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Table of contents

Installation and User’s Guide

1

Copyright

2

Trademarks

2

Disclaimer

2

Adaptec Customer Support

3

Canadian Compliance Statement

5

Contents

6

Safety Information

10

Technical Specifications

10

About This Guide

11

How to Find More Information

12

Kit Contents and System

13

Requirements

13

Kit Contents

14

About Your RAID Controller

15

Array-level Features

16

Adding Enhanced Features

17

About the Adaptec 3085

18

About the Adaptec 3405

19

About the Adaptec 3805

20

About the Adaptec 31205

21

About the Adaptec 31605

22

Mode 0 Flash connector

22

About the Adaptec 4000

23

About the Adaptec 4800SAS

24

256 MB also available

24

About the Adaptec 4805SAS

25

About the Adaptec 2420SA

26

About the Adaptec 2820SA

27

About the Adaptec 2130SLP

28

About the Adaptec 2230SLP

29

Getting Started

30

Choosing a RAID Level

31

Selecting Disk Drives

32

Selecting Cables

33

SATA Cables

34

Installation Options

35

Basic Installation Steps

35

In this chapter

37

Installing the Controller

38

Connecting External Devices

42

Creating a Bootable Array

43

Setting the Boot Controller

44

Creating an Array

44

Making Your Array Bootable

47

Installing the Driver and an

48

Operating System

48

Creating a Driver Disk

49

Installing with Windows

50

Installing with Red Hat Linux

50

Installing with SUSE Linux

51

Installing with NetWare

51

Installing with OpenServer

52

Installing with Solaris

52

Installing with UnixWare

53

Installing with VMware

53

Installing with FreeBSD

54

Installing on Windows

57

Installing on NetWare

57

Installing on OpenServer

58

Installing on Solaris

58

Installing on UnixWare

59

Installing on VMware

59

Installing on FreeBSD

60

Managing Your Storage Space

61

About Adaptec Storage Manager

62

Which Utility Should I Use?

63

Solving Problems

64

Troubleshooting Checklist

65

Silencing the Alarm

65

Resetting the Controller

67

) Web site at www.scsita.org

68

In this appendix

68

What is SAS?

69

What’s a Phy?

70

What’s a SAS Port?

71

What’s a SAS Address?

71

What’s a SAS Connector?

71

What do SAS Cables Look Like?

71

Direct-attach Connections

72

Backplane Connections

72

SAS Expander Connections

73

Understanding RAID

75

Understanding Drive Segments

76

Non-redundant Arrays (RAID 0)

76

RAID 1 Arrays

77

RAID 1 Enhanced Arrays

77

RAID 10 Arrays

78

RAID 5 Arrays

79

RAID 5EE Arrays

80

RAID 50 Arrays

81

RAID 6 Arrays

82

RAID 60 Arrays

82

Selecting the Best RAID Level

83

Using the Adaptec RAID

84

Configuration Utility

84

Running the ARC Utility

85

Managing Existing Arrays

86

Initializing Disk Drives

86

Rescanning Disk Drives

86

Secure Erasing Disk Drives

87

Opening a -Select Utility

87

Applying Changes and Exiting

87

General Controller Settings

88

Option Description

89

Locating Disk Drives

91

Identifying Disk Drives

91

Viewing the Event Log

92

Running the ACU Using Scripts

95

About Record Mode

96

Required

97

? Description

97

HotspareDrives=0:0:0,0:1:0

98

InitializeAll=Yes

98

ACU exits with an error

99

Keyword Description

100

ACU Error Codes

101

Sample Scripts

102

System Requirements

105

Before You Begin

105

Running the Menu-based AFU

106

Running the

107

I2C Connector Reference

111

Pin Number Signal Description

112

22-55-2161

114

Pin Number

114

SFF-8087 Connector J5:

125

SFF-8087 Connector J18:

125

SFF-8087 Connector J14:

125

22-552101

126

SFF-8484 Connector J7:

128

Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)

129

Environmental Specifications

131

DC Power Requirements

131

Current Requirements

131

Index ● 133

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Index ● 136

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Adaptec, Inc

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691 South Milpitas Boulevard

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Milpitas, CA 95035 USA

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