Board Components and Features
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Compaq Smart Array 5300 Controller User Guide
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Overview of Controller Features
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Two or four Wide Ultra3 SCSI channels, supporting up to 56 drives (4 channels,
14 drives per channel)
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Support for Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Linux, Novell NetWare
5.x, and NetWare 6 operating systems
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Support for the Compaq Universal Hot Plug Tape Drive, with storage capacity up
to 100 GB and LVD transfer rates up to 12 MB per second
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Support for the Compaq
StorageWorks
TM
SAN Access Module
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Backward compatibility with Wide Ultra2 devices
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Removable array accelerator
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64-bit, 66-MHz PCI system interface
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Other features supported:
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RAID fault-tolerance (0, 1+0, 5, ADG) (refer to Chapter 9 for instructions on
enabling RAID ADG)
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Online RAID migration between any two levels
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Online array capacity expansion
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Online logical drive capacity extension
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Hot-pluggable hard drives and tape drives
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Drive movement
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Adjustable stripe size
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Performance monitoring through
Compaq Insight Manager
TM
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S.M.A.R.T. hard drives
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Drive pre-failure notification
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Multiple online spares per array
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Tagged command queuing
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Background initialization
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Multiple logical drives per array