Adapter Architecture PCIe x4 bus PCI express specification, revision 1.0a Support SGPIO interface for ARC-1300ix-16 BIOS PnP(plug and play) and BBS(BIOS boot specification) support RoHS compliant RAID Features 3Gb/s per port x4 external SFF-8088 mini-SAS connectors x4 internal SFF-8087 min-SAS connectors 4 x eSATA connectors for ARC-1300-4e Staggered spin-up, Hot Plug and Native Command Queuing (NCQ) for SATA II x4 Lane, 2.5 Gb/s PCIe Connects to SAS and SATA HDDs, tape drives, SSDs Address up to 128 total end-point devices via SAS expanders Management Areca BIOS setup utility Enclosure management (SES2 and SGPIO) ready System status indicates through global HDD activity/fault header and individual activity/fault header Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 3.0Gbps Serial Attached SCSI (SAS-1.1) compliant Supports wide port (Any combination of x1, x2, and x4) Supports Serial SCSI Protocol Supports SAS Management Protocol (SMP) Hot-plug capability Staggered Spin-up control Serial ATA 3.0Gbps 48 bits LBA, support HDD partition larger than 137GB Fully compliant with Serial ATA II (3Gbps) compliant, with speed negotiation Serial ATA 1.0a (1.5Gbps) specifications revision 1.1 Supports external SATA voltage levels Hot-plug capability?? Supports Serial ATA II Port Multiplier 1.0 Specifications revision1.1 Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ) Output swing control Operating System Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000: SCSIport/Storport (32-bit and x64) Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, and Fedora Core (32-bit and x64) Mac OS X 10.4.X and 10.5 Leopard (no-bootable) BSD/FreeBSD (will be available with 6Gb/s Host Adapter) Solaris 10/11 (will be available with 6Gb/s Host Adapter)