Technical Product Specification

IntelP®P RAID Controller RS2PI008 Technical Product Specification Hardware

2.2 Controller Layout

Figure 2 Intel

RAID Controller RS2PI008 Physical Layout

2.3 Major Components

The major components of the Intel

RAID Controller RS2PI008 are described in the subsections

that follow.

2.3.1 LSI*SAS2108 ROC

The LSI*SAS2108 RAID-On-Chip (ROC) is an integrated SAS and I/O controller with an

embedded Power PC* 440 core running at 800 MHz. For more information, see

http://www.lsi.com/

. The LSI*SAS2108 ROC provides the following functionality:

 x8 PCI Express* bus operating at 5.0 Gb/s serial transfer rate

 Spread Spectrum Clocking (SSC)

 SAS/SMP/STP/SATA support

 Supports SAS and SATA devices

 Initiator and Target mode (SSP)

 Wide port support

 T10 End-to-End Data Protection (EEDP)

 Local 72-bit DDR2 SDRAM interface with ECC checking

 Fusion MPT message unit

 PCI Express* interface supports x8, x4, and x1 lane configurations

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