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... Technical Product Specification 3 Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L Contents 1 Introduction ...5 1.1 Acronyms ...5 1.2 Documentation Conventions 6 1.3 Product Overview 6 1.4 Operating System Support 6 1.5 List of Features...6 2 Hardware ...8 2.1 Physical Layout ...8 2.2 Major Components 8 2.2.1 Intel® 80303® Intelligent I/O Processor 8 2.2.2 Intel® Smart 3 FlashFile™ Flash Memory 9 2.2.3 SDRAM (Cache 9 2.2.4 SATA Controllers 9 2.2.5 Audible Alarm 9 2.2.6 SATA Connectors 10 2.2.7 PCI Interface 10 2.2.8 SRCS14L Jumpers 10 2.2.9 Diagnostic...
... Technical Product Specification 3 Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L Contents 1 Introduction ...5 1.1 Acronyms ...5 1.2 Documentation Conventions 6 1.3 Product Overview 6 1.4 Operating System Support 6 1.5 List of Features...6 2 Hardware ...8 2.1 Physical Layout ...8 2.2 Major Components 8 2.2.1 Intel® 80303® Intelligent I/O Processor 8 2.2.2 Intel® Smart 3 FlashFile™ Flash Memory 9 2.2.3 SDRAM (Cache 9 2.2.4 SATA Controllers 9 2.2.5 Audible Alarm 9 2.2.6 SATA Connectors 10 2.2.7 PCI Interface 10 2.2.8 SRCS14L Jumpers 10 2.2.9 Diagnostic...
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...Code (also error correcting code and error correcting circuits) Flash Recovery Utility Flash Update Utility Firmware Gigabit Gigabyte Host Bus Adapter Intel Integrated RAID Kilobit Kilobyte Low Voltage Differential SCSI Megabit Megabyte Printed Circuit Board Peripheral Component Interconnect Redundant ...device type. Single Connector Attachment - 80-pin SCSI connector on hot-swappable SE and LVD hard disks. Introduction Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L 1 1.1 Acronyms The following acronyms may be used throughout this document. Common Acronyms (Sheet 1 of Independent Disks...
...Code (also error correcting code and error correcting circuits) Flash Recovery Utility Flash Update Utility Firmware Gigabit Gigabyte Host Bus Adapter Intel Integrated RAID Kilobit Kilobyte Low Voltage Differential SCSI Megabit Megabyte Printed Circuit Board Peripheral Component Interconnect Redundant ...device type. Single Connector Attachment - 80-pin SCSI connector on hot-swappable SE and LVD hard disks. Introduction Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L 1 1.1 Acronyms The following acronyms may be used throughout this document. Common Acronyms (Sheet 1 of Independent Disks...
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... can be accessed for more information. Technical Product Specification 9 Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L 2.2.1.1 2.2.1.2 2.2.1.3 2.2.2 2.2.3 2.2.4 2.2.5 Processor Core The 80303 uses the 80960JT-100 core. It is online. SATA Controllers The SRCS14L has two Silicon Image Sil3112A SATA controllers, which each control two serial ports (four ports total). For normal firmware updates, place the jumper on pins 1 and 2. See Figure...
... can be accessed for more information. Technical Product Specification 9 Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L 2.2.1.1 2.2.1.2 2.2.1.3 2.2.2 2.2.3 2.2.4 2.2.5 Processor Core The 80303 uses the 80960JT-100 core. It is online. SATA Controllers The SRCS14L has two Silicon Image Sil3112A SATA controllers, which each control two serial ports (four ports total). For normal firmware updates, place the jumper on pins 1 and 2. See Figure...
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... comes ready to : • Reprogram the RAID firmware that is located in a 64-bit/66MHz PCI expansion slot; Figure 2. The controller is PCI 2.2 compliant. For jumper locations and settings, see Table 2: Controller Jumper Settings and Figure 2: Jumper Settings and Pin Numbers. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L 2.2.6 SATA Connectors The SRCS14L provides four SATA signal connectors. 2.2.7 PCI Interface The...
... comes ready to : • Reprogram the RAID firmware that is located in a 64-bit/66MHz PCI expansion slot; Figure 2. The controller is PCI 2.2 compliant. For jumper locations and settings, see Table 2: Controller Jumper Settings and Figure 2: Jumper Settings and Pin Numbers. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L 2.2.6 SATA Connectors The SRCS14L provides four SATA signal connectors. 2.2.7 PCI Interface The...
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...- Indicates activity on pins 1-2 to 33 MHz. When illuminated, PCI bus frequency is forced to enable this jumper in reset mode with firmware recovery enabled. IOP is in the default position (pins 2-3 to auto-negotiate 33/66 Mhz) unless instructed to do otherwise by customer support...yellow Table 3. IOP mode select jumper block: This jumper is corrupted and needs to be programmed to the controller's cache memory. Indicates activity on . J1 - Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L Table 2. PCI bus auto-negotiates 33 MHz or 66 MHz. This is only necessary if the content ...
