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...Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH INTEL(R) PRODUCTS. EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN INTEL'S TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE FOR SUCH PRODUCTS, INTEL ASSUMES NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER, AND INTEL DISCLAIMS ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY, RELATING TO SALE AND/OR USE OF INTEL...THIS DOCUMENT. Portions Copyright 2005-2010 by Intel Corporation. Intel may be claimed as the property of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in medical, life saving, life sustaining applications. Intel products are not intended for use in ...
...Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH INTEL(R) PRODUCTS. EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN INTEL'S TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE FOR SUCH PRODUCTS, INTEL ASSUMES NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER, AND INTEL DISCLAIMS ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY, RELATING TO SALE AND/OR USE OF INTEL...THIS DOCUMENT. Portions Copyright 2005-2010 by Intel Corporation. Intel may be claimed as the property of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in medical, life saving, life sustaining applications. Intel products are not intended for use in ...
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... User's Guide on the Resource CD that you for purchasing and using the Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080. Related Publication The Intel® RAID Software User's Guide is the primary hardware guide for the Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080, for use with the RAID controller. Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide iii Audience This document assumes that ships with the...
... User's Guide on the Resource CD that you for purchasing and using the Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080. Related Publication The Intel® RAID Software User's Guide is the primary hardware guide for the Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080, for use with the RAID controller. Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide iii Audience This document assumes that ships with the...
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... 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 ...11 Resolving a Configuration Mismatch 11 Chapter 3: Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Characteristics 13 Technical Specifications ...14 Array Performance Features 15 Fault Tolerance...
... 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 ...11 Resolving a Configuration Mismatch 11 Chapter 3: Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Characteristics 13 Technical Specifications ...14 Array Performance Features 15 Fault Tolerance...
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Installing the Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 8 Figure 3. Card Layout...13 Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide vii Connecting Cables between the RAID Controller and Drives/Backplane 10 Figure 4. Changing the Bracket 8 Figure 2. List of Figures Figure 1.
Installing the Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 8 Figure 3. Card Layout...13 Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide vii Connecting Cables between the RAID Controller and Drives/Backplane 10 Figure 4. Changing the Bracket 8 Figure 2. List of Figures Figure 1.
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Technical Specifications 14 Table 3. Jumper Description 13 Table 2. Fault Tolerance Features 16 Table 5. Electrical Characteristics 17 Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide ix Array Performance Features 15 Table 4. List of Tables Table 1.
Technical Specifications 14 Table 3. Jumper Description 13 Table 2. Fault Tolerance Features 16 Table 5. Electrical Characteristics 17 Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide ix Array Performance Features 15 Table 4. List of Tables Table 1.
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... workgroup, department, or enterprise systems to use cost-effective SATA or high-performance SAS media. As a second-generation PCI Express* RAID controller, the Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 addresses the growing demand for the RAID controller, even during system failures. SATA is serial, point-to-point device interface that uses simplified cabling, smaller connectors, lower...
... workgroup, department, or enterprise systems to use cost-effective SATA or high-performance SAS media. As a second-generation PCI Express* RAID controller, the Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 addresses the growing demand for the RAID controller, even during system failures. SATA is serial, point-to-point device interface that uses simplified cabling, smaller connectors, lower...
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...*. • Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4.0, and 5.0. • SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11. • VMWare* ESX 4.0 • Solaris* 10 2 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 • Native command...
...*. • Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 4.0, and 5.0. • SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11. • VMWare* ESX 4.0 • Solaris* 10 2 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 • Native command...
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... thin cabling with up , hot-plug, and lower power consumption • User-specified rebuild rate (percent of RAID mode may require OCE). - Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide 3 All operating systems supported by your server board. Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) adds space to... the Tested Hardware and Operating System List for the Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080. Drive migration - Load Balancing • Upgradeable Flash ROM interface • Allows for staggered spin up to 6.0 Gb/s...
... thin cabling with up , hot-plug, and lower power consumption • User-specified rebuild rate (percent of RAID mode may require OCE). - Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide 3 All operating systems supported by your server board. Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) adds space to... the Tested Hardware and Operating System List for the Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080. Drive migration - Load Balancing • Upgradeable Flash ROM interface • Allows for staggered spin up to 6.0 Gb/s...
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...only reads disk if data is on the drives (COD). - Write-back: Faster because it does not wait for cache memory. 4 Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide Redundancy and Error Handling • In-band and out-of-band SES2. • Enclosure management support. • Support... possible. • Failures are logged from controller and drive firmware, and SMART monitor. • Failures are five or more disks in a RAID 5 array, which optimizes performance by enabling readmodify-write mode. Optional battery backup for the disk but ensures data is not in the cache....
