User manual

SuperTrak SX6000™ User Manual Appendix A

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SuperTrak SX6000 Technical Specifications

Performance-Related Features

• True hardware-based RAID

• Single IRQ per RAID I/O

• Intelligent cache dynamically configures itself

• Support for up to 128MB (minimum of 16MB required) of RAM in one 168-pin

DIMM socket

• Microprocessor offloads tasks to reduce system CPU utilization

• User-configurable cache parameters for each array: write policy, and flush

policy

• User-configurable RAID stripe sizing allows controller to optimize operations

for operating systems and applications

• Multi-threaded command processing and disk operations

• Supports Tagged Command Queuing for optimal disk performance

• Advanced load balancing and elevator seek for optimal disk performance

• Hardware scatter gather DMA engine reduces CPU overhead

• Intelligent algorithm to optimize RAID 5 writes

Data Protection Features

• Support for RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5 and Spanning

• Meets all of the RAID Advisory Board’s standards for RAID levels

• Automatic failed drive detection and transparent disk drive rebuild

• Onboard buzzer sound audible alarms in the event of failure

• Supports S.M.A.R.T. capable drives for predictive failure analysis messaging

through PAM GUI

• Hot swap capability

• Hot spare capability

• Configuration is stored on all disks in the array. This allows configuration to

be restored to a new controller in case of controller failure

Host Interface

• On board 32-bit Intel i960RM RISC microprocessor

• I

O version 1.5 compliant

• Supports up to 33MHz PCI bus speed

• Supports up to 133MB per second burst data transfer rate across PCI bus

• Provides 32-bit PCI bus mastering with 0 wait states.

• PCI Local Bus version 2.2 compliant

• Onboard 64K Flash BIOS

• Firmware Flash EEPROM

• NVRAM for error log for fast recovery