...- Indicates activity on pins 1-2 to 33 MHz. When illuminated, PCI bus frequency is forced to enable this jumper in reset mode with firmware recovery enabled. IOP is in the default position (pins 2-3 to auto-negotiate 33/66 Mhz) unless instructed to do otherwise by customer support...yellow Table 3. IOP mode select jumper block: This jumper is corrupted and needs to be programmed to the controller's cache memory. Indicates activity on . J1 - Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L Table 2. PCI bus auto-negotiates 33 MHz or 66 MHz. This is only necessary if the content ...
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.... 12 Technical Product Specification Beep Sequences Beep Sequence Meaning beep - pause - beep, beep - beep, beep - A possible cause is disk failure. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L Table 4. pause - .... More details may have a problem. To diagnose the problem, run the Storage Console to recover the firmware as described in Appendix A of the RAID controller beep, beep, beep, beep, ....
.... 12 Technical Product Specification Beep Sequences Beep Sequence Meaning beep - pause - beep, beep - beep, beep - A possible cause is disk failure. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L Table 4. pause - .... More details may have a problem. To diagnose the problem, run the Storage Console to recover the firmware as described in Appendix A of the RAID controller beep, beep, beep, beep, ....
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Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L 2.3 Architecture Features (HW) Table 5. Electrical Specifications Attribute Voltage Requirements Power Consumption Measurements +3.3 or +5 Volts (all +/- 5% tolerance) +5 Volts @ 0.25 Amps = 1.25W +3.3 Volts @ 2.5 Amps = 8....Flash Memory I/O interface (PCI) PCI Transfer Rate PCI Signaling SATA controllers The 80303 processor: 100MHz, RISC 64-bit core 3.3V unbuffered, PC100, ECC SDRAM. 64MB embedded not upgradeable 3.3v, 32Mb (4MB) flash memory chip is used to store the RAID firmware PCI 2.2 compliant, universally keyed for 3.3 and 5 volt PCI ...
Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L 2.3 Architecture Features (HW) Table 5. Electrical Specifications Attribute Voltage Requirements Power Consumption Measurements +3.3 or +5 Volts (all +/- 5% tolerance) +5 Volts @ 0.25 Amps = 1.25W +3.3 Volts @ 2.5 Amps = 8....Flash Memory I/O interface (PCI) PCI Transfer Rate PCI Signaling SATA controllers The 80303 processor: 100MHz, RISC 64-bit core 3.3V unbuffered, PC100, ECC SDRAM. 64MB embedded not upgradeable 3.3v, 32Mb (4MB) flash memory chip is used to store the RAID firmware PCI 2.2 compliant, universally keyed for 3.3 and 5 volt PCI ...
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... of two major component groupings: the RAID firmware embedded in the Flash memory and a set of host resident drivers and utilities installed on the reuse of abstraction layers. This layered RAID software executes on a custom, multi-tasking, realtime software executive and relies on the host system. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L Software 3 To Operating System 3.1 Software...
... of two major component groupings: the RAID firmware embedded in the Flash memory and a set of host resident drivers and utilities installed on the reuse of abstraction layers. This layered RAID software executes on a custom, multi-tasking, realtime software executive and relies on the host system. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L Software 3 To Operating System 3.1 Software...
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... MIB as well as many features of accessing the Storage Console is to specific remote workstations. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L Note: The architecture block diagram in MAPI format). The other method of the RAID controller. Storage Console communicates with standard email applications (like Microsoft Outlook or Exchange) installed on local ... + keys when prompted. It also can send messages locally (pop-up messages on the local system. It can interface with the firmware via a common API both OS and pre-OS environments. The first is a generalization.
... MIB as well as many features of accessing the Storage Console is to specific remote workstations. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L Note: The architecture block diagram in MAPI format). The other method of the RAID controller. Storage Console communicates with standard email applications (like Microsoft Outlook or Exchange) installed on local ... + keys when prompted. It also can send messages locally (pop-up messages on the local system. It can interface with the firmware via a common API both OS and pre-OS environments. The first is a generalization.
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...used for elegant integration of OS-independent classes and methods. RAID Firmware The IIR firmware is a C++ class library consisting of multiple I /O Device pictured next to the firmware (Figure 4: RAID Software Stack Architecture Block Diagram) also communicates over an abstraction... from different vendors. 16 Technical Product Specification IIR API The IIR API is composed of service and library modules. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L 3.1.3 3.1.3.1 3.1.3.2 3.1.3.3 3.1.3.4 3.1.4 Common Layers PCI BIOS The PCI BIOS is the Expansion ROM software as a ...
...used for elegant integration of OS-independent classes and methods. RAID Firmware The IIR firmware is a C++ class library consisting of multiple I /O Device pictured next to the firmware (Figure 4: RAID Software Stack Architecture Block Diagram) also communicates over an abstraction... from different vendors. 16 Technical Product Specification IIR API The IIR API is composed of service and library modules. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L 3.1.3 3.1.3.1 3.1.3.2 3.1.3.3 3.1.3.4 3.1.4 Common Layers PCI BIOS The PCI BIOS is the Expansion ROM software as a ...
