Intel SRCSASLS4I - RAID Controller, Hardware User'S Manual

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2 Intel® RAID Controller SRCSASLS4I Hardware User’s Guide
Intel
®
RAID Controller SRCSASLS4I
The Intel
®
RAID Controller SRCSASLS4I is an intelligent low-profile RAID adapter
with an integrated LSI* 1078 RAID-On-Chip chipset, providing both a SAS controller
and RAID engine. With 128 MB RAM built onto the board and four independent ports
using one SFF-8087 mini multi-lane connector, this controller supports up to 16
enterprise-class SAS or SATA devices and 64 logical drives. The PCI-Express* connector
fits into an x8 or x16 PCI-Express slot capable of 2.5 Gbps per lane over PCI Express* x4
with a 3.0 Gbps point to point transfer rate.
The SAS controller supports the ANSI Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) standard, version 1.0
and the Serial ATA (SATA) protocol defined by the Serial ATA specification, version 1.0a.
Protocol Support
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Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP): Communication with other SAS devices.
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SATA II Protocol: Communication with other SATA II devices.
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Serial Management Protocol (SMP): Topology management information sharing
with expanders.
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Serial Tunneling Protocol (STP) support for SATAII through expander interfaces.
Operating System Support
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Windows Server 2003*, Windows 2000* Enterprise Server, SP4 and Windows XP*.
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Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 3.0, 4.0, ad 5.0.
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SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 9, SP1-3 and SLES 10.
The operating systems supported may not be supported by your server board. See the
tested operating system list for your server board at
http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/. See also the tested hardware and
operating system list for the Intel
®
RAID Controller SRCSASLS4I to make sure the
RAID card supports your operating system.
Usability
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The card ships with both a standard and a low-profile bracket.
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Small, thin cabling with serial point-to-point 3.0 Gbps data transfer rates.
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Support for non-disk devices and mixed capacity drives.
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Support for intelligent XOR RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60.
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Dedicated or global hot spare with auto rebuild if an array drive fails.
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User defined stripe size per drive: 8, 16, 32, 64 (def), 128, 256, 512, or 1024 KB.