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... Installing on FreeBSD 66 Managing Your Storage Space About Adaptec Storage Manager 68 Installing Adaptec Storage Manager 68 About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility 68 About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility 69 About the Adaptec Flash Utility 69 Which Utility Should I Use 69 Solving Problems Troubleshooting Checklist 71 Monitoring Disk Drives Status 71 Silencing the Alarm 71 Recovering from...
... Installing on FreeBSD 66 Managing Your Storage Space About Adaptec Storage Manager 68 Installing Adaptec Storage Manager 68 About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility 68 About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility 69 About the Adaptec Flash Utility 69 Which Utility Should I Use 69 Solving Problems Troubleshooting Checklist 71 Monitoring Disk Drives Status 71 Silencing the Alarm 71 Recovering from...
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...RAID Level 90 Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility Introduction to the ARC Utility 92 Running the ARC Utility 92 Navigating the ARC Utility 92 Using the ACU to Create and Manage Arrays 92 Creating a New Array 92 Managing Existing Arrays 93 Initializing Disk Drives 94 Rescanning Disk... 96 Using the ACU to Manage the MaxIQ Pool 96 Using SerialSelect to Modify Controller Settings 97 Opening SerialSelect 97 Applying Changes and Exiting 97 Modifying Your Controller's Configuration 97 Formatting and Verifying Disk Drives 99 Locating Disk Drives 100 Identifying Disk Drives ...
...RAID Level 90 Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility Introduction to the ARC Utility 92 Running the ARC Utility 92 Navigating the ARC Utility 92 Using the ACU to Create and Manage Arrays 92 Creating a New Array 92 Managing Existing Arrays 93 Initializing Disk Drives 94 Rescanning Disk... 96 Using the ACU to Manage the MaxIQ Pool 96 Using SerialSelect to Modify Controller Settings 97 Opening SerialSelect 97 Applying Changes and Exiting 97 Modifying Your Controller's Configuration 97 Formatting and Verifying Disk Drives 99 Locating Disk Drives 100 Identifying Disk Drives ...
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... the Firmware 114 Creating the Firmware Update Disks 115 Running the Menu-based AFU 115 Running the AFU from the Command Line 116 AFU Commands 116 Updating the Flash Using the AFU Command Line 119 Controller LED and I2C Connector Quick Reference Adaptec RAID 5085 LED Connector Specification 121 Adaptec RAID 5405/5405Z LED and I2C Connector...
... the Firmware 114 Creating the Firmware Update Disks 115 Running the Menu-based AFU 115 Running the AFU from the Command Line 116 AFU Commands 116 Updating the Flash Using the AFU Command Line 119 Controller LED and I2C Connector Quick Reference Adaptec RAID 5085 LED Connector Specification 121 Adaptec RAID 5405/5405Z LED and I2C Connector...
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... Independent Disk (RAID) technology. What You Need to Know Before You Begin 13 Terminology Used in your Adaptec® RAID controller. About This Guide 1 In this guide: ● Adaptec RAID 5085 ● Adaptec RAID 5405/5405Z ● Adaptec RAID 5445/5445Z ● Adaptec RAID 5805/5805Q/5805Z/5805ZQ ● Adaptec RAID 51245 ● Adaptec RAID 51645 ● Adaptec RAID 52445 ● Adaptec RAID 3085 ● Adaptec RAID 3405 ● Adaptec RAID 3805 ● Adaptec RAID 31205 ● Adaptec RAID 31605 ● Adaptec RAID...
... Independent Disk (RAID) technology. What You Need to Know Before You Begin 13 Terminology Used in your Adaptec® RAID controller. About This Guide 1 In this guide: ● Adaptec RAID 5085 ● Adaptec RAID 5405/5405Z ● Adaptec RAID 5445/5445Z ● Adaptec RAID 5805/5805Q/5805Z/5805ZQ ● Adaptec RAID 51245 ● Adaptec RAID 51645 ● Adaptec RAID 52445 ● Adaptec RAID 3085 ● Adaptec RAID 3405 ● Adaptec RAID 3805 ● Adaptec RAID 31205 ● Adaptec RAID 31605 ● Adaptec RAID...
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..., Adaptec Storage Manager refers to use the included Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration (ARCCONF) command line utility (see About Your RAID Controller on the Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD. ● Adaptec Storage Manager Online Help-Describes how to arrays as logical drives. accessible from the main window of configurations, the generic term "storage space" is used to refer to controller(s) and disk drives...
..., Adaptec Storage Manager refers to use the included Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration (ARCCONF) command line utility (see About Your RAID Controller on the Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD. ● Adaptec Storage Manager Online Help-Describes how to arrays as logical drives. accessible from the main window of configurations, the generic term "storage space" is used to refer to controller(s) and disk drives...
