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LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual

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About This Manual .....................................................................ii
Chapter 1: RAID Setup ............................................................1-1

1.1 Change the Speed of SCSI Channel ..........................1-1
1.2 RAID 0 or RAID 1 Setup .............................................1-3
1.3 RAID 5 Setup ..............................................................1-9
1.4 RAID 50 Setup ..........................................................1-15
1.5 RAID 10 Setup ..........................................................1-21
1.6 Rebuild the Arrays .....................................................1-27
1.7 Migration Setup .........................................................1-28
1.8 Hot Spare Setup .......................................................1-29
1.9 Clear RAID ................................................................1-31

Chapter 2 Setup for Operation Systems ......................................

2.1 Install Drives for SCSI RAID ............................................

2.1.1 Microsoft® Windows® .........................................................
2.1.2 Red Hat Linux® ...................................................................

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Page 1: ...LSI MegaRAID User s Manual Q2143 August 2005 ...

Page 2: ...ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES ARISING FROM ANY DEFECT OR ERROR IN THIS MANUAL OR PRODUCT Product warranty or service will not be extended if 1 the product is repaired modiﬁed or altered unless such repair modiﬁcation of alteration is authorized in writing by ASUS or 2 the serial number of the product is defaced or missing Products and corporate names appearing in this manual may or ma...

Page 3: ...AID 0 or RAID 1 Setup 1 3 1 3 RAID 5 Setup 1 9 1 4 RAID 50 Setup 1 15 1 5 RAID 10 Setup 1 21 1 6 Rebuild the Arrays 1 27 1 7 Migration Setup 1 28 1 8 Hot Spare Setup 1 29 1 9 Clear RAID 1 31 Chapter 2 Setup for Operation Systems 2 1 Install Drives for SCSI RAID 2 1 1 Microsoft Windows 2 1 2 Red Hat Linux Table of Contents ...

Page 4: ...iption this chapter shows the procedures of setting up a RAID on your system at the time when system is powered on and not yet enters the operation system 3 Chapter 2 Setup for Operation Systems This chapter will guide you throught the relevant settings after entering the operation systems Special Messages This manual uses the following icons to call your attention to speciﬁc instructions or expla...

Page 5: ...rmation about the ASUS products you are using as well as the upgrade information for both software and hardware 1 ASUS Website Visit ASUS global website and acquire all kinds of information about ASUS hardware and software products 2 Other Documents Besides the articles listed as the contents of shipping package there also may have other documents within the package such as warranty documents prov...

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Page 7: ...1 RAID Setup With step by step descriptions this chapter introducess the procedures of setting up a RAID on your system at the time when system is powered on and not yet enters the operation system ...

Page 8: ...me and enter the MegaRAID WebBIOS conﬁguration window Select with your mouse or keyboard the SCSI Channel Properties in the WebBIOS conﬁguration menu 2 The window will show the current operation speed of the SCSI channels You could enable one single channel 320 1 or two channels as well 320 0 320 2 ...

Page 9: ...tton to save the new conﬁguration 4 If it is to disable one of the channels the disabled channel will not be accessed to any storage devices you could set the Termination of this very channel to Disabled and click Submit to apply Warning Do not make unnecessary changes to the settings of Termination The default setting is Enabled so that there would be no such occasions that the system could not ﬁ...

Page 10: ...trl H and enter the MegaRAID WebBIOS conﬁguration window where information about all physical drivers installed is displayed Click Conﬁguration Wizard to start RAID setup 2 If this is the ﬁrst time to setup a RAID on your system please select New Conﬁguration and click Next to continue ...

Page 11: ... a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Conﬁguration Press Next to continue 4 Press and hold on the Ctrl key on your keyboard and select two ready drives with your mouse then click Accept Array to setup RAID 1 The minimum requirements of hard drives for different types of RAID are RAID 0 at least two disks RAID 1 at least two disks and the number of disks must be even ...

