Technical Product Specification

Introduction Intel® RAID Controller RS2WC080 and RS2WC040 TPS

Revision 1.0

Intel Order Number E64400-001

 SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 11 32-bit

 SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 11 64-bit Edition

All operating systems supported by the RAID controller may not be supported by your server

board. To verify compatibility, see the Tested Operating System List for your server board at:

http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/

To make sure the RAID controller supports your operating system, refer to the Tested Hardware

and Operating System List for the Intel

RAID Controller RS2WC080 and RS2WC040.

1.3 Features List

The Intel

RAID Controller RS2WC080 and RS2WC040 offer the following features:

 Support SAS/SATA devices at speeds up to 6 Gb/s per port

 Support the SATA II protocol over SAS transport

 The Intel

RAID Controller RS2WC080 contains eight internal SAS/SATA ports

 The Intel

RAID Controller RS2WC040 contains four internal SAS/SATA ports

 Up to 64 physical drives in passthrough mode (JBOD) and up to 16 physical drives in up

to 16 RAID arrays per controller in RAID mode.

 Drives not configured as part of a RAID array can be configured as “pass through” drives

in Non-RAID mode

 Support RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50

 Hardware exclusive OR (XOR) assistance

 Online capacity expansion and online RAID level migration

 Drive roaming and drive migration

 Fast virtual drive initialization

 Hot-spare drive configuration, both private and global

 SATA drive and PCI hot-plug support

 Staggered spin-up

 Native command queuing

 Support for SMART

 Auto rebuild of hot spare drives with user-specified rebuild rate

 Variable data strip size configured per virtual drive

 Read and write cache policy

 SES(inband) and SGPIO(sideband) intelligent enclosure support

 Background media scan (patrol read)

 Background data integrity test

 More than 200 Qtags per array

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.