Features; Overview Of Features - Compaq 219700-001 - ProLiant - 1500 Reference Manual

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Features

The Compaq SMART-2DH Array Controller is a dual-channel, 32-bit array
controller with many advanced features. The controller supports all SCSI hard
drives: Wide-Ultra SCSI, Fast-Wide SCSI-2, and Fast-SCSI-2. Included with
the SMART-2DH Array Controller is the Compaq Array Configuration Utility,
which provides easy drive array setup and configuration changes.

Overview of Features

Listed below are some of the features of the SMART-2DH Array Controller
option board:
Support for RAID 0, 1, 4, and 5 fault tolerance options
Online capacity expansion
Supports Wide-Ultra SCSI; a 16-bit, 20-MHz bus providing a 40-
Mbytes/sec data transfer rate
Support for Wide-Ultra SCSI, Fast-Wide SCSI-2, and Fast-SCSI-2
hard drives
Dual channels on a single board to support up to 14 drives (7 per channel)
Wide-Ultra SCSI/Fast-SCSI-2 (Wide SCSI) internal connector
Wide-Ultra SCSI/Fast-SCSI-2 (Wide SCSI) external connector
Removable Array Accelerator - battery-backed 16-MB Read/Write
Cache with ECC (Error Checking and Correcting) memory
Performance monitoring through Compaq Insight Manager
Automatic performance tuning
Pre-failure notification
Read-ahead caching
Tagged command queuing
Multiple logical drives per drive array
Support for drive and array movement
Available in 32-bit PCI Bus Master interface
Writer: Pamela King Project: SMART-2DH Array Controller Reference Guide Comments: 295469-002
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