 1: Introduction... 1 FastTrak S150 TX2plu

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 26 Selecting Array Type 1. Under the Definition section of this menu, highlight the Array # for which you want to

Chapter 2: Getting Started 27 Gigabyte Boundary The Gigabyte Boundary feature is designed for mirrored arrays (RAID 1 or RAID 0+1) in which a drive

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 28 Assigning Drive(s) to Array 1. Under the Drive Assignments section, highlight a drive by pressing the ↑ and ↓

Chapter 2: Getting Started 29 Creating a Mirrored Array Using New Drives Caution With some models of hard drives, if the Master hard drive fails, i

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 30 Adding Fault Tolerance to an Existing Drive Caution With some models of hard drives, if the Master hard drive

Chapter 2: Getting Started 31 2. Press Ctrl-Y to Save your selection. The window below will appear. Do you want the disk image to be duplicated t

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 32 5. Press Ctrl-Y to Save selection and start duplication. The following confirmation screen will appear. Star

Chapter 2: Getting Started 33 Creating a Hot Spare Drive for Mirrored Arrays Caution With some models of hard drives, if the Master hard drive fail

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 34 Deleting an Array The Delete Array (4) Menu option allows for deletion of disk array assignments. This is not t

Chapter 2: Getting Started 35 FastBuild (tm) Utility 2.xx (c) 2002-2005 Promise Technology, Inc. [ Define Array Menu ] Array No RAID Mode Tot

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual iv Existing Windows ME Installation... 45 Confirming W

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 36 Rebuilding a Mirrored Array The Rebuild Array (5) Menu option can be used to recover from an error in a mirrore

Chapter 2: Getting Started 37 FastBuild (tm) Utility 2.xx (c) 2002-2005 Promise Technology, Inc. [ Rebuild Array Menu ] Array No RAID Mode To

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

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 40 Windows XP Installation The following details the installation of the FastTrak TX2plus drivers while installin

Chapter 4: Installing Software Drivers 41 Existing Windows XP Installation After installing the FastTrak S150 TX2plus card and rebooting your system

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 42 New Windows 2000 Installation The following details the installation of the FastTrak TX2plus drivers while inst

Chapter 4: Installing Software Drivers 43 Existing Windows 2000 Installation After installing the FastTrak S150 TX2plus card and rebooting your syst

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 44 New Windows ME Installation The following details the installation of the FastTrak TX2plus drivers while instal

Chapter 4: Installing Software Drivers 45 Existing Windows ME Installation The following section details the installation of FastTrak TX2plus driver

1 Chapter 1: Introduction Thank you for purchasing Promise Technology’s FastTrak S150 TX2plus RAID controller card. The PC which you are using either

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 46 New Windows NT4.0 Installation The following details the installation of the FastTrak TX2plus drivers while ins

Chapter 4: Installing Software Drivers 47 Existing Windows NT4.0 Installation The following section details the installation of FastTrak TX2plus dri

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 48 New Windows 98 Installation The following section details the installation of the FastTrak TX2plus drivers whil

Chapter 4: Installing Software Drivers 49 Existing Windows 98 Installation The following section details the installation of FastTrak TX2plus driver

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51 Chapter 5: Disk Array Concepts About FastTrak S150 TX2plus FastTrak S150 TX2plus is a high performance Serial ATA/Ultra ATA RAID controller card t

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 52 Disk Array Terms Disk Array Description A disk array is formed from a group of two or more disk drives that app

Chapter 5: Disk Array Concepts 53 About RAID Levels Striping (RAID 0) Reads and writes sectors of data interleaved between multiple drives. When any

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 54 Mirroring (RAID 1) Writes duplicate data on to a pair of drives while reads are performed in parallel. ATA RAID

Chapter 5: Disk Array Concepts 55 Caution With some models of hard drives, if the Master hard drive fails, it may cause the Slave hard drive to be

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 2 FastTrak S150 TX2plus bootable BIOS supports individual drives larger than 137 GB. With FAT32 and NTFS partition

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 56 Striping / Mirroring (RAID 0+1) A combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1 arrays. It can increase performance by readi

57 Chapter 6: Troubleshooting & Tips This section is used to assist with troubleshooting conflicts and FastTrak S150 TX2plus installation problem

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 58 System CMOS Issues Set Motherboard CMOS Boot sequence to boot to FastTrak S150 TX2plus On some Motherboard BIOS

Chapter 6: Troubleshooting & Tips 59 Drive-Related Errors Critical Array Status Error Reported during Boot If a critical status error message ap

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 60 Unable to Partition or Format Array This condition may occur when the Reserve Sector of one of the drives has b

Chapter 6: Troubleshooting & Tips 61 Array Constantly Goes Into Critical or Offline Mode During Reboot See Unable to Partition or Format array,

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 62 Operating System-Related Issues Different drive lettering under Windows NT This may happen when using a SCSI ca

Chapter 6: Troubleshooting & Tips 63 “No Hard Drives Found” Message Appears During CD-ROM Install of Windows NT, 2000, or XP The F6 key was not

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 64 Performance Tips Here are some tips that may optimize performance in a RAID 0 striped array. If you are using a

Chapter 6: Troubleshooting & Tips 65 Change Setting of PCI Bus Utilization Certain brands of video capture cards can produce a glitch on play ba

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

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

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 68 Q: How does the FastTrak S150 TX2plus RAID controller provide storage and/or data protection with their arrays

Appendix A: FAQs 69 Drive Issues Q: Can I add a drive to a FastTrak S150 TX2plus RAID array via hot-swap and dynamically adjust the array size/conf

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 70 Q: What system BIOS setup settings do I use for the drives on the FastTrak S150 TX2plus controller? A: None.

Appendix A: FAQs 71 Installation Issues (Capacity, Booting) Q: Why are some drives recognized by the FastTrak S150 TX2plus Array Setup utilities w

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

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 74 Pacific Rim Sales Office E-mail Support [email protected] Fax Technical Support +886-3-578-2390 Attenti

Appendix B: Technical Support 75 Limited Warranty Promise Technology, Inc. (“Promise”) warrants that for Three (3) years from the time of the delive

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 4 Utilizes FastBuild™ automenu from the FastTrak S150 TX2plus onboard BIOS Has “Auto Setup” option for quick and

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual 76 No other document, statement or representation may be relied on to vary the terms of this limited warranty. Pro

Appendix B: Technical Support 77 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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5 Chapter 2: Installation This section is designed to quickly get your FastTrak S150 TX2plus Serial ATA RAID controller card up and running using the