3Ware 8006-2LP User Guide - Page 10

Escalade 8000 Serial ATA Family, True Hardware RAID.

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Before You Begin ■ BIOS. PC99, PnP, BBS Compliant ■ Windows Support. Windows 2000 with SP3 or newer, Windows XP with SP1 or newer, and Windows Server 2003 ■ Linux Support. Redhat, SuSE. (Drivers available in Open Source.) ■ FreeBSD. Version 4.8 ■ Performance. Twinstor, Command Queuing, Elevator Seeking, R5Fusion (R5 Fusion is not available on 700x-2) ■ Field Upgrades. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers ■ Data Integrity. ATA Command Readback, S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring, Dynamic Sector Repair, Rebuild Pacing, Rebuild Scheduling, Background Media Scan, Hot Swap, Hot Spare, Hardware Health Monitoring, Scheduled Verify Escalade 8000 Serial ATA Family The Escalade 8000 Serial ATA family includes 8006-2LP, 8500-4, 8500-8, 8500-12, 8506-4LP, 8506-8, 8506-12, 8506-8MI, and 8506-12MI. ■ True Hardware RAID. Low CPU utilization ■ RAID Support. RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD (8006-2LP does not support RAID 5 or RAID 10) ■ Drive Support. Serial ATA 150 (SATA I) drives. Parallel UltraDMA 133 and UltraDMA 100 drives are also supported when using a parallel-toserial converter. ■ Bus Types. ■ 8006-2LP is 64-bit, 66MHz PCI 2.2 compliant ■ 8500-4, 8500-8 and 8500-12 are all PCI 64-bit / 33MHz. ■ 8506-4LP, 8506-8, 8506-12, 8506-8MI, and 8506-12MI are all PCI 64-bit / 66MHz. ■ Management. 3DM Disk Management Utility or 3ware Command Line Interface ■ BIOS. PC99, PnP, BBS Compliant ■ Windows Support. Windows 2000 with SP3 or newer, Windows XP with SP1 or newer, and Windows Server 2003 ■ Linux Support. Redhat, SuSE. (Drivers available in Open Source.) ■ FreeBSD. Version 4.8 ■ Performance. Twinstor, Command Queuing, Elevator Seeking, R5Fusion ■ Field Upgrades. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers 2 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide

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Before You Begin
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3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide
BIOS
. PC99, PnP, BBS Compliant
Windows Support
. Windows 2000 with SP3 or newer, Windows XP with
SP1 or newer, and Windows Server 2003
Linux Support
. Redhat, SuSE. (Drivers available in Open Source.)
FreeBSD.
Version 4.8
Performance
. Twinstor, Command Queuing, Elevator Seeking, R5Fusion
(R5 Fusion is not available on 700x-2)
Field Upgrades
. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers
Data Integrity
. ATA Command Readback, S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring,
Dynamic Sector Repair, Rebuild Pacing, Rebuild Scheduling,
Background Media Scan, Hot Swap, Hot Spare, Hardware Health
Monitoring, Scheduled Verify
Escalade 8000 Serial ATA Family
The Escalade 8000 Serial ATA family includes 8006-2LP, 8500-4, 8500-8,
8500-12, 8506-4LP, 8506-8, 8506-12, 8506-8MI, and 8506-12MI.
True Hardware RAID.
Low CPU utilization
RAID Support.
RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD (8006-2LP does not support
RAID 5 or RAID 10)
Drive Support.
Serial ATA 150 (SATA I) drives. Parallel UltraDMA 133
and UltraDMA 100 drives are also supported when using a parallel-to-
serial converter.
Bus Types
.
8006-2LP is 64-bit, 66MHz PCI 2.2 compliant
8500-4, 8500-8 and 8500-12 are all PCI 64-bit / 33MHz.
8506-4LP, 8506-8, 8506-12, 8506-8MI, and 8506-12MI are all PCI
64-bit / 66MHz.
Management.
3DM Disk Management Utility or 3ware Command Line
Interface
BIOS
. PC99, PnP, BBS Compliant
Windows Support.
Windows 2000 with SP3 or newer, Windows XP with
SP1 or newer, and Windows Server 2003
Linux Support.
Redhat, SuSE. (Drivers available in Open Source.)
FreeBSD.
Version 4.8
Performance.
Twinstor, Command Queuing, Elevator Seeking, R5Fusion
Field Upgrades.
Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers