Technical Product Specification

Introduction IntelP®P RAID Controller RS2PI008 Technical Product Specification
Revision 1.1
Intel order number E64396-002
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 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
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RAID Controller RS2PI008 offers the following features:
 Supports SAS/SATA devices at speeds up to 6 Gb/s per port
 Supports the SATA II protocol over SAS transport
 Contains eight external SAS/SATA ports through two SFF8088 Mini SAS 4i external
connectors
 Supports up to 240 SAS/SATA II devices through expanders
 Supports up to 64 virtual disks
 Supports up to 128 arrays
 Supports 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
 Support for SMART
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 Auto rebuild with user-specified rebuild rate
 Variable data stripe size configured per virtual drive
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The Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) detects up to 70 percent of all predictable disk
drive failures. In addition, SMART monitors the internal performance of all motors, heads, and drive electronics.