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... the Boot Controller 26 Creating an Array 26 Creating an Array with the ACU 26 Creating an Array with Adaptec Storage Manager 27 Making Your Array Bootable 28 Installing the Driver and an Operating System Before You Begin 30 Creating a Driver Disk 30 Installing with Windows 30 Installing ... System Before You Begin 34 Creating a Driver Disk 34 Installing on Windows 34 Installing on Red Hat or SUSE Linux 35 Installing on NetWare 35 Managing Your Storage Space About Adaptec Storage Manager 37 Installing Adaptec Storage Manager 37 About the HRCONF Command Line Utility 37 About the ...
... the Boot Controller 26 Creating an Array 26 Creating an Array with the ACU 26 Creating an Array with Adaptec Storage Manager 27 Making Your Array Bootable 28 Installing the Driver and an Operating System Before You Begin 30 Creating a Driver Disk 30 Installing with Windows 30 Installing ... System Before You Begin 34 Creating a Driver Disk 34 Installing on Windows 34 Installing on Red Hat or SUSE Linux 35 Installing on NetWare 35 Managing Your Storage Space About Adaptec Storage Manager 37 Installing Adaptec Storage Manager 37 About the HRCONF Command Line Utility 37 About the ...
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... Network (SAN) concepts and technology. Why? Many of Independent Disks (RAID) technology, and the input/output (I/O) technology-SATA-used to refer to controller(s) and disk drives being managed with Adaptec Storage ManagerTM or the other utilities described in this Guide. located on... variety of Adaptec Storage Manager. accessible from the main window of configurations from DAS to SAN, the generic term "storage space" is used by referring to arrays as logical drives. Your HostRAID controller creates arrays, which your HostRAID controller to use the Adaptec Storage Manager ...
... Network (SAN) concepts and technology. Why? Many of Independent Disks (RAID) technology, and the input/output (I/O) technology-SATA-used to refer to controller(s) and disk drives being managed with Adaptec Storage ManagerTM or the other utilities described in this Guide. located on... variety of Adaptec Storage Manager. accessible from the main window of configurations from DAS to SAN, the generic term "storage space" is used by referring to arrays as logical drives. Your HostRAID controller creates arrays, which your HostRAID controller to use the Adaptec Storage Manager ...
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...Adaptec Storage Manager and the Adaptec HRCONF (HostRAID Configuration) command line utility ● Readme Files ● Cables (type and quantity vary for cable information about your HostRAID controller, see About Your HostRAID Controller on page 12) ● Low-profile bracket ● Serial ATA II 1430SA, 1420SA, 1220SA HostRAID Controllers...devices is a PCI bridge. ● Large memory-mapped address ranges. ● One of these operating systems: ● Microsoft® Windows®2000, Server 2003, XP ● Red Hat Linux ● SUSE Linux ● Novell® NetWare® Note: For...
...Adaptec Storage Manager and the Adaptec HRCONF (HostRAID Configuration) command line utility ● Readme Files ● Cables (type and quantity vary for cable information about your HostRAID controller, see About Your HostRAID Controller on page 12) ● Low-profile bracket ● Serial ATA II 1430SA, 1420SA, 1220SA HostRAID Controllers...devices is a PCI bridge. ● Large memory-mapped address ranges. ● One of these operating systems: ● Microsoft® Windows®2000, Server 2003, XP ● Red Hat Linux ● SUSE Linux ● Novell® NetWare® Note: For...
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... use them to store data. 10 Close all windows, then click Reboot to the online Help or the Adaptec Storage Manager User's Guide. 12 Continue with RAID 1. You must partition and format these logical drives before you created appears as a physical disk drive on the Adaptec controller (as a full software application, refer to restart your...
... use them to store data. 10 Close all windows, then click Reboot to the online Help or the Adaptec Storage Manager User's Guide. 12 Continue with RAID 1. You must partition and format these logical drives before you created appears as a physical disk drive on the Adaptec controller (as a full software application, refer to restart your...
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Note: To install the driver on an existing operating system, see page 25). Installing the Driver and an Operating System 7 In this chapter... Before You Begin ...30 Creating a Driver Disk ...30 Installing with Windows ...30 Installing with Red Hat Linux 31 Installing with SUSE Linux...31 Installing with NetWare ...32 This chapter explains how to install your HostRAID controller driver and an operating system onto a bootable array (see page 33.
