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