Operating System; Other Requirements - 3Ware 9550SXU-12 User Manual

Introducing the 3ware® SAS/SATA RAID Controller
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A list of drives that have been tested is available at
http://www.3ware.com/products/sys_compatibility.asp
Drives may be of any capacity or physical form factor.
The length of internal unshielded interface cables may not exceed 1M (39")
and a maximum of 6M (234") for external shielded cables.
Enclosure Requirements
For 9690SA controllers, enclosure management features in 3ware software
are available for supported enclosures with expanders that provide SCSI
Enclosure Services 2 (SES-2).
For 9650SE controllers, enclosure support is CCU-based with SAF-TE (SCSI
Accessed Fault Tolerant Enclosure).
A list of supported enclosures is available at
http://www.3ware.com/products/sys_compatibility.asp
Cascading of enclosures is limited to 4 enclosures based on the same
expander. Enclosures may contain cascaded expanders internally.

Operating System

3ware RAID controllers may be used with:
• Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, 2008, and Vista, both 32-bit and 64-
bit x86
• Red Hat Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit x86
• SuSE Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit x86
• Fedora Core, 32-bit and 64-bit x86
• Other versions of Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit x86, using the open source
Linux 2.4 or 2.6 kernel driver
• FreeBSD, 32-bit and 64-bit x86
• VMware ESX 3.x Server
For the latest driver versions for all operating systems, see the current Release
Notes at http://www.3ware.com/support/.

Other Requirements

• Adequate air flow and cooling
• Adequate power supply for drives
• 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) displays information in a browser. It
requires one of the following browsers:
• Internet Explorer 5.5 and later
• Mozilla Firefox 1.2 and later
• Netscape 7 and later
3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1