Promise Technology FastTrak TX4000 - Manual (Page 7)

Chapter 1: Introduction
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Keys Features and Benefits
The following information offers an overview of the major features of your new
Promise FastTrak TX4000 card...
Advanced Hardware Design
Features Benefits
Supports 66MHz PCI bus
motherboards (automatically
backward compatible with
33MHz PCI slots) Allows maximum data transfers of up to
266MB per second (133 MB/s in 33 MHz
slot) over the bus to dramatically reduce the
time to save and retrieve large files.
Supports data striping (RAID
0), mirroring (RAID 1), and
striping/mirroring combination
(RAID 0+1) Provides dramatic increase in drive
performance and/or fault tolerant options.
Offers performance customization and data
rebuilds from the BIOS menu.
Supports
Ultra DMA 6/5/4
DMA 2/1/0 Burst data transfer rates up to 133MB/sec
from Ultra ATA/133 drives to boost overall
system performance.
Independent data channels
Drives can multiply their data transfer
performance when striped together and
each drive uses a separate data channel.
PCI Plug-n-Play, PCI Interrupt
sharing and coexists with
motherboard IDE controllers Easy to install; support four ATA drives on
the FastTrak TX4000 while still supporting 4
devices on motherboard ATA controller.
Supports concurrent IDE
channel operation Drive workload is distributed in parallel
between members of the array.
Supports IDE bus master
operation
Allows multitasking during disk transfers
that increase CPU efficiency. The CPU is
free to process tasks during IDE data
transfers through the PCI Bus to/from
system memory.
Utilizes FastBuild automenu
from the FastTrak TX4000
onboard BIOS
Offers pre-set application specific settings
that can be optimized for Desktop, Server,
or A/V Editing. Has Auto Setup option for
quick and easy array builds.
Displays status and error
checking messages during
boot up Notifies user of possible errors and allows
for recovery of mirrored drive arrays directly
from FastBuild.
Employs the latest Promise PCI
Ultra ATA/133 ASIC technology
Fully supports Ultra ATA/133 specifications
with 133 MB/sec timing and CRC error-
checking at high speeds.