HP 5300 - Manual (Page 16)

Board Components and Features
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Overview of Controller Features
• Two or four Wide Ultra3 SCSI channels, supporting up to 56 drives (4 channels,
14 drives per channel)
• 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 9 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
— Multiple logical drives per array