
System Requirements
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Drive Requirements
The 3ware 9750 RAID controller may be connected to up to 48 SAS and/or
SATA dual-ported drives, or 96 SAS and/or SATA single-ported drives, when
using one or more enclosures. A maximum of 32 drives are allowed per RAID
unit and up to 32 active RAID units per controller.
You cannot mix SAS and SATA drives in the same unit.
Drives and drive enclosures must meet SAS (3.0 Gbps and 6.0 Gbps) and
SATA (3.0 Gbps) standards.
A list of drives that have been tested is available at
http://www.lsi.com/channel/support/marketing_resources, through the Data &
Interoperability tab.
Drives may be of any capacity or physical form factor.
The length of internal unshielded interface cables may not exceed 1 meter (39
inches).
Enclosure Management Requirements
For 9750 controllers and release 10.0, enclosure management features in
3ware software are available for supported chassis that provide SCSI
Enclosure Services 2 (SES-2) through an internal sideband connection, or via
an expander.
When chassis enclosures are cascaded, expanders of the same type are
recommended. A limit of 4 cascaded expanders is supported.
A list of supported enclosures is available at
http://www.lsi.com/channel/support/marketing_resources, through the Data &
Interoperability tab.
Operating System
3ware 9750 RAID controllers may be used with the following operating
systems for Intel and AMD 32-bit and 64-bit x86 based motherboards:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008
• Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
®
• openSUSE Linux
• SUSE
®
Linux Enterprise Server
• Fedora Core Linux
• Other Linux distributions based on open source Linux 2.6 kernel
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