Acer AcceleRAID 352 User Manual

Product Description

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AcceleRAID 352 Installation Guide

Features of the 

AcceleRAID 352

 controller include:

• One Q-Logic ISP 12160A chip to support two Ultra 160 SCSI LVD 

channels 

• Intel i960RN at 100MHz RISC processor 

• BBM (Battery Backup Module), optional

• 32MB, 64MB, or 128MB ECC cache DIMM module 

• PCI 2.1 and 2.2 compliant (PCI 2.2 required to use hotplug feature) 

• 1MB, 8-bit flash EEPROM for BIOS and code

• Built-in configuration utilities (in BIOS)

• Write-through and write-back cache support.

• PCI Hotplug capability allows the AcceleRAID 352 to be swapped 

with a replacement without powering down the system.

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Be sure the motherboard you are using supports 
PCI Hotplug before attempting to use this feature, 
or serious damage to the controller and/or the 
motherboard could result. (You must be PCI 2.2 
compliant if using PCI Hot Plug.)

• 15 Ultra 160 SCSI devices per channel 

• 16 physical drives per drive group (array)

• Number of drive groups is limited by number of physical drives on the 

controller

• 32 total logical drives per controller

• Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5, 10, 30, 50, and JBOD