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Flash HBA Option 2-30 Creating a SMOR Boot Disk 2-32 3 Storage Manager Introduction 3-2 System Requirements 3-3 Installing Storage Manager 3-4 Running Storage Manager 3-5 Using Storage Manager Locally 3-5 Using Storage Manager Remotely 3-5 Views 3-6 Physical Configuration View 3-6 Logical Configuration View 3-8 Logical ...Configuration 3-31 Events 3-32 Event Log 3-32 Event Broadcaster 3-34 Event Messaging by Pager - Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide Formatting a Drive 2-29 Upgrading Firmware - Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows NT only 3-38 Formatting Drives 3-40 Drive Failures...
Flash HBA Option 2-30 Creating a SMOR Boot Disk 2-32 3 Storage Manager Introduction 3-2 System Requirements 3-3 Installing Storage Manager 3-4 Running Storage Manager 3-5 Using Storage Manager Locally 3-5 Using Storage Manager Remotely 3-5 Views 3-6 Physical Configuration View 3-6 Logical Configuration View 3-8 Logical ...Configuration 3-31 Events 3-32 Event Log 3-32 Event Broadcaster 3-34 Event Messaging by Pager - Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide Formatting a Drive 2-29 Upgrading Firmware - Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows NT only 3-38 Formatting Drives 3-40 Drive Failures...
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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 - 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
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... Format Drive Flash HBA Make Boot Floppy Designate the currently selected drive as a hot spare. Update the firmware, controller BIOS, or SMOR image in controller ROM. Help About... Unsaved configuration changes are lost. Stop building or rebuilding an array. Quit SMOR. ...Make the currently selected hot spare available for SMOR. 2-5 RAID Create... Rebuild a RAID 1, 5, 10 or 50 array. Low-level format a currently selected drive. Storage Manager...
... Format Drive Flash HBA Make Boot Floppy Designate the currently selected drive as a hot spare. Update the firmware, controller BIOS, or SMOR image in controller ROM. Help About... Unsaved configuration changes are lost. Stop building or rebuilding an array. Quit SMOR. ...Make the currently selected hot spare available for SMOR. 2-5 RAID Create... Rebuild a RAID 1, 5, 10 or 50 array. Low-level format a currently selected drive. Storage Manager...
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... installed cache memory Controller firmware revision Firmware type Yes if Error Correction Code (ECC) memory is installed Number of the controller, highlight the controller in Figure 2-4. Cache Revision FW Type ECC SCSI Bus Busses SCSI ID Transfer Host Bus Type Transfer Controller model number Controller serial number Version number for a controller displays general information reported by that controller. Adaptec Storage Management Software User...
... installed cache memory Controller firmware revision Firmware type Yes if Error Correction Code (ECC) memory is installed Number of the controller, highlight the controller in Figure 2-4. Cache Revision FW Type ECC SCSI Bus Busses SCSI ID Transfer Host Bus Type Transfer Controller model number Controller serial number Version number for a controller displays general information reported by that controller. Adaptec Storage Management Software User...
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... not be changed except when you are configured by the controller firmware. Refer to the Configuring Termination section in the Adaptec SCSI RAID Installation Guide for the controller and bus. Bus Each peripheral bus on a controller is the type of the parallel bus (8-bit or 16-bit). Storage Manager on ROM Note: As reported means that the bus...
... not be changed except when you are configured by the controller firmware. Refer to the Configuring Termination section in the Adaptec SCSI RAID Installation Guide for the controller and bus. Bus Each peripheral bus on a controller is the type of the parallel bus (8-bit or 16-bit). Storage Manager on ROM Note: As reported means that the bus...
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... parts: Description, SCSI Capabilities and Status. Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide Device Information Tab Individual devices are listed in the Tree View under the controller to view its information... tab page. Figure 2-7 Device Information Tab The Device Information tab displays general information and configuration. The Description section displays a general description of the device. Revision Device firmware...
