Ok, ti do la descrizione che ho io
FastTrak 378 RAID:
Promise designed its FastTrak 378 to provide a cost-effective, high performance RAID solution that adds performance and/or reliability to PC desktops and/or servers using Serial ATA/150, Ultra ATA/133, Ultra ATA/100, Ultra ATA/66, Ultra ATA/33 hard disks.
FastTrak 378 supports striping (RAID 0), mirroring (RAID 1) or RAID 0+1.
With striping, identical drives can read and write data in parallel to increase performance. Mirroring increases read performance through load balancing and elevator sorting while creating a complete backup of your files.
FastTrak 378 striped arrays can double the sustained data transfer rate of Serial ATA/150 and Ultra ATA/133 drives. FastTrak 378 fully supports Serial ATA/150 and Ultra ATA/133 specification of up to 150MB/sec per drive, depending on individual drive specifications.
FastTrak 378 also offers fault tolerant, data redundancy for entry-level network file servers or simply for desktop PC users wanting to continually protect valuable data on their PC. FastTrak 378 offers RAID 1 mirroring (for two drives) to protect data. Should a drive that is part of a mirrored array fail, FastTrak 378 uses the mirrored drive (which contains identical data) to assume all data handling. When a new replacement drive is later installed, FastTrak 378 rebuilds data to the new drive from the mirrored drive to restore fault tolerance.
These 3 channels (it might be channel 3, 4, 5 on MB) that PDC20378 support only connect HDD. FastTrak 378 don’t support ATAPI device. Please move your ATAPI device to onboard IDE channel.
...di quello che segue non c'è una vera e propria descrizione, però dalla descrizione di come si installa si capisce che sono anch'essi dei driver.
NOTA anche per i precedenti c'era la descrizione di come si installa ma te l'ho tralasciata (comunque era identica a quella che segue).
SATA 378:
The following details the installation of the SATA150 TX Series drivers while installing Windows XP.
1. Start the installation:
• Floppy Install: Boot the computer with the Windows XP installation diskettes.
• CD-ROM Install: Boot from the CD-ROM. Press F6 when the message “Press F6 if you need to install third party SCSI or RAID driver” appears.
2. When the Windows XP Setup window is generated, press S to specify an Additional Device(s).
3. Insert the SATA150 TX Series driver diskette into drive A: and press Enter.
4. Choose WinXP Promise SATA150 TX Series Controller from the list that appears on screen, and then press the Enter.
5. The Windows XP Setup screen will appear again saying “Setup will load support for the following mass storage devices:” The list will include WinXP Promise FastTrak SATA150 TX Series Controller.
NOTE: If there are any additional devices to be installed, specify them now. When all devices are specified, continue to the next step.
6. From the Windows XP Setup screen, press the Enter. Setup will now load all device files and then continue the Windows XP installation.
Qui sopra oltre a non avere capito se si tratta dei driver effettivi o meno, parla di SATA 150 TX. Ma nel pacchetto dei driver io ho solo il SATA 378 (proprio come riportato dal titolo della descrizione...)
...insomma non si capisce se sti driver sono 150 TX o 378!!!
...per ciò ho pensato che SATA 150 o SATA 378 fosse la stessa cosa.
Ultima cosa che ho è questa:
Application Accelerator RAID Edition di cui non ho una descrizione ma dal fatto che mi dice che non lo posso installare penso sia un utility per quando si possiede più di un disco SATA e li si fa lavorare in coppia con una delle modalità RAID.
Attendo fiducioso!