® Intel RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification Intel order number E64388-004 Revision 2.
Revision History Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification Revision History Date June 2009 Revision Number 1.0 Initial Release Modifications ® July 2009 1.1 Add information for Intel RAID Controller RS2BL080DE December 2009 2.0 Add information for Intel RAID Controller RS2MB044 October 2010 2.1 Updated section 2.3.7. ® Disclaimers ® Information in this document is provided in connection with Intel products.
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification Table of Contents Table of Contents 1. 2. Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Product Overview .................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Operating System Support ...................................................................................... 1 1.
Table of Contents 3.2 4. User Interface ........................................................................................................ 22 3.2.1 Intel® RAID BIOS Console 2 Configuration Utility .................................................. 22 3.2.2 Intel® RAID Web Console 2 ................................................................................... 24 3.3 Command-line Utility .............................................................................................. 25 3.
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification List of Figures List of Figures Figure 1 Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 Hardware Block Diagram .......................................... 4 Figure 3 Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 Physical Layout......................................................... 6 Figure 4 Intel® RAID Controller RS2MB044 Physical Layout........................................................ 6 Figure 5 Intel® RAID Smart Battery AXXRSBBU7 ................
List of Tables Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification List of Tables Table 1 SFF8087 Internal Connector with one SGPIO Connector Pin-out ................................. 11 Table 2 SFF8088 External Connector Pin-out ............................................................................ 13 Table 3 BBU Connector Pin-out ..................................................................................................
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification 1. Introduction Introduction This document provides a detailed description of the Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 and the software that supports them. Multiple versions of the Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 are available.
Introduction Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification Microsoft Windows Server 2008* R2 64-bit Edition Microsoft Windows Vista* 32-bit Microsoft Windows Vista* 64-bit Edition Microsoft Windows 7* 32-bit Microsoft Windows 7* 64-bit Edition Red Hat* Linux 4.0 32-bit Red Hat* Linux 4.0 64-bit Edition Red Hat* Linux 5.0 32-bit Red Hat* Linux 5.
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification Introduction Support for SMART* Auto rebuild with user-specified rebuild rate Variable data strip size configured per virtual drive 512 MB of ECC DDR2 800-MHz SDRAM integrated on the controller Read and write cache policy SES2 intelligent enclosure support PCI hot-plug support Background media scan (patrol read) Background data integrity test More than 200 Qtags per array Load balancing
Hardware Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification 2. Hardware 2.1 Block Diagram Figure 1 Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 Hardware Block Diagram Revision 2.
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification Hardware Figure 2 Intel® RAID Controller RS2MB044 Hardware Block Diagram Revision 2.
Hardware 2.2 Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification Controller Layout Figure 3 Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 Physical Layout Figure 4 Intel® RAID Controller RS2MB044 Physical Layout Revision 2.
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification 2.3 Hardware Major Components The major components of the Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 are described in the subsections that follow. 2.3.1 LSI* SAS2108 ROC The LSI* SAS2108 RAID-On-Chip (ROC) is an integrated SAS and I/O controller with an embedded Power PC* 440 core running at 800 MHz. For more information, see http://www.lsi.com/.
Hardware Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification The optional Intel® RAID Smart Battery AXXRSBBU7 provides a battery backup option for data cached in the memory. It can be mounted directly or connected remotely to the RAID controller through a supplied cable and remote extender board (REB). See Figure 5. Figure 5 Intel® RAID Smart Battery AXXRSBBU7 Note: Only one option can be used at a time. Attempting to install two Smart Batteries may result in system errors.
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification 2.3.6 Diagnostic Components 2.3.6.1 Audible Alarm Hardware The audible alarm beeps when a drive fails and also during a rebuild. The drive failure alarm beeps are: Degraded array: Short tone, one second on, one second off. Failed array: Long tone, three seconds on, one second off. Hot spare commissioned: Short tone, one second on, three seconds off.
