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System Requirements
3ware 9650SE, 959SE, and 9550SX model RAID controllers have the following requirements:
Motherboard and Slot Requirements
A workstation-class or server-class motherboard, with slots that support the specific 3ware RAID controller model, as shown in Table: Required Slots for 3ware RAID Controller Models.

Required Slots for 3ware RAID Controller Models
Controller Model | PCI-E X1 | PCI-E X4 | PCI-E X8 | PCI-E x16 | PCI-X (64-bit)
9650SE-2LPML | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No
9650SE-4LPML | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No
9650SE-8LPML | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No
9650SE-12LPML | No | No | Yes | Yes | No
9650SE-16LPML | No | No | Yes | Yes | No
9590SE | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No
9550SX | N/S | N/S | N/S | N/S | Yes

| Notes: 3ware 9650SE and 9590SE RAID controllers must be installed in a PCI Express slot that complies with PCI 1.0 or later standards. The 3ware 9550SX Controller performs best when installed in a PCI-X 133MHz 64-bit slot. However, it can also operate at 66MHz or 100MHz. PCI Slots used for the 9550SX controllers must comply with PCI 2.2 or later standards and must meet the Plug and Play and PC99 specifications.

Drive Requirements
Depending on the particular model, the 3ware RAID controller may be connected to two, four, eight, twelve, or sixteen SATA drives using the supplied interface cables.
Drives must meet SATA-1 (1.5 GB/s) or SATA-2 (3.0 Gb/s) standards.
A list of drives that have been tested is available at
http://www.3ware.com/products/compatibility_sata2.asp
Drives may be of any capacity or physical form factor.
The length of shielded and unshielded interface cables may not exceed 1M (39”) for Serial ATA controllers.
Operating System

| 3ware RAID controllers may be used with:

| Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, 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 source Linux 2.4 or 2.6 kernel driver

| FreeBSD, 32-bit and 64-bit x86

For the latest driver versions for all operating systems, see the Release Notes.
Other Requirements

| Adequate air flow and cooling

| Adequate power supply for drives

| 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) displays information in a browser. It requires one of the following browsers:

| Internet Explorer 5.5 and later

| Mozilla Firefox 1.2 and later

| Netscape 7 and later

In addition:

| JavaScript must be enabled

| Cookies must be enabled

| For best viewing, screen resolution should be 1024 x 768 or greater, with 16-bit color or greater.

For a complete listing of features and system requirements, refer to the 3ware SATA RAID Controller datasheets, available from the website at http://www.3ware.com/products.

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