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Creating an Array With the ARRAYCONFIG U2 Utility

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Prepare the array as you normally would prepare a boot disk 
drive for your operating system. See either Chapter 4, Installing 
the Software Driver for Windows NT, Chapter 5, Installing the 
Software Driver for Novell NetWare, or Chapter 6, Installing the 
Software Driver for SCO UnixWare.

Note: 

You cannot use this procedure to change the boot 

order of a SCSI disk drive that is not part of an array. If you 
want to do this, create a one-disk RAID 0 array from the 
disk. (Data is not actually striped on a one-disk array.)

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Summary of Contents for AAA-130U2 SERIES

Page 1: ...INSTALLATION AND HARDWARE GUIDE AAA 130U2 SERIES ULTRA2 SCSI RAID CARD...

Page 2: ...s Boulevard Milpitas CA 95035 R 1999 Adaptec Inc All rights reserved Adaptec and the Adaptec logo are trademarks of Adaptec Inc which may be regis tered in some jurisdictions Printed in Singapore STOC...

Page 3: ...R AAA 130U2 Series Ultra2 SCSI RAID Card Installation and Hardware Guide...

Page 4: ...soft Cor poration in the U S and other countries used under license All other trademarks are owned by their respective owners Changes The material in this document is for information only and is subje...

Page 5: ...on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between equipment and receiver...

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Page 7: ...nate the Ends 2 7 Additional Hints for Connecting SCSI Devices 2 8 Connecting SCSI Devices 2 9 Internal Ultra2 SCSI Connector 68 pin 2 10 Internal Ultra SCSI Connector 50 pin 2 13 External Ultra2 SCSI...

Page 8: ...lready Installed 5 7 Netware Installation and Configuration Notes 5 8 6 Installing the Software Driver for SCO UnixWare Installing the Array1000U2 Driver for UnixWare 6 2 Installing the Driver When In...

Page 9: ...ontents C Using a CD ROM Drive Using a CD ROM Drive with DOS C 1 D Obtaining SCSI Cables External Cables D 2 External Connector Diagrams D 2 Internal Ribbon Cables D 2 Internal Connector Diagrams D 2...

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Page 11: ...2 internal connectors and a 68 pin external Ultra2 connector The AAA 133U2 is a three channel full size PCI RAID card with 68 pin internal Ultra2 connectors for Channel A B and C 68 pin external Ultra...

Page 12: ...disk A standard 168 pin EDO 3 3v 60ns or faster DIMM installed on the adapter A DIMM is typically pre installed See the Adaptec Web Site at http www adaptec com raid for a list of approved DIMMs and v...

Page 13: ...the ARRAYCONFIG U2 utility Chapter 3 Install the appropriate Array1000U2 software driver for your operating system Chapter 4 Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 Install the Adaptec CI O Management Software Adapt...

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Page 15: ...efore handling the AAA 131U2 133U2 and any other electronic component ground yourself by touching an unpainted metal surface on your computer chassis AAA 131U2 133U2 RAID Card Layout 2 2 Installing DI...

Page 16: ...re 2 1 AAA 131U2 Major Components 68 pin Internal Ultra2 SCSI Connector 50 pin Internal Ultra SCSI Connector DIMM Socket PCI Bus Contacts LED Connector 68 pin External Ultra2 SCSI Connector DIMM Figur...

Page 17: ...as shown in Figure 2 3 In most cases the AAA 131U2 133U2 comes pre installed with a DIMM If a DIMM is not pre installed a 168 pin EDO 3 3v 60ns or faster DIMM can be used See the Adaptec Web Site at h...

Page 18: ...over from the computer case 3 Locate an unused unobstructed PCI expansion slot and remove the expansion slot cover The expansion slot must be Rev 2 1 or higher compliant and support bus mastering Save...

Page 19: ...onnect the LED cable from the motherboard and connect it to the LED connector on the AAA 131U2 133U2 If the LED has a 2 pin cable connect the cable to pins 1 and 2 of the LED connector Figure 2 5 show...

