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BIOS CONFIGURATION

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3.2.1 Physical Devices

To access the physical device function screen, highlight the 

“Physical Devices” field on the adapter’s main menu screen and 

press 

Enter

. (But, the Device Function can only work with the 

first eight devices. You can use the CLI or GUI utility to set others 

devices not listed on the BIOS boot up screen.) A screen similar 

to the following appears:

Adapter#1- I/O=FD9FF000h, F2(Tab): Select Controller, F10: Reset System

ArrowKey Or AZ:Move Cursor, Enter: Select, ESC: Return To Previous Menu Item

Areca Technology Corporation SAS Controller

Main Menu

Miscellaneous Settings

System Information

Physical Devices

Data Protection Function

Write Protect Mode

Write Protect Channel

Write Protect Mode       

Write Protect Mode

Disabled

Enabled

Disabled     

Adapter#1- I/O=FD9FF000h, F2(Tab): Select Controller, F10: Reset System

ArrowKey Or AZ:Move Cursor, Enter: Select, ESC: Return To Previous Menu Item

Areca Technology Corporation SAS Controller

Main Menu

Miscellaneous Settings

System Information

Physical Devices

Please Input Password

**********

Adapter#1- I/O=FD9FF000h, F2(Tab): Select Controller, F10: Reset System

ArrowKey Or AZ:Move Cursor, Enter: Select, ESC: Return To Previous Menu Item

Areca Technology Corporation SAS Controller

Main Menu

Miscellaneous Settings

System Information

Physical Devices

Device Function 

Verify Disk

Identify Disk

Display Device Information

Summary of Contents for ARC-1330 Series

Page 1: ...ARC 1330 Series PCIe 3 0 x8 Lanes 12Gb s SAS Host Adapters SAS Host Adapters USER S Manual Version 1 2 Issue Date September 2021...

Page 2: ...rt 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against in terference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency ener...

Page 3: ...tion 28 3 2 1 2 Verify Disk 29 3 2 1 3 Identify Disk 30 3 2 2 Miscellaneous Settings 31 3 2 2 1 SATA NCQ Support 32 3 2 2 2 SMART Status Polling 32 3 2 2 3 Disk Write Cache 33 3 2 2 4 PCI Interrupt Ty...

Page 4: ...llation for FreeBSD 45 4 5 Driver Installation for Mac OS X 46 4 5 1 Installation Procedures 46 4 5 2 Making Volume Sets Available to Mac OS X 47 Appendix A 49 Upgrading Adapter Flash ROM Process 49 U...

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Page 6: ...s SAS host adapters are able to connect to 12Gb s 6Gb s and 3Gb s SATA SAS SATA hard disk drives allowing for tiered storage that optimizes costs and perfor mance This is because SAS adapters leverage...

Page 7: ...SATA disk firmware and SES microcode download for upgrading enclosure expander firm ware 1 2 Features Hardware Specification PCIe 3 0 x8 lanes x8 x4 and x1 lane widths Up to 12Gb s transfer rates per...

Page 8: ...NCQ Support port multiplier Easy Management Legacy BIOS setup utility Supports Command Line Interface CLI API library for customer to write monitor utility Enclosure management for internal port via L...

Page 9: ...uring the host adapters To ensure personal safety and to protect your equipment and data reading the following information package list carefully before you begin installing Package Contents If your p...

Page 10: ...rt 10 pin header 2 J2 Global Fault Activity LED 4 pin header 3 SCN1 SAS 1 8 Ports Internal SFF 8643 4 D1 D5 D9 D13 D2 D6 D10 D14 Fault LED for SAS Port 1 8 SCN1 SMT LED 5 D17 D21 D25 D30 D20 D24 D28 D...

Page 11: ...in header 2 J2 Global Fault Activity LED 4 pin header 3 CN1 SAS 1 4 Ports External SFF 8644 4 CN2 SAS 5 8 Ports External SFF 8644 5 D1 D3 D5 D7 Fault LED for SAS Port 1 4 CN1 SMT LED 6 D2 D4 D6 D8 Fau...

Page 12: ...pin header 2 J2 Global Fault Activity LED 4 pin header 3 CN1 SAS 1 4 Ports External SFF 8644 4 SCN1 SAS 5 8 Ports Internal SFF 8643 5 D1 D3 D5 D7 Fault LED for SAS Port 1 4 CN1 SMT LED 6 D2 D4 D6 D8 F...