Hardware Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification 2.3.7 SAS / SATA Connectors ® The Intel RAID Controller RS2BL080 provides two internal SFF8087 SAS / SATA signal connectors. The Intel® RAID Controller RS2MB044 provides one internal SFF8087 SAS / SATA signal connector and one external SFF8088 SAS / SATA signal connector. Both SFF8087 and SFF8088 connector provide support for four SAS / SATA ports.
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification Hardware Figure 7 Intel® RAID Controller RS2MB044 SAS/SATA Connectors 2.3.7.1 SAS / SATA Connector Pin-out Signal names are with respect to the host. The device connected to the host reverses the signal names. Transmit pins connect to receive pins on the other device. The SAS / SATA connector is keyed at pin 1. These pin-outs for the serial ATA connector are not compatible with the legacy PATA connector.
Hardware Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification Controller Connector Pin-out SFF-8087 Pin # Pin Definition B9 SB1/SLOAD/SDA Backplane Connector Pin-out Pin # Pin Definition 2 SLOAD B10 4 GND 3 SDATAOUT0 SB2/GND A9 SB3/GND A10 SB4/SDATA_OUT/RST A11 SB5/SDATA_IN/ADDR A8 SB7/BP_TYPE B11 SB6/CTLR_TYPE A12 GND 7 GND A13 RX2+ 6 TX+ A14 RX2- 5 TX- B12 GND 4 GND B13 TX2+ 2 RX+ B14 TX2- 3 RX- B15 GND 1 GND A15 GND 7 GND A16 RX
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification Hardware Figure 8 SFF8087 to Four-port Internal Cable with one SGPIO Connector Table 2 SFF8088 External Connector Pin-out Signal GND A1 Pin Signal GND Pin B1 RX 0+ A2 TX 0+ B2 RX 0- A3 TX 0- B3 GND A4 GND B4 RX 1+ A5 TX 1+ B5 RX 1- A6 TX 1- B6 GND A7 GND B7 RX 2+ A8 RX 2+ B8 RX 2- A9 RX 2- B9 GND A10 GND B10 RX 3+ A11 RX 3+ B11 RX 3- A12 RX 3- B12 GND A13 GND B13 Revision 2.
Hardware Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification 2.3.8 BBU Interface ® The Intel RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 boards can be attached to an external backup battery unit (BBU) through the BBU board-to-board connector.
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification 2.3.10 Hardware Jumpers and Connectors The following figure shows the jumpers and connectors on Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080. A description for each jumper and connector is provided in the following table. Figure 10 Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 Jumpers and Connectors Revision 2.
Hardware Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification Table 4 Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 Jumpers and Connectors Jumper JT1 Description Dirty Cache LED Header Type 2-pin connector Comments For connection to enclosure LED. When lit, indicates the data in the cache has not been written to disk.
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification Hardware The following figure shows the jumpers and connectors on Intel® RAID Controller RS2MB044. A description for each jumper and connector is provided in the following table. Figure 11 Intel® RAID Controller RS2MB044 Jumpers and Connectors Table 5 Intel® RAID Controller RS2MB044 Jumpers and Connectors Jumper J1A1 Description Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) debugging Type 4-pin connector Reserved.
Hardware Jumper J6B2 2.4 Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification Description Battery Backup Unit connector Type 20-pin connector Comments Connects the battery backup unit as daughter card to the RAID controller.
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification Hardware Table 7 Electrical Characteristics State 1 PCI Express* +12 V 1.00 A PCI Express* +3.3 V 330 mA PCI Express* +3.3 V Auxiliary Supply 30 mA State 2 1.81 A 330 mA 30 mA State 3 1.53 A 330 mA 30 mA The voltage level used in the charging circuitry for the battery pack on the optional Intel® RAID Smart Battery AXXRSBBU7 is +12 V.
Hardware 2.7 Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification Supported Device Technology The various device technologies supported by the Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 are described in the subsections that follow. 2.7.1 Support for Hard Disk Drive Devices ® The Intel RAID Controller RS2BL080 integrates eight internal high-performance SAS/SATA II ports that support SAS and enterprise-class SATA hard drives.
