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Disclaimer ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Trademarks ASUS and ASUSTeK are registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. Novell and NetWare are trademarks or registered trademarks of merchantability or fitness for any implied ...or changes. and/or other countries. DEC and Alpha are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. Product Name: PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 Manual Revision: 1.20 Release Date: May 1999 2 ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual No part of this publication and to make changes from time to notify any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic...
Disclaimer ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Trademarks ASUS and ASUSTeK are registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. Novell and NetWare are trademarks or registered trademarks of merchantability or fitness for any implied ...or changes. and/or other countries. DEC and Alpha are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. Product Name: PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 Manual Revision: 1.20 Release Date: May 1999 2 ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual No part of this publication and to make changes from time to notify any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic...
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... +886-2-2894-3447 ext. 113 Fax: +886-2-2895-9254 Email: tsd@asus.com.tw Newsgroup: news2.asus.com.tw WWW: www.asus.com.tw FTP: ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS ASUS COMPUTER INTERNATIONAL (America) Marketing Address: 6737 Mowry Avenue, Mowry Business Center, Building...ASUS ASUS COMPUTER GmbH (Europe) Marketing Address: Harkort Str. 25, 40880 Ratingen, BRD, Germany Telephone: 49-2102-445011 Fax: 49-2102-442066 Email: [email protected] Tech Support Hotline: BBS: Email: WWW: FTP: 49-2102-499712 49-2102-448690 [email protected] www.asuscom.de ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI...
... +886-2-2894-3447 ext. 113 Fax: +886-2-2895-9254 Email: tsd@asus.com.tw Newsgroup: news2.asus.com.tw WWW: www.asus.com.tw FTP: ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS ASUS COMPUTER INTERNATIONAL (America) Marketing Address: 6737 Mowry Avenue, Mowry Business Center, Building...ASUS ASUS COMPUTER GmbH (Europe) Marketing Address: Harkort Str. 25, 40880 Ratingen, BRD, Germany Telephone: 49-2102-445011 Fax: 49-2102-442066 Email: [email protected] Tech Support Hotline: BBS: Email: WWW: FTP: 49-2102-499712 49-2102-448690 [email protected] www.asuscom.de ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI...
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..., uses and can be determined by turning the equipment off and on a circuit different from digital apparatus set out in accordance with Canadian ICES-003 4 ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual If this unit not expressly approved by one or more of the following two conditions: • This device may not cause harmful...
..., uses and can be determined by turning the equipment off and on a circuit different from digital apparatus set out in accordance with Canadian ICES-003 4 ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual If this unit not expressly approved by one or more of the following two conditions: • This device may not cause harmful...
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...; ASPI Drivers Installation 139 2 NetWare® Driver Installation 141 2.1 Installing NetWare 3.1x 141 2.2 Installing NetWare 4.0x/4.1/4.11 143 3 Windows NT® 3.1/3.51 Driver Installation 151 ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 5
...; ASPI Drivers Installation 139 2 NetWare® Driver Installation 141 2.1 Installing NetWare 3.1x 141 2.2 Installing NetWare 4.0x/4.1/4.11 143 3 Windows NT® 3.1/3.51 Driver Installation 151 ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 5
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... SCSI Drives 194 View and Edit SCSI Channels 195 View and Edit Configuration Parameters 195 Index 197 6 ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual Solaris 2.5.x/2.6 (SPARC 178 8.4 Installing SPARC Driver & Text RAID Manager 180 8.5 Configuring RAID in an Existing... OS/2 2.x/3.0 164 5.3 Updating PCI-DA2100/2200 OS/2 Device Driver 164 5.4 DA2100/2200 OS/2 Driver Command-Line Options ..........165 6 Driver Installation for SCO OpenServer & UnixWare 168 6.1 Installing the SCO OpenServer...
... SCSI Drives 194 View and Edit SCSI Channels 195 View and Edit Configuration Parameters 195 Index 197 6 ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual Solaris 2.5.x/2.6 (SPARC 178 8.4 Installing SPARC Driver & Text RAID Manager 180 8.5 Configuring RAID in an Existing... OS/2 2.x/3.0 164 5.3 Updating PCI-DA2100/2200 OS/2 Device Driver 164 5.4 DA2100/2200 OS/2 Driver Command-Line Options ..........165 6 Driver Installation for SCO OpenServer & UnixWare 168 6.1 Installing the SCO OpenServer...
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... encountered during a write. The controller has comprehensive drive failure management that allows automatic reassignment of ASUS PCI-DA2100/-DA2200 are performed by an Intel486(PCI-DA2100) or AMD 5x86(PCI-DA2200) CPU coupled with high-speed DRAMs and firmware in flash memory. The controller already includes...background rebuilding of RAID technology. Hot-swapping is also an ideal solution for a RAID subsystem. The ASUS PCI-DA2100/-DA2200 has been designed with a Little Endian PCI Local Bus interface. The major features are transparent to any host system equipped with ease of the...
