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PCI Express to 6Gb/s Serial Attach SCSI (SAS) Host Bus Adapters User Guide
June 2012
Power management.
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Supports PCI Power Management 1.2
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Supports active-state power management (ASPM), including the L0, L0s, and L1 states, by placing links in a
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power-saving mode when there is no link activity
A replay buffer that preserves a copy of the data for retransmission in case a cyclic redundancy check (CRC)
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error occurs.
PCIe advanced error-reporting capabilities.
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Packetized and layered architecture.
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High bandwidth per pin with low overhead and low latency.
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Software compatibility with PCI and PCI-X software.
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Leverages existing PCI device drivers
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Supports the memory, I/O, and configuration address spaces
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Supports memory read/write transactions, I/O read/write transactions, and configuration read/write
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transactions
4 KB of PCI configuration address space per device.
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Posted transactions and nonposted transactions.
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Quality-of-service (QOS) link configuration and arbitration policies.
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Traffic Class 0 and one virtual channel.
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Message-signaled interrupts (both MSI and MSI-X), as well as INTx interrupt signaling for legacy PCI support.
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End-to-end CRC (ECRC) and advanced error reporting.
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Software

The LSI 6Gb/s HBAs support all major operating systems: Windows®, Linux® Red Hat®, SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
(SLES®), Solaris, VMware®, and FreeBSD®. Refer to
on the software versions and device driver support.
NOTE The LSI 6Gb/s HBAs support Solaris 10 and Oracle® provides a built-in driver; installation of an LSI driver
is not required. For more information on the Oracle Solaris 10 driver and installation, sign in at the following
Oracle link.
Contact Oracle support for Oracle driver or software support.
http://www.lsi.com/support/products/Pages/default.aspx
https://support.oracle.com/
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