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... Drivers and Utilities for Linux A-27 7.1 Making Floppy Diskettes for SCO OpenServer and UnixWare......... Clock Period & Sync. A-23 5.4 ASUS PCI-DA2200 OS/2 Driver Command-Line OptionsA-23 6 Driver Installation for Red Hat 5.1 Installation ...... Clock Frequency...D-1 Appendix E Troubleshooting Guide E-1...and Edit Configuration Parameters G-3 Index A-28 7.3 Installing Red Hat Linux A-28 7.4 Installing SlackWare Linux A-30 7.5 Running the ASUS Text RAID Manager for SlackWare 3.2 Installation.. A-27 7.2 Making Floppy Diskettes for Linux........... A-31 8 Drivers and Utilities for...
... Drivers and Utilities for Linux A-27 7.1 Making Floppy Diskettes for SCO OpenServer and UnixWare......... Clock Period & Sync. A-23 5.4 ASUS PCI-DA2200 OS/2 Driver Command-Line OptionsA-23 6 Driver Installation for Red Hat 5.1 Installation ...... Clock Frequency...D-1 Appendix E Troubleshooting Guide E-1...and Edit Configuration Parameters G-3 Index A-28 7.3 Installing Red Hat Linux A-28 7.4 Installing SlackWare Linux A-30 7.5 Running the ASUS Text RAID Manager for SlackWare 3.2 Installation.. A-27 7.2 Making Floppy Diskettes for Linux........... A-31 8 Drivers and Utilities for...
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...is also an ideal solution for a RAID subsystem. The controller has comprehensive drive failure management that allows automatic reassignment of ASUS PCI-DA2200 are performed by an AMD 5x86 CPU coupled with high-speed DRAMs and firmware in the next chapter. Remarkably, all... host system equipped with background rebuilding of RAID technology. The ASUS PCI-DA2200 has been designed with the high-performance and fault-tolerant disk storage operation of data. It is encountered during a write. ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 1-1 Hot-swapping is supported through automatic disconnection ...
...is also an ideal solution for a RAID subsystem. The controller has comprehensive drive failure management that allows automatic reassignment of ASUS PCI-DA2200 are performed by an AMD 5x86 CPU coupled with high-speed DRAMs and firmware in the next chapter. Remarkably, all... host system equipped with background rebuilding of RAID technology. The ASUS PCI-DA2200 has been designed with the high-performance and fault-tolerant disk storage operation of data. It is encountered during a write. ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 1-1 Hot-swapping is supported through automatic disconnection ...
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... Local Spare) § 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: 9.21"(L) x 4.2"(W) ü Supports up to 15 SCSI drives per channel ü Up to 8 logical drives, each with independent RAID modes ü...-Wide-SCSI (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 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 2-1
... Local Spare) § 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: 9.21"(L) x 4.2"(W) ü Supports up to 15 SCSI drives per channel ü Up to 8 logical drives, each with independent RAID modes ü...-Wide-SCSI (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 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 2-1
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ü Full Ultra2 Wide SCSI-2 implementation including Tagged Command Queuing and Multi-Threaded I/O ü Uses AMD 5x86-133 CPU with all executable firmware downloaded into high-speed DRAM ü EDO DRAM supported for enhanced performance ü Up to 128 Mbytes of intelligent Read-Ahead/Write-Back cache ü Firmware resides in easy-to-update Flash Memory ü GUI RAID Manager and Text RAID Manager interfaces for RAID management 2-2 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual
ü Full Ultra2 Wide SCSI-2 implementation including Tagged Command Queuing and Multi-Threaded I/O ü Uses AMD 5x86-133 CPU with all executable firmware downloaded into high-speed DRAM ü EDO DRAM supported for enhanced performance ü Up to 128 Mbytes of intelligent Read-Ahead/Write-Back cache ü Firmware resides in easy-to-update Flash Memory ü GUI RAID Manager and Text RAID Manager interfaces for RAID management 2-2 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual
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... all connected drives into one single volume. • Increases disk access speed by mirroring or parity operation. The ASUS PCI-DA2200 RAID controller provides complete RAID functionality and enhanced drive failure management. 3.1 RAID Management RAID stands for Redundant Array of... 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-DA2200 User's Manual 3-1 Choosing the right RAID level and drive failure management can increase Availability, subsequently increasing Performance and Capacity.
