HP Integrity rx4640 Server - Manual (Page 15)

Board Components and Features
Overview of Controller Features
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Two or four Wide Ultra3 SCSI channels, supporting up to 56 drives (4 channels,
14 drives per channel)
Support for HP ProLiant and Intel ® Itanium TM Processor Family (IPF) Servers
Support for Microsoft ® Windows ® 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Linux, Novell
NetWare 5.x, and NetWare 6 operating systems
Support for the Universal Hot Plug Tape Drive, with storage capacity up to 100
GB and LVD transfer rates up to 12 MB per second
Support for the StorageWorks SAN Access Module
Backward compatibility with Wide Ultra2 devices
Removable array accelerator
64-bit, 66-MHz PCI system interface
Other features supported:
— RAID fault-tolerance (0, 1+0, 5, ADG). Refer to Chapter 8, “Upgrading and
Replacing Options,” for instructions on enabling RAID ADG.
— Online RAID migration between any two levels
— Online array capacity expansion
— Online logical drive capacity extension
— Hot-pluggable hard drives and tape drives
— Drive movement
— Adjustable stripe size
— Performance monitoring through Insight Manager
— S.M.A.R.T. hard drives
— Drive pre-failure notification
— Multiple online spares per array
— Tagged command queuing
— Background initialization
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