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LSI Corporation
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6Gb/s MegaRAID SAS RAID Controllers User Guide
August 2012
Chapter 3: MegaRAID SAS RAID Controller Characteristics
MegaRAID SAS 6Gb/s RAID Controller Characteristics
3.2 MegaRAID SAS 6Gb/s RAID Controller Characteristics
The following table shows the general characteristics for all 6Gb/s MegaRAID SAS RAID controllers.
J2A1 Activity LED header 2-pin connector
Connects to an LED that indicates activity on the drives
connected to the controller.
J2A2 Advanced Software Options Hardware Key header 3-pin header
Enables support for the Advanced Software Options
features, which include CacheCade, FastPath, Recovery, and
SafeStore disk encryption.
J2A4
I
2
O Mode jumper
2-pin connector
Installing this jumper causes the RAID controller to run in I
2
O
mode. The default mode of operation is without the shunt
and running in Fusion mode.
J2B1 Standard Edge Card connector The RAID controller interfaces with the host system though a
standard edge card.
This interface provides power to the board and an I
2
C
interface connected to the I
2
C bus for IPMI.
J4A1 Serial EEPROM 2-pin connector
Provides controller information, such as the serial number,
revision, and manufacturing date. The default is no
shunt installed.
J4A2 LSI Test header 2-pin connector
Reserved for LSI use.
J5A1 Serial Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
(UART) connector for the expander
4-pin connector
Reserved for LSI use.
J5B1 DDR3 Board-to-Board Mezzanine connector 240-pin DDR3 nonvolatile memory module interface
Connects the controller directly to a CVFM02 module. The
CVFM02 module connects to a remote CVPM02 module.
Refer to the MegaRAID CacheVault Flash Module 02 Quick
Installation Guide for the procedure used to connect a
CVFM02 module to a remote CVPM02 module.
J6A1 Serial Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
(UART) connector for the expander
4-pin connector
Reserved for LSI use.
Table 20 6Gb/s MegaRAID SAS RAID Controller Characteristics
Flash
ROM
a
a. For boot code and firmware.
Serial EEPROM
b
b. For BIOS configuration storage.
Data Transfer Rates SCSI Features SCSI Termination
Yes Yes Up to 6Gb/s per port for SAS and up to
6Gb/s per port for SATA III
Plug-and-Play
Scatter/Gather
Activity LED
Active
Table 19 MegaRAID SAS 9286CV-8e RAID Controller – Connectors (Continued)
Jumper/
Connector
Type Description

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LSI MegaRAID SAS Specifications

General IconGeneral
RAID Levels0, 1, 5
Ports8
Form FactorLow Profile
Operating Systems SupportedWindows, Linux, VMware
SAS Ports8
BBU SupportOptional
Operating Temperature0°C to 55°C

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