... all connected drives into one single volume. • Increases disk access speed by mirroring or parity operation. The ASUS PCI-DA2200 RAID controller provides complete RAID functionality and enhanced drive failure management. 3.1 RAID Management RAID stands for Redundant Array of... 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-DA2200 User's Manual 3-1 Choosing the right RAID level and drive failure management can increase Availability, subsequently increasing Performance and Capacity.
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... + 2 GB Hard Drive Logical 2+3+1+2=8GBLogicalDrive Drive NRAID stands for Just a Bunch of Drives. NRAID does not provide data redundancy. JBOD does not provide data redundancy. 3-2 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual
... + 2 GB Hard Drive Logical 2+3+1+2=8GBLogicalDrive Drive NRAID stands for Just a Bunch of Drives. NRAID does not provide data redundancy. JBOD does not provide data redundancy. 3-2 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual
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... RAID 0 Minimum 2 Disks required Capacity N Redundancy No Logical Drive Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 Block 8 . . RAID 0 provides the highest performance but no redundancy. ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 3-3 Physical Disks Striping Block 1 Block 3 Block 5 Block 7 . . Data in one hard drive to another. data stored in the logical drive is striped (distributed...
... RAID 0 Minimum 2 Disks required Capacity N Redundancy No Logical Drive Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 Block 8 . . RAID 0 provides the highest performance but no redundancy. ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 3-3 Physical Disks Striping Block 1 Block 3 Block 5 Block 7 . . Data in one hard drive to another. data stored in the logical drive is striped (distributed...
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... and Striping. If you wish to perform RAID 1, the controller will not appear in the list of the failed drive from the dedicated parity drive. 3-4 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual Physical Disks Striping Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 . . RAID (0+1) allows multiple drive failure because of the full redundancy of the hard...
... and Striping. If you wish to perform RAID 1, the controller will not appear in the list of the failed drive from the dedicated parity drive. 3-4 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual Physical Disks Striping Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 . . RAID (0+1) allows multiple drive failure because of the full redundancy of the hard...
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... and automatically starts 3 to a logical drive X Local 1 Spare Drive LS When one dedicated hard drive. When a member drive of the logical drive fails, the Global ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 3-5 RAID 5 Striping with Interspersed Parity RAID 5 Minimum 3 Disks required Capacity N-1 Redundancy Yes Logical Drive Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 Block 8 . . Parity...
... and automatically starts 3 to a logical drive X Local 1 Spare Drive LS When one dedicated hard drive. When a member drive of the logical drive fails, the Global ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 3-5 RAID 5 Striping with Interspersed Parity RAID 5 Minimum 3 Disks required Capacity N-1 Redundancy Yes Logical Drive Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 Block 8 . . Parity...
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... Drive to rebuild. Take note though that logical drive and automatically starts to rebuild. 1 2 3 Logical Drive 0 X 1 2 1 2 GS Global Spare 4 3 Drive Logical Drive 1 Logical Drive 2 The ASUS PCI-DA2200 RAID controller provides both Local Spare Drive and Global Spare Drive functions. On certain occasions, applying these two functions together will join that logical drive... from any logical drive fails, the Global Spare Drive joins that the Local Spare Drive always has higher priority than the Global Spare Drive. However 3-6 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual
... Drive to rebuild. Take note though that logical drive and automatically starts to rebuild. 1 2 3 Logical Drive 0 X 1 2 1 2 GS Global Spare 4 3 Drive Logical Drive 1 Logical Drive 2 The ASUS PCI-DA2200 RAID controller provides both Local Spare Drive and Global Spare Drive functions. On certain occasions, applying these two functions together will join that logical drive... from any logical drive fails, the Global Spare Drive joins that the Local Spare Drive always has higher priority than the Global Spare Drive. However 3-6 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual
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... from happening, the controller provides an easy way of excess capacity since these logical drives require 4 GB only. This LED will prevent you will light. ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 3-7
... from happening, the controller provides an easy way of excess capacity since these logical drives require 4 GB only. This LED will prevent you will light. ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 3-7
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... light steadily for about one minute. LED Steadily ON LED Steadily ON LED Steadily ON LED Steadily ON LED Steadily ON 3.2.3 Automatic Rebuild and Manual 3-8 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual The "Flash All SCSI Drives" function will light LEDs of the defective drive did not light on the "Flash Selected SCSI Drive" function...