Page 13: ...tem hardware manuals and manuals for the disk or enclosure being installed Personal Safety Instructions Use the following safety instructions to help you protect your computer system from potential da...

Page 14: ...on the card with the selected PCIe 3 0 slot Press down gently but firmly to ensure that the card is properly seated in the slot as shown in Figure 2 4 Then screw the bracket into the computer chassis...

Page 15: ...mple of some internal SAS SATA cables and an external SAS cable You can connect the SAS SATA drives to the host adapters through direct cable and backplane solutions In the direct connection SAS SATA...

Page 16: ...DWARE INSTALLATION 16 The following pictures are the cables that can use on ARC 1330 series SAS host adapters with your application Figure 2 5 SAS Cable Connect to HDD Figure 2 6 Connecting to Backpla...

Page 17: ...ver RAID enclosure with standard SATA connectors backplane The following diagram shows the picture of Mini SAS HD SFF 8643 to 4xSATA cables Backplane with SGPIO header can leverage the SGPIO function...

Page 18: ...n be installed in a server RAID enclosure with Mini SAS HD SFF 8643 internal connectors backplane This Mini SAS HD cable has eight signal pins to sup port four SAS SATA drives and six pins for the SGP...

Page 19: ...rs JBOD The ARC 1330 4i4x or ARC 1330 8x host adapters have Mini SAS HD SFF 8644 external connector each of them can support up to four SAS SATA signals Figure 2 10 Mini SAS HD SFF 8644 Cable The foll...

Page 20: ...able for the global indicator comes with your computer system Cables for the individual drive LEDs may come with a drive cage or you may need to purchase them Global LED Indicator Connector If the sys...

Page 21: ...times sec there is rebuilding activity on that disk drive Activity LED 1 When the activity LED is lit there is I O activity on that disk drive 2 When the LED is not lit there is no activity on that d...

Page 22: ...hapter 4 Driver Installation Step 8 Format Partition and Mount the Volumes After you create a unit it needs to be partitioned formatted and mounted by the operating system There are various steps that...

Page 23: ...starting a system with a SAS host adpater installed it will display the following message on the monitor during the start up sequence after the system bios startup screen but before the op erating sys...

Page 24: ...by the system BIOS to the selected adapter range 0 7 decimal I O Indicates the I O port address assigned by the system BIOS to an adapter IRQ Indicates the interrupt IRQ channel of the selected adapt...

Page 25: ...ave changed settings you will be asked to confirm the exit Adapter 1 I O FD9FF000h F2 Tab Select Controller F10 Reset System ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Return To Previous Menu Item Ar...

Page 26: ...st Adapter s password protection feature The user can only setup the Write Protection feature by providing the cor rect password The password is used to protect the SAS host adapter s Write Protection...

Page 27: ...ellaneous Settings System Information Physical Devices Data Protection Function Write Protect Mode Write Protect Channel Write Protect Mode Write Protect Mode Disabled Enabled Disabled Adapter 1 I O F...

Page 28: ...ATLAS10K5_147SAS 03 SAS P I L 3 03 000 34 GB HUS151436VLS300 00 SATA P I L 0 00 000 76 GB ST6700630NS Adapter 1 I O FD9FF000h F2 Tab Select Controller F10 Reset System ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter...

Page 29: ...S P I L 2 02 000 137 GB ATLAS10K5_147SAS 03 SAS P I L 3 03 000 34 GB HUS151436VLS300 00 SATA P I L 0 00 000 76 GB ST6700630NS Areca Technology Corporation SAS Controller Adapter 1 I O FD9FF000h F2 Tab...

Page 30: ...ces Device Function Display Device Information Low Level Format Disk Verify Disk Identify Disk Verify Disk Device Selection Device Information SAS Port ID 0 01 34 GB HUS151436VLS300 SAS Port ID 0 02 1...

Page 31: ...US151436VLS300 00 SATA P I L 0 00 000 76 GB ST6700630NS Check Drive LED For Identification Press Any Key To Stop 3 2 2 Miscellaneous Settings To access the host adapter miscellaneous settings properti...

Page 32: ...r F10 Reset System ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Return To Previous Menu Item Areca Technology Corporation SAS Controller Main Menu Physical Devices Miscellaneous Settings System Informa...

