Sas-3 Interface; Led Management; Operating System Support; Lsi Sas 9300-8I Hba Characteristics - LSI SAS 9300-8i User Manual

LSI SAS 9300-8i PCI Express to 12Gb/s SAS Host Bus Adapter User Guide
March 2013
3.2

SAS-3 Interface

The LSI SAS 3008 controller chip contains the SATA+SAS functionality for the LSI 12Gb/s SAS HBA. The following table
shows the LSI SAS 12Gb/s SAS performance.
Half Duplex
Narrow port (one lane), 1200 MB/s Narrow port (one lane), 2400 MB/s
Wide port (four lanes), 4800 MB/s
3.3

LED Management

The LSI 12Gb/s SAS HBA offers LED management support for your backplane implementation. This configuration
option lets you use the LSI 12Gb/s SAS HBA with backplanes configured for the SGPIO interface. The LSI 12Gb/s SAS
HBA is in accordance with SFF-8485: Specification for Serial GPIO (SGPIO) Bus, Revision 0.7.
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Operating System Support

The LSI 12Gb/s SAS HBA supports all major operating systems: Windows
Server (SLES), Solaris
the software versions and device driver support. For Solaris support, contact the LSI Technical Support team.
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LSI SAS 9300-8i HBA Characteristics

5.1

Memory

The LSI 12Gb/s SAS HBA provides one 4-M × 16-bit Flash ROM to store the firmware and the BIOS.
5.2

LED

The LSI 12Gb/s SAS HBA Heartbeat LED, CR1, blinks green to indicate the HBA is capable of general activity.
5.3

Connectors

PCIe Connector (EC1). The LSI 12Gb/s SAS HBA supports a x8 interface. The PCIe host interface connection is through
the edge connector, EC1, which provides connections on both the top (EC1 B) and bottom (EC1 A) of the board. The
signal definitions and pin numbers conform to the PCIe specification.
Wide port (four lanes), 9600 MB/s
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NOTE The LSI 12Gb/s SAS HBA supports the Solaris 10 operating system, and
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Oracle
required. For more information on the Oracle Solaris 10 driver and
installation, sign in at the following Oracle link.
https://support.oracle.com/
Contact Oracle support for Oracle driver or software support.
Full Duplex
http://www.lsi.com/support/products/Pages/default.aspx
provides a built-in driver; installation of an LSI driver is not
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