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UltraDMA
The Intel® N440BX Server Board supports the UltraDMA hard drive protocol. However, Intel recommends using SCSI
hard drives for server systems rather than IDE drives.
RAID Solutions
The N440BX has three dedicated PCI slots, one ISA slot and one shared PCI/ISA slot available for add-in RAID controller cards.
In addition, some operating systems will allow a software RAID to be implemented in conjunction with either the on
board SCSI host adapter or IDE controllers.
One low-cost RAID solution uses an AMI MegaRAID* Express 762 add-in PCI RAID controller card, which includes an
Intel® i960® microprocessor, is compatible with the Symbios 53C876 SCSI controller, and uses the
N440BX server board's PCI bus and SCSI channels. The AMI MegaRAID Express 762 card must be installed in
PCI Slot 3, which is the I2O (Intelligent Input/Output) enabled PCI Slot.
When implementing a different hardware RAID solution, PCI Slot 3 should be avoided because the Symbios SCSI controller
shares the PCI interrupt with PCI Slot 3.
Hot Swap Capabilities
The N440BX board can be integrated into a variety of chassis sub-systems that provide various levels of hot-swap capabilities.
There is nothing designed into the board that precludes or enhances the use of hot-swap devices in server
systems built with N440BX boards. However, the Intel® Astor Chassis Subassembly Kit contains the
capability for five 1" hot swap SCA drives and is designed to be integrated with the N440BX server board.
This applies to:
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