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...and Configuration 3-51 4 RAIDUTIL Command Line Utility Introduction 4-1 Exit Status 4-2 Device Address Syntax 4-2 Command Line Switches 4-3 Miscellaneous 4-3 Logical Drive Creation and Deletion 4-4 Array Modification 4-6 RAID Operation 4-7 Controller-Specific 4-8 Hot Spare Control 4-9 General Information and Feedback 4-10 A SNMP Introduction A-1 SNMP A-2 Management Information Base A-2 Management Console A-3 Adaptec MIB Information A-3 What's Included A-6 System Requirements A-6 Management Consoles A-6 Installing Adaptec SNMP Support A-7 Installing SNMP for Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows...
...and Configuration 3-51 4 RAIDUTIL Command Line Utility Introduction 4-1 Exit Status 4-2 Device Address Syntax 4-2 Command Line Switches 4-3 Miscellaneous 4-3 Logical Drive Creation and Deletion 4-4 Array Modification 4-6 RAID Operation 4-7 Controller-Specific 4-8 Hot Spare Control 4-9 General Information and Feedback 4-10 A SNMP Introduction A-1 SNMP A-2 Management Information Base A-2 Management Console A-3 Adaptec MIB Information A-3 What's Included A-6 System Requirements A-6 Management Consoles A-6 Installing Adaptec SNMP Support A-7 Installing SNMP for Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows...
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.... 1 Storage Management Software Overview Your Adaptec RAID controller includes the following operating systems: ■ Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0. ■ Red Hat Linux 7.3 ■ For details on the latest Linux releases supported go to linux.adaptec.com. Storage Manager is also scriptable, making it an invaluable companion RAID configuration utility in environments where a GUI is not available. For details, refer to Chapter 3. ■ RAIDUTIL Command Line Utility-Provides the same functions as create and manage arrays, set...
.... 1 Storage Management Software Overview Your Adaptec RAID controller includes the following operating systems: ■ Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0. ■ Red Hat Linux 7.3 ■ For details on the latest Linux releases supported go to linux.adaptec.com. Storage Manager is also scriptable, making it an invaluable companion RAID configuration utility in environments where a GUI is not available. For details, refer to Chapter 3. ■ RAIDUTIL Command Line Utility-Provides the same functions as create and manage arrays, set...
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Flash HBA Option Creating a SMOR Boot Disk 2-2 2-3 2-4 2-6 2-6 2-9 2-10 2-20 2-20 2-25 2-26 2-28 2-1 2 Storage Manager on ROM In this Chapter Overview Keyboard Reference Menu Reference Icon Reference Screen Layout Running SMOR Information and Configuration Views Setting the Configuration Array Operations Formatting a Drive Upgrading Firmware -
Flash HBA Option Creating a SMOR Boot Disk 2-2 2-3 2-4 2-6 2-6 2-9 2-10 2-20 2-20 2-25 2-26 2-28 2-1 2 Storage Manager on ROM In this Chapter Overview Keyboard Reference Menu Reference Icon Reference Screen Layout Running SMOR Information and Configuration Views Setting the Configuration Array Operations Formatting a Drive Upgrading Firmware -
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... during installation of the array. Array groups can also use SMOR to start building when you save the configuration changes. SMOR makes the initial setup of Storage Manager specific to your hardware connections. For access to all peripheral devices and controllers are finished with the configuration tasks. Verify that all of the advanced features of your controller, install the version of your operating system. Note the IRQ and address displayed in the Adaptec SCSI RAID Installation Guide for a new system...
... during installation of the array. Array groups can also use SMOR to start building when you save the configuration changes. SMOR makes the initial setup of Storage Manager specific to your hardware connections. For access to all peripheral devices and controllers are finished with the configuration tasks. Verify that all of the advanced features of your controller, install the version of your operating system. Note the IRQ and address displayed in the Adaptec SCSI RAID Installation Guide for a new system...
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... Drive Flash HBA Make Boot Floppy Designate the currently selected drive as a hot spare. Note: Do not format a SCSI drive unless formatting is recommended by the operating system. Delete the currently selected array. Delete Rebuild Stop Build Create a new array. Stop building or rebuilding an array. Make the currently selected hot spare available for SMOR. 2-5 Display version information for use by the manufacturer. Update the firmware, controller BIOS, or SMOR image in controller ROM. Help About... Storage Manager on ROM File Read System Config Set System Config...
