LSISAS1068
PCI-X to 8-Port, 3Gb/s SAS Controller
The LSISAS1068 controller provides 1.5 and 3Gb/s data transfer rates per port and enables integrated RAID solutions in storage environments including servers, workstations and blade servers.
Features
- 8-port SAS/SATA controller
- Supports 2, 3, or 4-phy wide SAS port configurations
- 1.5 and 3Gb/s SAS and SATA data transfer rates per port, full duplex
- Port independent auto-negotiation
- Supports SSP, SMP, STP, and SATA protocols
- Point to point SAS/SATA drive connection
- Independent power states per port
- Supports SATA II
- Staggered spin-up
- Hot Plug
- Native Command Queuing
- Activity and fault indicators per phy
- Port Selector (for dual-port drives)
- 64 bit, 133 MHz PCI-X host interface
- Backward compatible with 33/66 MHz PCI
- Supports 3.3V signaling levels
- Hot plug/hot swap support
- PCI power management
- (D0, D3hot, D3cold)
- Interrupt Coalescing
- Supports SGPIO (SFF-8485)
- Flash and local memory interface
- 636 EPBGA package
- Integrated RAID and Zero Channel RAID support
- Supported by Fusion MPT drivers with full operating system support:
- Windows® 2000, XP, Server 2003
- Linux™
- Solaris SPARC
- SCO - UnixWare™ and Open Server
- Novell® NetWare®
Benefits
- Unmatched performance with Fusion-MPT™ architecture
- Based on industry standard ARM® technology
- High throughput, low CPU utilization to offload the host processor
- 3Gb/s bandwidth across SAS interface
- 1066 MB/s bandwidth on PCI-X
- Time to market reduced with Fusion-MPT™ architecture
- Same single driver binary for SAS, SCSI, and Fibre Channel products
- Thin, easy to develop drivers
- Simpler integration and certification effort
- Low risk mitigation
- Leverages existing SCSI infrastructure for investment protection
- Guaranteed interoperability with LSI SAS expanders
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