DS200SDCCG3A

DS200SDCCG3A is a Drive Control Card manufactured and designed by General Electric as part of the Mark V Series used in GE Speedtronic Drive Control Systems. A drive control card, also known as a controller card or a disk controller, is a hardware component used in computer systems to manage the operation of disk drives. It provides the interface between the disk drives and the rest of the computer system, allowing data to be read from and written to the drives. The drive control card typically connects to the motherboard or another expansion slot in the computer and interfaces with the disk drives using a specific protocol, such as SATA (Serial ATA) or SCSI (Small Computer System Interface). It may support multiple drives, allowing for the management of a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) configuration or other disk array setups.

FUNCTIONS OF DRIVE CONTROL:

Data Transfer: The card facilitates the transfer of data between the computer's memory and the disk drives. It manages the reading and writing of data to and from the drives, ensuring data integrity and efficient data transfer rates.

Drive Management: The controller card handles various aspects of drive management, including initializing the drives, maintaining the file system structure, and managing storage configurations such as disk arrays or logical volumes.

Error Handling: It detects and handles errors that may occur during data transfer or drive operations. This includes error correction and recovery mechanisms to ensure data reliability.

Interface Conversion: In some cases, a drive control card may also convert one type of interface to another. For example, it may convert the computer's native SATA interface to a SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) interface for compatibility with SAS drives.