3Ware 9550SXU-12 User Guide - Page 16

Introducing the 3ware® SAS/SATA RAID Controller A list of drives that have been tested is available at http://www.3ware.com/products/sys_compatibility.asp Drives may be of any capacity or physical form factor. The length of internal unshielded interface cables may not exceed 1M (39") and a maximum of 6M (234") for external shielded cables. Enclosure Requirements For 9690SA controllers, enclosure management features in 3ware software are available for supported enclosures with expanders that provide SCSI Enclosure Services 2 (SES-2). For 9650SE controllers, enclosure support is CCU-based with SAF-TE (SCSI Accessed Fault Tolerant Enclosure). A list of supported enclosures is available at http://www.3ware.com/products/sys_compatibility.asp Cascading of enclosures is limited to 4 enclosures based on the same expander. Enclosures may contain cascaded expanders internally. Operating System 3ware RAID controllers may be used with: • Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, 2008, and Vista, both 32-bit and 64- bit x86 • Red Hat Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit x86 • SuSE Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit x86 • Fedora Core, 32-bit and 64-bit x86 • Other versions of Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit x86, using the open source Linux 2.4 or 2.6 kernel driver • FreeBSD, 32-bit and 64-bit x86 • VMware ESX 3.x Server For the latest driver versions for all operating systems, see the current Release Notes at http://www.3ware.com/support/. Other Requirements • Adequate air flow and cooling • Adequate power supply for drives • 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) displays information in a browser. It requires one of the following browsers: • Internet Explorer 5.5 and later • Mozilla Firefox 1.2 and later • Netscape 7 and later 4 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1