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LSI SAS 9311-8i PCI Express to 12Gb/s SAS HBA User Guide
December 2013
3.2 SAS-3 Interface
The LSI SAS 3008 controller chip contains the SATA+SAS functionality for the LSI 12Gb/s SAS HBA. The following table
shows the LSI SAS 12Gb/s SAS performance.
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.
4 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 http://www.lsi.com/support/products/Pages/default.aspx 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 supports the Solaris 10 operating system, 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.
https://support.oracle.com/
Contact Oracle support for Oracle driver or software support.
5 LSI SAS 9311-8i HBA Characteristics
5.1 Memory
The LSI 12Gb/s SAS HBA provides one 4-M × 16-bit Flash ROM to store the firmware and the BIOS. The LSI 12Gb/s SAS
HBA can provide up to 32 K × 8-bit NVSRAM for storing nonvolatile RAID information when a system failure occurs or
to reflash the board to run IR firmware.
5.2 LED
The LSI 12Gb/s SAS HBA Heartbeat LED, CR1, blinks green to indicate the HBA is capable of general activity.
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