... encountered during a write. The controller has comprehensive drive failure management that allows automatic reassignment of ASUS PCI-DA2100/-DA2200 are performed by an Intel486(PCI-DA2100) or AMD 5x86(PCI-DA2200) CPU coupled with high-speed DRAMs and firmware in flash memory. The controller already includes...background rebuilding of RAID technology. Hot-swapping is also an ideal solution for a RAID subsystem. The ASUS PCI-DA2100/-DA2200 has been designed with a Little Endian PCI Local Bus interface. The major features are transparent to any host system equipped with ease of the...
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... Background rebuilding (Rebuild priority selectable) § Verify-after-Write supported on normal writes, rebuild writes and/or RAID initialization writes ü PCI Rev. 2.1 compliant ü PCI form factor: 6.87"(L) X 4.2"(W) (PCI-DA2100) 9.21"(L) x 4.2"(W) (PCI-DA2200) ü Supports up to 15 SCSI drives per channel ü Up to 8 logical drives, each with independent RAID modes ... ü Prior to first disk access, it allows adjustment of delay time during controller initialization to enhance compatibility with slow-initial drives ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 9
... Background rebuilding (Rebuild priority selectable) § Verify-after-Write supported on normal writes, rebuild writes and/or RAID initialization writes ü PCI Rev. 2.1 compliant ü PCI form factor: 6.87"(L) X 4.2"(W) (PCI-DA2100) 9.21"(L) x 4.2"(W) (PCI-DA2200) ü Supports up to 15 SCSI drives per channel ü Up to 8 logical drives, each with independent RAID modes ... ü Prior to first disk access, it allows adjustment of delay time during controller initialization to enhance compatibility with slow-initial drives ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 9
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...PCI-DA2100) or Ultra2-Wide-SCSI (PCI-DA2200) (downward compatible to SCSI-1) ü Compatible and will automatically match any SCSI hard disks with SCSI-1, SCSI-2 or (Ultra)-Wide-SCSI (1 or 2) specification ü Full Ultra-Wide (PCI-DA2100) or Ultra2-Wide (PCI...-DA2200) SCSI-2 implementation including Tagged Command Queuing and Multi-Threaded I/O ü Uses Intel 486DX2-100 (PCI-DA2100) or AMD 5x86...EDO DRAM supported for enhanced performance ü Up to 64MB (PCI-DA2100) or 128MB (PCI-DA2200) of intelligent Read-Ahead/Write-Back cache ü ...
...PCI-DA2100) or Ultra2-Wide-SCSI (PCI-DA2200) (downward compatible to SCSI-1) ü Compatible and will automatically match any SCSI hard disks with SCSI-1, SCSI-2 or (Ultra)-Wide-SCSI (1 or 2) specification ü Full Ultra-Wide (PCI-DA2100) or Ultra2-Wide (PCI...-DA2200) SCSI-2 implementation including Tagged Command Queuing and Multi-Threaded I/O ü Uses Intel 486DX2-100 (PCI-DA2100) or AMD 5x86...EDO DRAM supported for enhanced performance ü Up to 64MB (PCI-DA2100) or 128MB (PCI-DA2200) of intelligent Read-Ahead/Write-Back cache ü ...
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... The advantages of RAID are: Availability, Capacity and Performance. With RAID, storage speed increases as more drives are the RAID levels? The ASUS PCI-DA2100/-DA2200 RAID controller provides complete RAID functionality and enhanced drive failure management. 3.1 RAID Management RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Drives. What... 5 Performance Sequential Drive R: Highest W: Highest R: High W: Medium R: High W: Medium R: High W: Medium Performance Random Drive R: High W: Highest R: Medium W: Low R: Medium W: Low R: High W: Low ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 11
... The advantages of RAID are: Availability, Capacity and Performance. With RAID, storage speed increases as more drives are the RAID levels? The ASUS PCI-DA2100/-DA2200 RAID controller provides complete RAID functionality and enhanced drive failure management. 3.1 RAID Management RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Drives. What... 5 Performance Sequential Drive R: Highest W: Highest R: High W: Medium R: High W: Medium R: High W: Medium Performance Random Drive R: High W: Highest R: Medium W: Low R: Medium W: Low R: High W: Low ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 11
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.... The controller treats each drive as a stand-alone disk, therefore each drive is the total capacity of Drives. JBOD does not provide data redundancy. 12 ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual JBOD Single-drive Control 2 GB = L o g ic a l D r i v e 3 GB = L o g ic a l D r i v e 1 GB = L o g ic a l D r i v e 2 GB = L o g ic a l D r i v e 2 GB H a r d D riv e 3 GB H a r d D riv e 1 GB H a r d D riv e 2 GB H a r d D riv e JBOD Minimum...
.... The controller treats each drive as a stand-alone disk, therefore each drive is the total capacity of Drives. JBOD does not provide data redundancy. 12 ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual JBOD Single-drive Control 2 GB = L o g ic a l D r i v e 3 GB = L o g ic a l D r i v e 1 GB = L o g ic a l D r i v e 2 GB = L o g ic a l D r i v e 2 GB H a r d D riv e 3 GB H a r d D riv e 1 GB H a r d D riv e 2 GB H a r d D riv e JBOD Minimum...
