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N2115 SAS/SATA HBA for IBM System x Hardware User's Guide
March 2013
3.2

SAS Interface

The LSI SAS 2308 controller chip contains the SATA + SAS functionality for the HBA. The following table shows the HBA
6 Gb/s SAS performance.
Table 1 6 Gb/s SAS Bandwidths
Narrow port (one lane), 600 MB/s
Wide port (four lanes), 2400 MB/s
4

Operating System Support

The HBA supports the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server, SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server (SLES), and VMware.
Refer to: http://www.ibm.com/systems/info/x86servers/serverproven/compat/us/xseries/controllers/matrix.html
for details on the software versions and device driver support.
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N2115 SAS/SATA HBA for IBM System x Characteristics

5.1

Flash

The HBA has integrated Flash ROM for the firmware and BIOS. The HBA provides one 4 M x 16-bit Flash ROM for
storing the firmware and BIOS.
5.2

LED

The HBA Heartbeat LED, CR1, flashes green to indicate that the HBA is capable of general activity.
Half Duplex Full Duplex
Narrow port (one lane), 1200 MB/s
Wide port (four lanes), 4800 MB/s
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