Chapter 3

SATA 150 Storage Adapter

Characteristics

This chapter describes the characteristics of the MegaRAID SATA 150 PCI to Serial ATA storage adapters. The chapter includes these topics:

•Section 3.1, “MegaRAID PCI to Serial ATA Storage Adapters”

•Section 3.2, “Physical and Environmental Specifications”

3.1MegaRAID PCI to Serial ATA Storage Adapters

The MegaRAID SATA 150 storage adapters conform to the PCI Local Bus Specification, Revision 2.2, and are backward compatible with previous revisions of the PCI specification. The adapters also support the Serial ATA Specification, Version 1.0. The SATA 150-4 and SATA 150-6 storage adapters have an Intel 80302 processor that provides intelligent RAID management capability.

Table 3.1 lists the MegaRAID SATA 150 storage adapters and summarizes the characteristics of each board.

Table 3.1

MegaRAID SATA 150 Characteristics

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adapter

Ports

RAID Modes

PCI Bus Mode

Board Dimensions

 

 

 

 

 

SATA 150-6

6

0, 1, 5, 10, and 50

64 bits, 66 MHz

6.875 x 4.2 inches

 

 

 

 

(174.63 ⋅ 106.68 mm)

 

 

 

 

 

SATA 150-4

4

0, 1, 5, and 10

64 bits, 66 MHz

6.875 x 4.2 inches

 

 

 

 

(174.63 ⋅ 106.68 mm)

 

 

 

 

 

SATA 150-2

2

0 and 1

32 bits, 66 MHz

6.6 ⋅ 2.53 inches

 

 

 

 

(167.6 ⋅ 64.3 mm)

 

 

 

 

 

The following sections have detailed descriptions of each SATA 150 storage adapter.

MegaRAID SATA 150 Storage Adapters User’s Guide

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