...only reads disk if data is on the drives (COD). - Write-back: Faster because it does not wait for cache memory. 4 Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide Redundancy and Error Handling • In-band and out-of-band SES2. • Enclosure management support. • Support... possible. • Failures are logged from controller and drive firmware, and SMART monitor. • Failures are five or more disks in a RAID 5 array, which optimizes performance by enabling readmodify-write mode. Optional battery backup for the disk but ensures data is not in the cache....
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... be done on Spanned Arrays (RAID 10, 50, 60). • Migrations supported are RAID 1 to RAID 0, RAID 5 to RAID 0, RAID 6 to RAID 5, and RAID 6 to RAID 0. • With OCE, migrations supported are RAID 0 to RAID 1, RAID 0 to RAID 5, RAID 5 to RAID 6, RAID 1 to RAID 6, and RAID 1 to RAID 5. Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide 5 alarm ... • Migration cannot occur if there is more than one virtual disk in rebuild; Online Capacity Expansion and RAID Level Migration Rules • Migration must occur to address a single target (in a fail-over configuration) through...
... be done on Spanned Arrays (RAID 10, 50, 60). • Migrations supported are RAID 1 to RAID 0, RAID 5 to RAID 0, RAID 6 to RAID 5, and RAID 6 to RAID 0. • With OCE, migrations supported are RAID 0 to RAID 1, RAID 0 to RAID 5, RAID 5 to RAID 6, RAID 1 to RAID 6, and RAID 1 to RAID 5. Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide 5 alarm ... • Migration cannot occur if there is more than one virtual disk in rebuild; Online Capacity Expansion and RAID Level Migration Rules • Migration must occur to address a single target (in a fail-over configuration) through...
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... 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 or SATA II 3.0 hard drives In addition, Intel Corporation strongly recommends...
... 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 or SATA II 3.0 hard drives In addition, Intel Corporation strongly recommends...
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Install the RAID controller into an available server system x8 or x16 PCI-Express* slot (see your server system documentation. To locate an appropriate slot and for instructions on installing an add-in card, see Figure 2). Installing the Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 8 Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide Changing the Bracket 4. C Figure 1. PCI Express* Slot (3.3 V) AF003196 Figure 2.
Install the RAID controller into an available server system x8 or x16 PCI-Express* slot (see your server system documentation. To locate an appropriate slot and for instructions on installing an add-in card, see Figure 2). Installing the Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 8 Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide Changing the Bracket 4. C Figure 1. PCI Express* Slot (3.3 V) AF003196 Figure 2.
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... a backplane. ✧ Do not use cross-over cables. ✧ Only connect to the left connector (see letter "A" in Figure 3). If you are all properly attached. 5. Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide 9
... a backplane. ✧ Do not use cross-over cables. ✧ Only connect to the left connector (see letter "A" in Figure 3). If you are all properly attached. 5. Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide 9
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Install the server system cover and connect the power cords. Connecting Cables between the RAID Controller and Drives/Backplane 6. For instructions, see your server system documentation. 10 Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide B A Ports 4-7 Ports 0-3 C AF003197 Figure 3.
Install the server system cover and connect the power cords. Connecting Cables between the RAID Controller and Drives/Backplane 6. For instructions, see your server system documentation. 10 Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide B A Ports 4-7 Ports 0-3 C AF003197 Figure 3.
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... Utility. 2. If you miss it, you press the keys to enter the Intel® RAID BIOS Console 2 software, the firmware takes several seconds. After you need to initialize and then display the Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 number and firmware version. Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide 11 Turn on the system power and listen to...
... Utility. 2. If you miss it, you press the keys to enter the Intel® RAID BIOS Console 2 software, the firmware takes several seconds. After you need to initialize and then display the Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 number and firmware version. Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide 11 Turn on the system power and listen to...
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... Dirty Cache LED Header 2-pin connector For connection to SAS/SATA devices. When lit, it indicates the data in the factory. Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide 13 3 Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Characteristics JT12 JT13 JT10 JT7 JT6 JT9 Port 7-4 Port 3-0 JT11 JT8 JT2 JT4 JT1 JT3 Figure 4. JT7 Internal SAS/SATA Port...
... Dirty Cache LED Header 2-pin connector For connection to SAS/SATA devices. When lit, it indicates the data in the factory. Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Hardware User's Guide 13 3 Intel® RAID Controller RT3WB080 Characteristics JT12 JT13 JT10 JT7 JT6 JT9 Port 7-4 Port 3-0 JT11 JT8 JT2 JT4 JT1 JT3 Figure 4. JT7 Internal SAS/SATA Port...