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ASUS PCI-DA2100 User’s Manual
2. Features
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Five operating modes:
Non-RAID
Disk Spanning (including single-drive operation)
RAID-0
Striping
RAID-1
Mirroring and Striping
RAID-3
Block Striping w/ Dedicated Parity
RAID-5
Multiple Block Striping w/ Distributed Parity
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Comprehensive failure management including:
Automatic bad sector reassignment
Hot-swapping
Spare drive operation
Background rebuilding
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PCI Standard length form factor: 6.87"(L) X 4.2"(W).
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Up to 8 logical drives, each with independent RAID mode.
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Up to 8 partitions per logical drive.
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Dynamic mapping of LUNs to logical drives.
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All channels are Ultra Wide SCSI-2 (downward compatible to SCSI-1, SCSI-2).
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Compatibility and automatic matching of any SCSI hard disks complying with
SCSI-1, SCSI-2, Fast Wide, and Ultra Wide SCSI (1 or 2) specifications.
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Full-Wide SCSI-2 implementation including Tagged Command Queuing and
Multi-Threaded I/O.
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Uses 486 CPU with all executable firmware downloaded into high-speed DRAM.
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BIOS INT 13 support.
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Flash EEPROM for easy firmware and BIOS upgrading.
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Up to 32 MBytes of intelligent Read-Ahead/Write-Back cache.
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EDO RAM support for enhanced performance.
2. Features
2. Features
