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LSI SAS 9300-16i PCI Express to 12Gb/s SAS Host Bus Adapter User Guide
August 2014
Operating System Support
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
®
, Linux
®
Red Hat
®
, Linux SUSE
®
Enterprise
Server (SLES), Solaris
®
, and VMware
®
. Refer to
for details on the software versions and device
driver support. For Solaris support, contact the LSI Technical Support team.
NOTE
The LSI 12Gb/s SAS HBA also supports the Solaris 10 Update 11 and
Solaris 11 Update 1 operating systems. Oracle
®
provides a built-in
driver, LSI does not provide an additional LSI driver installation for
Solaris operating systems. For more information on the Oracle Solaris
driver and installation, sign in at the following Oracle link.
Contact Oracle support for Oracle driver or software support.
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LSI SAS 9300-16i HBA Characteristics
5.1
Memory
The LSI 12Gb/s SAS HBA provides two 4-M × 16-bit Flash ROMs to store the firmware and the BIOS.
5.2
LED
The LSI 12Gb/s SAS HBA Heartbeat LEDs, LED1 and LED2, blink green to indicate the HBA is capable of general activity.
5.3
Connectors
PCIe Connector (J12). The LSI 12Gb/s SAS HBA supports a x8 interface. The PCIe host interface connection is through
the edge connector, J12, which provides connections on both the top (J12 B) and bottom (J12 A) of the board. The
signal definitions and pin numbers conform to the PCIe specification.
SATA+SAS Connector (J7). The LSI 12Gb/s SAS HBA supports SATA and SAS connectors through connectors that are
SFF-8643 mini-SAS HD, internal connectors.
Auxiliary Power Connector (J10). The LSI 12Gb/s SAS HBA provides a 6-pin PCIe power connector.
Half Duplex
Full Duplex
Narrow port (one lane), 1200 MB/s Narrow port (one lane), 2400 MB/s
Wide port (four lanes), 4800 MB/s
Wide port (four lanes), 9600 MB/s