Technical Product Specification

Introduction Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 Technical Product Specification
Revision 2.1
Intel order number E64388-004
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 Microsoft Windows Server 2008* R2 64-bit Edition
 Microsoft Windows Vista* 32-bit
 Microsoft Windows Vista* 64-bit Edition
 Microsoft Windows 7* 32-bit
 Microsoft Windows 7* 64-bit Edition
 Red Hat* Linux 4.0 32-bit
 Red Hat* Linux 4.0 64-bit Edition
 Red Hat* Linux 5.0 32-bit
 Red Hat* Linux 5.0 64-bit Edition
 SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 10 32-bit
 SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 10 64-bit Edition
 SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 11 32-bit
 SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 11 64-bit Edition
The following operating systems will be validated as a baseline operating system installation
post launch:
 Sun Solaris* 10 32-bit
 Sun Solaris* 10 64-bit Edition
1.3 Features List
The Intel
®
RAID Controller RS2BL080 and RS2MB044 offer the following features:
 Support SAS/SATA devices at speeds up to 600 MB/second per port
 Support the 3 Gbit/s SATA II protocol over SAS transport
 The Intel
®
RAID Controller RS2BL080 contains eight internal SAS/SATA ports
 The Intel
®
RAID Controller RS2MB044 contains four internal and four external
SAS/SATA ports
 RS2BL080 supports up to 32 SAS/SATA II devices through expanders
 RS2MB044 supports up to 240 SAS/SATA II devices through expanders
 Support up to 64 virtual disks
 Support RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60
 Hardware exclusive OR (XOR) assistance
 Online capacity expansion
 Online RAID level migration
 Drive roaming
 Drive migration
 Fast virtual drive initialization
 Hot-spare drive configuration, both private and global
 SATA drive hot-plug
 Staggered spin-up
 Native command queuing