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... Features 33 Cache Options and Settings 34 Background Tasks ...34 Error Handling ...35 Audible Alarm ...35 Chapter 4: Intel® RAID Drivers 37 RAID Driver Installation for Microsoft Windows 37 Installation in a New Microsoft Windows* Operating System 37 Installation in an Existing Microsoft ... System 39 Installation in an Existing Novell Netware* System 40 RAID Driver Installation for Solaris* 10 40 Installation in a New Solaris* System 40 Installation in an Existing Solaris* System 40 Chapter 5: Intel® Embedded Server RAID BIOS Configuration Utility 41 Creating, Adding or...
... Features 33 Cache Options and Settings 34 Background Tasks ...34 Error Handling ...35 Audible Alarm ...35 Chapter 4: Intel® RAID Drivers 37 RAID Driver Installation for Microsoft Windows 37 Installation in a New Microsoft Windows* Operating System 37 Installation in an Existing Microsoft ... System 39 Installation in an Existing Novell Netware* System 40 RAID Driver Installation for Solaris* 10 40 Installation in a New Solaris* System 40 Installation in an Existing Solaris* System 40 Chapter 5: Intel® Embedded Server RAID BIOS Configuration Utility 41 Creating, Adding or...
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... Technology 2 provides driver-based RAID modes 0, 1, and 10 with on-serverboard RAID solutions that include the LSI* 1068 SAS controller - Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology 2 is in ESRTII mode) - Intel® Server Boards based on the Intel® 5500/5520 chipset with below Intel® IT/IR RAID controllers: - Intel® Server Boards S3420GP - LSI* SAS...
... Technology 2 provides driver-based RAID modes 0, 1, and 10 with on-serverboard RAID solutions that include the LSI* 1068 SAS controller - Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology 2 is in ESRTII mode) - Intel® Server Boards based on the Intel® 5500/5520 chipset with below Intel® IT/IR RAID controllers: - Intel® Server Boards S3420GP - LSI* SAS...
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...; IT/IR RAID, press + during the server boot to enter the RAID BIOS Console II. • Intel® RAID Controller Drivers: Intel provides software drivers for the following operating systems. Intel® RAID Software User's Guide 3 For more details,refer to enter the LSI MPT* SAS BIOS Configuration Utility - All features on RS2BL080 are available...
...; IT/IR RAID, press + during the server boot to enter the RAID BIOS Console II. • Intel® RAID Controller Drivers: Intel provides software drivers for the following operating systems. Intel® RAID Software User's Guide 3 For more details,refer to enter the LSI MPT* SAS BIOS Configuration Utility - All features on RS2BL080 are available...
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.... Using two or more configured RAID arrays in Microsoft Windows*). It is available after the failure and during repair of controller, driver, and Intel® Server Board or System listed in which is called a virtual drive. The virtual drive is used when describing RAID functions...for data consistency, allocate the data between the physical drives, and rebuild a failed array to verify operating system support and compatibility. • Intel® RAID Web Console 2: A full-featured graphical user interface (GUI) utility is called virtual disks. The only drive that must configure ...
.... Using two or more configured RAID arrays in Microsoft Windows*). It is available after the failure and during repair of controller, driver, and Intel® Server Board or System listed in which is called a virtual drive. The virtual drive is used when describing RAID functions...for data consistency, allocate the data between the physical drives, and rebuild a failed array to verify operating system support and compatibility. • Intel® RAID Web Console 2: A full-featured graphical user interface (GUI) utility is called virtual disks. The only drive that must configure ...
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.... • Error notification: The drivers update an OS-specific event log. • LED status support. • Write journaling, which allows automatic synchronization of potentially inconsistent data after unexpected power-down situations. • Metadata used to store volume configuration on the same Intel® IT/IR RAID Controller. The Intel® RAID BIOS Console...
.... • Error notification: The drivers update an OS-specific event log. • LED status support. • Write journaling, which allows automatic synchronization of potentially inconsistent data after unexpected power-down situations. • Metadata used to store volume configuration on the same Intel® IT/IR RAID Controller. The Intel® RAID BIOS Console...