Note: To install the driver on an existing operating system, see page 25). Installing the Driver and an Operating System 7 In this chapter... Before You Begin ...30 Creating a Driver Disk ...30 Installing with Windows ...30 Installing with Red Hat Linux 31 Installing with SUSE Linux...31 Installing with NetWare ...32 This chapter explains how to install your HostRAID controller driver and an operating system onto a bootable array (see page 33.
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... Hat Linux, see page 31. ● For SUSE Linux, see page 31. ● For NetWare, see next section). To install the HostRAID controller driver while installing Windows: 1 Insert your HostRAID controller and internal disk drives (see page 22). ● Create a bootable array (see page 25). ● Create a driver disk (see page 32. You...
... Hat Linux, see page 31. ● For SUSE Linux, see page 31. ● For NetWare, see next section). To install the HostRAID controller driver while installing Windows: 1 Insert your HostRAID controller and internal disk drives (see page 22). ● Create a bootable array (see page 25). ● Create a driver disk (see page 32. You...
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... screen displays, check the Storage adapters list, then select Modify to add another driver. 4 Select Storage Adapters, then press Enter. All recognized controllers are displayed. 5 If necessary, remove the default HostRAID SATA driver (.ham). 6 Press the Delete key to remove it. 7 Press Insert to...Press the Insert key to complete this task. If the driver installation process fails, the server console is displayed. 10 From the lower window menu, select Continue, then press Enter. To modify disk partitions, apply hot fixes, or perform volume maintenance, refer to your NetWare documentation...
... screen displays, check the Storage adapters list, then select Modify to add another driver. 4 Select Storage Adapters, then press Enter. All recognized controllers are displayed. 5 If necessary, remove the default HostRAID SATA driver (.ham). 6 Press the Delete key to remove it. 7 Press Insert to...Press the Insert key to complete this task. If the driver installation process fails, the server console is displayed. 10 From the lower window menu, select Continue, then press Enter. To modify disk partitions, apply hot fixes, or perform volume maintenance, refer to your NetWare documentation...
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Installing the Driver on an existing operating system. Before You Begin ...34 Creating a Driver Disk ...34 Installing on Windows ...34 Installing on Red Hat or SUSE Linux 35 Installing on NetWare ...35 This chapter explains how to install your HostRAID controller driver on an Existing Operating System 8 In this chapter... Note: To install the driver while you're installing an operating system, see page 29.
Installing the Driver on an existing operating system. Before You Begin ...34 Creating a Driver Disk ...34 Installing on Windows ...34 Installing on Red Hat or SUSE Linux 35 Installing on NetWare ...35 This chapter explains how to install your HostRAID controller driver on an Existing Operating System 8 In this chapter... Note: To install the driver while you're installing an operating system, see page 29.
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... to your computer's documentation.) 2 Turn on your computer, then insert the HostRAID Installation CD included in your controller kit. 3 Follow the on-screen instructions to get to the Adaptec Start Menu. 4 Click Create Driver Disk, from the Main Menu. 5 Select one of the operating system....restart your computer. Creating a Driver Disk Before you install your driver, you begin installing the controller driver. Installing on Windows To install the driver on Windows: 1 Start or restart Windows. Chapter 8: Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System ● 34 Before You Begin Before...
... to your computer's documentation.) 2 Turn on your computer, then insert the HostRAID Installation CD included in your controller kit. 3 Follow the on-screen instructions to get to the Adaptec Start Menu. 4 Click Create Driver Disk, from the Main Menu. 5 Select one of the operating system....restart your computer. Creating a Driver Disk Before you install your driver, you begin installing the controller driver. Installing on Windows To install the driver on Windows: 1 Start or restart Windows. Chapter 8: Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System ● 34 Before You Begin Before...
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...Disable Write Cache ● Verify Arrays The following sections describe these operations in a RAID 1. By replacing a failed drive of a RAID 1 array with a new one , and the original RAID 1 array is any medium error occuring on Windows dynamic disks (volumes), as a spare, and this will be selected as degraded...while rebuilding, the operation is stopped and the array state is marked as the source drive. ● When migrating from single volume to RAID 0, migrating from the good drive is copied to a smaller drive is booted, you are displayed). When the system is allowed. However...