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification 3. Software Software The SAS Software Stack is planned for use with current SAS RAID controllers and future RAID controllers that are compatible with SAS and SATA technology. This software stack includes software pieces used in RAID controller firmware, RAID controller BIOS, and RAID controller drivers and utilities. Figure 12 shows the inter-relationship between these software pieces. Figure 12 Software Block Diagram 3.
Software 3.1.1.2 Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification RAID BIOS The RAID BIOS is the expansion ROM software defined in the PCI Specification. It performs the RAID controller initialization from the host system memory during POST. 3.1.1.3 Intel® RAID BIOS Console 2 Configuration Utility The Intel® RAID BIOS Console 2 configuration utility provides a graphical user interface to manage all aspects of the RAID subsystem and many features of the RAID controller.
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification Software Table 10. Intel® RAID BIOS Console 2 Configuration Utility Options Option Adapter Properties Description ® When you select the Adapter Selection option on the Main screen, the Intel RAID BIOS ® Console 2 displays a list of the Intel RAID adapters in the system. The Adapter Properties screen allows you to view and configure the software and hardware of the selected adapter.
Software Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification Intel® RAID Web Console 2 3.2.2 The Intel® RAID Web Console 2 utility runs within the operating system. It is Java* GUI-based and enables the user to configure the RAID controller, disk drives, Intel® RAID Smart Battery, and other storage related devices connected to the RAID controller or embedded on the server board.
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification 3.3 Software Command-line Utility The command-line utility (CLU) is an operating system-based text utility that allows the configuration of the RAID controller properties, configuration of disk arrays and virtual drives, configuration of cache settings, firmware updates, and error reporting. The CLU is available upon request for DOS*, Microsoft Windows*, and Linux* operating systems.
RAID Functionality and FeaturesIntel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification 4. RAID Functionality and Features 4.1 Hierarchy The fundamental purpose of a RAID system is to present a usable data storage medium (virtual drive) with some level of redundancy to a host operating system. The Intel® RAID firmware is based on the concept of associating physical drives in arrays and then creating a virtual drive from that array that includes a functional RAID level.
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product SpecificationRAID Functionality and Features 4.1.2 RAID Virtual Drive Status Table 14 RAID Virtual Drive Status Drive State Optimal Code Optimal Description The drive operating system is good. All configured drives are online. Degraded Degraded The drive operating condition is not optimal because one of the configured drives has failed or is offline. Offline Offline The drive is not available to the operating system and is unusable.
RAID Functionality and FeaturesIntel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification 4.3.2 Cache Policies The RAID cache can temporarily store data, so it can be more quickly accessed while it awaits drive readiness. The cache is available both on the RAID controller and on hard drives. The RAID controller’s read and write cache policy is set on a virtual drive level.
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product SpecificationRAID Functionality and Features 4.3.3 Strip Size The strip size determines the size of each data strip on each hard drive. The options are 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, and 1024 KB. The strip size is set when the virtual drive is created. It cannot be changed without removing the virtual drive configuration and all data contained on the virtual drive. 4.3.
RAID Functionality and FeaturesIntel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification array drives. If a configuration mismatch occurs, care must be taken to use the configuration on the drives or all data may be lost. 4.3.10 Online Capacity Expansion Online capacity expansion (OCE) allows additional drives to be added to a virtual drive in an array.
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product SpecificationSafety and Regulatory Certificat 5. Safety and Regulatory Certifications This RAID Controller Card complies with the following safety and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) regulations: 5.1 Product Safety Compliance UL 1950 - CSA 950 (US/Canada) EN 60 950 (European Union) IEC60 950 (International) CE - Low Voltage Directive (2006/95/EEC) (European Union) 5.
