LSISAS1064E
4-Port PCI Express to 3 Gb/s SAS Controller
The LSISAS1064E is a four-port 3 Gb/s SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) controller that is based on the Fusion-MPT™ (message passing technology) architecture and provides an eight-lane PCI Express interface.
Features
- Supports 8 PCI Express lanes at a transfer rate up to 2.5 Gb/s per lane, full duplex
- Automatically negotiates PCI Express link widths
- Supports x8, x4, x1 link widths
- PCI Express Hot Plug
- Power management support
- PCI Express software is compatible with PCI and PCI-X software
- 4-port SAS/SATA Controller
- Supports 2, 3, or 4-phy wide SAS port configurations
- Supports 1.5 and 3 Gb/s SAS and SATA data transfer rates per port, full duplex
- Port independent auto-negotiation
- Compatible with SATA target devices
- Supports SSP, SMP, STP and SATA protocols
- Supports SGPIO (SFF-8485)
- Flash and local memory support
- 636 EPBGA package
- Integrated RAID support
- Supported by Fusion MPT drivers with full operating system support:
- Windows® 2000, XP, Server 2003
- Linux™
- Novell® Netware®
- Solaris™ SPARC®
- SCO-UnixWare™ and Open Server
Benefits
- Guaranteed interoperability with LSI Logic Expanders
- Unmatched Performance with Fusion MPT architecture
- Based on industry standard ARM technology
- High throughput, low CPU utilization to offload the host processor
- 3 Gb/s bandwidth across SAS interface
- Maximum aggregate bandwidth of up to 4.0 Gbytes (4000 Mbytes/s) on PCI Express
- Time to market reduced with Fusion-MPT architecture
- Common single binary driver for SAS, SCSI and Fibre Channel products
- Thin, easy to develop drivers
- Simpler integration and certification effort
- Low risk mitation
- Leverages existing SCSI infrastructure for investment protection
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