...Disable Write Cache ● Verify Arrays The following sections describe these operations in a RAID 1. By replacing a failed drive of a RAID 1 array with a new one , and the original RAID 1 array is any medium error occuring on Windows dynamic disks (volumes), as a spare, and this will be selected as degraded...while rebuilding, the operation is stopped and the array state is marked as the source drive. ● When migrating from single volume to RAID 0, migrating from the good drive is copied to a smaller drive is booted, you are displayed). When the system is allowed. However...
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... by reading UFI files and writing them to prevent you could render the HostRAID controller inoperable. Note: You cannot create a bootable floppy using Windows 2000. ● At least 8 MB of Windows. Compatibility The AFU has the following compatibility issues: ● Supports HIMEM.SYS and is compatible with... C: Using the AFU for DOS ● 61 Introduction The AFU is a DOS utility used to: ● Update-Updates all supported HostRAID controllers detected in memory, such as follows: ● MS-DOS version 5.0 or later. The AFU is used to the contents of the specified UFI...
... by reading UFI files and writing them to prevent you could render the HostRAID controller inoperable. Note: You cannot create a bootable floppy using Windows 2000. ● At least 8 MB of Windows. Compatibility The AFU has the following compatibility issues: ● Supports HIMEM.SYS and is compatible with... C: Using the AFU for DOS ● 61 Introduction The AFU is a DOS utility used to: ● Update-Updates all supported HostRAID controllers detected in memory, such as follows: ● MS-DOS version 5.0 or later. The AFU is used to the contents of the specified UFI...
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... driver installation 35 non-RAID arrays 49 P performance tuning selecting a RAID level 49 See AFU Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility. See ACU arrays creating (ACU) 52 non-RAID 49 RAID 1 50 RAID 10 50 C customer support 3 D data striping 48 disk drives connecting to SATA controllers 24 failure recovery multiple ... installing on Windows 34 E electrostatic discharge 67 F failed disk drives multiple arrays 46 multiple disk drives 46 without hot spare 46 formatting disk drives 59 H hard disk, hard disk drive, hard drive. A ACU creating arrays 52 Adaptec customer support 3 Adaptec Flash Utility....
... driver installation 35 non-RAID arrays 49 P performance tuning selecting a RAID level 49 See AFU Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility. See ACU arrays creating (ACU) 52 non-RAID 49 RAID 1 50 RAID 10 50 C customer support 3 D data striping 48 disk drives connecting to SATA controllers 24 failure recovery multiple ... installing on Windows 34 E electrostatic discharge 67 F failed disk drives multiple arrays 46 multiple disk drives 46 without hot spare 46 formatting disk drives 59 H hard disk, hard disk drive, hard drive. A ACU creating arrays 52 Adaptec customer support 3 Adaptec Flash Utility....
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...performance tuning 48 support, customer 3 SuSE driver installation 35 T technical support 3 Technical Support Identification (TSID) number 3 terminology 11 Adaptec Storage Manager 11 throughput 48 tools ACU 52 AFU 38 ARC 52 disk utilities 59 SATASelect 57 TSID Number See Technical Support Identification Number... 38 ARC 52 Disk Drive 59 SATASelect 57 V verifying disk drives 59 W Windows driver installation 34 Index ● 95 See SATA Small Computer System Interface. See RAID replacing failed disk drives S SATA controllers connecting disk drives 24 SATASelect using settings 57 SCSI Serial ATA.
...performance tuning 48 support, customer 3 SuSE driver installation 35 T technical support 3 Technical Support Identification (TSID) number 3 terminology 11 Adaptec Storage Manager 11 throughput 48 tools ACU 52 AFU 38 ARC 52 disk utilities 59 SATASelect 57 TSID Number See Technical Support Identification Number... 38 ARC 52 Disk Drive 59 SATASelect 57 V verifying disk drives 59 W Windows driver installation 34 Index ● 95 See SATA Small Computer System Interface. See RAID replacing failed disk drives S SATA controllers connecting disk drives 24 SATASelect using settings 57 SCSI Serial ATA.