Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification Intel order number E59029-003 Revision 1.
Revision History Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification Revision History Date Revision Number December 2008 1.0 Initial Release Modifications February 2009 1.1 Updated the RAID Controller illustrations to reflect the heatsink design change. March 2009 1.2 Replaced all Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SROMBSASMR references with Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR; Listed Intel® Workstation Board S5520SC as a supported board.
Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification Table of Contents Table of Contents 1. 2. 3. Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Product Overview .................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Operating System Support ................................................................................
Table of Contents 3.2 4. User Interface ........................................................................................................ 17 3.2.1 Intel® RAID BIOS Console 2 Configuration Utility.................................................. 17 3.2.2 Intel® RAID Web Console 2 ................................................................................... 18 3.3 Command-line Utility.............................................................................................. 19 3.
Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification List of Figures List of Figures Figure 1. Hardware Block Diagram............................................................................................... 4 Figure 2. Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR Physical Layout.................................. 5 Figure 3. Intel® RAID Smart Battery AXXRSBBU3 ....................................................................... 6 Figure 4. SAS/SATA Connectors........
List of Tables Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification List of Tables Table 1. SAS/SATA Connector Pin-out ........................................................................................ 7 Table 2. BBU Connector Pin-out................................................................................................. 10 Table 3. BBU Connector Pin-out.................................................................................................
Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification 1. Introduction Introduction This document provides a detailed description of the Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (also known as Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SROMBSASMR) and the software that supports it. 1.
Introduction Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification VMWare ESX* Server 3.5 Red Hat* Linux 4 32-bit Red Hat* Linux 4 64-bit Edition Red Hat* Linux 5 32-bit Red Hat* Linux 5 64-bit Edition SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 10 32-bit SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 10 64-bit Edition The following operating systems will be tested with a baseline installation of the operating system.
Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification Variable data stripe size configured per virtual drive 128 MB of ECC DDR2 667 MHz SDRAM integrated on the controller Read and write cache policy SES2 intelligent enclosure support Background media test (patrol read) Background data integrity test Revision 1.
Hardware Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification 2. Hardware 2.1 Block Diagram Figure 1. Hardware Block Diagram 4 Intel order number E59029-003 Revision 1.
Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification 2.2 Hardware Module Layout LSI 1078 SAS ROC Controller Heatsink I LS SES Connector Board-to-Board 50-pin Connector SAS/SATA Connectors Battery Connector AF003118 Figure 2. Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR Physical Layout 2.3 Major Components 2.3.1 LSI* 1078 SAS ROC The LSI* 1078 SAS ROC is an integrated SAS and I/O controller with an embedded Power PC* core running at 533 MHz.
Hardware Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification 2.3.2 Flash ROM ® The Intel Advanced+ Book Block Flash Memory device is a 4 MB FLASH ROM configured for 16-bit I/O, manufactured on Intel’s latest 0.13 μm and 0.18 μm technologies. This is a featurerich solution for low-power applications. This device incorporates low-voltage capability (3 V read, program, and erase) with high-speed, low-power operation.
Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification 2.3.6 Diagnostics 2.3.6.1 Audible Alarm Hardware Audible alarm is not supported. 2.3.6.2 LED Placement and Function One surface-mounted system error (CRT1) LED (Orange Color) indicates a 1078 ASIC error resulting from processor-related errors. The LED is off during normal operation and is steady on during an error condition. 2.3.
Hardware Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification Pin # 3 Signal TX0- Description Transmitter differential pair 4 GND Ground 5 RXD+ Receiver differential pair 6 RXD- Receiver differential pair 7 GND Ground Figure 6. SAS/SATA Cable 2.3.
Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification Hardware Figure 7. PCI Interface Revision 1.
Hardware Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification Table 2.
Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification Hardware Figure 8. BBU Interface Table 3. BBU Connector Pin-out Pin # Revision 1.2 1 Signal P12V_STBY +12Vdc Standby Description 2 GND Ground 3 P12V_STBY +12Vdc Standby 4 GND Ground 5 P1V8 +1.8Vdc 6 GND Ground 7 P3V3 +3.3Vdc 8 GND Ground 9 P1V8_BB Sideband 1 10 GND Ground 11 P3V3_STBY +3.
Hardware Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification 2.3.
Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification 2.5 Hardware Electrical Characteristics All power is supplied to the Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR through the boardto-board connector via PCI Express* 3.3 V rails. The supply voltages are 3.3 V ± 9 percent from PCI edge connector only. The maximum power for the +3.3 V rail is 18 W. The +12 V rail is not provided by the base card. The +3.3 V rail is used by the 3.
