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features that are being attached. Special cabling is required for multi-initiator and high
availability configurations. See Serial-attached SCSI cable planning
Voltage
3.3V
Form factor
Long
Maximum number
See PCI adapter placement.
Attributes
v SAS speed: 3 Gbps
v SAS, SAS Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP), and Serial Management Protocol (SMP) supported
v Single controller supported with SAS y cables (3692, 3693, 3694)
v Dual controller supported with SAS x cables (3661, 3662, 3663) and SAS 2:6 cable (3681, 3682)
v Single controller supports mirrored write cache data with auxiliary cache
v Dual controller supports mirrored-write cache data and mirrored-RAID parity footprints
between card sets
v Removable media devices are not supported
Operating system or partition requirements
This adapter is supported for the following operating systems:
v AIX:
– AIX 5L Version 5.3 with the 5300-07 Technology Level and Service Pack 8, or later
– AIX 5L Version 5.3 with the 5300-08 Technology Level and Service Pack 6, or later
– AIX 5L Version 5.3 with the 5300-09 Technology Level and Service Pack 2, or later
– AIX 5L Version 5.3 with the 5300-10 Technology Level, or later
– AIX 6.1 and Service Pack 8, or later
– AIX Version 6.1 with the 6100-01 Technology Level and Service Pack 4, or later
– AIX 6.1 with the 6100-02 Technology Level and Service Pack 3, or later
– AIX 6.1 with the 6100-03 Technology Level, or later
v Linux:
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4, with update 7, or later
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5, with update 2, or later
– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, with service pack 2, or later
v IBM i
– IBM i V5R4M5 and Resave F, or later
– IBM i 6.1 and Resave F, or later
This adapter requires the following device drivers:
v AIX: devices.pci.1410bd02 device driver package
v Linux:
– iprutils version 2.4.1 and ipr driver version 2.0.11.6 (or newer) for RHEL4 kernels
– iprutils version 2.4.1 and ipr driver version 2.2.0.2 (or newer) for RHEL5 kernels
– iprutils version 2.4.1 and ipr driver version 2.2.0.2 (or newer) for SLES10 kernels
If you are installing a new feature, ensure that you have the software that is required to support the new
feature and that you determine whether there are any prerequisites for this feature and attaching devices.
To check for the prerequisites, see IBM Prerequisite website (www-912.ibm.com/e_dir/eServerPrereq.nsf).
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Managing PCI adapters