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PCI Express to 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Host Bus Adapters User Guide
May 2013 Introduction
Software
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Software compatibility with PCI and PCI-X software.
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Leverages existing PCI device drivers
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Supports the memory, I/O, and configuration address spaces
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Supports memory read/write transactions, I/O read/write transactions, and configuration read/write
transactions
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4 KB of PCI configuration address space per device.
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Posted transactions and nonposted transactions.
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Quality-of-service (QOS) link configuration and arbitration policies.
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Traffic Class 0 and one virtual channel.
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Message-signaled interrupts (both MSI and MSI-X), as well as INTx interrupt signaling for legacy PCI support.
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End-to-end CRC (ECRC) and advanced error reporting.
1.4 Software
The LSI 6Gb/s HBAs support all major operating systems: Windows®, Linux® Red Hat®, SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
(SLES®), Solaris, VMware®, and FreeBSD®. Refer to
http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecomponents/Pages/HBAs.aspx
for details on the software versions and device driver support.
NOTE The LSI 6Gb/s HBAs support Solaris 10 and Oracle® provides a built-in driver; installation of an LSI driver
is not required. For more information on the Oracle Solaris 10 driver and installation, sign in at the following
Oracle link.
https://support.oracle.com/
Contact Oracle support for Oracle driver or software support.