Page 20: ...attached to a SCSI channel on the AAA 131U2 133U2 as well as the SCSI channel itself must be assigned a unique SCSI ID number from 0 to 15 no duplicate IDs are permitted on a channel ID numbers don t...

Page 21: ...lling a resistor module s On most external SCSI devices termination is controlled by installing or removing a terminating plug see Figures 2 14 and 2 15 on page 2 17 Read the device s doc umentation t...

Page 22: ...cables should not be limp when you pick them up See Appendix D Obtaining SCSI Cables for additional information Cable Lengths The total length of cabling internal and external on each SCSI channel may...

Page 23: ...Devices on page 2 6 Note We recommend keeping Ultra2 devices on separate channels from non Ultra2 devices Peak transfer rates on Ultra2 channels are 80 MBytes sec Connecting a non Ultra2 device to an...

Page 24: ...om non Ultra2 devices Peak transfer rates on Ultra2 channels are 80 MBytes sec Connecting a non Ultra2 device to an Ultra2 SCSI channel limits the entire channel to lower performance levels up to 40 M...

Page 25: ...133U2 Figure 2 8 Connecting Cable to Internal Ultra2 SCSI Connector 68 pin Internal Ultra2 SCSI Connector 68 pin Internal Ultra2 SCSI Cable AAA 131U2 RAID Card AAA 133U2 RAID Card 68 pin Internal Ult...

Page 26: ...inator at the end of the cable such as the cable pro vided in Adaptec AAA 131U2 133U2 kits disable termina tion on all devices connected to the cable If there is no built in terminator terminate the d...

Page 27: ...0 pin connector To connect internal Fast Ultra Narrow SCSI devices a standard 50 pin internal SCSI cable similar to the one shown in Figure 2 10 is required Follow these steps to connect your standard...

Page 28: ...end of the cable to the 50 pin internal Ultra SCSI connector 50 pin Internal Ultra SCSI Connector 50 pin Internal Ultra SCSI Connector 50 pin Internal Ultra SCSI Cable AAA 131U2 RAID Card AAA 133U2 R...

Page 29: ...n terminator at the end of the cable disable termination on all devices connected to the cable If there is no built in termi nator terminate the device connected to the end of the cable only and disab...

Page 30: ...l devices Note We recommend keeping Ultra2 devices on separate channels from non Ultra2 devices Peak transfer rates on Ultra2 channels are 80 MBytes sec Connecting a non Ultra2 device to an Ultra2 SCS...

Page 31: ...3 Connect other external devices by connecting each device to the previous one until all devices are connected The device at the end of the chain must be the only external device terminated 4 Connect...

Page 32: ...disk drive manufacturers All rules for SCSI ID and termination must be followed when installing SCSI device in an array enclosure Ideally the array enclosure itself should provide termination capabili...

Page 33: ...not appear see Appendix B Troubleshooting Before installing the drivers and software for the AAA 131U2 133U2 RAID card you may want to configure SCSI options e g ID Parity Checking and Termination for...

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Page 35: ...configuration of a system that is already in use on a network log all users off the system and shut it down in an orderly manner before you start ARRAYCONFIG U2 Once the array is created use Adaptec...

Page 36: ...ced opera tions such as creating an array with specified disks or adding spare disks to an array being created Creating an Array with Express Setup Follow these steps to create an array with Express S...

Page 37: ...r the array This kind of array contains redundant parity data distrib uted across all disks in the array If any one disk fails data can be reconstructed from the parity information If a second disk fa...

Page 38: ...e appears when the array has been created An error message appears if fewer than two drives are available or if ARRAYCONFIG U2 encounters some other problem If this happens install more drives or run...

Page 39: ...can be reconstructed from the parity information If a second disk fails before the array has been reconstructed all data is lost The actual usable data capacity of the array is equal to one less than...

Page 40: ...ct a partitioned disk if it con tains data you want to keep because any existing data will be erased when the disk becomes part of an array When you have selected the number of drives you specified in...

