Siig 04-0373C User Manual

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Serial ATA PCI RAID
Quick Installation Guide
04-0373C
Introducing the Serial ATA PCI RAID
The  Serial ATA PCI RAID is an ultra high-speed two
channel Serial ATA controller board for use in
Pentium-class computers.  It achieves burst data transfer
rates up to 150MB/s (1.5Gb/s) and supports various
brands of hard disk drives with capacities greater that
137GB.
Features and Benefits
Increased performance and security with
Serial ATA RAID
Supports 32-bit wide PCI bus at 66MHz and data
transfer rates up to 1.5Gb/s (150MB/s)
Supports RAID 0 (stripe) for performance and
RAID  1 (mirror) for data reliability
Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 and PCI 2.2
specifications
Coexists with on-board controller
Features independent 256-byte FIFOs per channel
for host reads and writes
Feature Watch Dog timer for fault resiliency and
flash memory for future BIOS updates
Breaks the 137GB barrier!  Works with various
brands of large capacity Serial ATA hard disks