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... booting. Microsoft Windows 2003* automatically adds the driver to the registry and copies the driver to install... The RAID driver files are also available at http://downloadcenter.intel.com. 4 Intel® RAID Drivers The drivers that Intel provides for Intel® RAID Controllers are listed at the Intel Web site: http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/. If you need to...
... booting. Microsoft Windows 2003* automatically adds the driver to the registry and copies the driver to install... The RAID driver files are also available at http://downloadcenter.intel.com. 4 Intel® RAID Drivers The drivers that Intel provides for Intel® RAID Controllers are listed at the Intel Web site: http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/. If you need to...
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... location box and make sure the search location is not digitally signed may display. Copy the Linux driver image from the Microsoft Windows* driver disk and copies the driver to select Intel® RAID adapter driver. The utility locates and loads the driver for Red Hat* Enterprise Linux This section describes the installation of the device...
... location box and make sure the search location is not digitally signed may display. Copy the Linux driver image from the Microsoft Windows* driver disk and copies the driver to select Intel® RAID adapter driver. The utility locates and loads the driver for Red Hat* Enterprise Linux This section describes the installation of the device...
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... instructions in the Novell Netware* Installation Guide to install Novell Netware in the server. On the Storage Driver Support screen select Storage Adapters and press . 5. Intel® RAID Software User's Guide 39 At the Installation Settings screen, set up the disk partitioning. ... NetWare*. 2. Press again. The operating system also loads any existing Intel® RAID adapter listings. 6. Continue with the SuSE* Linux installation procedure. Press the key. 11. Perform the following steps to modify drivers. 3. A path is used to install Novell NetWare using YaST2. ...
... instructions in the Novell Netware* Installation Guide to install Novell Netware in the server. On the Storage Driver Support screen select Storage Adapters and press . 5. Intel® RAID Software User's Guide 39 At the Installation Settings screen, set up the disk partitioning. ... NetWare*. 2. Press again. The operating system also loads any existing Intel® RAID adapter listings. 6. Continue with the SuSE* Linux installation procedure. Press the key. 11. Perform the following steps to modify drivers. 3. A path is used to install Novell NetWare using YaST2. ...
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... temporary directory "/tmp" under current working directory. b. Press . The system will find and install the driver. Note: Drivers for Solaris* 10 are available at http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/ or from your platform, untar i386.tar or x86_64.tar. Depending on the ... Command: sh install or sh install32. 40 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide RAID Driver Installation for Novell Netware* are available at the root prompt and press . Installation in a New Solaris* System This updated driver can be applied using the normal operating system ...
... temporary directory "/tmp" under current working directory. b. Press . The system will find and install the driver. Note: Drivers for Solaris* 10 are available at http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/ or from your platform, untar i386.tar or x86_64.tar. Depending on the ... Command: sh install or sh install32. 40 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide RAID Driver Installation for Novell Netware* are available at the root prompt and press . Installation in a New Solaris* System This updated driver can be applied using the normal operating system ...
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...SATA disks cannot be combined in a volume must have two drives. However, you always use BIOS-based configuration utility. • Error notification: The drivers update an OS-specific event log. • LED status support. • Write journaling, which allows automatic synchronization of the Fusion-MPT* BIOS. Background... command set support) or SAS (with SMART support). You can create one or two IM or IME volumes per Fusion-MPT* controller. Intel recommends that data on IM/IME volumes is available. In addition, one volume with SAS disks and a second volume with SATA disks on...
...SATA disks cannot be combined in a volume must have two drives. However, you always use BIOS-based configuration utility. • Error notification: The drivers update an OS-specific event log. • LED status support. • Write journaling, which allows automatic synchronization of the Fusion-MPT* BIOS. Background... command set support) or SAS (with SMART support). You can create one or two IM or IME volumes per Fusion-MPT* controller. Intel recommends that data on IM/IME volumes is available. In addition, one volume with SAS disks and a second volume with SATA disks on...
