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Adaptec 4000SAS User's Guide (134 pages)

Brand: Adaptec | Category: Peripheral controllers | Size: 2.04 MB |

English

Table of contents

SAS, SATA, and SCSI

1

RAID Controllers

1

Copyright

2

Trademarks

2

Disclaimer

2

Adaptec Customer Support

3

Canadian Compliance Statement

6

Contents

7

6 Creating a Bootable Array

8

9 Managing Your Storage Space

9

10 Solving Problems

9

B Understanding RAID

10

D Using the ACU for DOS

11

F Safety Information

11

G Technical Specifications

11

About This Guide

12

How to Find More Information

14

Kit Contents and

15

System Requirements

15

Kit Contents

16

About Your RAID

18

Controller

18

Array-level Features

19

Adding Enhanced Features

20

RAID Controller Battery Model

21

About the Adaptec 4000SAS

22

About the Adaptec 4800SAS

23

About the Adaptec 4805SAS

24

About the Adaptec 2420SA

25

About the Adaptec 2820SA

26

About the Adaptec 2130SLP

27

30 (15 per channel)

28

Choosing a RAID Level

30

Selecting Disk Drives

31

SAS Cables

32

SATA Cables

33

SCSI Cables

33

Installation Options

34

Basic Installation Steps

34

Installing the Controller

35

Before You Begin

36

Controllers

38

SATA disk drives attached to

39

Next Steps

42

Creating a Bootable

43

Setting the Boot Controller

44

Creating an Array

44

Making Your Array Bootable

49

Installing the Driver and

50

Creating a Driver Disk

51

Installing with Windows

52

Installing with Red Hat Linux

53

Installing with SuSE Linux

53

Installing with NetWare

54

Installing the Driver on an

56

Existing Operating System

56

Installing on Windows

58

Installing on NetWare

59

Managing Your Storage

60

About Adaptec Storage Manager

61

Configuration Utility

62

Which Utility Should I Use?

63

Solving Problems

64

Troubleshooting Checklist

65

Silencing the Alarm

66

Resetting the Controller

68

Introduction to Serial

70

Attached SCSI (SAS)

70

What is SAS?

71

What’s a Phy?

72

What’s a SAS Port?

73

What’s a SAS Address?

73

What’s a SAS Connector?

74

What do SAS Cables Look Like?

75

Direct-attach Connections

76

Backplane Connections

76

SAS Expander Connections

77

Understanding RAID

79

Understanding Drive Segments

80

RAID 0 (Non-RAID Arrays)

80

RAID 1 Arrays

81

RAID 1 Enhanced Arrays

82

RAID 10 Arrays

83

RAID 5 Arrays

84

RAID 5EE Arrays

85

RAID 50 Arrays

86

RAID 6 Arrays

87

RAID 60 Arrays

88

Selecting the Best RAID Level

89

Using the Adaptec RAID

90

Controller Utility

90

Creating a New Array

92

Managing Existing Arrays

92

Initializing Disk Drives

93

Rescanning Disk Drives

93

Secure Erasing Disk Drives

94

Opening a -Select Utility

95

Applying Changes and Exiting

95

General Controller Settings

96

Option Description

97

Viewing the Event Log

100

Using the ACU for DOS

101

Getting Started

102

Running the ACU Using Scripts

103

About Playback Mode

104

About Record Mode

104

Required

105

? Description

105

● Yes—Initialize all drives

107

● No—Disable read caching

108

Maximum (the

109

● No—Disable the write cache

110

Keyword Description

111

ACU Error Codes

112

Sample Scripts

113

=Adaptec

114

Using the Adaptec Flash

115

(for example

116

Obtaining the Firmware

116

AFU with no arguments

117

4 Select Select an Operation

118

AFU LIST

119

AFU Commands

119

UPDATE /C 0

123

UPDATE /C 0, 2, 3

123

Safety Information

125

Technical Specifications

126

Environmental Specifications

127

DC Power Requirements

127

Current Requirements

127

Adaptec, Inc

134

691 South Milpitas Boulevard

134

Milpitas, CA 95035 USA

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