Promise Technology FastTrak TX2000 Bedienungsanleitung

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FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 6 Installing The Card Installing the FastTrak TX2000 controller card in a system is a simple process. The card fi

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 7 Installing The Hard Drives WARNING: If you wish to include your current bootable drive using the Windows NT 4.x

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 8 WARNING: Use of removable hard drive enclosures other than Promise SuperSwap is not supported and may result in

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 9 Checking CMOS Settings No changes are necessary in the Motherboard CMOS Setup for resources or drive types. Sinc

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 10 Creating Your Disk Array You will now use the onboard FastBuild BIOS utility to create your array using the att

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 11 Creating an Array for Performance NOTE: FastTrak TX2000 allows users to create striped arrays with 1, 2, 3, or

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 12 You would use this method if you wish to use a drive that already contains data and/or is the bootable system d

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 13 7. Once complete, the following screen will appear confirming that your Security array has been created. Press

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 14 Using FastBuild™ Configuration Utility The FastBuildTM Configuration Utility offers several menu choices to cre

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 15 Navigating the FastBuild™ Setup Menu When using the menus, these are some of the basic navigation tips: Arrow k

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FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 16 Creating Arrays Automatically The Auto Setup <1> selection from the Main Menu can intuitively help creat

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 17 Defining Typical Application Usage Allows the user to choose the type of PC usage that will be performed in or

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 18 Viewing Drive Assignments The View Drive Assignments <2> option in the Main Menu displays whether drives

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 19 Manually Creating an Array The Define Array <3> option from the Main Menu allows users to begin the proc

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 20 Selecting Array Type 1. Under the Definition section of this menu, highlight the Array # for which you want to

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 21 drive to be used. Please note that users will lose a small amount of available storage capacity from both drive

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 22 Adding Fault Tolerance to an Existing Drive FastTrak TX2000 will create a mirrored array using an existing syst

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 23 3. Use the arrow keys to choose which drive contains the existing data to be copied. WARNING: All target dri

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 24 Making a FastTrak TX2000 Disk Array Bootable WARNING: In order for you to boot from an array on the FastTrak T

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 25 How FastTrak TX2000 Orders Arrays During startup, the disk arrays on the FastTrak TX2000 are recognized in this

FastTrak TX2000™ User Manual Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ...

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 26 Deleting An Array The Delete Array <4> Menu option allows for deletion of disk array assignments. This i

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 27 Rebuilding A Mirrored Array The Rebuild Array <5> Menu option can be used to recover from an error in a m

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 28 FastBuild (tm) Utility 1.xx (c) 1995-2001 Promise Technology, Inc. [ Rebuild Array Menu ] Array No RAID M

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 29 Viewing Controller Settings The Controller Configuration <6> menu selection allows you to enable or disa

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 30 Installing Drivers This section details the FastTrak TX2000 driver installation when used with various operatin

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 31 Installing Driver in Existing Windows XP System WARNING: If you will be moving the boot drive containing the e

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 32 Windows 2000 Installing Driver During New Windows 2000 Installation 1. Start the installation: a. Floppy Inst

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 33 Installing Driver in Existing Windows 2000 System WARNING: If you will be moving the boot drive containing the

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 34 Windows NT4 Installing Drivers During Windows NT 4.0 Installation 1. Start the system installation by booting

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 35 Installing Driver with Existing Windows NT 4.0 WARNING: If you plan to move your boot drive to a mirrored RAI

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FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 36 Windows ME Installing Drivers During Windows ME Installation The following details the installation of the Fas

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 37 Installing Drivers with Existing Windows ME System The following section details the installation of FastTrak T

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 38 Windows 95/98 Installing Drivers During Windows 95/98 Installation The following three sections detail the inst

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 39 9. When asked if you want Windows to search for the driver, choose “Yes (recommended).” 10. Insert the “FastT

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 40 Installing Drivers with Existing Windows 95/98 The following three sections detail the installation of FastTrak

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 41 3. Choose the “Device Manager” tab, and then click the “+” in front of “SCSI & RAID controllers.” “Win9x-M

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FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 43 Understanding Disk Array Concepts About FastTrak TX2000 Disk Array Adapter FastTrak TX2000 is a high performanc

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 44 Disk Array Terms Disk Array Description A “disk array” is formed from a group of 2 or more disk drives that app

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 45 About RAID Levels Striping (RAID 0) Reads and writes sectors of data interleaved between multiple drives. When

FastTrak TX2000™ User Manual 1 Introduction The PC which you are using either already contains a Promise Technology FastTrak TX2000 RAID card install

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 46 Mirroring (RAID 1) Writes duplicate data on to a pair of drives while reads are performed in parallel. ATA RAID

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 47 installed. With a four-drive disk array, two pairs of drives are striped. Each pair mirrors the data on the ot

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 48 Under RAID 0+1, the array maintains data integrity if any 1, 2 combination survives. Event Failed Drives Arr

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 49 Troubleshooting & Tips This section is used to assist with troubleshooting conflicts and FastTrak TX2000 i

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 50 System CMOS Issues Set Mainboard CMOS Boot sequence to boot to FastTrak TX2000 On some Mainboard BIOS, it is ne

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 51 System CMOS displays C: or D: drive failure during Startup Do not reference C: or D: in the Mainboard Standard

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 52 Cannot Rebuild Mirrored (RAID 1) Array (see “Unable to Partition or Format array” above) Fatal Errors or Data

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 53 “No Hard Drives Found” Message Appears During CD-ROM Install of Windows NT, 2000, or XP The "F6" key

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 54 Performance Tips Here are some tips that may optimize performance in a RAID 0 striped array. If you are using a

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 55 Change Setting of PCI Bus Utilization Certain brands of video capture cards can produce a “glitch” on play back

FastTrak TX2000™ User Manual 2 FastTrak TX2000's bootable BIOS supports individual drives larger than 137 GB. With FAT32 and NTFS partitioning, t

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 56 NOTES

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 57 Frequently Asked Questions This section lists frequently asked questions involving pre-installation, drive issu

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 58 Q: How does the FastTrak TX2000 RAID controller provide storage and/or data protection with their arrays? A:

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 59 Drive Issues Q: Can I add a drive to a FastTrak TX2000 RAID array via hot-swap and dynamically adjust the arra

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 60 Installation Issues (Capacity, Booting) Q: Why are some drives recognized by the FastTrak TX2000 Array Setup

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 61 Contacting Technical Support Promise Technical Support provides several support options for Promise users to ac

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 62 Promise Europe E-mail Support [email protected] Fax Technical Support +31 (0)40 256 94 63 Attention: Techn

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 63 Limited Warranty Promise Technology, Inc. (“Promise”) warrants that for two (2) years from the time of the del

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 64 whether Promise has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Promise is not an insurer. If you desire

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 65 Returning Product for Repair If you suspect a product is not working properly, or if you have any questions ab

FastTrak TX2000™ User Manual 3 Keys Features and Benefits The following information offers an overview of the major features of your new Promise FastT

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FastTrak TX2000™ User Manual 4 Compatibility Features Benefits Complies with PCI v2.2 Local Bus standard Provides highest level of hardware compatibi

FastTrak TX2000™ Series User Manual 5 Quick Start This section is designed to quickly get your FastTrak TX2000 controller up and running using the de