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About Your New SmartRAID V Controller
Product Feature Overview
All SmartRAID V controllers include:
• Support for I
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DPT provides drivers for some operating systems. See Chapter 5,
“Software Installation” for a list of drivers supplied by DPT.
• Certifications for major operating systems, including Novell NetWare
and Windows NT.
• Support for a variety of SCSI and Fibre Channel devices, including
hard disk, tape, CD-Recordable, CD-ROM, Magneto-Optical drives,
jukeboxes and scanners.
• Local and remote configuration, array status and I/O monitoring using
DPT Storage Manager software.
• Operating system independent configuration and RAID creation using
the Storage Manager on ROM (SMOR) utility.
• Support for SCSI-1, SCSI-2 and SCSI-3 with active termination.
• ASPI protocol support for third-party applications and utilities.
• Flash ROM for easy upgrades of controller firmware, I
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SMOR.
• Event logging and broadcasting, including messaging for
alphanumeric pagers.
• Dynamic Array Expansion, which lets you increase your storage
capacity under Windows NT by adding one or more drives to a RAID 0
or RAID 5 array while your system remains online. See Dynamic
Array Expansion in Chapter 6, “Storage Manager” for information on
using this feature.
• Predictive caching which analyzes disk read requests made by the
host to determine whether they are part of a pattern. If a pattern is
detected, the controller uses the pattern to predict which data the host
is likely to request in the near future, then reads this data into the
cache.
• Intelligent Hot Spare. A hot spare drive automatically replaces a failed
drive. When multiple hot spares are available on a controller, the
intelligent hot spare algorithm picks the best one based on capacity
and bus location. RAID 1 and RAID 5 arrays are rebuilt automatically
using the new drive.
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