Chapter 1: Introduction to the LSI MegaRAID Software Utility
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Functions of the LSI MegaRAID Utility
•Support for BIOS Boot Specication (BBS) (if supported by the system BIOS)
•Support for Enhanced Disk Drive Specication
•Support for Enable/Disable BIOS Boot
•Support for Hot-plug and Hot Auto Rebuild (during a hot plug event and the
physical drive is forced off-line)
Drive Features Supported by the LSI MegaRAID Utility
The following drive features are supported by the LSI MegaRAID Software utility:
•Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 50 and RAID 60
•Online mirror rebuilding
•Online consistency checking
•Array system management
•Error logging and notication
•Automatic resume of rebuilding on restart
•Support for manual rebuilding
•Auto-conguration support of newly-added physical drive
•Support for global hotspare
•Array initialization support
•Logical drive available immediately after creation
•Stripe size of 1024 KB supported