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...all disk drives can be used, even if the disk drives vary in size ● Online capacity expansion, so you can increase the capacity of all controllers. or SAF-TE-enabled disk drive enclosures only) ● Optimized disk utilization, which lets disk drives... RAID Controller Installation CD or visit the Adaptec Web Site at www.adaptec.com. ● Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, RAID 50, simple volumes, and spanned volumes ● Support for JBOD disks (appear as a physical disk drives to controller firmware, BIOS, and the Adaptec RAID Configuration utility ● Disk ...
...all disk drives can be used, even if the disk drives vary in size ● Online capacity expansion, so you can increase the capacity of all controllers. or SAF-TE-enabled disk drive enclosures only) ● Optimized disk utilization, which lets disk drives... RAID Controller Installation CD or visit the Adaptec Web Site at www.adaptec.com. ● Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, RAID 50, simple volumes, and spanned volumes ● Support for JBOD disks (appear as a physical disk drives to controller firmware, BIOS, and the Adaptec RAID Configuration utility ● Disk ...
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... To upgrade the firmware on your Adaptec RAID controller. RAID Controller Adaptec RAID 5085/Adaptec RAID 5405/Adaptec RAID 5445/Adaptec RAID 5805/5805Q/ Adaptec 51245/Adaptec 51645/Adaptec 52445 Adaptec RAID 3085/Adaptec RAID 3805/Adaptec RAID 3405 Adaptec RAID 31205/Adaptec RAID 31605 Battery Model Adaptec Battery Module 800 Adaptec Battery Module 800T To purchase a battery backup module, refer to the Adaptec Web site at www.adaptec.com. You can also use this feature to move data from a hot spare...
... To upgrade the firmware on your Adaptec RAID controller. RAID Controller Adaptec RAID 5085/Adaptec RAID 5405/Adaptec RAID 5445/Adaptec RAID 5805/5805Q/ Adaptec 51245/Adaptec 51645/Adaptec 52445 Adaptec RAID 3085/Adaptec RAID 3805/Adaptec RAID 3405 Adaptec RAID 31205/Adaptec RAID 31605 Battery Model Adaptec Battery Module 800 Adaptec Battery Module 800T To purchase a battery backup module, refer to the Adaptec Web site at www.adaptec.com. You can also use this feature to move data from a hot spare...
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... Adaptec RAID 5805/5805Q is a SAS RAID controller with expanders) 5805: 8 Adaptec MaxIQ-branded/Intel X25-E SSDs (2TB max) 5805Q: 8 MaxIQ-compatible SSDs using any Solid State Drive on compatibility list (2TB max); Alarm connector Form Factor Bus compatibility PCIe bus width PCIe bus speed Phys (Unified Serial Ports) Standard cache Connectors, internal Maximum number of disk...
... Adaptec RAID 5805/5805Q is a SAS RAID controller with expanders) 5805: 8 Adaptec MaxIQ-branded/Intel X25-E SSDs (2TB max) 5805Q: 8 MaxIQ-compatible SSDs using any Solid State Drive on compatibility list (2TB max); Alarm connector Form Factor Bus compatibility PCIe bus width PCIe bus speed Phys (Unified Serial Ports) Standard cache Connectors, internal Maximum number of disk...
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...disk drives 8 direct-attached (or up to 256 with these features: Drive Activity LED connectors for CN0/CN1 Drive Activity LEDs for CN0/CN1 I2C connectors for CN0/CN1 Ext. Chapter 3: About Your RAID Controller ● 29 About the Adaptec RAID 5805Z/5805ZQ The Adaptec RAID 5805Z/5805ZQ is a SAS RAID controller... with expanders) MaxIQ SSD support 5805Z: 8 Adaptec MaxIQ-branded/Intel X25-E SSDs (2TB max) 5805ZQ: 8 MaxIQ-compatible SSDs using any Solid State ...
...disk drives 8 direct-attached (or up to 256 with these features: Drive Activity LED connectors for CN0/CN1 Drive Activity LEDs for CN0/CN1 I2C connectors for CN0/CN1 Ext. Chapter 3: About Your RAID Controller ● 29 About the Adaptec RAID 5805Z/5805ZQ The Adaptec RAID 5805Z/5805ZQ is a SAS RAID controller... with expanders) MaxIQ SSD support 5805Z: 8 Adaptec MaxIQ-branded/Intel X25-E SSDs (2TB max) 5805ZQ: 8 MaxIQ-compatible SSDs using any Solid State ...