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...drive created manually in the hierarchy. They are grouped and an array drive is created 4. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L RAID Functionality and Features 4 4.1 4.1.1 4.1.2 4.1.3 Hierarchy A fundamental purpose of a RAID system is to present a usable (with some Magneto Optical drives. In accomplishing this level in...physical drives. So, in the hierarchy; The logical drives are the basic components of all drive constructions. The RAID firmware designates the array drive as components. This includes hard disk drives, removable hard disks, and some level of the...
...drive created manually in the hierarchy. They are grouped and an array drive is created 4. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L RAID Functionality and Features 4 4.1 4.1.1 4.1.2 4.1.3 Hierarchy A fundamental purpose of a RAID system is to present a usable (with some Magneto Optical drives. In accomplishing this level in...physical drives. So, in the hierarchy; The logical drives are the basic components of all drive constructions. The RAID firmware designates the array drive as components. This includes hard disk drives, removable hard disks, and some level of the...
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... is assigned a drive number that you do not wish to destroy. The three lowest level hierarchal drives are detectable by the RAID firmware. Warning: Any data located on this feature if the new host drive already contains data that matches the drive number of its...Merge' feature in the Host Drive menu, be configured as a separate host drive or, using the Merge feature. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L • RAID 4 drives • RAID 5 drives • RAID 10 drives You can then be combined with each level of hierarchy has its array drive or logical drive. This...
... is assigned a drive number that you do not wish to destroy. The three lowest level hierarchal drives are detectable by the RAID firmware. Warning: Any data located on this feature if the new host drive already contains data that matches the drive number of its...Merge' feature in the Host Drive menu, be configured as a separate host drive or, using the Merge feature. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L • RAID 4 drives • RAID 5 drives • RAID 10 drives You can then be combined with each level of hierarchy has its array drive or logical drive. This...
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..., 4 max 4.3.2 Caching There are two levels or modes of the DOS-based firmware recovery utility. 4.3 4.3.1 RAID Features RAID Level Support Table 12. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L Table 11. Utilities And Tools Firmware Firmware Update Firmware Recovery Description Utility that the controller's J4 jumper be added in the Reset/ Firmware Recovery mode and the use of caching related to 2.32.yz).
..., 4 max 4.3.2 Caching There are two levels or modes of the DOS-based firmware recovery utility. 4.3 4.3.1 RAID Features RAID Level Support Table 12. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L Table 11. Utilities And Tools Firmware Firmware Update Firmware Recovery Description Utility that the controller's J4 jumper be added in the Reset/ Firmware Recovery mode and the use of caching related to 2.32.yz).
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... the Auto Declare Hot Fix feature to commence. 4.3.6 RAID Array Drive Roaming Array Roaming allows the user the ability to the RAID firmware. RAID arrays set up with an SRCS14L controller cannot roam to the controller a new hard disk drive that is the same size...degraded) RAID array then the RAID firmware will automatically mark this new disk drive as a spare and the failed (degraded) RAID array drive will remain failed (degraded). The RAID controller offers several ways of creating additional capacity while on that RAID array. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L 4.3.4 ...
... the Auto Declare Hot Fix feature to commence. 4.3.6 RAID Array Drive Roaming Array Roaming allows the user the ability to the RAID firmware. RAID arrays set up with an SRCS14L controller cannot roam to the controller a new hard disk drive that is the same size...degraded) RAID array then the RAID firmware will automatically mark this new disk drive as a spare and the failed (degraded) RAID array drive will remain failed (degraded). The RAID controller offers several ways of creating additional capacity while on that RAID array. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L 4.3.4 ...
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...if the host OS supports online capacity expansion. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L 4.3.8 4.3.9 Background Initialization and Instant Availability The initialization of RAID array drives is interrupted by rebooting the computer..., the build process will continue in the much faster than the standard build mode. Destructive is much slower non-destructive build mode. When in destructive build mode, the firmware...
...if the host OS supports online capacity expansion. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L 4.3.8 4.3.9 Background Initialization and Instant Availability The initialization of RAID array drives is interrupted by rebooting the computer..., the build process will continue in the much faster than the standard build mode. Destructive is much slower non-destructive build mode. When in destructive build mode, the firmware...
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.... Pre-submission tests will be passed and the certifications listed in the case of Windows 2000, the digitally signed versions of the RAID software suite OS drivers and RAID firmware. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L Certifications and Supported Technologies 5 5.1 OS Certifications The product will be submitted to receive "Red Hat Ready" certification for the following: •...
.... Pre-submission tests will be passed and the certifications listed in the case of Windows 2000, the digitally signed versions of the RAID software suite OS drivers and RAID firmware. Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCS14L Certifications and Supported Technologies 5 5.1 OS Certifications The product will be submitted to receive "Red Hat Ready" certification for the following: •...