Introducing the 3ware® SAS/SATA RAID Controller4 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1A list of drives that have been tested is available athttp://www.3ware.com/products/sys_compatibility.aspDrives may be of any capacity or physical form factor.The length of internal unshielded interface cables may not exceed 1M (39”)and a maximum of 6M (234”) for external shielded cables.Enclosure RequirementsFor 9690SA controllers, enclosure management features in 3ware softwareare available for supported enclosures with expanders that provide SCSIEnclosure Services 2 (SES-2).For 9650SE controllers, enclosure support is CCU-based with SAF-TE (SCSIAccessed Fault Tolerant Enclosure).A list of supported enclosures is available athttp://www.3ware.com/products/sys_compatibility.aspCascading of enclosures is limited to 4 enclosures based on the sameexpander. Enclosures may contain cascaded expanders internally.Operating System3ware RAID controllers may be used with:• Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, 2008, and Vista, both 32-bit and 64-bit x86• Red Hat Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit x86• SuSE Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit x86• Fedora Core, 32-bit and 64-bit x86• Other versions of Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit x86, using the open sourceLinux 2.4 or 2.6 kernel driver• FreeBSD, 32-bit and 64-bit x86• VMware ESX 3.x ServerFor the latest driver versions for all operating systems, see the current ReleaseNotes at http://www.3ware.com/support/.Other Requirements• Adequate air flow and cooling• Adequate power supply for drives• 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) displays information in a browser. Itrequires one of the following browsers:• Internet Explorer 5.5 and later• Mozilla Firefox 1.2 and later• Netscape 7 and later
