5923-8202 - IBM Power7 E4B, Non-paired PCIe SAS RAID Indicator

IBM Power7 8202-E4B (#5923) - Non-paired PCIe SAS RAID Indicator

Feature 5923 must be added for every instance of a non-paired SAS RAID adapter #5903. It identifies a specific high availability configuration supported by AIX or Linux which has one #5903 on one system and the paired #5903 located on a second system. IBM i does not support paired adapter on different servers.

Attributes provided: SAS RAID adapter firmware disables write cache until a second SAS RAID adapter is recognized.

Attributes required: Every #5923 requires a SAS RAID adapter (#5903) on both this server and on another server that will pair up the SAS RAID adapter and enable the onboard caches to function.

For 8202-E4B: (#5923)

Minimum required: 0

Maximum allowed: 44 (Initial order maximum: 44)

OS level required: None

Initial Order/MES/Both/Supported: Both

CSU: Yes

Return parts MES: No