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... Creating the Firmware Update Disks 106 Running the Menu-based AFU 106 Running the AFU from the Command Line 107 AFU Commands 107 Updating the Flash Using the AFU Command Line 110 Controller LED and I2C Connector Quick Reference Adaptec RAID 5085 LED Connector Specification 112 Adaptec RAID 5405/5405Z LED and I2C Connector Specification 114 Adaptec RAID 5445/5445Z...
... Creating the Firmware Update Disks 106 Running the Menu-based AFU 106 Running the AFU from the Command Line 107 AFU Commands 107 Updating the Flash Using the AFU Command Line 110 Controller LED and I2C Connector Quick Reference Adaptec RAID 5085 LED Connector Specification 112 Adaptec RAID 5405/5405Z LED and I2C Connector Specification 114 Adaptec RAID 5445/5445Z...
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Chapter 3: About Your RAID Controller ● 16 Standard RAID Controller Features ● Support for SAS disk drives, SATA/SATA II disk drives, SATA Solid State Drives (SSD), and Adaptec MaxIQ™ Solid State Drives ● Flash ROM for updates to controller firmware, BIOS, and the Adaptec RAID Configuration utility ● Disk drive hot-swapping ● Event logging and broadcasting including email...
Chapter 3: About Your RAID Controller ● 16 Standard RAID Controller Features ● Support for SAS disk drives, SATA/SATA II disk drives, SATA Solid State Drives (SSD), and Adaptec MaxIQ™ Solid State Drives ● Flash ROM for updates to controller firmware, BIOS, and the Adaptec RAID Configuration utility ● Disk drive hot-swapping ● Event logging and broadcasting including email...
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... a graphical user interface, it is the easiest to use Adaptec Storage Manager to update the controller firmware/BIOS. Chapter 9: Managing Your Storage Space ● 61 About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility The Adaptec RAID Configuration (ARC) utility is a BIOS-based utility that you can use to update, save, or verify your RAID controller's firmware BIOS and Non-Volatile Random Access Memory (NVRAM...
... a graphical user interface, it is the easiest to use Adaptec Storage Manager to update the controller firmware/BIOS. Chapter 9: Managing Your Storage Space ● 61 About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility The Adaptec RAID Configuration (ARC) utility is a BIOS-based utility that you can use to update, save, or verify your RAID controller's firmware BIOS and Non-Volatile Random Access Memory (NVRAM...
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... safeguards to prevent you can use the AFU carefully and correctly to avoid rendering your RAID controller's flash contents, it is still important to use to use the Adaptec Flash Utility (AFU), a text-based DOS utility that only advanced users familiar with working... AFU from accidentally damaging your RAID controller inoperable. Adaptec recommends that you from the Command Line 107 Updating the Flash Using the AFU Command Line 110 This chapter describes how to update, save, or verify the RAID controller's firmware BIOS and NVRAM. ! Using the Adaptec Flash Utility E In this ...
... safeguards to prevent you can use the AFU carefully and correctly to avoid rendering your RAID controller's flash contents, it is still important to use to use the Adaptec Flash Utility (AFU), a text-based DOS utility that only advanced users familiar with working... AFU from accidentally damaging your RAID controller inoperable. Adaptec recommends that you from the Command Line 107 Updating the Flash Using the AFU Command Line 110 This chapter describes how to update, save, or verify the RAID controller's firmware BIOS and NVRAM. ! Using the Adaptec Flash Utility E In this ...
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...-Lists all the flash components on a RAID controller with no arguments. some have a suffix (for example Adaptec RAID 3405). Running the Menu-based AFU To run the AFU from the command line, see the following section. Appendix E: Using the Adaptec Flash Utility ● 106 Creating the Firmware Update Disks To create the firmware update disks: 1 Copy these files to...
...-Lists all the flash components on a RAID controller with no arguments. some have a suffix (for example Adaptec RAID 3405). Running the Menu-based AFU To run the AFU from the command line, see the following section. Appendix E: Using the Adaptec Flash Utility ● 106 Creating the Firmware Update Disks To create the firmware update disks: 1 Copy these files to...
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... command. Controllers Detected and Recognized: Controller #0 (03:05:00) Adaptec RAID 51645 Save Saves the contents of the UFI file is AFU SAVE [/C] [/D ] List Displays the AFU-supported RAID controllers installed on a bootable drive. (You can also run the AFU from a DOS partition on your operating system and reboot to change the setting. 2 Insert the firmware update disk...
... command. Controllers Detected and Recognized: Controller #0 (03:05:00) Adaptec RAID 51645 Save Saves the contents of the UFI file is AFU SAVE [/C] [/D ] List Displays the AFU-supported RAID controllers installed on a bootable drive. (You can also run the AFU from a DOS partition on your operating system and reboot to change the setting. 2 Insert the firmware update disk...
