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SATA ports
The Embedded Server RAID Technology can support up to four ports.
BIOS Features
The BIOS features include
• RAID support before the operating system loads
• automatic detection and configuration of disk drives
• ability to handle configuration changes
• support for Interrupt 13 and Enhanced Disk Drive Specification
• support for RAID levels 0, and 1
• special handling of error log and rebuilding
• ROM option size of 64 Kbyte
• automatic resume of rebuilding and check consistency
• support for BIOS Boot Specification (BBS) (If available in system
BIOS, this allows the user to select the adaptor from which to boot.
Specification v1.01, January 11, 1996)
• co-existence with SCSI and CD devices
• 48-bit LBA support for read, write, and cache flush functions
• independent stripe size configuration on each logical drive
• ability to select a logical drive as boot device
• support for power-on self test (POST) Memory Management
(PMM) for the BIOS memory requirement (Specification v1.01,
November 21, 1997)
• enhanced disk drive support (Specification 2.9, revision 08, March
12, 1998)
• Industry-standard EBDA
• Self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology (S.M.A.R.T.)
notification at POST
• run-time BIOS support for device insertion or removal
• independent support for WC, RC, and UDMA (direct memory
access)
• support for Stop On Error during bootup
• support to disable/enable BIOS state