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1-6

Overview

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1.2.5

Drive Migration

Drive migration is the transfer of a set of hard drives in an existing
configuration from one controller to a blank controller. The drives must
be reinstalled in the same order as in the original configuration.

Important:

Do not perform drive roaming and drive migration at the
same time.

1.3

Hardware

You can install the MegaRAID 320-1 and 320-2 boards in a computer
with a mainboard that has 5 V or 3.3 V, 32- or 64-bit PCI slots, the
MegaRAID 320-2X and -4X in 3.3 V, 64-bit PCI or PCI-X slots, and the
MegaRAID 320-2E in 3.3 V PCI-Express slots.

The following subsection describes the hardware configuration features
for the MegaRAID 320 Storage Adapters.

Storage Adapter Features

Table 1.1

compares the configurations

for the MegaRAID 320-1, 320-2, 320-2E, 320-2X, and 320-4X Storage
Adapters.

Table 1.1

MegaRAID 320 Storage Adapter Comparisons

Specification

MegaRAID
320-1

MegaRAID
320-2

MegaRAID
320-2E

MegaRAID
320-2X

MegaRAID
320-4X

RAID Levels

0, 1, 5, 10, 50

0, 1, 5, 10, 50

0, 1, 5, 10, 50

0, 1, 5, 10, 50

0, 1, 5, 10, 50

SCSI Device
Types

Synchronous or
Asynchronous

Synchronous or
Asynchronous

Synchronous or
Asynchronous

Synchronous or
Asynchronous

Synchronous or
Asynchronous

Devices per
SCSI Channel

Up to 15 Wide
SCSI devices

Up to 15 Wide
SCSI devices

Up to 15 Wide
SCSI devices

Up to 15 Wide
SCSI devices

Up to 15 Wide
SCSI devices

SCSI Channels 1

2

2

2

4

SCSI Data
Transfer Rate

Up to
320 Mbytes/s
per channel

Up to
320 Mbytes/s
per channel

Up to
320 Mbytes/s
per channel

Up to
320 Mbytes/s
per channel

Up to
320 Mbytes/s
per channel

SCSI Bus

LVD or SE

LVD or SE

LVD or SE

LVD or SE

LVD or SE