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... specify the /D switch, the AFU looks for the UPDATE command is about to update firmware on controllers Adaptec RAID 51645 ***PLEASE DO NOT REBOOT THE SYSTEM DURING THE UPDATE*** This might take effect. You cannot specify the name of RAID controllers on which to perform the specified command. All Rights Reserved. Updating Controller 0 (Adaptec RAID 31205) Reading flash image file (Build 5749) AFU...
... specify the /D switch, the AFU looks for the UPDATE command is about to update firmware on controllers Adaptec RAID 51645 ***PLEASE DO NOT REBOOT THE SYSTEM DURING THE UPDATE*** This might take effect. You cannot specify the name of RAID controllers on which to perform the specified command. All Rights Reserved. Updating Controller 0 (Adaptec RAID 31205) Reading flash image file (Build 5749) AFU...
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... into your floppy disk drive. For example, to upgrade controllers 0, 2, and 3, type AFU UPDATE /C 0, 2, 3 ● To update all RAID controllers simultaneously: AFU UPDATE /C all Note: The UFI file identifies the RAID controllers, so you don't have multiple controllers and you don't know the number of the Adaptec RAID controllers whose firmware you are updating. Otherwise, skip to the next step. 5 At the DOS command...
... into your floppy disk drive. For example, to upgrade controllers 0, 2, and 3, type AFU UPDATE /C 0, 2, 3 ● To update all RAID controllers simultaneously: AFU UPDATE /C all Note: The UFI file identifies the RAID controllers, so you don't have multiple controllers and you don't know the number of the Adaptec RAID controllers whose firmware you are updating. Otherwise, skip to the next step. 5 At the DOS command...
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... setting 91 Physical Drives Display During POST setting 90 RAID levels 31 Removable Media Devices Boot Support setting 90 resetting 65 Runtime BIOS setting 89 SAS Address setting 91 SAS cables 32 setting boot controller 44 specifications 129 standard features troubleshooting 63 updating firmware 105 upgrading firmware 17 copyback 17 CRC Checking setting 91 customer...
... setting 91 Physical Drives Display During POST setting 90 RAID levels 31 Removable Media Devices Boot Support setting 90 resetting 65 Runtime BIOS setting 89 SAS Address setting 91 SAS cables 32 setting boot controller 44 specifications 129 standard features troubleshooting 63 updating firmware 105 upgrading firmware 17 copyback 17 CRC Checking setting 91 customer...
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...drive hot spares 16 HotspareDrives keyword array definition block 99 I I2C connector specifications 111 initializing disk drives 86 installation backplane 39 controllers 36 creating a driver disk 49 direct-attach 38 disk drives 38 driver 54 to 58 driver and FreeBSD 53 driver and... devices 42 F failed disk drives 64 multiple arrays 64 multiple disk drives 65 RAID 0 arrays 65 without hot spare 64 firmware 105 creating floppy disks 106 firmware upgrades 17 flashing controllers 65 floppy disks for firmware update 106 formatting disk drives 91 FreeBSD driver installation 58 OS installation 53 H hard ...
...drive hot spares 16 HotspareDrives keyword array definition block 99 I I2C connector specifications 111 initializing disk drives 86 installation backplane 39 controllers 36 creating a driver disk 49 direct-attach 38 disk drives 38 driver 54 to 58 driver and FreeBSD 53 driver and... devices 42 F failed disk drives 64 multiple arrays 64 multiple disk drives 65 RAID 0 arrays 65 without hot spare 64 firmware 105 creating floppy disks 106 firmware upgrades 17 flashing controllers 65 floppy disks for firmware update 106 formatting disk drives 91 FreeBSD driver installation 58 OS installation 53 H hard ...
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U UnixWare driver installation 57 OS installation 52 updating firmware 105 upgrading firmware 17 utilities Adaptec RAID Controller utility 61 AFU 61 ARCCONF 60 V verifying disk drives 91 VMWare driver installation 58 OS installation 53 W Windows driver installation 56 OS installation 50 Z zero maintenance cache protection 16, 36, 37 zero maintenance module (ZMM) 37 Index ● 135
U UnixWare driver installation 57 OS installation 52 updating firmware 105 upgrading firmware 17 utilities Adaptec RAID Controller utility 61 AFU 61 ARCCONF 60 V verifying disk drives 91 VMWare driver installation 58 OS installation 53 W Windows driver installation 56 OS installation 50 Z zero maintenance cache protection 16, 36, 37 zero maintenance module (ZMM) 37 Index ● 135