Page 41: ...64 the default and 128 KBytes The default block size gives the best overall performance in most environments 13 Wait for initialization to complete When you see the message Initialization of array nam...

Page 42: ...stem Wait for ARRAYCONFIG U2 to start automatically 2 Read the text that appears on the initial screens Press any key to view the next screen or press ESC to return to the previous screen 3 Select Cus...

Page 43: ...he Software Driver for Windows NT Chapter 5 Installing the Software Driver for Novell NetWare or Chapter 6 Installing the Software Driver for SCO UnixWare Note You cannot use this procedure to change...

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Page 45: ...g the ARRAYCONFIG U2 utility if you plan to boot from an array See Chapter 3 Once Windows NT and the driver are installed install Adaptec CI O Management Software and use it to add delete and manage a...

Page 46: ...Driver When Installing Windows NT To install the cda1000 sys driver when you are installing Windows NT follow these steps Note During Windows NT installation if your system configuration has multiple...

Page 47: ...ptec Array1000U2 Family Manager Set driver disk in your floppy disk drive and press Enter 6 The screen displays the adapter drivers supported on the disk Select the Adaptec Array1000U2 Family Adapter...

Page 48: ...stall Driver window click the Have Disk button 7 Insert the Adaptec Array1000U2 Family Manager Set driver disk in your floppy disk drive and press Enter Enter the fol lowing path to the installation f...

Page 49: ...ders of data whichever is less or Using MS DOS create a partition using fdisk During Windows NT installation delete the partition created with MS DOS This allows Windows NT Setup to create a system pa...

Page 50: ...2 utility so that the lowest SCSI ID on the lowest channel is a member of the boot array Microsoft BackOffice Small Business Server Microsoft BackOffice Small Business Server features a non bootable i...

Page 51: ...the first array using the ARRAYCONFIG U2 utility if you plan to boot from an array See Chapter 3 Once NetWare and the driver are installed install Adaptec CI O Management Software from the server cons...

Page 52: ...tions below for the version of NetWare you are installing Note The instructions below assume your CD ROM is connected to the AAA 131U2 133U2 If your CD ROM is not connected to the AAA 131U2 133U2 for...

Page 53: ...mscdex exe d aspicd0 M 12 This assigns the CD ROM the next available drive letter typi cally D if there is only one DOS drive 5 Reboot the system to the DOS partition 6 Insert the NetWare CD in your C...

Page 54: ...tings 22 When prompted select Save parameters and continue 23 Select No when prompted to select an additional disk driver 24 Select Continue Installation 25 When NetWare installation is complete insta...

Page 55: ...owever do not select it NetWare 5 0 Follow these instructions only if you are installing NetWare 5 0 for the first time 1 Create a DOS partition and install DOS on your 2 Copy the aspi8u2 sys and aspi...

Page 56: ...om the Welcome to the NetWare server installation screen press F2 for Advanced Settings change Load server at reboot from Yes to No and continue with the installation 11 When NetWare detects device dr...

Page 57: ...the software Installing the Driver When NetWare is Already Installed To update or install the cda1000h ham driver if NetWare is already installed follow the instructions below for the version of NetW...

Page 58: ...he proper path to the driver is specified The correct syntax to load the cda1000h ham driver is load pathname cda1000 Netware Installation and Configuration Notes Larger Than 4 GByte Arrays When insta...

Page 59: ...2 Created the first array using the ARRAYCONFIG U2 utility if you plan to boot from an array See Chapter 3 Once UnixWare and the driver are installed install Adaptec CI O Management Software from the...

Page 60: ...r Set driver disk for SCO UnixWare into your floppy disk drive 3 Select Install HBA Diskette and press F10 4 If you have additional HBA disks insert the next HBA disk select Install HBA Diskette and p...

Page 61: ...insert the HBA disk the Adaptec Array1000U2 Family Manager Set driver disk for SCO UnixWare into your floppy disk drive and press Enter 3 When prompted to select packages select all packages press Re...

