Host LUN Geometry

1. Capacity <64GB: Head=63, Sector=32, Cylinder=?

User Configurable Default

 

(depends on capacity)

Geometry:

2.

64GB<capacity<128GB:Head=64, Sector=64,

 

 

Cylinder=? (depends on capacity)

 

3.

128GB<capacity<256GB: Head=127, Sector=64,

 

 

Cylinder=? (depends on capacity)

 

4.

256GB<capacity<512GB: Head=127, Sector=127,

 

 

Cylinder=?

 

5.

512GB<capacity<1TB: Head=255, Sector=64,

 

 

Cylinder=? (depends on capacity)

 

6. 1TB<capacity: Head=225, Sector=225, Cylinder=?

 

 

(depends on capacity)

User Configurable

Sector: 32, 64, 127, 255 or Variable

Geometry range:

Head: 64, 127, 255 or Variable

 

Cylinder: <1024, <32784,<65536 or Variable

Drive Motor Spin-up

Supported. The controller will send spin-up (start unit)

 

command to each drive at the 4 sec. intervals.

 

 

Drive-side Tag Command

Supported. User adjustable up to 128 for each drive

Queue

 

 

Host-side Maximum

User adjustable up to 1024

Queued I/O count

 

 

 

 

Maximum concurrent Host

User adjustable up to 64

LUN connection

 

 

Number of Tags Reserved

User adjustable up to 256

for each Host-LUN

 

 

connection

 

 

Controller/Logical Drive

Turns controller or specific logical drive into a state that

Shutdown

does not receive I/Os. This function is available

 

through OEM “iappend” program.

Drive I/O timeout

User adjustable

 

 

IO channel diagnostics

Supported

 

 

Drive Roaming

Supported

 

 

 

Caching Operation:

 

 

Write-back Cache

Supported.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Write-through Cache

Supported.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supported Memory type

SDRAM memory for enhanced performance

 

 

 

 

 

Fast Page Memory with Parity for enhanced data

 

 

 

 

 

security

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read-ahead Operation

Intelligent Dynamic read-ahead operation for

 

 

 

 

 

sequential data accessing

 

 

 

 

 

Multi-Threaded Operation

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scatter / Gather

Supported

 

 

 

 

 

 

I/O sorting

Supported. Optimized I/O sorting for enhanced

 

 

 

 

 

performance

 

 

 

 

 

 

Variable Stripe Size

 

 

Opt. for Sequential

Opt. for

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I/O

Random I/O

 

 

 

 

 

RAID0

 

128

32

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Firmware

 

Functionality Specifications

 

 

 

B-3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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