... Drive Flash HBA Make Boot Floppy Designate the currently selected drive as a hot spare. Note: Do not format a SCSI drive unless formatting is recommended by the operating system. Delete the currently selected array. Delete Rebuild Stop Build Create a new array. Stop building or rebuilding an array. Make the currently selected hot spare available for SMOR. 2-5 Display version information for use by the manufacturer. Update the firmware, controller BIOS, or SMOR image in controller ROM. Help About... Storage Manager on ROM File Read System Config Set System Config...
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... other adapter cards. EBDA Relocation This setting determines the way that is disabled. The default is not supported by default, because some bootable CD-ROMs contain device-specific boot code that RAID controllers handle Extended BIOS Data Area (EBDA) relocation. You should not change to drives larger than 8.6 GB. Enable Extended Int13 This option enables extended Logical Block Addressing (LBA) for improved performance. If the RAID controller does not behave as expected enabling this setting. 2-11 LBA enables...
... other adapter cards. EBDA Relocation This setting determines the way that is disabled. The default is not supported by default, because some bootable CD-ROMs contain device-specific boot code that RAID controllers handle Extended BIOS Data Area (EBDA) relocation. You should not change to drives larger than 8.6 GB. Enable Extended Int13 This option enables extended Logical Block Addressing (LBA) for improved performance. If the RAID controller does not behave as expected enabling this setting. 2-11 LBA enables...
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... the field displays the value returned by default at powerup or reset to set the maximum transfer rate. ID (SCSI only) SCSI RAID controllers are troubleshooting bus errors. Type This is not terminated correctly. Storage Manager on . Bus Each peripheral bus on setting this is usually an indication that the bus is assigned a number. Width The width of bus (Ultra320, Ultra160, etc.). Refer to the value selected. This value...
... the field displays the value returned by default at powerup or reset to set the maximum transfer rate. ID (SCSI only) SCSI RAID controllers are troubleshooting bus errors. Type This is not terminated correctly. Storage Manager on . Bus Each peripheral bus on setting this is usually an indication that the bus is assigned a number. Width The width of bus (Ultra320, Ultra160, etc.). Refer to the value selected. This value...
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.... array performance is an unrecoverable failure. Controllers always are listed below: Building Created Dead Degraded Impacted Optimal Pending Rebuilding The array is queued on the controller, but not initialized. This is degraded. I/O performance is being performed on the array; Storage Manager on ROM The Description section displays a general description of the highlighted array, as follows: Description Revision Address Capacity Removable Read Only Block Size Stripe Size RAID level used to create the RAID. The usable capacity of the device. The available capacity depends...
.... array performance is an unrecoverable failure. Controllers always are listed below: Building Created Dead Degraded Impacted Optimal Pending Rebuilding The array is queued on the controller, but not initialized. This is degraded. I/O performance is being performed on the array; Storage Manager on ROM The Description section displays a general description of the highlighted array, as follows: Description Revision Address Capacity Removable Read Only Block Size Stripe Size RAID level used to create the RAID. The usable capacity of the device. The available capacity depends...
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... use. Refer to Assigning Hot Spares on page 3-42 for the devices is reassigned as a normal hard drive accessible by the operating system for other drives in the left pane. 2 Select Action > Make Hotspare. The array configuration for additional information. 2-24 The selected hot spare is not deleted until you select File > Set System Config or exit SMOR and choose to an array or in use in the array. Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide...
... use. Refer to Assigning Hot Spares on page 3-42 for the devices is reassigned as a normal hard drive accessible by the operating system for other drives in the left pane. 2 Select Action > Make Hotspare. The array configuration for additional information. 2-24 The selected hot spare is not deleted until you select File > Set System Config or exit SMOR and choose to an array or in use in the array. Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide...
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... way to update. 2-26 Adaptec periodically releases updated firmware, controller BIOS, and SMOR. Note: There is installed. 3 In the Tree View, select the controller that you to upgrade to the latest firmware, controller BIOS and SMOR. To upgrade the controller firmware, BIOS, and/or the SMOR utility, follow these files to the latest firmware, the previous firmware image is the version number. The Flash HBA option enables you want to backup the controller firmware. Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide Upgrading Firmware - Each...
