Digitus DS-30103 User manual

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2-CHANNEL SATA II
PCI EXPRESS CARD
User Manual

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Features and Benefits
Compliant with one-lane 2.5Gb/s PCI Express specification
Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specification
Supports Serial ATA Generation 2 transfer rate of 3.0Gb/s
Supports Native Command Queue (NCQ) on SATA ports
Provides three independent channels to connect two SATA
and one PATA hard disk drive
Supports up to UDMA6 transfer mode of PATA
Supports up to 4 storage device connection
Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and JBOD functions
Supports Windows 7, Vista, XP and 2000
Connectors:
2 x internal SATA connectors,
2 x external eSATA connectors
1 x PATA connector
Package Contents
1x PCIe SATA II 300 + PATA Raid Card

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1x Manual 1x Driver CD
2x SATA Data Cable 2x SATA Power Cable
1x ATA 133 IDE Cable
System Requirements
Windows® 2000, Windows XP/2003/Vista 32/64 bit
PCI Express-enabled system with an available PCI Express
slot

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Hardware Description

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JumperSettings
J1-J4: Enable CON1 or CON3 (Default: CON1)
J5-J8: Enable CON2 or CON4 (Default: CON2)
JP Description Default
J1-J4 1-2 close Enable SATA CON1 1-2 close
2-3 close Enable SATA CON3
J5-J8 1-2 close Enable SATA CON2 1-2 close
2-3 close Enable SATA CON4
Hardware Installation
1. Turn Off the power to your computer.
2. Unplug the power cord and remove your computer’s cover.
3. Remove the slot bracket from an available PCIe slot.
4. To install the bard, carefully align the card’s bus connector with the
selected PCIe slot on the motherboard. Push the board down firmly.
5. Attach your internal or external devices to the PCIe SATA II 300 +
PATA Raid Card.
6. Replace the slot bracket’s holding screw to secure the card.
7. Replace the computer cover and reconnect the power cord.

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RAID Arrays
RAID Arrays are setup in the PCIe SATA II 300 + PATA Raid
Card’s BIOS.
There are four configurations supported:
RAID level/Type Configurations Number of disks needed
RAID 0 Disk Striping 2 or 3 or 4
RAID 1 Disk Mirroring 2
RAID 0+1 Disk Striping
+ Mirroring
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JBOD Disk Concatenation 2 or 3 or 4
RAID 0 (Striping)
1. As the BIOS boots press Ctrl+J when prompted to enter the
RAID BIOS.
2. At the next screen select Create RAID Disk Drive, press
Enter.
3. Enter RAID name, press Enter.
4. Please use arrow keys ↑and ↓to switch the RAID level

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to 0-Stripe, then press Enter.
5. Please use arrow keys ↑and ↓to switch the disk, use the
“space” key to mark the selected disk, then press Enter.
6. Please use arrow keys ↑and ↓to select chunk size from
4K, 8K, 16K, 32K, 64K or 128K, then press Enter.
7. Input the RAID size, press Enter.
8. When asked Created RAID on the select HDD (Y/N)?,
press Y to accept.
9. At the next screen select Save And Exit Setup, press
Enter. When asked Save to disk &Exit (Y/N)?, press Y to
exit the BIOS.
RAID 1 (Mirroring)
1. As the BIOS boots press Ctrl+J when prompted to enter the
RAID BIOS.
2. At the next screen select Create RAID Disk Drive, press
Enter.
3. Enter RAID name, press Enter.
4. Please use arrow keys ↑and ↓to switch the RAID level

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to 1-Mirror, then press Enter.
5. Please use arrow keys ↑and ↓to switch the disk, use the
“space” key to mark the selected disk, then press Enter.
6. Input the RAID size, press Enter.
7. When asked Created RAID on the select HDD (Y/N)?,
press Y to accept.
8. At the next screen select Save And Exit Setup, press
Enter. When asked Save to disk &Exit (Y/N)?, press Y to
exit the BIOS.
CONCATENATION (JBOD)
1. As the BIOS boots press Ctrl+J when prompted to enter the
RAID BIOS.
2. At the next screen select Create RAID Disk Drive, press
Enter.
3. Enter RAID name, press Enter.
4. Please use arrow keys ↑and ↓to switch the RAID level
to JBOD-Concatenate, then press Enter.
5. Please use arrow keys ↑and ↓to switch the disk, use the

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“space” key to mark the selected disk, then press Enter.
6. Input the RAID size, press Enter.
7. When asked Created RAID on the select HDD (Y/N)?,
press Y to accept.
8. At the next screen select Save And Exit Setup, press
Enter. When asked Save to disk &Exit (Y/N)?, press Y to
exit the BIOS.
RAID 0+1 (Striping + Mirroring)
1. As the BIOS boots press Ctrl+J when prompted to enter the
RAID BIOS.
2. At the next screen select Create RAID Disk Drive, press
Enter.
3. Enter RAID name, press Enter.
4. Please use arrow keys ↑and ↓to switch the RAID level
to 01-Stripe+Mirror, then press Enter.
5. Please use arrow keys ↑and ↓to select chunk size from

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4K, 8K, 16K, 32K, 64K or 128K, then press Enter.
6. Input the RAID size, press Enter.
7. When asked Created RAID on the select HDD (Y/N)?,
press Y to accept.
8. At the next screen select Save And Exit Setup, press
Enter. When asked Save to disk &Exit (Y/N)?, press Y to
exit the BIOS.
Delete RAID Disk Drive
1. As the BIOS boots press Ctrl+J when prompted to enter the
RAID BIOS.
2. At the next screen select Delete RAID Disk Drive, press
Enter.
3. Please use arrow keys ↑and ↓to select the array you
want to delete, use the “space” key to mark the selected
array, then press DEL.
4. When asked ALL DATA ON THE RAID WILL LOST!! ARE
YOU SURE TO DELETE (Y/N), press Y to accept.