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Hardware User Guide - Page 3
... related support devices. Organization
This document includes the following chapters and appendixes:
• Chapter 1 provides a general overview of the software drivers, see the Intel® RAID Software User's Guide on how to do a drive migration.
Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide
iii Preface
About this book are:
• Engineers who benefit from this Manual...
Hardware User Guide - Page 5
... Support ...2 Operating System Support 2 Usability ...3 Redundancy and Error Handling 4 SAS/SATA Features of the LSISAS2108 Controller 5 Online Capacity Expansion and RAID Level Migration Rules 5 Beep Codes ...5
Chapter 2: Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware Installation 7
Requirements ...7 Installing the RAID Controller 7 Configuring the RAID Controller 11 Replacing a Controller...
Hardware User Guide - Page 11
... SFF-8087 mini multi-lane connectors, this controller supports up to 5 Gb/s per lane. The RAID controller is a high-performance, intelligent PCI Express* 2.0-compliant SATA III RAID controller that uses simplified cabling, smaller connectors, lower pin counts, and lower power requirements than parallel SCSI. 1 Overview
The Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 is designed to fit the following...
Hardware User Guide - Page 12
... Microsoft Windows 7*, and Windows Vista*.
• Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4.0, and 5.0. • SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11. • VMWare* ESX 4.0 • Solaris* 10
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Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide In addition, the SATA RAID controller supports the following SATA II features:
• 3Gb/s SATA II • Staggered spin-up • Hot plug •...
Hardware User Guide - Page 13
...'s Guide
3 To make sure the RAID controller supports your operating system, refer to waiting for controller access.
• Background operating mode can be supported by your server board at http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/. To verify compatibility, see the Tested Operating System List for the Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080. Online Capacity Expansion (OCE...
Hardware User Guide - Page 14
...- Non-Read Ahead: Always reads from OS Event Log, Intel® RAID Web
Console 2; Optional battery backup for cache memory.
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Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide Redundancy and Error Handling
• In-band and out-of-band SES2. • Enclosure management support. • Support the internal SATA Sideband signal SFF-8485 (SGPIO) interface. • Drive coercion...
Hardware User Guide - Page 15
... rebuild with a different sound at completion.
compliant hard disk drives.
• Allows multiple initiators to address a single target (in rebuild; Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide
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To disable the alarm, choose Disable Alarm.
Beep Codes
• Short beep (1 second on, 1 second off): Array has degraded but no data has been
lost.
• Long beep...
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.... Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide
7 Remove the server system cover.
2 Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080
Hardware Installation
Requirements
• An Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 with the provided cables • A host system with an available x8 or x16 PCI-Express* slot • The Resource CD, which contains drivers and documentation • SATA III...
Hardware User Guide - Page 18
Installing the Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080
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Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide To locate an appropriate slot and for instructions on installing an add-in card, see Figure 2). Changing the Bracket 4.
PCI Express* Slot (3.3 V)
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Figure 1. Install the RAID controller into an available server system x8 or x16 PCI-Express*
slot (see ...
Hardware User Guide - Page 19
...controller and cables are using more than one meter.
✧ Decrease the maximum length by one 4-port combined end of the cables to SATA drives or to the right connector (see letter "A" in Figure 3). To prevent throughput problems....
Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide
9 Connect the other end of an internal cable to the ports on a SATA or SAS backplane (see ...
Hardware User Guide - Page 20
For instructions, see your server system documentation.
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Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide Install the server system cover and connect the power cords. Connecting Cables between the RAID Controller and Drives/Backplane
6. B
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Hardware User Guide - Page 21
... install the operating system drivers.
Exit and reboot. Configuring the RAID Controller
To configure the RAID Controller, follow these steps to update the NVRAM. 5.
If you miss it, you press the keys to run BIOS Console 2. See the Quick Start User's Guide and the Software User's Guide for instructions to restart the system. Replacing a Controller
To replace the RAID controller...
Hardware User Guide - Page 24
... interface to host SATA bus speed SATA ports Physical and virtual drive support Cache Firmware Compatible devices
Cabling
Redundant configuration Enclosure management
Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080
LSISAS2108 Integrated ROC... Specifications
Specification RAID-on -disk (COD)
• SGPIO • In-band and out-of-band SES
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... • OCE • ...services
Cache options
Native command queuing
• Drive migration • RAID level migration • Drive Roaming • Online Capacity Expansion - Specification Enclosure support
Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Assumes one SEP per phy
Maximum scatter/gather
80 elements
Maximum size of I /O
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