SUPER MICRO Computer LSI 2108/2208 user manual Functions of the LSI MegaRAID Utility

Chapter 1: Introduction to the LSI MegaRAID Software Utility

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Functions of the LSI MegaRAID Utility

Support for BIOS Boot Specification (BBS) (if supported by the system BIOS)

Support for Enhanced Disk Drive Specification

Support for Enable/Disable BIOS Boot

•Support for Hot-plug and Hot Auto Rebuild (during a hot plug event and the physical drive is forced off-line)

Drive Features Supported by the LSI MegaRAID Utility

The following drive features are supported by the LSI MegaRAID Software utility:

•Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 50 and RAID 60

•Online mirror rebuilding

•Online consistency checking

•Array system management

•Error logging and notification

•Automatic resume of rebuilding on restart

•Support for manual rebuilding

•Auto-configuration support of newly-added physical drive

•Support for global hotspare

•Array initialization support

•Logical drive available immediately after creation

•Stripe size of 1024 KB supported

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