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LSI SAS 9201-16i PCI Express to 6Gb/s SAS HBA User Guide
August 2011
Operating System Support
The LSI SAS 2116 controller chip JTAG signals are not connected to the corresponding signals in the PCIe connector.
The following table shows the LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA 5Gb/s PCIe performance.
3.2 SATA + SAS
The LSI SAS 2116 controller chip contains the SATA + SAS functionality for the LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA. The following
table shows the LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA 6 Gb/s SAS performance.
4 Operating System Support
The LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA supports all major operating systems: Windows®, Linux® Red Hat®, Linux SUSE® Enterprise
Server (SLES), Solaris™, VMware®, and FreeBSD®. Refer to http://www.lsi.com/channel/ChannelDownloads for details
on the software versions and device driver support. For Solaris support, contact the LSI® Technical Support team.
5 LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA Characteristics
5.1 Flash
The LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA has onboard Flash ROM for the firmware and BIOS. The LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA provides one
4 M x 16-bit Flash ROM for storing the firmware and the BIOS.
Table 1 PCIe Aggregate Bandwidth
Lanes Single Direction Dual Direction
Single-lane (x1) 5 Gb/s 10 Gb/s
Quad-lane (x4) 20 Gb/s 40 Gb/s
Eight-lane (x8) 40 Gb/s 80 Gb/s
Table 2 6Gb/s SAS Bandwidths
Half Duplex Full Duplex
Narrow port (one lane), 600 MB/s Narrow port (one lane), 1200 MB/s
Wide port (four lanes), 2400 MB/s Wide port (four lanes), 4800 MB/s
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