Intel SRCSATAWB Network Card User Manual


 
Intel® RAID Controller SRCSATAWB Hardware User’s Guide 2
Operating System Support
Windows Server 2003*, Windows 2000* Enterprise Server, SP4 and Windows XP*.
Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 3.0 and 4.0.
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 RAID Controller SRCSATAWB to make sure the RAID card
supports your operating system.
Usability
The card ships with both a standard and a low-profile bracket.
Small, thin cabling with serial point-to-point 3.0 Gbps data transfer rates.
Support for non-disk devices and mixed capacity drives.
Support for intelligent XOR RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60.
Dedicated or global hot spare with auto rebuild if an array drive fails.
User defined stripe size per drive: 8, 16, 32, 64 (def), 128, 256, 512 KB or 1 GB.
Advanced Array configuration and Management Utilities provides:
Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) adds space to existing drive or new drive.
See Appendix A for limitations on OCE and RAID migration.
Online RAID level migration (upgrade of RAID mode, may require OCE).
Drive migration.
Drive roaming.
No reboot necessary after expansion.
Upgradeable Flash ROM interface.
Allows for staggered spin up, hot-plug, and lower power consumption.
User specified rebuild rate (percent of system resources to use from 0-100%).
Caution: Exceeding 50% rate may cause operating system errors due to waiting for
controller access.
Background operating mode can be set for Rebuilds, Consistency Checks,
Initialization (auto restarting Consistency Check on redundant volumes); Migration,
OCE, and Patrol Read.