5782-8204 - IBM i Model E8A PCI-X EXP24 Ctl-1.5GB No IOP

IBM i Power 6, 8204 (#5782) PCI-X EXP24 Ctl-1.5GB No IOP

(Refurbished Condition Only as of November 26, 2010)

Provides an EXP24 disk controller with PCI-X DDR technology, a maximum of 1.5GB compressed write cache and a maximum 1.6GB compressed read cache. The controller supports RAID-5 and RAID-6 and mirroring is supported via i5/OS. Embedded auxiliary write cache and concurrent battery maintenance are provided. The controller is implemented using two physical cards that are firmly connected and requires two adjacent PCI slots. It provides three Ultra320 SCSI ports/buses for the attachment of disk drives located in a #5786 TotalStorage EXP24 Disk Drawer.

This feature includes a double-wide blind swap cassette in which the disk controller is placed. The cassette is required to locate the disk controller in a Power 570 system unit or #5790 I/O drawer. #5782 indicates an IOP is not used.

Attributes provided: High-performance SCSI RAID controller in a double wide blind swap cassette.

Attributes required: Two adjacent PCI-X long card slots, in a blind swap capable system unit or expansion unit.

For 8204-E8A: IBM i Power 6, 8204 (#5782)

Minimum required: 0

Maximum allowed: 24 (Initial order maximum: 24)

OS level required: IBM i V5R4 with V5R4M5 Machine Code, or later.

Initial Order/MES/Both/Supported: Both

CSU: Yes

Return parts MES: No