Safety and Regulatory CertificationsIntel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification Table 17 Product Regulatory Compliance Markings Regulatory Compliance Country NRTL Certification Marking Marking USA/Can ada or CE Mark Europe FCC Marking (Class A) USA This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product SpecificationSafety and Regulatory Certificat 5.4 Electromagnetic Compatibility Notices FCC Verification Statement (USA) This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: 1. This device may not cause harmful interference, and 2. This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. Intel Corporation 5200 N.E.
Appendix A: Event Messages and Error CodesIntel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specificatio Appendix A: Event Messages and Error Codes This appendix lists the Intel® RAID Web Console 2 events that may appear in the event log. The Intel® RAID Web Console 2 utility monitors the activity and performance of all controllers in the server and any devices attached to them.
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product SpecificationAppendix A: Event Messages and Error Code Number 20 Type Critical Flash error Description 21 Information Flashing image: %s 22 Information Flash of new firmware image(s)complete 23 Critical Flash programming error 24 Critical Flash timeout during programming 25 Critical Flash chip type unknown 26 Critical Flash command set unknown 27 Critical Flash verify failure 28 Information Flush rate changed to %d se
Appendix A: Event Messages and Error CodesIntel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specificatio Number 64 Type Warning Description Consistency Check inconsistency logging disabled on %s (too many inconsistencies) 65 Progress Consistency Check progress on %s is %s 66 Information Consistency Check started on %s 67 Information Initialization aborted on %s 68 Critical Initialization failed on %s 69 Progress Initialization progress on %s is %s 70 Information Fast initia
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product SpecificationAppendix A: Event Messages and Error Code Number 108 Type Fatal Description Reassign write operation failed on %s at %lx 109 Fatal Unrecoverable medium error during rebuild on %s at %lx 110 Information Corrected medium error during recovery on %s at %lx 111 Fatal Unrecoverable medium error during recovery on %s at %lx 112 Warning Removed: %s 113 Information Unexpected sense: %s, CDB:%s, Sense:%s 114 Information
Appendix A: Event Messages and Error CodesIntel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specificatio Number 152 Type Information Battery relearn in progress Description 153 Information Battery relearn completed 154 Warning Battery relearn timed out 155 Information Battery relearn pending: Battery is under charge 156 Information Battery relearn postponed 157 Information Battery relearn will start in 4 days 158 Information Battery relearn will start in 2 day 159 Inform
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product SpecificationAppendix A: Event Messages and Error Code Number 196 Type Warning Bad block table on %s is 80% full Description 197 Fatal Bad block table on %s is full; unable to log block %lx 198 Information Consistency Check Aborted Due to Ownership Loss on %s 199 Information Background Initialization (BGI) Aborted Due to Ownership Loss on %s 200 Critical Battery/charger problems detected; SOH Bad 201 Warning Single-bit ECC err
Appendix A: Event Messages and Error CodesIntel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specificatio Number 240 Type Warning VDs missing at boot: %s Description 241 Warning Previous configuration completely missing at boot 242 Information Battery charge complete 243 Information Enclosure %s fan %d speed changed 244 Information Dedicated spare %s imported as global due to missing arrays 245 Information %s rebuild not possible as SAS/SATA is not supported in an array 246
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification Appendix B: Glossary Appendix B: Glossary Word / Acronym API Definition Application Programming Interface ECC Error Correction Code FUU Flash Update Utility FW Firmware Gb Gigabit GB Gigabyte HBA Host Bus Adapter Kb Kilobit KB Kilobyte LVD Low Voltage Differential Mb Megabit MB Megabyte PCB Printed Circuit Board PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect POST Power-on Self Test RAID Redundant Array of In
Appendix C: Reference DocumentsIntel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification Appendix C: Reference Documents Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 Hardware User’s Guide (Document number: E6438600x) Intel® RAID Controller RS2MB044 Hardware User’s Guide (Document number: E8290800x) Intel® RAID Software User’s Guide (Document number: D29305-0xx) Intel® RAID Controller Command Line Tool 2 User Guide (Document number: E3609200x) Revision 2.
