Chapter 2 Features - Asus PCI-DA2200 User Manual

Chapter 2
ü Five operating modes:
Non-RAID
RAID-0
RAID-1
RAID-3
RAID-5
Parity
ü Comprehensive failure management including:
Automatic bad sector reassignment
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Hot-swapping
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Spare drive operation (Supports both Global Spare and Local
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Spare)
Background rebuilding (Rebuild priority selectable)
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Verify-after-Write supported on normal writes, rebuild
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writes and/or RAID initialization writes
ü PCI Rev. 2.1 compliant
ü PCI form factor: 9.21"(L) x 4.2"(W)
ü Supports up to 15 SCSI drives per channel
ü Up to 8 logical drives, each with independent RAID modes
ü Up to 8 partitions per logical drive
ü Number of drives for each logical drive has no limitation
ü Dynamic mapping of LUNs to logical drives
ü Concurrent/Background logical drive initialization
ü Performance optimization for Sequential or Random I/O
ü Allows multiple drive failure and concurrent multiple drive
rebuild of a RAID (0+1) logical drive
ü Configuration of individual SCSI target parameters
ü Prior to first disk access, it allows adjustment of delay time
during controller initialization to enhance compatibility with
slow-initial drives
ü All channels are Ultra2-Wide-SCSI (downward compatible to
SCSI-1)
ü Compatible and will automatically match any SCSI hard disks
with SCSI-1, SCSI-2 or (Ultra)-Wide-SCSI (1 or 2) specification
ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual
Features
Disk Spanning
Disk Striping
Disk Mirroring and Striping (RAID 0+1)
Disk Striping with Dedicated Parity
Multiple Block Striping with Interspersed
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