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FastTrak S150 TX2plus is a high performance Serial ATA/Ultra ATA RAID 
controller card that features concurrent data channel operation and onboard 
BIOS. The channels on the FastTrak S150 TX2plus support concurrent 
operation that allows for overlapped I/O under multi-tasking operating systems 
and sharing the workload between multiple drives.  

The FastTrak S150 TX2plus card contains a BIOS code that extends the 
standard disk service routine provided through Int13. The BIOS is bootable for 
DOS and other operating systems that rely on the system BIOS for drive 
operation. When the FastTrak S150 TX2plus BIOS appears during bootup, 
press Ctrl-F to enter the FastBuild setup to select from menu settings. 

This setup utility is used to build and manage FastTrak S150 TX2plus disk 
arrays. The utility is menu driven and features the Auto Setup (1) option that 
uses a simple, interactive setup process. Once the array is built, all the array 
members store the configuration information in the drive’s reserved area. See 
Chapter 3, which provides descriptions of individual functions. 

Array configuration data about the drive member and other members in the disk 
array are saved on a special location on the disk drives called the reserve sector. 
If any member of the array becomes corrupt or lost, the redundant configuration 
data on the other members can be used for rebuilds.  

Disk array members do not have a memory of their drive positions. This allows 
drives to be placed on different FastTrak S150 TX2plus connectors or cards 
within the system without reconfiguring or rebuilding.