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.... Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 . . RAID 1 can only be performed automatically. If there are more than two hard drives, RAID (0+1) will be performed with two hard drives. ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 13 RAID 1 mirrors the . RAID 1 Disk Mirroring Logical Drive Physical Disks Block 1 Block 2 Mirroring Block 3 Block 1 Mirror 1 RAID 1 Disks required 2 Capacity N/2 Redundancy...
.... Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 . . RAID 1 can only be performed automatically. If there are more than two hard drives, RAID (0+1) will be performed with two hard drives. ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 13 RAID 1 mirrors the . RAID 1 Disk Mirroring Logical Drive Physical Disks Block 1 Block 2 Mirroring Block 3 Block 1 Mirror 1 RAID 1 Disks required 2 Capacity N/2 Redundancy...
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... will not appear in the list of the hard drives. Physical Disks Striping Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 . . Parity (1,2) Parity (3,4) Parity (5,6) Parity (7,8) . . 14 ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual
... will not appear in the list of the hard drives. Physical Disks Striping Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 . . Parity (1,2) Parity (3,4) Parity (5,6) Parity (7,8) . . 14 ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual
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... RAID 5 Minimum 3 Disks required Capacity N-1 Redundancy Yes RAID 5 is similar to storing the parity data. Logical Drive Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 Block 8 . . ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 15 Block 2 Block 3 Parity (5,6) Block 8 . .
... RAID 5 Minimum 3 Disks required Capacity N-1 Redundancy Yes RAID 5 is similar to storing the parity data. Logical Drive Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 Block 8 . . ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 15 Block 2 Block 3 Parity (5,6) Block 8 . .
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When a member drive from any logical drives. 1 2 3 Logical Drive 0 1 2 Logical Drive 1 1 2 4 3 Logical Drive 2 16 ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual Global Spare Drive GS Global Spare Drive GS Global Spare Drives serve any of this specified logical drive fails, the Local Spare ...
When a member drive from any logical drives. 1 2 3 Logical Drive 0 1 2 Logical Drive 1 1 2 4 3 Logical Drive 2 16 ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual Global Spare Drive GS Global Spare Drive GS Global Spare Drives serve any of this specified logical drive fails, the Local Spare ...
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... RAID controller provides both Local Spare Drive and Global Spare Drive functions. It is in Logical Drives 1 and 2 are all 4 GB drives. ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 17 On certain occasions, applying these logical drives require 4 GB only. If the failed drive is not possible for a failed drive that ...
... RAID controller provides both Local Spare Drive and Global Spare Drive functions. It is in Logical Drives 1 and 2 are all 4 GB drives. ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 17 On certain occasions, applying these logical drives require 4 GB only. If the failed drive is not possible for a failed drive that ...
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... in the RAID 5 logical drive, make it a point to replace the failed drive with a new drive to read /write LED of identifying for a drive. 18 ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 3 Local Spare Drive LS (9GB) Global Spare Drive GS (4GB) Local Spare Drive always has higher priority than Global Spare Drive. 1 2 (9GB...
... in the RAID 5 logical drive, make it a point to replace the failed drive with a new drive to read /write LED of identifying for a drive. 18 ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 3 Local Spare Drive LS (9GB) Global Spare Drive GS (4GB) Local Spare Drive always has higher priority than Global Spare Drive. 1 2 (9GB...
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.../Write LED of all the drives except the defective one. LED Steadily ON LED Steadily ON LED Steadily ON LED Steadily ON LED Steadily ON ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 19 If the LED of all connected drives will light for about one minute. 3 Flash Selected SCSI Drive The Read/Write LED...
.../Write LED of all the drives except the defective one. LED Steadily ON LED Steadily ON LED Steadily ON LED Steadily ON LED Steadily ON ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 19 If the LED of all connected drives will light for about one minute. 3 Flash Selected SCSI Drive The Read/Write LED...
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... drive is not swapped but a local spare drive is a Local Spare Drive assigned to the logical drive, rebuilding will begin with the spare drive. 20 ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual No Any global spare drive Yes assigned to logical drive? When the "Periodic Auto-Detect Failure Drive Swap Check Time" is no...
... drive is not swapped but a local spare drive is a Local Spare Drive assigned to the logical drive, rebuilding will begin with the spare drive. 20 ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual No Any global spare drive Yes assigned to logical drive? When the "Periodic Auto-Detect Failure Drive Swap Check Time" is no...
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... is no available drive for rebuilding, the controller will automatically rebuild the logical drive. These drives will be scanned and set as Local Spare Drives. ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 21 3 Manual Rebuild When a user applies forced-manual rebuild, the controller will first check whether there is any Local Spare Drive assigned...
... is no available drive for rebuilding, the controller will automatically rebuild the logical drive. These drives will be scanned and set as Local Spare Drives. ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 21 3 Manual Rebuild When a user applies forced-manual rebuild, the controller will first check whether there is any Local Spare Drive assigned...