Page 33: ...ite Cache Disk Write Cache Disabled Enabled Adapter 1 I O FD9FF000h F2 Tab Select Controller F10 Reset System ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Return To Previous Menu Item Areca Technology...

Page 34: ...SAS Controller Main Menu Physical Devices Miscellaneous Settings System Information Miscellaneous Settings Miscellaneous Settings SATA NCQ Support SMART Status Polling Disk Write Cache PCI Interrupt T...

Page 35: ...Miscellaneous Settings SATA NCQ Support SMART Status Polling Disk Write Cache PCI Interrupt Type PCIE Read Request Size Max Phy Link Rate Max Command Xfer Length Delay Before Driver Load INT 13 Servi...

Page 36: ...Phy Link Rate Max Command Xfer Length Delay Before Driver Load INT 13 Service Clear Persistent Mapping Staggered Spin up Config Reset BIOS Parameters Delay Before Driver Load Delay Before Driver Load...

Page 37: ...nge if disks are added or removed from the system Persistent mapping function maps a user defined LUNs to a SAS ports and ensures that the relationship remains static across reboots To enable the clea...

Page 38: ...To Previous Menu Item Areca Technology Corporation SAS Controller Main Menu Physical Devices Miscellaneous Settings System Information Miscellaneous Settings Miscellaneous Settings SATA NCQ Support SM...

Page 39: ...te conditions 3 2 2 11 1 Disks Per Spin up Group To define the of disks per spin up group highlight the Disks Per Spin up Group field from the Staggered Spin up Config screen and press Enter A screen...

Page 40: ...r Main Menu Physical Devices Miscellaneous Settings System Information Miscellaneous Settings Miscellaneous Settings SATA NCQ Support SMART Status Polling Disk Write Cache PCI Interrupt Type PCIE Read...

Page 41: ...7 SAS Address 5005043011AB0013 3 2 3 System Information To access the host adapters system information properties high light the System Information field on the main menu screen and press Enter A scr...

Page 42: ...RC 1330 series host adapters software CD ARC 1330 series host adapters 4 1 Creating the Driver Disk The software CD disc shipped with the ARC 1330 series host adapters are included driver files for Wi...

Page 43: ...apter 3 BIOS Configuration Once the host adapters miscellaneous settings properties configured continue with installation of the driver 3 Re Boot Windows and the OS will recognize the SAS host adapter...

Page 44: ...etter to it and then it will appear in Win dows Explorer 4 2 2 Uninstall controller from Windows To remove the SAS host adapter driver from the Windows system follow the instructions below 1 Ensure th...

Page 45: ...e in cluded on the shipped software CD You can download updated ver sions of compiled and tested drivers for RedHat or SuSE Linux from the Areca web site at http www areca com tw Please refer to the r...

Page 46: ...y the system 4 5 1 Installation Procedures This section describes detailed instructions for installing the Areca Mac driver CLI utility for the ARC 1330 series on your Intel_ based Mac Pro You must ha...

Page 47: ...S icon to locate your CLI program file folder 4 5 2 Making Volume Sets Available to Mac OS X When you reboot the Mac machine the Mac OS X recognizes that a new disk is avail and displays a message ask...

Page 48: ...fy your Partition Information Option setting and click on the Apply button If you re not sure which format to use choose Mac OS X Extended Journaled 4 When a message asks you to confirm you want to pa...

Page 49: ...OS code change in the main directory Read this file first to make sure you are upgrading to the proper binary file The BIOS version and date will be shown on the adapter BIOS startup banner Select the...

Page 50: ...y Version 1 04 command oflash options c ctlr assign controller number default 0 r filename read backup binary into filename from flash w filename write write binary into flash from filename l list lis...

Page 51: ...r s flash ROM contents into in a file The name of the save file is based on the command syntax filename The command syntax for the r command is as follows oflash c filename read backup binary into fil...

Page 52: ...the i13_1330 bin file C oflash c 1 w i13_1330 bin C oflash c 1 w i13_1330 bin Copyright c 2009 Areca Inc All rights reserved Areca SAS Host Adapter Flash Utility Version 1 00 Controller Information C...

Page 53: ...the bootable floppy disk or USB device enter the system BIOS setup utility to change the setting 3 At the DOS command type oflashfollowed by a l command to list all SAS host adapter installed on your...

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