Page 12: ...information of all RAIDs arrays Click Accept Array and Next to continue 6 For RAID 0 conﬁguration set the RAID Level as RAID 0 and input the RAID 0 size value within the circled area into the Select Size box For example RAID 0 size 70004 MB Then click Accept and Next to continue ...

Page 13: ... Level as RAID 1 and input the RAID 1 size value within the circled area into the Select Size box For example RAID 1 size 35002 MB Then click Accept and Next to continue 8 The Logical Drives window now displays the status of the conﬁgured RAID Click on Accept to continue ...

Page 14: ...LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 1 7 9 Click Yes to save the setup 10 Click Yes to initialize the new logical drives ...

Page 15: ...LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 1 8 11 If no boot device is ever set please select Set Boot Drive and then select Go to change the settings so that the RAID storage devices could become the ﬁrst boot device ...

Page 16: ...AID WebBIOS conﬁguration window where information about all physical drivers installed is displayed Click Conﬁguration Wizard to start the RAID settings 2 If this is the ﬁrst time to setup a RAID on your system please select New Conﬁguration and click Next to continue 1 3 RAID5Setup ...

Page 17: ...on You could also let the Conﬁguration Wizard set up a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Conﬁguration Click Next to continue 4 Hold on the Ctrl key on your keyboard and select with your mouse ﬁve ready drives then click on Accept Array to setup Array 1 At least three hard disks are needed for establishing RAID 5 ...

Page 18: ...of different sizes are deployed in a RAID If hard disks of identical space are used this window would not appear We recommend using hard disks of a same model for RAID conﬁgurationn 6 You could see the information of RAID in the Array Deﬁnition window Click Next to continue the settings ...

Page 19: ...s Manual 1 12 7 Set RAID Level as RAID 5 and input the Select Size box with the RAID 5 size value within the circled area 8 You could see information of all RAID settings in the left side window Click Accept to continue ...

Page 20: ...LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 1 13 9 Click Yes to save the conﬁguration or click No to cancel the settings 10 Click Yes to initialize the new logical drives ...

Page 21: ...LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 1 14 11 If no boot device is ever set please select Set Boot Drive and then click Go to change the settings so that the RAID storage device could become the ﬁrst boot device ...

Page 22: ... your system please select New Conﬁguration and click Next 1 4 RAID 50 Setup 1 Press at the same time Ctrl H and enter the MegaRAID WebBIOS conﬁguration window where information about all physical drivers installed is displayed Click Conﬁguration Wizard to start the RAID settings ...

Page 23: ...n You could also let the Conﬁguration Wizard to set up a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Conﬁguration Then press Next to continue 4 Hold on the Ctrl key on your keyboard and select with your mouse three ready drives then click on Accept Array to setup RAID 50 Note a minimum of 6 hard drives is needed for RAID 50 ...

Page 24: ...LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 1 17 5 The three disks are now set as Array 1 Click Accept Array to continue 6 Then set the rest three hard disks as Array 2 and click Accept Array Press Next to continue ...

Page 25: ...Enabled Then input the RAID 5 size value with spanning in the circled area into the Select Size box Click Accept to continue 8 You could now view all the RAID setup information in the Conﬁguration Preview window The two arrays then form a RAID 50 with the Array 2 being the continuance of RAID 1 ...

Page 26: ...LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 1 19 9 Click Yes to save the conﬁguration 10 Click Yes to initialize the new logical drives ...

Page 27: ...ice is ever set please select Set Boot Drive and then select Go to change the settings so that the RAID storage device could become the ﬁrst boot device 12 Now you could see information about all physical drives and logical drives in the home page of WebBIOS ...

Page 28: ...nd enter the MegaRAID WebBIOS conﬁguration window where information about all physical drivers installed is displayed Click Conﬁguration Wizard to start the RAID settings 2 If this is the ﬁrst time to setup a RAID on your system click New Conﬁguration and then click Next to continue ...

Page 29: ... let the Conﬁguration Wizard set up a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Conﬁguration Click Next to continue 4 Hold on the Ctrl key of your keyboard and select with your mouse two ready drives click on Accept Array to set up Array 1 as RAID 0 Repeat this procedure to setup Array 2 At least four hard disks are need to setup RAID 10 ...

