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Slot requirement
For details about slot priorities, maximums, and placement rules, see PCIe adapter placement rules
and slot priorities (http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/POWER9/p9eab/
p9eab_mtm_pciplacement.htm) and select the system you are working on.
Voltage
3.3 V.
Form factor
Short form factor.
Cables
Specific AE1 or YE1 SAS cable features with narrow HD connectors are used to attach the adapter to
SAS devices.
SAS device attachment requires specific cables that are provided with the subsystem or device
features that are being attached. See Serial attached SCSI cable planning.
Attributes
• Four external mini SAS HD 4x connectors provide attachment of SAS devices
• SAS Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP) and Serial Management Protocol (SMP)
• Concurrent firmware update
• Removable media device (DVD and SAS tape) are supported in a single controller configuration only
and cannot be combined with disk devices attached to the same adapter. Removable media is not
supported in multi-initiator and high availability (dual storage IOA) configurations
• Support single controller configurations only
Operating system or partition requirements
If you are installing a new feature, ensure that you have the software that is required to support the new
feature and that you determine whether any prerequisites must be met for this feature and attaching
devices. For information about operating system and partition requirements, see one of the following
topics:
• The latest version of enabling libraries and utilities can be downloaded from Fix Central (http://
www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/).
• Power Systems Prerequisites (http://www14.software.ibm.com/support/customercare/iprt/home).
• IBM SSIC (System Storage Interoperation Center) (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/
ssic/interoperability.wss).
• The latest version of the device driver or IBM Power RAID adapter utilities (iprutils) can be downloaded
from the IBM Service and Productivity Tools website (http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/
set2/sas/f/lopdiags/home.html).
• For support details, see the Linux Alert website (http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/
lopdiags/info/LinuxAlerts.html).
This adapter requires the following drivers:
• AIX: devices.pci.14104A0 device driver package
PCIe3 12 GB Cache RAID + SAS Adapter Quad-port 6 Gb x8 (FC EJ14; CCIN 57B1)
Learn about the specifications and operating system requirements for the feature code (FC) EJ14 adapter.
Overview
The PCIe3 4-port 12 GB Cache RAID + SAS Adapter is a PCI Express (PCIe) generation 3, x8, single-wide,
full-height, short form-factor adapter that provides high-performance capabilities and supports the
attachment of SAS hard disk drive (HDD) and SAS solid-state drive (SDD). A pair of FC EJ14 adapters are
required to provide additional performance, mirrored write cache data and adapter redundancy. If the FC
EJ14 pairing is broken, then the write cache is disabled. Integrated flash memory with super capacitors
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