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SuperTrak66™ User's Manual 

Chapter 1 

 

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Promise Technology, Inc. was founded in San Jose in 1989 and established a 
proven track record for leading edge storage controller products. With an  innovative 
product line, the company has  pioneered the ATA RAID storage concept, allowing 
users to configure RAID arrays using low-cost Ultra ATA and EIDE drives. Promise 
Technology was  the first to introduce caching controllers to MFM, and then IDE 
drives, first to fully support Ultra ATA/33 and Ultra ATA/66 drives, and the first to 
develop a RAID 0,1 card for Ultra ATA drives.  

SuperTrak66 is a hardware-based RAID controller and a Windows NT 4.0 software 
management suite that provides an enterprise-wide ATA RAID solution. The 
SuperTrak66 controller card uses the I

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O architecture and employs Intel’s i960RD 

RISC processor. When used with its companion software management suite, 
SuperTrak66 offers a feature-rich, secure, versatile, and expandable RAID 
environment that allows users and administrators to configure, manage, and 
monitor everything from single arrays on local systems to array networks residing 
in offsite locations. 
 
At its core, SuperTrak66 provides advanced RAID management functions: creating 
arrays, monitoring them, keeping them online and operating at optimum efficiency. 
SuperTrak66 can also perform many other tasks, such as: 
 

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create arrays at various RAID levels (0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5), depending on the 
application being used; 

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set up a network of SuperTrak66 RAID servers (all running under different RAID 
levels) and monitor those servers from any workstation on the network; 

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create a series of SuperTrak66 RAID networks at any number of offsite 
locations; 

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monitor and/or repair SuperTrak66 RAID arrays using the Internet from an 
offsite location  -- all without compromising the integrity of secure servers. 

 
The SuperTrak66 controller card features Intel’s i960RD microprocessor and works 
in tandem with I

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O, a new firmware/software layer that moves much of the I/O 

workload off the main CPU and transfers it to the controller card’s processor, 
boosting the performance of the entire system. Each SuperTrak66 card can 
support up to four (4) Ultra ATA/66 hard drives configured as RAID levels (0, 1, 0+1, 
3, or 5). Attached drives can be “hot swapped,” when used with an optional 
FastSwap66 or SuperSwap66 drive housings.