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Page 63: ...s appendix describes the default settings explains when you should change them and gives instructions for doing so SCSISelect also includes SCSI disk utilities to list the SCSI IDs of devices connecte...

Page 64: ...dapter SCSI Termination Channel A ULTRA2 LVD SE Connector Fast Ultra SE Connector Channels B C AAA 133U2 only Auto Enable Disable Enable Disable Enable Disable Auto Enable Enable SCSI Device Configura...

Page 65: ...r Settings screen To toggle the display between color and monochrome modes press F5 from the main SCSISelect screen this feature does not work on some monitors Exiting SCSISelect To exit SCSISelect pr...

Page 66: ...be low level for matted before you can use your operating system s partition ing and file preparation utilities such as MS DOS Fdisk and Format Most SCSI disk devices are preformatted at the factory a...

Page 67: ...e the ULTRA2 LVD SE connector setting for Channel A at Auto For the remaining termination settings leave them set to Enable unless the AAA 131U2 133U2 does not form one of the physi cal endpoints of t...

Page 68: ...2 SCSI devices make sure this option is set to Yes Note Set Initiate Wide Negotiation to No if you have an 8 bit SCSI device that hangs or exhibits other performance problems Send Start Unit Command W...

Page 69: ...operly seated in a PCI expansion slot Refer to your computer documentation for the slot location Does your computer CMOS setup require you to enable PCI bus parameters see your computer documentation...

Page 70: ...xx MB disk y at Id z on bus 0 on cda1000 sys does not contain a partition suitable for starting Window NT If these messages appear during Windows NT setup do the following 1 Reboot the system using th...

Page 71: ...ows NT this message appears if attempting to create a system partition larger than 4 GBytes Windows NT has a maximum system partition size of 4096 MBytes Create a partition that is smaller than 4 GByt...

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Page 73: ...ftware for the CD ROM This appendix explains how to set up your CD ROM drive so that you can initially install your software Using a CD ROM Drive with DOS To operate a CD ROM drive supported by the AA...

Page 74: ...edit the autoexec bat file to include a command line for mscdex exe The fol lowing examples illustrate the command line format and the com mand options appropriate for most systems Sample command lin...

Page 75: ...mine which scanning method will work best for the given system configuration Use the mb m1 and m2 options only if you want to override the aspi8dos internal scanning mechanism Usually aspi8dos can det...

Page 76: ...Add the L option to the command line if you have a CD ROM drive that can access multiple discs If your computer system includes a Pioneer DRM 600 or DRM 604x multiple disc CD ROM drive you do not need...

Page 77: ...aptec RAID cards For purchasing information contact Adaptec Adaptec Inc 691 S Milpitas Boulevard Milpitas CA 95035 USA Tel 1 800 442 7274 Adaptec Europe Belgium Tel 32 2 352 34 11 Fax 32 2 352 34 00 A...

Page 78: ...mber 5 position 4 devices SCSI card high density 68 pin internal Ultra2 SCSI terminated 1 25 m ACK 68I U2W1 1 ACK 68I U2W ACK F2F 5IT and ACK W2W 5IT have built in active terminators which eliminate t...

Page 79: ...able CD ROM 4 2 A 2 Booting boot drive 3 4 from an array 3 8 B 2 Bus parameters B 1 C Cables See SCSI Cables Cache memory 2 3 CD ROM drive install Windows NT 4 2 using under DOS C 1 Channels 2 5 2 6 C...

Page 80: ...t CD ROM extensions C 1 mscdex exe C 1 N NetWare 5 1 5 8 cda1000h ham 5 7 5 8 startup ncf 5 4 P Parameters B 1 Parity checking A 5 PCI bus 1 2 expansion slot 2 4 parameters B 1 Power cables 2 19 R RAI...

Page 81: ...Termination 2 7 A 2 A 5 B 1 Transfer rates A 2 A 5 Troubleshooting B 1 B 3 U UnixWare 6 1 6 3 driver installation 6 2 6 3 V Verify disk media A 4 W Wide negotiation A 6 Windows NT 4 1 4 6 driver insta...

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