... parts: Description, SCSI Capabilities and Status. Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide Device Information Tab Individual devices are listed in the Tree View under the controller to view its information... tab page. Figure 2-7 Device Information Tab The Device Information tab displays general information and configuration. The Description section displays a general description of the device. Revision Device firmware...
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... appear to the host as shown in an array or multilevel RAID must be combined into three parts: Description, SCSI Capabilities, and Status. 2-18 Figure 2-8 Array Group Information Tab RAID 0 arrays are comprised of any array may be viewed by the controller firmware. Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide Array and Array Group Information The Information tab...
... appear to the host as shown in an array or multilevel RAID must be combined into three parts: Description, SCSI Capabilities, and Status. 2-18 Figure 2-8 Array Group Information Tab RAID 0 arrays are comprised of any array may be viewed by the controller firmware. Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide Array and Array Group Information The Information tab...
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...Firmware revision of the selected device in Device Address Syntax on page 2-25 for the array. As reported by the devices in the array. The sector (block) size of the RAID controller. The status definitions are assigned the lowest logical address of the array in the array. 2-19 Storage Manager on the controller..., but not initialized. Controllers always are listed below: Building Created...
...Firmware revision of the selected device in Device Address Syntax on page 2-25 for the array. As reported by the devices in the array. The sector (block) size of the RAID controller. The status definitions are assigned the lowest logical address of the array in the array. 2-19 Storage Manager on the controller..., but not initialized. Controllers always are listed below: Building Created...
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... disk, CD or hard disk drive partition formatted with a FAT16 filesystem. Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide Upgrading Firmware - The Flash HBA option enables you want to the latest firmware, the previous firmware image is the version number). ■ SMOR updates are lost. Adaptec periodically releases updated firmware, controller BIOS, and SMOR. Note: There is the version number.
... disk, CD or hard disk drive partition formatted with a FAT16 filesystem. Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide Upgrading Firmware - The Flash HBA option enables you want to the latest firmware, the previous firmware image is the version number). ■ SMOR updates are lost. Adaptec periodically releases updated firmware, controller BIOS, and SMOR. Note: There is the version number.
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Storage Manager Double-click a controller or device icon to display an Information window for its operation. ECC is checked only if ECC memory is installed. The available cache memory reported ... expansion modules and type and capacity of memory installed minus 16 MB. 3-23 The Controller section displays the Model, Serial #, Firmware revision, and amount of memory for that controller or device. Figure 3-8 Host Bus Adapter Info Window Note: The RAID controller requires 16 MB of installed cache. The Host Bus Adapter Info window displays the...
Storage Manager Double-click a controller or device icon to display an Information window for its operation. ECC is checked only if ECC memory is installed. The available cache memory reported ... expansion modules and type and capacity of memory installed minus 16 MB. 3-23 The Controller section displays the Model, Serial #, Firmware revision, and amount of memory for that controller or device. Figure 3-8 Host Bus Adapter Info Window Note: The RAID controller requires 16 MB of installed cache. The Host Bus Adapter Info window displays the...
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... parameters for the RAID controller, The Configure Host Bus Adapter window appears, as shown in the Host Bus Adapter Info window to previous window. For more information, see page 3-32. Figure 3-9 Configure Host Bus Adapter Window 3-24 Adaptec Storage Management Software User's... Guide The following buttons are available: Configure Event Log I/O Stats Print OK Examine and change HBA parameters, or download new firmware code. Configure Host Bus Adapter Window Click Configure in Figure...
... parameters for the RAID controller, The Configure Host Bus Adapter window appears, as shown in the Host Bus Adapter Info window to previous window. For more information, see page 3-32. Figure 3-9 Configure Host Bus Adapter Window 3-24 Adaptec Storage Management Software User's... Guide The following buttons are available: Configure Event Log I/O Stats Print OK Examine and change HBA parameters, or download new firmware code. Configure Host Bus Adapter Window Click Configure in Figure...
