SAS 5/iR Features

This section provides the specifications of Dell™ Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) 5/iR controller. The following table compares the specifications of the SAS 5/iR Adapter and SAS 5/iR Integrated.

Table 2-1. Specifications of SAS 5/iR

Specification

SAS 5/iR Adapter

SAS 5/iR Integrated

 

 

 

SAS technology

Yes

Yes

 

 

 

Support for x4, x8, or x16 PCI

Yes

Yes

Express Host Interface

 

 

 

 

 

Form Factor

Standard-Height, Half-Length PCI

N/A

Adapter

 

 

 

 

 

I/O controller (IOC)

LSI SAS 1068

LSI SAS 1068

 

 

Core Speed: 255 MHz

Core Speed: 255 MHz

 

 

 

 

Operating voltage requirements

+12V, +3.3V, +3.3Vaux

+12V, +3.3V, +3.3Vaux

 

 

 

Communication to the system

PCI-E lanes

System dependent

 

 

 

Communication to end devices

SAS Links

SAS Links

 

 

 

SAS Connectors

1 x4 Internal

1 x4 Internal

 

 

 

Lead Free

Yes

Yes

 

 

 

 

Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

 

and Windows Server® 2003 Family,

and Windows Server® 2003

 

Windows XP, Windows Vista™,

Family, Windows XP,

Supported operating systems

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux

Windows Vista, Red Hat

 

Versions 3, 4, and 5, SUSE® Linux

Enterprise Linux Versions 3, 4,

 

Enterprise Server Versions 9 and 10.

and 5, SUSE Linux Enterprise

 

 

Server Versions 9 and 10.

 

 

 

Windows Miniport Interface

Storport, SCSIport (Windows 2000

Storport, SCSIport (Windows

 

and XP 32-bit only)

2000 and XP 32-bit only)

 

 

 

Supported drivers for Linux

Yes

Yes

 

 

 

Dell-compliant SAS and SATA

Yes

Yes

compatibility

 

 

 

 

 

Dell supported direct connected

Dell-compliant physical disks

Dell-compliant physical disks

end devices

 

 

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Dell UCS-51 manual SAS 5/iR Features