User manual ASROCK ALIVESATA2-GLAN

[. . . ] ALiveSATA2-GLAN User Manual Version 1. 4 Published February 2007 Copyright©2007 ASRock INC. All rights reserved. 1 Copyright Notice: No part of this manual may be reproduced, transcribed, transmitted, or translated in any language, in any form or by any means, except duplication of documentation by the purchaser for backup purpose, without written consent of ASRock Inc. Products and corporate names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies, and are used only for identification or explanation and to the owners' benefit, without intent to infringe. Disclaimer: Specifications and information contained in this manual are furnished for informational use only and subject to change without notice, and should not be constructed as a commitment by ASRock. ASRock assumes no responsibility for any errors or omissions that may appear in this manual. [. . . ] On the other hand, if you want to enable SATAII 3. 0Gb/s, please remove the jumpers from pin 3 and pin 4. HITACHI Please use the Feature Tool, a DOS-bootable tool, for changing various ATA features. Please visit HITACHI's website for details: http://www. hitachigst. com/hdd/support/download. htm The above examples are just for your reference. For different SATAII hard disk products of different vendors, the jumper pin setting methods may not be the same. Please visit the vendors' website for the updates. 23 2. 9 AT (SAT AT (SAT Serial ATA (SATA) / Serial ATAII (SATAII) Hard Disks Installation This motherboard adopts JMicron® JMB363 chipset that supports Serial ATAII (SATAII) hard disks. It also adopts VIA® VT8237A south bridge chipset that supports Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks, and supports RAID functions. You may install SATA / SATAII hard disks on this motherboard for internal storage devices. This section will guide you to install the SATA / SATAII hard disks. STEP 1: Install the SATA / SATAII hard disks into the drive bays of your chassis. STEP 2: Connect the SATA power cable to the SATA / SATAII hard disk. STEP 3: Connect one end of the SATA data cable to the motherboard's SATA / SATAII connector. STEP 4: Connect the other end of the SATA data cable to the SATA / SATAII hard disk. To create RAID with two HDDs, please insert the two HDDs simultaneously to either SATA connectors (black) or SATAII connectors (red). If you insert one HDD to SATA connector and the other HDD to SATAII connector, you are not allowed to create RAID. Functions SAT SAT 2. 10 Hot Plug and Hot Swap Functions for SATA / SATAII HDDs ALiveSATA2-GLAN motherboard supports Hot Plug and Hot Swap functions for SATA / SATAII Devices. NOTE What is Hot Plug Function? If the SATA / SATAII HDDs are NOT set for RAID configuration, it is called "Hot Plug" for the action to insert and remove the SATA / SATAII HDDs while the system is still power-on and in working condition. However, please note that it cannot perform Hot Plug if the OS has been installed into the SATA / SATAII HDD. What is Hot Swap Function? If SATA / SATAII HDDs are built as RAID1 then it is called "Hot Swap" for the action to insert and remove the SATA / SATAII HDDs while the system is still power-on and in working condition. 24 2. 11 Driver Installation Guide To install the drivers to your system, please insert the support CD to your optical drive first. Then, the drivers compatible to your system can be auto-detected and listed on the support CD driver page. Please follow the order from up to bottom side to install those required drivers. Therefore, the drivers you install can work properly. 2. 12 Installing Windows ® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista TM / Vista TM 64-bit With RAID Functions The installation procedures for Windows® VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit are subject to change. Please visit our website for the updates of Windows® VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit driver and related information in the future. If you want to install Windows® 2000, XP, XP 64-bit, VistaTM or VistaTM 64-bit on your SATA / SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below procedures according to the OS you install. 2. 12. 1 Installing Windows ® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Functions If you want to install Windows® 2000, XP or XP 64-bit on your SATA / SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below steps. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration. If you plan to install Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit on VIA® SATA ports with RAID functions, please set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to [RAID]. If you plan to install Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit on JMicron® SATAII ports with RAID functions, please set the "PCIE-SATAII Operation Mode" option to [RAID]. STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette. [. . . ] ECP Mode DMA Channel Use this item to set the ECP mode DMA channel. Configuration options: [DMA0], [DMA1], and [DMA3]. Parallel Port IRQ Use this item to set the IRQ for the parallel port. Configuration options: [IRQ5] and [IRQ7]. 42 OnBoard Game Port Use this item to enable the Game Port or disable it. [. . . ]