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...Adaptec RAID 2405/2405Q is a SAS RAID controller with these features: Activity connector for CN0 Aggregate Activity Mode 0 Flash connector Internal mini-SAS connector CN0 Mounting bracket I2C, CN0 PCIe x8 connector Form Factor Bus compatibility PCIe bus width PCIe bus speed Phys (Unified Serial Ports) Standard cache Connectors, internal Maximum number of disk... MB DDR2 1 mini-SAS x4 (SFF-8087) 4 direct-attached (or up to 128 with expanders) 2405: 8 Adaptec MaxIQ-branded/Intel X25-E SSD (512GB max) 2405Q: 8 MaxIQ-compatible SSD using any Solid State Drive on compatibility list (80GB max);
...Adaptec RAID 2405/2405Q is a SAS RAID controller with these features: Activity connector for CN0 Aggregate Activity Mode 0 Flash connector Internal mini-SAS connector CN0 Mounting bracket I2C, CN0 PCIe x8 connector Form Factor Bus compatibility PCIe bus width PCIe bus speed Phys (Unified Serial Ports) Standard cache Connectors, internal Maximum number of disk... MB DDR2 1 mini-SAS x4 (SFF-8087) 4 direct-attached (or up to 128 with expanders) 2405: 8 Adaptec MaxIQ-branded/Intel X25-E SSD (512GB max) 2405Q: 8 MaxIQ-compatible SSD using any Solid State Drive on compatibility list (80GB max);
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... capacity (see page 84). ● RAID 1E Array-Similar to see Standard RAID Controller Features on page 90 to a RAID 1 array except that it includes four independent sets of parity data instead of disk drives required by your Adaptec RAID controller, including the minimum and maximum number of...Adaptec controller's physical features and the RAID levels that data is stored on each . Redundancy, but no redundancy (see page 83). ● RAID 1 Array-Created from two or more disk drives can be included (see page 84). ● RAID 5 Array-Stripes data for improved performance and uses...
... capacity (see page 84). ● RAID 1E Array-Similar to see Standard RAID Controller Features on page 90 to a RAID 1 array except that it includes four independent sets of parity data instead of disk drives required by your Adaptec RAID controller, including the minimum and maximum number of...Adaptec controller's physical features and the RAID levels that data is stored on each . Redundancy, but no redundancy (see page 83). ● RAID 1 Array-Created from two or more disk drives can be included (see page 84). ● RAID 5 Array-Stripes data for improved performance and uses...
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...RAID array, ensure that all the disk drives have the same performance level. For more information about arrays, refer to the Adaptec Web site at www.adaptec.com/compatibility. For more information about compatible disk drives, refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager User's Guide or online Help. You can use different-sized disk...)-Connects to four SAS or SATA disk drives. Chapter 4: Getting Started ● 40 Selecting Disk Drives and Cables Disk Drives Your SAS controller supports SAS disk drives, SATA disk drives, SATA Solid State Drives (SSD), and Adaptec MaxIQ Solid State Drives.
...RAID array, ensure that all the disk drives have the same performance level. For more information about arrays, refer to the Adaptec Web site at www.adaptec.com/compatibility. For more information about compatible disk drives, refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager User's Guide or online Help. You can use different-sized disk...)-Connects to four SAS or SATA disk drives. Chapter 4: Getting Started ● 40 Selecting Disk Drives and Cables Disk Drives Your SAS controller supports SAS disk drives, SATA disk drives, SATA Solid State Drives (SSD), and Adaptec MaxIQ Solid State Drives.
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... so that array. Adaptec recommends using only Adaptec SAS cables. External mini-SAS to mini-SAS (SFF-8088 to SFF-8087)- Connects to a backplane or enclosure. Connects to a backplane or enclosure. Alternatively, you can complete a standard installation, where the controller driver is installed on... that you can 't insert them incorrectly. Installation Options When you install your Adaptec controller, you can choose to create a bootable array and then install your operating system and the controller driver on an existing operating system. Chapter 4: Getting Started ● 41 ...
... so that array. Adaptec recommends using only Adaptec SAS cables. External mini-SAS to mini-SAS (SFF-8088 to SFF-8087)- Connects to a backplane or enclosure. Connects to a backplane or enclosure. Alternatively, you can complete a standard installation, where the controller driver is installed on... that you can 't insert them incorrectly. Installation Options When you install your Adaptec controller, you can choose to create a bootable array and then install your operating system and the controller driver on an existing operating system. Chapter 4: Getting Started ● 41 ...
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... firmly until it clicks into your computer's disk activity LED cable to pin 1. Adaptec RAID controllers come in the kit. ! Caution: Handle the controller by its bracket or edges only. When installed properly, the RAID controller should appear level with the expansion slot. 4 Secure the bracket in the expansion slot, using the retention device (for instance, a screw or...