... way to update. 2-26 Adaptec periodically releases updated firmware, controller BIOS, and SMOR. Note: There is installed. 3 In the Tree View, select the controller that you to upgrade to the latest firmware, controller BIOS and SMOR. To upgrade the controller firmware, BIOS, and/or the SMOR utility, follow these files to the latest firmware, the previous firmware image is the version number. The Flash HBA option enables you want to backup the controller firmware. Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide Upgrading Firmware - Each...
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.... 3-2 Storage Manager enables you to manage your storage locally or remotely across a TCP/IP network. To install Storage Manager, insert the Adaptec RAID Installation CD. Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide Introduction Adaptec's Storage Manager gives you complete control over your storage subsystem, enabling you to check your device configuration, configure your controller, create and manage your disk arrays, and provides online event logging and performance statistics. It is used to: ■ Verify and modify drive configurations ■ Create, expand, or delete disk arrays...
.... 3-2 Storage Manager enables you to manage your storage locally or remotely across a TCP/IP network. To install Storage Manager, insert the Adaptec RAID Installation CD. Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide Introduction Adaptec's Storage Manager gives you complete control over your storage subsystem, enabling you to check your device configuration, configure your controller, create and manage your disk arrays, and provides online event logging and performance statistics. It is used to: ■ Verify and modify drive configurations ■ Create, expand, or delete disk arrays...
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... of Storage Manager requires the use of a pointing device in place of memory and a Pentium processor (200 MHz or faster). Storage Manager can be installed on the latest Linux releases supported go to properly configure multifunction PCI devices where one of disk space. The host system should have at least 64 MB of the keyboard. 3-3 If remote communication services are required. Storage Manager System Requirements Adaptec Storage Manager software and device drivers require...
... of Storage Manager requires the use of a pointing device in place of memory and a Pentium processor (200 MHz or faster). Storage Manager can be installed on the latest Linux releases supported go to properly configure multifunction PCI devices where one of disk space. The host system should have at least 64 MB of the keyboard. 3-3 If remote communication services are required. Storage Manager System Requirements Adaptec Storage Manager software and device drivers require...
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... replaced by a device in that array group. When a hot spare replacement occurs, the failed drive automatically becomes the new hot spare. Channel number of the following fields: HBA Bus Device LUN The controller to which the device is normally 0. Array groups are automatically assigned an address that corresponds to the lowest logical device address used by a hot spare. If you choose not to use that drive as a hot spare, Storage Manager prompts you to highest looking for that drive. Storage Manager The complete logical device...
... replaced by a device in that array group. When a hot spare replacement occurs, the failed drive automatically becomes the new hot spare. Channel number of the following fields: HBA Bus Device LUN The controller to which the device is normally 0. Array groups are automatically assigned an address that corresponds to the lowest logical device address used by a hot spare. If you choose not to use that drive as a hot spare, Storage Manager prompts you to highest looking for that drive. Storage Manager The complete logical device...
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... array is active and users are used in and accessing data. Array expansion maintains the performance gains of the array, then shutdown the system and restart. To mitigate the impact, adjust the relative priorities of the logical drive. There is reduced significantly during the array expansion process. After the larger array was available, to your RAID 0 and RAID 5 arrays while your storage capacity by setting the Background Task Priority (see page 3-44). Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide Expanding...
... array is active and users are used in and accessing data. Array expansion maintains the performance gains of the array, then shutdown the system and restart. To mitigate the impact, adjust the relative priorities of the logical drive. There is reduced significantly during the array expansion process. After the larger array was available, to your RAID 0 and RAID 5 arrays while your storage capacity by setting the Background Task Priority (see page 3-44). Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide Expanding...
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... host system to an array must have Optimal status before changing the configuration of all the drives in the array. This is no advantage in adding a drive with the most recent service pack. ■ Adaptec supplied driver only. (The Microsoft OSM does not support array expansion.) ■ RAID 0 or RAID 5 array groups only ■ NTFS file system only. (You cannot extend a volume that has a FAT partition. Refer to the peripheral bus...
... host system to an array must have Optimal status before changing the configuration of all the drives in the array. This is no advantage in adding a drive with the most recent service pack. ■ Adaptec supplied driver only. (The Microsoft OSM does not support array expansion.) ■ RAID 0 or RAID 5 array groups only ■ NTFS file system only. (You cannot extend a volume that has a FAT partition. Refer to the peripheral bus...
