Promise Technology 150TX2 Manuale Utente

Chapter 1: Introduction 

 

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The following information offers an overview of the major features of your new 
Promise FastTrak S150 TX2 plus. 

Supports 66MHz PCI bus 
motherboards (automatically 
backward compatible with 
33MHz PCI slots) 

Allows maximum data transfers of up to 
266MB per second (133 MB/s in 33 MHz 
slot) over the bus to dramatically reduce the 
time to save and retrieve large files. 

Supports: 
data striping (RAID 0), 
mirroring (RAID 1), and 
striping/mirroring (RAID 
0+1). 
Due to ATA drive limitations, 
RAID 1 arrays consisting of  
a master and slave drive on 
the parallel port are not 
recommended. 

Provides dramatic increase in drive 
performance and/or fault tolerant options. 
Offers performance customization and data 
rebuilds from the BIOS menu. 

Supports Serial ATA 
Specification 

Burst data transfer rates up to 150MB/sec 
from Serial ATA drives to boost overall 
system performance. 

FastTrak S150 TX2 supports 
Ultra DMA 6/5/4/3/2/1/0, 
DMA 2/1/0 

Burst data transfer rates up to 133MB/sec 
from Ultra ATA/133 drives to boost overall 
system performance. 

Independent data channels 
for Serial ATA drives 

Drives can multiply their data transfer 
performance when striped together and each 
drive uses a separate data channel. 

PCI Plug-n-Play, PCI 
Interrupt sharing and 
coexists with motherboard 
IDE and SCSI controllers 

Easy to install; supports 2 Serial ATA drives 
and 2 Parallel ATA drives on the FastTrak 
S150 TX2plus while still supporting 4 devices 
on motherboard ATA controller. 

Supports concurrent ATA 
channel operation 

Drive workload is distributed in parallel 
between members of the array. 

Supports IDE bus master 
operation 

Allows multitasking during disk transfers that 
increase CPU efficiency. The CPU is free to 
process tasks during IDE data transfers 
through the PCI Bus to/from system memory.