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System Requirements

The table below lists the limited support for the Intel C600 chipset families due to the well-known ISCI (Intel SAS Driver) driver issue on Linux platform. (https://github.com/Xilinx/linux-xlnx/commits/master/drivers/scsi/isci?page=1)

OS

Feature support

Comments

 

Limited support for some ATA

 

RHEL 5.7 and later

commands including Secure Erase, Set Max

 

 

Address, and FW Update

 

 

 

 

 

Limited support for some ATA commands

 

RHEL 6.1 and 6.2

including Secure Erase, Set Max Address,

 

 

and FW Update

 

 

 

 

 

Limited support for some ATA commands

http://sourceforge.n

 

including Secure Erase, Set Max Address,

et/projects/intel-

RHEL 6.3

and FW Update. But it can be fully

sas/files/RHEL6.3%

 

supported when patched with ISCI 1.4 for

20Driver%20Update

 

RHEL 6.3 (refer to comments on the right)

%20v1.4.1/

 

 

 

RHEL 6.4 and later

Full support

 

 

 

 

*Support for C600 chipsets has been determined by evaluations and tests in the major part, and the ISCI driver code analysis. On Linux systems, the tool must run with root privileges. This can be done through either sudo or su commands. On Marvell controller, the features of Samsung SSD DC Toolkit may not work properly after hot plugging. Samsung SSD DC Toolkit must be run with administrator privilege.

Known Issues specific to Linux

Set Max Address and Secure Erase require a power cycle of SSD

Set Max Address may not work on some Ubuntu distributions due to libATA restrictions

The following operations are supported for SSDs when connected through the LSI HBA cards. LSI HBA latest bios using is recommended for proper operation:

List, Firmware Update, Secure Erase, SMART, Set Max, Disk Information, Command History, and help features only.

SMART Self-Test may not work for SSDs when connected through the LSI MegaRAID cards because of MegaRAID time out issue.

The following operations are strongly recommended for RAID reconfiguration after command sending because of RAID information broken.

Firmware Update, Secure Erase, Set Max

In case of NVME device, Vendor unique (such as FA log) features may not work for SSDs in Linux kernel 4.2 or later.

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MZ-7LM480NE, MZ-7LM1T9NE, MZ-7LM960NE specifications

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