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Introduction
HighPoint
Technologies Rocket100 Host Adapter
The Rocket100 Host Adapter is a dual channel, cost-effective
IDE controller card designed for use with ATA100 hard
disk drives.
Parallel
dual ATA channel operation for high-performance data storage
and retrieval
The
Rocket100 supports high speed transfer rates up to 100
MB/s, as well as providing parallel access to it's two,
independent, ATA channels. The Rocket100's 2 ATA channels
combine to support up to 4 hard disk drives.
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Supports high-capacity hard disks
The Rocket100 Host Adapter breaks the current interface
standard's hard disk drive capacity limitations, and supports
hard drives larger than 137GB.
Multiple
OS support
The Rocket100 Host Adapter is compatible with most
major operating systems, including DOS 5.x, Windows 3.1x,
Windows 95/98, Windows ME (Millennium Edition), Windows
NT 3,51/4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, SCO Unix and Linux
(SuSE, Red Hat, Caldera, Turbo).
Specifications
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Host
side interface
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32bit,
33 MHz PCI
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Device
side interface
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Ultra
DMA/ATA100
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RAID
controller IC
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HighPoint
HPT370 UDMA ATA100 Controller
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PCB
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4-layer,
Low profile
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Number
of IDE channels
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2
Channels
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Supported
Hard drives
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ATA100
hard drives, backward compatible (ATA66, 33)
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Supported
OSs
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Windows
98/ME, Windows NT4.0, Win2000, Windows XP, Linux
(Turbo, Caldera, RedHat, SuSE)
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Maximum
Data Throughput
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100MB/s
per channel 1
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BIOS
Function
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Drive
Configuration and Management
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Plug
and Play
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Yes
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Misc.
Functions
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Bootable
disk support
Large LBA support capacity exceeding
137GB
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