LSI 1600 Manual De Usuario

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SCSI Termination MegaRAID uses active termination on the SCSI bus conforming to Alternative 2 of the SCSI-2

specifications. Termination enable/disable is automatic through cable detection.

SCSI Firmware The firmware handles all RAID and SCSI command processing and also supports:

Disconnect/
Reconnect

Optimizes SCSI Bus seek.

Tagged Command
Queuing

Multiple tags to improve random access

Scatter/Gather

Multiple address/count pairs

Multi-threading

Up to 255 simultaneous commands with elevator sorting and
concatenation of requests per SCSI channel

Stripe Size

Variable for all logical drives: 2 KB, 4 KB, 8 KB, 16 KB, 32
KB, 64 KB, or 128 KB.

Rebuild

Multiple rebuilds and consistency checks with user-definable
priority.

RAID Management The RAID utilities manage and configure the RAID system and MegaRAID, create and

manage multiple disk arrays, control and monitor multiple RAID servers, provide error statistics
logging and online maintenance:

•  MegaRAID Configuration Utility

•  WebBIOS Configuration Utility

•  Power Console

•  MegaRAID Manager

MegaRAID Configuration Utility It configures and maintains RAID arrays, formats disk drives, and manages the

RAID system. It is independent of any operating system.

WebBIOS Configuration Utility It allows you to configure and manage a RAID system on a remote server over the

Internet.

Power Console Plus It configures, monitors, and manages RAID servers from any Windows NT network node or

remote server.

MegaRAID Manager A character-based utility for DOS, Linux, Solaris, SCO Unix, SCO UnixWare, OS/2, and

Novell NetWare.

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