Storage Option Optical drives Supportability Tape drives Supportability Intel® RAID Controller Supported but not tested1 Supported but not tested1 Intel® Integrated RAID SROMBSAS18E with activation key and mini-DIMM installed Supported but not tested1 Supported but not tested1 Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology II Supported but not tested1 Unsupported Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology Unsupported Unsupported Non-RAID SATA/SAS mode Supported2 Supported2

Note:

1. SAS and SATA Removable Media devices, such as tape drives and CD-ROM drives, have not been tested on Intel® add-on RAID Controller, Intel® Integrated RAID and Intel® Embedded RAID. Customers wishing to utilize these devices as a "pass through" devices on a product that is in RAID mode should perform their own tests to verify that they work as designed.
   
   
2. For the information on which removable media devices have been validated on the Intel® server board used in your configuration, please refer to the Tested Hardware and Operating System List of appropriate server board.
   

This applies to:

Intel® RAID Controller SRCSAS144E Intel® RAID Controller SRCSAS18E Intel® RAID Controller SRCSASJV Intel® RAID Controller SRCSASRB Intel® RAID Controller SRCSATAWB Intel® Server Board S3000AH Intel® Server Board S3000PT Intel® Server Board S3200SH Intel® Server Board S5000PAL Intel® Server Board S5000PSL Intel® Server Board S5000VCL Intel® Server Board S5000VSA Intel® Server Board S5000XAL Intel® Server Board S5000XSL Intel® Server Board X38ML Intel® Server System SC5400RA Intel® Server System SR2520SA Intel® Workstation Board S5000XVN