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... 2 for the controller health information. There is no support for VMware ESXi The following are the Intel® RAID Web Console 2 screens affected: - The following limitations apply to your file C.\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and add another entry: IP of the ESXi Host 192.19.221.186 FQDN of... the found hosts. Server property page: Only the IP address and the Host name display; The ESXi server should now appear in with the option "complete". 4. Differences in the Intel®...
... 2 for the controller health information. There is no support for VMware ESXi The following are the Intel® RAID Web Console 2 screens affected: - The following limitations apply to your file C.\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and add another entry: IP of the ESXi Host 192.19.221.186 FQDN of... the found hosts. Server property page: Only the IP address and the Host name display; The ESXi server should now appear in with the option "complete". 4. Differences in the Intel®...
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... Premium feature %s key was applied for - %s 376 Info Snapshot schedule properties changed to %s (from %s) 384 Warning %s cannot transition to max power savings 385 Info Host driver is loaded and operational 386 Info %s mirror broken 387 Info %s mirror joined 388 Warning %s link %d failure in wide port 389 Info %s link %d restored in wide... %s 381 Warning Premium feature serial number mismatched. Key-vault serial num - %s Battery cannot support data retention for %s 401 Info Drive %s commissioned as Emergency spare 188 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide
... Premium feature %s key was applied for - %s 376 Info Snapshot schedule properties changed to %s (from %s) 384 Warning %s cannot transition to max power savings 385 Info Host driver is loaded and operational 386 Info %s mirror broken 387 Info %s mirror joined 388 Warning %s link %d failure in wide port 389 Info %s link %d restored in wide... %s 381 Warning Premium feature serial number mismatched. Key-vault serial num - %s Battery cannot support data retention for %s 401 Info Drive %s commissioned as Emergency spare 188 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide
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... ...9 2.4 RAID 5 (Striping with Parity)...9 2.5 RAID 10...10 2.6 Matrix RAID ...10 2.7 RAID Migration ...11 2.8 RAID Level Migration ...11 2.9 Intel® Rapid Recover Technology 12 2.10 Advanced Host Controller Interface 12 2.10.1 Native Command Queuing 12 2.10.2 Hot Plug ...13 3 RAID BIOS Configuration ... Overview ...14 3.2 Enabling RAID in BIOS...14 4 Intel® RapidStorage Technology Option ROM 15 4.1 Overview ...15 4.2 User Interface...15 4.3 Version Identification...16 4.4 RAID Volume Creation ...16 5 Loading Driver during Operating System Installation 21 5.1 Overview ...21 5.2 F6...
... ...9 2.4 RAID 5 (Striping with Parity)...9 2.5 RAID 10...10 2.6 Matrix RAID ...10 2.7 RAID Migration ...11 2.8 RAID Level Migration ...11 2.9 Intel® Rapid Recover Technology 12 2.10 Advanced Host Controller Interface 12 2.10.1 Native Command Queuing 12 2.10.2 Hot Plug ...13 3 RAID BIOS Configuration ... Overview ...14 3.2 Enabling RAID in BIOS...14 4 Intel® RapidStorage Technology Option ROM 15 4.1 Overview ...15 4.2 User Interface...15 4.3 Version Identification...16 4.4 RAID Volume Creation ...16 5 Loading Driver during Operating System Installation 21 5.1 Overview ...21 5.2 F6...
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...party manufacturers. A hard drive used within a single RAID array. The information in this document is relevant only on Intel® Rapid Storage Technology features. Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Option ROM A code module built into the system BIOS that provides boot support for RAID ... is related to either software configuration or hardware integration. Intel is available at the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology support web page. Master Drive Matrix RAID Member The hard drive that allows the storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features such as both drives...
...party manufacturers. A hard drive used within a single RAID array. The information in this document is relevant only on Intel® Rapid Storage Technology features. Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Option ROM A code module built into the system BIOS that provides boot support for RAID ... is related to either software configuration or hardware integration. Intel is available at the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology support web page. Master Drive Matrix RAID Member The hard drive that allows the storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features such as both drives...
