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User Guide - Page 9
...-specific Controller Settings 83 SATA-specific Controller Settings 83 SCSI-specific Controller Settings 84 Formatting and Verifying Disk Drives 85 Viewing the Event Log 85
Using the Array Configuration Utility for DOS
Getting Started 87 Working in the ACU Using Menus 87 Running the ACU Using Scripts 88
About Playback Mode 88 About Record Mode 89 Creating the Script File Manually...
User Guide - Page 16
... performance ● (SATA and SCSI RAID controllers only) Support for disk drive enclosures with SES2 enclosure management hardware ● Some RAID controllers support adding a battery backup module (see page 17). Chapter 3: About Your RAID Controller ● 16
Standard RAID Controller Features
● Flash ROM for updates to controller firmware, BIOS, and the Adaptec RAID Configuration...
User Guide - Page 27
... array will damage your SATA controller.
Disk Drives for the best performance. For more information, refer to SE levels. If you mix SE and Ultra320 disk drives on separate channels for SCSI Controllers
Your SCSI controller supports Ultra320 SCSI disk drives. Chapter 4: Getting Started ● 27
Selecting Disk Drives
When selecting disk drives for Internal RAID Storage or online Help...
User Guide - Page 30
... an external connector, you can connect external disk drives as well (or instead).
2 Set the boot controller (see page 38). 3 Create a bootable array (see page 38). 4 Install your operating system and the controller driver (see page 42.) 5 Install Adaptec Storage Manager and begin to manage your operating system and the controller driver on an existing operating system. See page 57...
User Guide - Page 32
... by its bracket or edges only.
Chapter 5: Installing the Controller and Disk Drives ● 32
Before You Begin
● Read Safety Information on page 104.
● Familiarize yourself with your Adaptec RAID controller's physical features and the RAID levels that it clicks into place. Open the cabinet, following the manufacturer's instructions.
2 Select an available PCI/PCIe/PCI-X expansion...
User Guide - Page 34
... attached to the backplane. Chapter 5: Installing the Controller and Disk Drives ● 34
2 Use internal SAS or mini-SAS cables to attach the disk drives to the number of disk drives is limited to the controller. The number of slots available on the backplane. Disk drives on backplane
Controller connected to the controller, close your computer cabinet, reattach the...
User Guide - Page 35
... instructions, refer to your disk drives to the SCSI cable before completing the connections to a unique number between the ends of installation you are not connecting any terminators (or disable termination) on the disk drive at www.adaptec.com.
Connecting Disk Drives to SCSI RAID Controllers
1 For each controller channel, set to ID 7 by installing the controller driver...
User Guide - Page 50
...) before you begin installing the controller driver.
Chapter 8: Installing the Driver on -screen instructions to get to complete this task. To create a driver disk: 1 Set your system BIOS so that your computer boots from the CD drive. (For instructions,
refer to your computer's documentation.) 2 Turn on your computer, then insert the RAID Installation CD included in your RAID
controller kit...
User Guide - Page 53
....00.00-x.tgz To create and manage arrays, use the following procedure.
To install the driver on VMWare: 1 Start your computer, then insert the driver disk. 2 At the console screen of the VMware server, mount the Adaptec CD:
mount -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom.
3 Install the module RPM:
rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/xxx/yyy.rpm
where xxx...
User Guide - Page 56
...For installation instructions, refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager User's Guide for more information. Note: Adaptec recommends that system. Currently, ARCCONF is not supported on the Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD. See page 57 for Internal RAID Storage User's Reference, which describes how to use Adaptec Storage Manager to monitor and manage all the controllers and disk drives in...
User Guide - Page 60
... location once the controller detects that the failed drive has been replaced. Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array
Because RAID 0 volumes do not include redundancy, if a disk drive fails in a RAID 0 array, the data can't be of the failure or replace the failed disk drives. The controller detects the new disk drive and begins to the Adaptec Storage Manager User's Guide for the failed...
User Guide - Page 101
... to perform the specified command. In this example, the AFU saves flash contents from RAID controller 0 to a UFI file in the current default drive and directory:
A:\> AFU SAVE /C 0
In this example, the AFU saves flash contents from Controller 1 to a UFI file in C:\UFI_FILES:
A:\> AFU SAVE /C 1 /D C:\UFI_FILES
Update Updates the flash components of RAID controllers on controllers Adaptec Adaptec...
User Guide - Page 108
... 61 Runtime BIOS setting 82 setting boot controller 38 specifications 105 standard features troubleshooting 59 updating firmware 98 upgrading firmware 17 copyback 16 CRC Checking setting 83 customer support 3
D
direct-attach connections 33, 66
disk drives 27 cables 28 connecting to SAS controllers 33 connecting to SATA controllers 35 connecting to 53, ?? to 54 drivers
installing on FreeBSD 53...
User Guide - Page 110
... Index ● 110
Q
QAS setting 84
R
RAID 16, 17 non-redundant arrays 70 RAID 0 70 RAID 1 71 RAID 10 72 RAID 1E 16, 71 RAID 5 73 RAID 50 75 RAID 5EE 16, 74 RAID 6 16, 76 RAID 60 17, 76
RAID controllers. See controllers RAID levels 26 record mode 89 recovering from disk drive failure 59 Red Hat
driver installation 51 OS installation 44 Redundant Array of Independent Disks...
User Guide - Page 111
... 56 troubleshooting tips 58 TSID Number See Technical Support Identification Number
U
UnixWare driver installation 53 OS installation 47
updating firmware 98
upgrading firmware 17 utilities
Adaptec RAID Controller utility 57 AFU 57 ARCCONF 56
V
verifying disk drives 85 VMWare
driver installation 53 OS installation 47
W
Windows driver installation 51 OS installation 44
Write Cache setting 83...
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