Technical Product Specification

Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL040 Technical Product Specification Hardware
Table 7. Storage and Transit Specifications
Specification Description
Temperature range without battery -30 degrees Celsius to +80 degrees Celsius (dry bulb)
Temperature range with battery 0 degrees Celsius to 45 degrees Celsius (dry bulb)
Relative humidity range 5% to 90 % non-condensing
2.6.1 Safety Characteristics
The Intel
®
RAID Controller RS2BL040 meets or exceeds the requirements of UL flammability
rating 94 V0. Each bare board is also marked with the supplier name or trademark, type, and UL
flammability rating. For the boards installed in a PCI Express* bus slot, all voltages are lower
than the SELV 42.4V limit.
The board is designed and implemented to minimize electromagnetic emissions, susceptibility,
and the effects of electrostatic discharge. All testing and verification of these characteristics are
done at the parent or end-unit level.
2.7 Supported Device Technology
The various device technologies supported by the Intel
®
RAID Controller RS2BL040 are
described in the subsections that follow.
2.7.1 Support for Hard Disk Drive Devices
The Intel
®
RAID Controller RS2BL040 integrates four internal high-performance SAS/SATA II
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). The SSP protocol enables communication with
other SAS devices. STP allows the SAS RAID controller to communicate with SATA devices
using the SATA commands.
2.7.2 SAS Expander Support
The Intel
®
RAID Controller RS2BL040 supports LSI expanders, Vitesse SAS expanders, and
PMC expanders that are used as a component in Intel enclosures. Other expanders may be
supported post launch, based on market conditions and customer requirements.
2.7.3 Support for Non-Hard Disk Drive Devices
As SAS-based non-hard drive devices were not available when this controller was in
development, support for these devices will be determined as they become available. For
information on support for non-hard drive devices, see the Intel
®
RAID Controller RS2BL040
Tested Hardware and Operating System List.
2.7.4 Enclosure Management Support
The Intel
®
RAID Controller RS2BL040 supports SES2 enclosure management in-band to
expander-based backplanes and out-of-band to direct-connect backplanes. This RAID controller
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