Hardware 2.7 Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification Supported Device Technology 2.7.1 Support for Hard Disk Drive Devices ® The Intel Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR integrates four internal high-performance SAS/SATA ports that support SAS and enterprise-class SATA hard drives. Each port supports both SAS and SATA devices using the SAS Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP), Serial Management Protocol (SMP), and Serial Tunneling Protocol (STP).
Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) 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. The following figure shows the inter-relationship of these software pieces. Figure 10.
Software 3.1 3.1.1 Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification Common Layers Firmware The firmware is composed of multiple software layers, allowing for maximum flexibility, reuse, and maintainability. These layers are described below. 3.1.1.1 MFC Settings MFC default settings are factory programmed and consist of two types of settings: Settings that cannot be modified in the field. These include the PCI IDs.
Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification 3.1.3 Software Operating System Driver The operating system driver communicates between the host resident application and the RAID controller using specific communication protocols. 3.2 User Interface 3.2.1 Intel® RAID BIOS Console 2 Configuration Utility The Intel® RAID BIOS Console 2 configuration utility is an X-ROM based utility that is accessed by pressing the + keys during POST.
Software Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification 3.2.2 Intel® RAID Web Console 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® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) 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 Features Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) 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® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification 4.1.2 RAID Functionality and Features RAID Virtual Drive Status Table 11. 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.
RAID Functionality and Features 4.3.2 Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification Cache Policies The RAID cache can temporarily store data so it can be more quickly accessed, or to await drive readiness. The cache is available both on the RAID controller and hard drives. The RAID controller read and write cache policy is set on a virtual drive level.
Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification 4.3.3 RAID Functionality and Features Stripe Size The stripe size determines the size of each data stripe on each hard drive. The options are 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, and 1024 KB. The stripe 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 Features 4.3.9 Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification RAID Controller Migration The RAID controller migration feature allows a defective RAID controller to be removed and replaced by a compatible RAID controller without losing the configuration or data. To avoid a configuration mismatch, it is wise to reset the new controller configuration before attaching the array drives.
Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification 5. Safety and Regulatory Certifications 5.1 Product Safety & EMC Compliance Safety and Regulatory Certifications This Intel RAID Controller has been evaluated for regulatory compliance as an Intel end system, and is included as part of the end system certification. For information on end system certification, refer to the product regulatory certification for the end system level product. 5.
Appendix A: Event Messages and Error Codes Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification 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® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification Number 22 Type Information Description 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 seconds 29 Information Hibernate command received from host 30 Information Event log clear
Appendix A: Event Messages and Error Codes Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification Number 66 Type Information Consistency Check started on %s Description 67 Information Initialization aborted on %s 68 Critical Initialization failed on %s 69 Progress Initialization progress on %s is %s 70 Information Fast initialization started on %s 71 Information Full initialization started on %s 72 Information Initialization complete on %s 73 Informa
Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification Appendix A: Event Messages and Error Codes Number 110 Type Information Description 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 State change on %s from %s to %s 115 Information State change by user on %s from %s to %s 116 Warning Redu
Appendix A: Event Messages and Error Codes Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification Number 154 Type Warning Battery relearn timed out Description 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 days 159 Information Battery relearn will start in 1 day 160 Information Battery relearn
Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification Appendix A: Event Messages and Error Codes Number 198 Type Information Description 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 error: ECAR=%x 202 Critical Single-bit ECC error: ECAR=%x 203 Critical Single-bit ECC error: ECAR=%x
Appendix A: Event Messages and Error Codes Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification Number 242 Type Information Battery charge complete Description 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 Information SEP %s has been rebooted as a part of enclosure firmware download.
Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification Appendix B: Glossary Appendix B: Glossary Word / Acronym API Application Programming Interface Definition BIOS Basic Input/Output System DMA Direct Memory Access 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 MFC Manufacture Control NVRAM Non-volatile Ran
Appendix C: Reference Documents Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR (AXXROMBSASMR) Technical Product Specification Appendix C: Reference Documents 34 Intel® Integrated RAID Module SROMBSASMR Hardware User’s Guide (Document number: E58607-00x) Intel® RAID Software User’s Guide (Document number: D29305-00x) Intel® RAID Controller Command Line Tool 2 User Guide (Document number: E3609200x) Intel order number E59029-003 Revision 1.