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...10 Advanced Host Controller Interface Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) is copied between master and recovery drives; Note: To take advantage of Intel® Rapid Recover Technology. fast restoration of commands. When using the continuous update policy, changes made to the data on random ...workloads by AHCI that allows the storage driver to a designated recovery drive. member hard drive data can be restored to a previous state by copying the data on request update...
...10 Advanced Host Controller Interface Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) is copied between master and recovery drives; Note: To take advantage of Intel® Rapid Recover Technology. fast restoration of commands. When using the continuous update policy, changes made to the data on random ...workloads by AHCI that allows the storage driver to a designated recovery drive. member hard drive data can be restored to a previous state by copying the data on request update...
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... required1 Required Recommended but not required1 Required Required Required 1 Windows 7 and Windows Vista both include drivers for RAID/AHCI during installation. 2 For Intel® Desktop Boards, you must be used during an operating system installation. For non-Intel motherboards, refer to the motherboard documentation to your motherboard which the F6 installation method must...
... required1 Required Recommended but not required1 Required Required Required 1 Windows 7 and Windows Vista both include drivers for RAID/AHCI during installation. 2 For Intel® Desktop Boards, you must be used during an operating system installation. For non-Intel motherboards, refer to the motherboard documentation to your motherboard which the F6 installation method must...
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... immediately; Press S to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver‟ message. 2. setup will temporarily continue loading drivers and then you need to „Specify Additional Device‟. Press F6 at http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=2101 2. Note: If the system has ... 64-bit processor, copy the files found in the \x64 folder. 5.2.3 F6 Installation Steps To install the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology driver using the F6 installation method, complete the following command: {filename} -A -P {path} Example: IATA_CD_10.6.0.1022.EXE -A -P C:\TEMP 3.
... immediately; Press S to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver‟ message. 2. setup will temporarily continue loading drivers and then you need to „Specify Additional Device‟. Press F6 at http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=2101 2. Note: If the system has ... 64-bit processor, copy the files found in the \x64 folder. 5.2.3 F6 Installation Steps To install the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology driver using the F6 installation method, complete the following command: {filename} -A -P {path} Example: IATA_CD_10.6.0.1022.EXE -A -P C:\TEMP 3.
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... reason, you will have the ability to uninstall all other non-driver components. however, you cannot remove or un-install this driver from the system; Warning: The Intel® Rapid Storage Technology driver may be loaded from within Windows. This installs the following non-driver components can be downloaded from Download Center at: http://downloadcenter...
... reason, you will have the ability to uninstall all other non-driver components. however, you cannot remove or un-install this driver from the system; Warning: The Intel® Rapid Storage Technology driver may be loaded from within Windows. This installs the following non-driver components can be downloaded from Download Center at: http://downloadcenter...
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Review the Warning screen and click Next to continue. 3. On the welcome screen, click Next to continue. Run the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology installation file. 2. 6.3 Installation Steps Note: The instructions below assume that the BIOS has been configured correctly and the RAID driver has been installed using the F6 installation method (if applicable). 1.
Review the Warning screen and click Next to continue. 3. On the welcome screen, click Next to continue. Run the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology installation file. 2. 6.3 Installation Steps Note: The instructions below assume that the BIOS has been configured correctly and the RAID driver has been installed using the F6 installation method (if applicable). 1.
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... Refer to Figure 5. NOTE: The version information shown here may differ from the information displayed for your system. Click the Driver Details button. Driver details example: NOTE: The controller shown here may differ from the controller displayed for your system. 6.5 Version Identification 1. Click ...Click the Device Manager button. 5. Select the Hardware tab. 4. Select the Driver tab. 8. If installation was done using F6 or an unattended installation method, you can confirm that the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology was loaded by following these steps: Note: The ...
... Refer to Figure 5. NOTE: The version information shown here may differ from the information displayed for your system. Click the Driver Details button. Driver details example: NOTE: The controller shown here may differ from the controller displayed for your system. 6.5 Version Identification 1. Click ...Click the Device Manager button. 5. Select the Hardware tab. 4. Select the Driver tab. 8. If installation was done using F6 or an unattended installation method, you can confirm that the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology was loaded by following these steps: Note: The ...