Technical Product Specification

Intel® RAID Controller SRCSAS18E Introduction
Revision 1.01
Intel order number D61769-001
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1. Introduction
1.1 Purpose of this Document
This document provides a detailed description of the Intel
®
RAID Controller SRCSAS18E and
the software required to support it.
1.2 Product Overview
The Intel
®
RAID Controller SRCSAS18E is the first Intel
®
RAID controller that supports serial-
attached SCSI (SAS) and serial ATA (SATA) disk drives. Supporting dual architectures allows
solutions to be customized for performance, reliability, system expansion flexibility and hard disk
drive capacity. The RAID Controller SRCSAS18E provides flexibility and helps lower total cost
of ownership with a standardized server and storage infrastructure. It is designed with eight
internal SAS ports and utilizes an 8X PCI Express* server board slot.
1.3 Operating System Support
The following operating systems are fully validated and supported at product launch. The latest
service pack/update available at start of the test run will be tested:
 Microsoft Windows Server 2003* 32-bit
 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x86-64
 Red Hat* Linux 3.0 32-bit
 Red Hat Linux 3.0 x86-64
 Red Hat Linux 4.0 32-bit
 Red Hat Linux 4.0 x86-64
 SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 9 32-bit
 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 x86-64
The following operating systems will be tested with a baseline installation of the operating
system. The latest service pack/update available at start of the test run will be tested.
 Microsoft Windows 2000* Server
 Microsoft Windows XP* 32-bit
 Microsoft Windows XP x86-64
The following operating systems will be validated as a baseline operating system installation
post launch:
 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 32-bit
 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 x86-64
 Novell* NetWare 6.5 32-bit
 Novell NetWare 6.5 x86-64