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... Cancel SCSI ID SCSI TERMPWR Transfer Termination Address, IRQ Displays the Flash Configuration window to update the controller firmware and BIOS. Refer to the Adaptec SCSI RAID Installation Guide for the controller. The controller automatically ...Controller Caching - Your controllers is set to the Adaptec SCSI RAID Installation Guide for information about selecting an alternate SCSI ID. This parameter should not be changed . These values cannot be changed . Resets the controller configuration to factory default settings. Selects the controller cache parameters. Storage...
... Cancel SCSI ID SCSI TERMPWR Transfer Termination Address, IRQ Displays the Flash Configuration window to update the controller firmware and BIOS. Refer to the Adaptec SCSI RAID Installation Guide for the controller. The controller automatically ...Controller Caching - Your controllers is set to the Adaptec SCSI RAID Installation Guide for information about selecting an alternate SCSI ID. This parameter should not be changed . These values cannot be changed . Resets the controller configuration to factory default settings. Selects the controller cache parameters. Storage...
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... version number and the file extension (xxx) is the build number. Click OK to the Configure Host Bus Adapter window. 3-27 Firmware images are contained in a xxxxxxxx.ima file, where the 8-character file name consists of the 4-digit model number and a 4-digit... to use a file selection window. The controller BIOS image is contained in the corresponding section of image selected: firmware, controller BIOS, or SMOR. The Version, Date, and Type fields are displayed. Storage Manager The current controller model, firmware version, and firmware type are displayed in a file named i2obios...
... version number and the file extension (xxx) is the build number. Click OK to the Configure Host Bus Adapter window. 3-27 Firmware images are contained in a xxxxxxxx.ima file, where the 8-character file name consists of the 4-digit model number and a 4-digit... to use a file selection window. The controller BIOS image is contained in the corresponding section of image selected: firmware, controller BIOS, or SMOR. The Version, Date, and Type fields are displayed. Storage Manager The current controller model, firmware version, and firmware type are displayed in a file named i2obios...
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.... RAID drives display the name and level of the array as reported by flags on the drive. Print is a hot spare, the Remove Hotspare button replaces the Make Hotspare button. 3-29 The drive firmware revision. A SCSI hard drive may refer to Status Reporting on device type. Indicates that are indicated by the controller. General...
.... RAID drives display the name and level of the array as reported by flags on the drive. Print is a hot spare, the Remove Hotspare button replaces the Make Hotspare button. 3-29 The drive firmware revision. A SCSI hard drive may refer to Status Reporting on device type. Indicates that are indicated by the controller. General...
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... logical drive capacity Specify logical drive stripe size Expand disk array Force array state Load/save configuration Specify task rate Write caching Action (task) control Update controller firmware, BIOS, or NVRAM Reset NVRAM configuration Reset/clear embedded RAID information Create hot spare drive Delete hot spare drive Display utility usage information Alarm status and...
... logical drive capacity Specify logical drive stripe size Expand disk array Force array state Load/save configuration Specify task rate Write caching Action (task) control Update controller firmware, BIOS, or NVRAM Reset NVRAM configuration Reset/clear embedded RAID information Create hot spare drive Delete hot spare drive Display utility usage information Alarm status and...
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If omitted, a default stripe size is ignored for RAID 1. The default is selected by the controller firmware based on the logical drive at address d1b1t0d0 to a Failed status: raidutil -f fail d1b1t0d0 4-6 Example: To set the stripe size on the ...or more additional hard drives after the -E command. This switch is used. raidutil -E d0b0t0d0 d0b0t4d0,d0b0t4d0 Where d0b0t0d0 is valid only for new RAID 0 and RAID 5 logical drives. Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide -z Specify logical drive stripe size Specifies the stripe size (in the array. This command switch is the...
