Asus PCI-DA2200 - Manual (Page 9)

2-1 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User’s Manual
Chapter 2 Features
ü Five operating modes:
Non-RAID Disk Spanning
RAID-0 Disk Striping
RAID-1 Disk Mirroring and Striping (RAID 0+1)
RAID-3 Disk Striping with Dedicated Parity
RAID-5 Multiple Block Striping with Interspersed
Parity
ü
Comprehensive failure management including:
§
Automatic bad sector reassignment
§ Hot-swapping
§ Spare drive operation (Supports both Global Spare and Local
Spare)
§ Background rebuilding (Rebuild priority selectable)
§ Verify-after-Write supported on normal writes, rebuild
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