Owner manual
INTRODUCTION
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Easy RAID Management
The controllers contain an embedded McBIOS RAID manager that
can access via hot key at M/B BIOS boot-up screen. This pre-boot
McBIOS RAID manager can use to simplify the setup and manage-
ment of RAID controller. The controller rmware also contains a
browser-based McRAID storage manager which can be accessed
through the Ethernet port or ArcHttp proxy server in Windows,
Linux, FreeBSD and more environments. The McRAID storage man-
ager allows local and remote to create and modify RAID set, vol-
ume set, and monitor RAID status from standard web browser. The
Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility can support one applica-
tion to scan multiple RAID units in the network.
1.2 Features
Adapter Architecture
• Intel Dual Core 1200MHz IOP348 I/O processor for RAID
core and SAS microcode
• PCIe x8 Link host interface
• 512MB on-board DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC (ARC-1680LP/
1680i/1680x/1680ix-8/1680IXL-12/16)
• One 240-pin DDR2-533 DIMM socket with default 512MB of
SDRAM with ECC protection, upgrade to 4GB (ARC-1680ix-
12/16/24)
• Write-through or write-back cache support
• Support up to 4/8/12/16/24 internal and 4/8 external SAS ports
• Multi-adapter support for large storage requirements
• BIOS boot support for greater fault tolerance
• BIOS PnP (plug and play) and BBS (BIOS boot specication)
support
• Intel RAID engine support extreme performance RAID 6 function
• NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
• Redundant ash image for adapter availability
• Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready (Option)
• RoHS Compliant
RAID Features
• RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
• Multiple RAID selection
• Online array roaming
• Online RAID level/stripe size migration