Promise Technology 66 Pro - Manual (Page 14)

SuperTrak66™ User's Manual Chapter 1
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1.4 System Requirements
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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
1.5 Operating System Support
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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O drivers are supplied Promise Technology. The
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.