Features

• Bus Master DMA
• PCI Local Bus, rev 2.1
• Up to 133 MB/s burst rate
• Connects up to 14 narrow SCSI devices or 30 wide SCSI devices
• Performs Ultra Wide SCSI bus transfers in single-ended:
  Fast SCSI (8 bit)
  - 5 MB/s Asynchronous
  (10 MB/s with UltraSCSI)
  - 10 MB/s Synchronous
  (20 MB/s with UltraSCSI)
  Fast and Wide SCSI (16 bit)
  - 10 MB/s Asynchronous
  (20 MB/s with UltraSCSI)
  - 20 MB/s Synchronous
  (40 MB/s with UltraSCSI)
  Maximum SCSI Transfer performance:
  - 80 MB/s Synchronous Ultra Wide SCSI (40 MB/s per channel)
  - 40 MB/s Synchronous Ultra SCSI
  (20 MB/s per channel)
• Initio Inic-950
• Use only one IRQ for both UltraSCSI channels
• ISGE (Hardware Intelligent Scatter/Gather Engine)
• Supports SCAM Level 1
• Provide Serial EEPROM for SCSI Bus Configuration
• ASPI Compliant
• Includes SmartSCSI & Easi-Install
• Supports Dos, Windows 95/98, Windows NT 4.0, 3.51
• Internal IDC 50 pin connector x 2
• Internal High density half pitch 68 pin connector x 2
• External high density Half pitch 50 pin connector

Components

• Bases on INITIO INIC-950 Ultra Wide PCI-SCSI I/O processor
• Provides active terminator

HOST Interface

• PCI 2.1 compliant interface

Form Factor

• Length: 6.69 inch
• Height: 3.93 inch

Disk Array Functions

• Supports RAID levels 0,1,and 10
• Supports Boot from an Array
• Stripe block size of 4KB to 1MByte sectors.
• Hot UnPlug in RAID-1 & RAID-10
• Hot Spare and Hot Fix
• Load Balancing under RAID-0, 1,10
• Uneven striping
• Supports 14 disks per Array
• Supports up to four Arrays per system

Array Management

• Array formatting, initialization, verification and deletion
• Automatic Array Rebuild under RAID-1
• Host Spare assignment
• Array expansion through BIOS utility
• Dynamic Hot Fix
• Auto detect of failure and Audio alert feature

BIOS & Auto Configuration

• Auto Wizard detects the status of an unformatted Array and guides the user
  through Array creation
• Detects failures under RAID-1 and automatically starts rebuild on a Hot Spare
• Allows system to boot from An Array
• Supports Pass through devices
• Password protection function for Array configuration menu
• Turn On/Off of RAID function
• Rescan of SCSI bus
• Host adapter parameter changes such as Auto Termination, Synchronous data
  transfer speed and Parity

Event Viewer

• Polls the controller for failure and status on pre-defined period
• Reports device status changes
• Reports rebuild function
• Allows user to define filtering function for error reports
• Audio level alert for failures

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