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2 Intel® RAID Controller RS2WC040 Hardware User’s Guide
Intel
®
RAID Controller RS2WC040
The Intel
®
RAID Controller RS2WC040 is a PCI* Express 2.0, half-size, low profile
RAID controller based on the LSISAS2008 PCI Express-SAS/SATA I/O Processor chip,
providing both a SAS controller and RAID engine. With four independent ports
supporting 6 Gb/s and 3 Gb/s SAS data transfers using one SFF-8087 mini multi-lane
connectors, this controller supports up to 64 physical drives including up to 16 enterprise-
class SAS or SATA devices in up to 16 RAID arrays. Drives not configured as part of a
RAID array can be configured as “pass through” drives in Non-RAID mode.The PCI
Express* connector fits into an x8 or x16 PCI Express* slot capable of performance up to
5 Gb/s per lane.
The SAS RAID controllers support the SAS protocol as described in the Serial Attached
SCSI Standard, Version 2.0 . The controllers also support the Serial ATA II (SATA II)
protocol defined by the Serial ATA Specification, Version 1.0a and the Serial ATA II:
Extension to the Serial ATA Specification, Version 1.1 . SATA II is an extension to SATA
1.0a.
In addition, the SAS RAID controllers support the following SATA II features:
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3 Gb/s SATA II
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Staggered spin-up
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Hot plug
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Native command queuing
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Activity and fault indicators for each PHY
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Port selector (for dual-port drives)
Protocol Support
Each port on the SAS controllers supports SAS devices, SATA II devices, or both using
SSP, SMP, STP, and SATA II as follows:
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Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP) to enable communication with other SAS devices.
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SATA II Protocol to enable communication with other SATA II devices.
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Serial Management Protocol (SMP) to share topology management information
with expanders.
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Serial Tunneling Protocol (STP) support for SATA II through expander interfaces.
Operating System Support
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Microsoft Windows Server 2003*, Microsoft Windows Server 2008*, and Windows
Vista*.
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Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4.0, and 5.0.
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SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11.