... light steadily for about one minute. LED Steadily ON LED Steadily ON LED Steadily ON LED Steadily ON LED Steadily ON 3.2.3 Automatic Rebuild and Manual 3-8 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual The "Flash All SCSI Drives" function will light LEDs of the defective drive did not light on the "Flash Selected SCSI Drive" function...
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No "Periodic Auto-Detect Failure Drive Swap Check Time" enabled? If there is a Local Spare Drive assigned to this logical drive. ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 3-9 If yes, it will detect whether or not the failed drive has been swapped (by checking the failed drive's channel/ID). Once the ...
No "Periodic Auto-Detect Failure Drive Swap Check Time" enabled? If there is a Local Spare Drive assigned to this logical drive. ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 3-9 If yes, it will detect whether or not the failed drive has been swapped (by checking the failed drive's channel/ID). Once the ...
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..., the controller will first check whether there is any Local Spare Drive assigned to rebuild again until the user applies another forced-manual rebuild. 3-10 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual If there is no available drive for rebuilding, the controller will begin with the spare drive. Yes Rebuild using the replaced drive. If...
..., the controller will first check whether there is any Local Spare Drive assigned to rebuild again until the user applies another forced-manual rebuild. 3-10 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual If there is no available drive for rebuilding, the controller will begin with the spare drive. Yes Rebuild using the replaced drive. If...
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... depend on LD Normal Drive Writes Performs Verify-after data has been written to verify after -Write during normal I /O requests while rebuilding the logical drives. ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 3-11 Rebuild priority can be configured through either the Text RAID Manager or the GUI RAID Manager. 3.3.2 Verify-after-Write The controller has... Rebuild in RAID (0+1) RAID (0+1) allows multiple drive failure and concurrent multiple drive rebuild. These drives will be scanned and set as Local Spare Drives. The ASUS PCI-DA2200 RAID controller provides background rebuilding ability.
... depend on LD Normal Drive Writes Performs Verify-after data has been written to verify after -Write during normal I /O requests while rebuilding the logical drives. ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 3-11 Rebuild priority can be configured through either the Text RAID Manager or the GUI RAID Manager. 3.3.2 Verify-after-Write The controller has... Rebuild in RAID (0+1) RAID (0+1) allows multiple drive failure and concurrent multiple drive rebuild. These drives will be scanned and set as Local Spare Drives. The ASUS PCI-DA2200 RAID controller provides background rebuilding ability.
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Hard drives will perform Verify-after-Write according to the selected method. 3-12 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual Each method can be enabled or disabled individually.
Hard drives will perform Verify-after-Write according to the selected method. 3-12 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual Each method can be enabled or disabled individually.
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... a larger - 128K - "Optimization for small-random I /O" (shows "INVALID") and vice versa because the stripe size is different. The ASUS PCI-DA2200 RAID controller provides the options to make available the logical drive data again. 3-14 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual The change will not read/write when using largeblock, sequential files instead of the controller's internal...
... a larger - 128K - "Optimization for small-random I /O" (shows "INVALID") and vice versa because the stripe size is different. The ASUS PCI-DA2200 RAID controller provides the options to make available the logical drive data again. 3-14 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual The change will not read/write when using largeblock, sequential files instead of the controller's internal...
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... drive should be performed only when no logical drive exist. There are powered-up at the same time, spinning-up at four seconds interval. 3-16 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual Power off all hard drives and controller, and power them will not spin-up the hard drives serially is unable to provide sufficient...
... drive should be performed only when no logical drive exist. There are powered-up at the same time, spinning-up at four seconds interval. 3-16 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual Power off all hard drives and controller, and power them will not spin-up the hard drives serially is unable to provide sufficient...
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If the controller attempts to read /write requests that are configured as failed a drive 3-18 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual It is the time interval that the controller will wait a longer time for "SCSI I /O Timeout" is highly recommended not to access when the ...
If the controller attempts to read /write requests that are configured as failed a drive 3-18 ASUS PCI-DA2200 User's Manual It is the time interval that the controller will wait a longer time for "SCSI I /O Timeout" is highly recommended not to access when the ...