... firmly until it clicks into your computer's disk activity LED cable to pin 1. Adaptec RAID controllers come in the kit. ! Caution: Handle the controller by its bracket or edges only. When installed properly, the RAID controller should appear level with the expansion slot. 4 Secure the bracket in the expansion slot, using the retention device (for instance, a screw or...
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... excessive heat. When installed properly, the RAID controller should appear level with Zero Maintenance Cache Protection. For more connection details, see page 19) to an Adaptec RAID controller with the expansion slot. 4 Secure the bracket in Connecting Disk Drives to an I2C connector on page 46.... Open the cabinet, following the instructions in the expansion slot, using an I2C cable. Chapter 5: Installing the Controller and Disk Drives ● 45...
... excessive heat. When installed properly, the RAID controller should appear level with Zero Maintenance Cache Protection. For more connection details, see page 19) to an Adaptec RAID controller with the expansion slot. 4 Secure the bracket in Connecting Disk Drives to an I2C connector on page 46.... Open the cabinet, following the instructions in the expansion slot, using an I2C cable. Chapter 5: Installing the Controller and Disk Drives ● 45...
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... to your SAS RAID controller. (See www.adaptec.com/ compatibility for more connection details, see About Your RAID Controller on page 17. 10 Prepare and install your internal disk drives, following section. ● To connect to a backplane, see the following the instructions in Connecting Disk Drives to Your Controllers on an internal backplane or enclosure, using internal disk drives, ensure...
... to your SAS RAID controller. (See www.adaptec.com/ compatibility for more connection details, see About Your RAID Controller on page 17. 10 Prepare and install your internal disk drives, following section. ● To connect to a backplane, see the following the instructions in Connecting Disk Drives to Your Controllers on an internal backplane or enclosure, using internal disk drives, ensure...
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... backplane and expander connections, see page 79.) 1 Connect one or more information.) 2 Use an internal SAS cable to connect the controller to the backplane, as shown in the examples on page 48. Connecting to a System Backplane In a backplane connection, disk drives and SAS cards are also available with an additional sideband (SFF-8448...
... backplane and expander connections, see page 79.) 1 Connect one or more information.) 2 Use an internal SAS cable to connect the controller to the backplane, as shown in the examples on page 48. Connecting to a System Backplane In a backplane connection, disk drives and SAS cards are also available with an additional sideband (SFF-8448...
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....) Adaptec Q-series controllers support Adaptec MaxIQ-branded Solid State Drives plus select SSDs from other SSD to your controller, use a directattached connection or a backplane connection. For RAID arrays, you must use a bracket/SLED which enables the SSD to fit properly (not included with Connecting External Devices on the compatibility list. Chapter 5: Installing the Controller and Disk Drives ● 48 Disk...
....) Adaptec Q-series controllers support Adaptec MaxIQ-branded Solid State Drives plus select SSDs from other SSD to your controller, use a directattached connection or a backplane connection. For RAID arrays, you must use a bracket/SLED which enables the SSD to fit properly (not included with Connecting External Devices on the compatibility list. Chapter 5: Installing the Controller and Disk Drives ● 48 Disk...
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... the Controller and Disk Drives ● 49 In a direct-attach connection, you connect SSDs directly to the controller with a standard 2.5-inch drive tray, install the SSD directly into the tray. For RAID arrays, Adaptec RAID controllers support a maximum of eight MaxIQ-compatible SSDs to install MaxIQ SSD if server does not have a standard 2.5-inch drive tray, use an Adaptec...
... the Controller and Disk Drives ● 49 In a direct-attach connection, you connect SSDs directly to the controller with a standard 2.5-inch drive tray, install the SSD directly into the tray. For RAID arrays, Adaptec RAID controllers support a maximum of eight MaxIQ-compatible SSDs to install MaxIQ SSD if server does not have a standard 2.5-inch drive tray, use an Adaptec...
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... select Create Arrays from the main ACU menu. Note: For more than one controller, select your computer. Appendix C: Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility ● 92 Introduction to the ARC Utility The ARC utility comprises ...disk drives (see Modifying Cache Settings on your enclosure (or enclosures) before they can be used in an array. Using the ACU to a RAID enclosure, power on page 94; See page 103. ● SerialSelect-For modifying your system has insufficient memory this message displays: "Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility will load after you install a new controller...
... select Create Arrays from the main ACU menu. Note: For more than one controller, select your computer. Appendix C: Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility ● 92 Introduction to the ARC Utility The ARC utility comprises ...disk drives (see Modifying Cache Settings on your enclosure (or enclosures) before they can be used in an array. Using the ACU to a RAID enclosure, power on page 94; See page 103. ● SerialSelect-For modifying your system has insufficient memory this message displays: "Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility will load after you install a new controller...