Chapter 1: Introduction to the LSI MegaRAID Software Utility

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