If omitted, a default stripe size is ignored for RAID 1. The default is selected by the controller firmware based on the logical drive at address d1b1t0d0 to a Failed status: raidutil -f fail d1b1t0d0 4-6 Example: To set the stripe size on the ...or more additional hard drives after the -E command. This switch is used. raidutil -E d0b0t0d0 d0b0t4d0,d0b0t4d0 Where d0b0t0d0 is valid only for new RAID 0 and RAID 5 logical drives. Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide -z Specify logical drive stripe size Specifies the stripe size (in the array. This command switch is the...
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...RAID information pertaining to disk arrays and logical drives for the controller Starts build of logical drive Starts rebuild on logical drive Starts a verify operation Terminates active task on the controller: List Build Rebuild Verify Stop Shows tasks for the specified device. Caution: There is a method of the -Z operation. Adaptec Storage... for deleting conflicting RAID table information. 4-8 All specified drives become individual, unassigned physical drives after this command is used. ! Specify logical drives by the device address. -F Update controller firmware, BIOS, or ...
...RAID information pertaining to disk arrays and logical drives for the controller Starts build of logical drive Starts rebuild on logical drive Starts a verify operation Terminates active task on the controller: List Build Rebuild Verify Stop Shows tasks for the specified device. Caution: There is a method of the -Z operation. Adaptec Storage... for deleting conflicting RAID table information. 4-8 All specified drives become individual, unassigned physical drives after this command is used. ! Specify logical drives by the device address. -F Update controller firmware, BIOS, or ...
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... displays controller specific information, including firmware revision, BIOS version, and serial number. Displays a list of the above. Displays the device caching mode. The parameters for this switch are listed below: Controller Physical Logical Spare RAID Array Speed...controller, by the device address. Prints out all Adaptec controllers in the system. Displays any redirected devices. Specify drives by the device address. -L List devices Specify drives by logical drive number. Displays all logical drives on each controller. 4-11 Displays the controller firmware...
... displays controller specific information, including firmware revision, BIOS version, and serial number. Displays a list of the above. Displays the device caching mode. The parameters for this switch are listed below: Controller Physical Logical Spare RAID Array Speed...controller, by the device address. Prints out all Adaptec controllers in the system. Displays any redirected devices. Specify drives by the device address. -L List devices Specify drives by logical drive number. Displays all logical drives on each controller. 4-11 Displays the controller firmware...
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... A-4 Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide ■ Adaptec Controller group is a list of devices managed by the Adaptec subsystem and represents the physical configuration. This group contains the following information for each Controller: ■ Controller number ■ Controller vendor ■ Firmware version ■ Address ■ IRQ ■ IRQ type ■ Host bus type ■ Max transfer rate ■ Controller modules (RAID...
... A-4 Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide ■ Adaptec Controller group is a list of devices managed by the Adaptec subsystem and represents the physical configuration. This group contains the following information for each Controller: ■ Controller number ■ Controller vendor ■ Firmware version ■ Address ■ IRQ ■ IRQ type ■ Host bus type ■ Max transfer rate ■ Controller modules (RAID...
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... CI The DMI Trap broadcast module B-4 Adaptec DMI Modules The Adaptec DMI modules are as follows: ■ Adaptec event logger ■ DMI event logger extensions ■ Adaptec RAID engine ■ Adaptec driver ■ Adaptec component instrumentation ■ Adaptec MIF DMI-Specific Files The MIF groups ...by the operating system or other third-party. The CI consists of the Adaptec engine, broadcaster, controller driver, firmware, and CI module. Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide Installing DMI Support Adaptec supplies the CI only. The CI module is a separate add-on ...
... CI The DMI Trap broadcast module B-4 Adaptec DMI Modules The Adaptec DMI modules are as follows: ■ Adaptec event logger ■ DMI event logger extensions ■ Adaptec RAID engine ■ Adaptec driver ■ Adaptec component instrumentation ■ Adaptec MIF DMI-Specific Files The MIF groups ...by the operating system or other third-party. The CI consists of the Adaptec engine, broadcaster, controller driver, firmware, and CI module. Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide Installing DMI Support Adaptec supplies the CI only. The CI module is a separate add-on ...