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LSI SAS 9201-16i PCI Express to 6Gb/s SAS HBA User Guide
October 2014

Operating System Support

The LSI SAS 2116 controller chip JTAG signals are not connected to the corresponding signals in the PCIe connector.
The following table shows the LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA 5Gb/s PCIe performance.

3.2

SATA + SAS

The LSI SAS 2116 controller chip contains the SATA + SAS functionality for the LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA. The following

table shows the LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA 6 Gb/s SAS performance.

Operating System Support

The LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA supports all major operating systems: Windows®, Linux® Red Hat®, Linux SUSE® Enterprise

Server (SLES), Solaris™, VMware®, and FreeBSD®. Refer to

http://go.lsi.com/hbas

for details on the software versions

and device driver support. For Solaris support, contact the LSI® Technical Support team.

LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA Characteristics

5.1

Flash

The LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA has onboard Flash ROM for the firmware and BIOS. The LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA provides one

x 16-bit Flash ROM for storing the firmware and the BIOS.

5.2

Connectors

This section describes the different connectors on the LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA. See

Figure

for connector locations.

PCIe Connector (EC1). The LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA supports a x8 interface. The PCIe connection is through the edge
connector, EC1, which provides connections on both the top (EC1B) and bottom (EC1A) of the board. The signal
definitions and pin numbers conform to the PCIe specification.

SAS Connectors (J6, J7, J8, and J9). The LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA supports SAS

connections through four connectors

which are SFF-8087 mini-SAS, internal, right-angle connectors.

Table

1 PCIe Aggregate Bandwidth

Lanes

Single Direction

Dual Direction

Single-lane (x1)

5Gb/s

10Gb/s

Quad-lane (x4)

20Gb/s

40Gb/s

Eight-lane (x8)

40Gb/s

80Gb/s

Table

2 6Gb/s SAS Bandwidths

Half Duplex

Full Duplex

Narrow port (one lane), 600MB/s

Narrow port (one lane), 1200MB/s

Wide port (four lanes), 2400MB/s

Wide port (four lanes), 4800MB/s