L8I Uio Card; Figure 1-5 L8I Uio Raid Controller - Silicon Graphics Altix XE250 User Manual

L8i UIO Card

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The AOC-USASLP-L8i UIO card (refer to
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and uses the LSI LSISAS1068E SAS controller. The SAS controller is an eight-port, 3.0-Gb/s
SATA/SAS controller that is compliant with the Fusion-MPT
architecture, provides an eight-lane PCI Express interface, and supports Integrated RAID
technology.
RAID volumes can be created using the LSI SAS BIOS configuration utility. When BIOS loads
during boot and you see the message about the LSI configuration utility, press Ctrl-C to start the
configuration utility.
The LSI Logic MPT configuration utility included in SGI ProPack
be used to manage your RAID when booted into the OS. To start the configuration utility and
select the SAS controller, enter lsiutil. For additional help, enter lsiutil -h.
Note: Refer to the LSI Integrated SAS for RAID User's Guide, SGI publication number
860-0476-001for more information about configuring RAID on the SGI Altix XE250 server.
Figure 1-5 L8i UIO RAID Controller
Figure 1-5) supports RAID 0, 1, (and JBOD volumes)
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System Disks
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5 for Linux (or higher) can
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