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...: Building Created Dead Degraded Impacted Optimal Pending Rebuilding The array is being performed on page 3-30 3-22 The array or device is affected. Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide An array is not physically deleted until you exit Storage Manager and choose to selected recipients. I/O performance is defined, but is affected. A write-back cache to the array command failed. Data is an unrecoverable failure. More detailed status information can be obtained by Storage Manager through status flags on the controller...
...: Building Created Dead Degraded Impacted Optimal Pending Rebuilding The array is being performed on page 3-30 3-22 The array or device is affected. Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide An array is not physically deleted until you exit Storage Manager and choose to selected recipients. I/O performance is defined, but is affected. A write-back cache to the array command failed. Data is an unrecoverable failure. More detailed status information can be obtained by Storage Manager through status flags on the controller...
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Figure 3-8 Host Bus Adapter Info Window Note: The RAID controller requires 16 MB of memory installed minus 16 MB. 3-23 ECC is checked only if ECC memory is installed. The Host Bus Adapter Info window displays the current bus configuration. The Controller section displays the Model, Serial #, Firmware revision, and amount of memory modules installed. The Attached Modules section shows the expansion modules and type and capacity of installed cache. The available cache memory reported here equals the...
Figure 3-8 Host Bus Adapter Info Window Note: The RAID controller requires 16 MB of memory installed minus 16 MB. 3-23 ECC is checked only if ECC memory is installed. The Host Bus Adapter Info window displays the current bus configuration. The Controller section displays the Model, Serial #, Firmware revision, and amount of memory modules installed. The Attached Modules section shows the expansion modules and type and capacity of installed cache. The available cache memory reported here equals the...
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... SCSI ID. Windows NT only To ensure optimum performance, follow these steps: 1 Click Caching in the Configure Host Bus Adapter window to display the HBA Caching Configuration window. 2 When the HBA Caching Configuration window appears, change both internal and external cables are attached to the Adaptec SCSI RAID Installation Guide for more information about configuring SCSI bus termination. Resets the controller configuration to update the controller firmware and BIOS. Refer to the controller. The default value (On) should only be changed when troubleshooting SCSI bus errors...
... SCSI ID. Windows NT only To ensure optimum performance, follow these steps: 1 Click Caching in the Configure Host Bus Adapter window to display the HBA Caching Configuration window. 2 When the HBA Caching Configuration window appears, change both internal and external cables are attached to the Adaptec SCSI RAID Installation Guide for more information about configuring SCSI bus termination. Resets the controller configuration to update the controller firmware and BIOS. Refer to the controller. The default value (On) should only be changed when troubleshooting SCSI bus errors...
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... Pager - During broadcaster installation, you are gathered and recorded without user intervention. Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows NT only Storage Manager can be viewed from the UNIX prompt. Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide Installing the Broadcaster When you install the controller driver, you automatically install the the broadcaster in Storage Manager (see Event Log on page 3-32). To configure alphanumeric pager support, follow these steps: 1 Ensure your service provider for specific information. This script...
... Pager - During broadcaster installation, you are gathered and recorded without user intervention. Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows NT only Storage Manager can be viewed from the UNIX prompt. Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide Installing the Broadcaster When you install the controller driver, you automatically install the the broadcaster in Storage Manager (see Event Log on page 3-32). To configure alphanumeric pager support, follow these steps: 1 Ensure your service provider for specific information. This script...
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...This option resets the controller NVRAM to the factory default settings. -Z Reset/clear embedded RAID information This option destroys all RAID information pertaining to reverse the effect of logical drive Starts rebuild on logical drive Starts a verify operation Terminates active task on drive Specify drives by using the device address. This option is used. ! Specify logical drives by the device address. -F Update controller firmware, BIOS, or NVRAM This option updates the controller flash memory (EEPROM). Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide Controller-Specific -a Action...
...This option resets the controller NVRAM to the factory default settings. -Z Reset/clear embedded RAID information This option destroys all RAID information pertaining to reverse the effect of logical drive Starts rebuild on logical drive Starts a verify operation Terminates active task on drive Specify drives by using the device address. This option is used. ! Specify logical drives by the device address. -F Update controller firmware, BIOS, or NVRAM This option updates the controller flash memory (EEPROM). Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide Controller-Specific -a Action...