Smart Array 5300 Controller User Guide

Board Components and Features

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Overview of Controller Features

• Two or four Wide Ultra3 SCSI channels, supporting up to 56 drives (4 channels,

14 drives per channel)

• Support for Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Linux, Novell NetWare

5.x, and NetWare 6 operating systems

• Support for the Compaq Universal Hot Plug Tape Drive, with storage capacity up

to 100 GB and LVD transfer rates up to 12 MB per second

• Support for the Compaq StorageWorks

SAN Access Module

• Backward compatibility with Wide Ultra2 devices

• Removable array accelerator

• 64-bit, 66-MHz PCI system interface

• Other features supported:

— RAID fault-tolerance (0, 1+0, 5, ADG) (refer to Chapter 9 for instructions on

enabling RAID ADG)

— Online RAID migration between any two levels

— Online array capacity expansion

— Online logical drive capacity extension

— Hot-pluggable hard drives and tape drives

— Drive movement

— Adjustable stripe size

— Performance monitoring through Compaq Insight Manager

— S.M.A.R.T. hard drives

— Drive pre-failure notification

— Multiple online spares per array

— Tagged command queuing

— Background initialization

— Multiple logical drives per array