Promise Technology 66 Pro Manual Do Utilizador

SuperTrak66™ User's Manual 

Chapter 1 

 

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1 bus mastering PCI slot (PCI v.2.1 compliant) 

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8MB EDO 72-pin SIMM for cache RAM (units may ship with 16MB) 

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One to four Ultra ATA/66, Ultra ATA/33 or EIDE hard drive(s) for dedicated use 
in the RAID array 

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Windows NT 4.0 (or later) on server stations; Windows NT 4.0 or Windows `95 
(or later) on remote monitoring stations 

 

While SuperTrak66 was designed to specifically support Windows NT 4.x and later, 
users may employ other operating systems to access many of its operational 
features. What follows is a brief description of the different support levels available 
for each operating system: 
 

Windows NT 

 

NT 4.0 is recommended to take full advantage of all the features of the 
SuperTrak66 package. I

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SuperTrak66 Message Server and Message Agent are NT “Services,” and 
will only function on an NT system. Without the Message Server and 
Message Agents installed properly on NT stations, the SuperCheck utility 
will not permit maintenance and configuration of your RAID systems. 

 

Windows 95/98 

 

Windows 95 and its successors employ the WIN32 interface required by 
the SuperCheck monitoring utility software. This means that SuperCheck 
may be implemented on a Windows 95/98 station or remote terminal to 
connect to Message Servers that exist on a network. 

 

MS DOS 

 

Using the  SuperTrak66 int 13h BIOS interface, it is possible to  access the 
drive data on an array to partition, format, copy files, etc., using DOS 7 or 
later. DOS versions earlier than 7.0 have an 8.4GB drive size limit which 
cannot be changed.