Page 30: ... hard disks are needed for setting up RAID 1 and the number of disks must be even 6 This warning window will prompt out when hard disks of different sizes are deployed in a RAID If hard disks of identical space are used this window would not appear We recommend using hard disks of a same model for RAID conﬁguration ...

Page 31: ...all RAID settings When you have ﬁnished the setting for Array 1 and Array 2 please click Next to continue 8 Set Array 1 as RAID 1 and set the Span as Enable Input the Select Size box with the RAID 1 size value within the circled area then click Accept and Next to apply ...

Page 32: ...ould then see the information of RAID settings in the Conﬁguration Preview window The two arrays form a RAID 10 with the Array 2 being the continuance of the Array 1 10 Click Yes to save the settings or to click No to cancel the conﬁguration ...

Page 33: ...26 11 Click Yes to initialize the new array of Logical Drives 12 If no boot device is ever set please select Set Boot Drive and then select Go to change the settings so that the RAID storage device could become the ﬁrst boot device ...

Page 34: ...IOS conﬁguration window If you would like to check the rebuilding speed please click on the Rebuild Progress button 2 The rebuilding progress is displayed in the left side window If necessary you could select Abort and then click Go to cancel the rebuilding process Caution Do not launch unnecessary abortion to the array rebuilding process nor to cut the power supply during the rebuilding process i...

Page 35: ... Click on Logical Drives to set up Migration 1 7 MigrationSetup 2 There are two available options for Migration setup I RAID Migration only to make the Array 1 to do the RAID Migration automatically II RAID Migration with addition to make the Array 1 and the new hard disk to do the RAID Migration In this option you could change the existing RAID to any RAID type you want to setup Click Go to apply...

Page 36: ...ual 1 29 1 Select a ready physical drive and set it as Hotspare Note The disks already set as a part of RAID Online could not be selected 2 Select Make Hotspare and click Go to set this hard disk as Hotspare 1 8 HotspareSetup ...

Page 37: ...erʼs Manual 1 30 3 If it is to stop the Hotspare function select Ofﬂine and click Go to cancel 4 The hard disk assigned as Hotspare will be highlighted in pink characters which means the Hotspare setting is completed ...

Page 38: ...s 1 Press Ctrl H at the same time and enter the MegaRAID WebBIOS conﬁguration window where information about all physical drivers installed is displayed Click Conﬁguration Wizard to start the setup 2 Select Clear Conﬁguration tab and then click Next ...

Page 39: ... MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 1 32 3 You could ﬁnd no Logical Drivers in the right side window which means the disk arrays have already been cleared Click Accept to continue 4 Click Yes and save the conﬁguration ...

Page 40: ...LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 1 33 5 In the right side windows all the storage devices are listed in the Physical Drives window while the Logical Drives window is blank ...

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Page 42: ...2 System Setup This chapter will guide you throught the relevant settings after entering the operation systems ...

Page 43: ... open Driver Windows where you could see several different folders for different Windows OS If it is to create a driver disk for Windows 2000 please click open the folder named Windows 2000 then insert a blank disk into your ﬂoopy drive then click MakeDisk exe to make the disk If your OS is Windows 2003 after selecting the folder you are to make one more selection between win2003 32bit and win2003...

Page 44: ...LSI MegaRAID Userʼs Manual 2 2 2 When a screen as follows prompts out press S to install driver for the operation system 3 Insert the drive disk previously prepared into the ﬂoppy drive and press Enter ...

Page 45: ...ows 2003 x86 5 For Windows 2003 Server when driver program is selected a following window would prompt out displayig the detected preset driver of Windows 2003 Server Press S and select to install from the ﬂoopy disk Then please follow the instructions of Windows and complete the installation DO NOT take out the ﬂoopy disk until the ﬁrst time system restart is completed ...

Page 46: ... ﬁle the driver would automatically write into the ﬂoopy disk If the unzipped ﬁles are not exe ﬁle please copy these ﬁles directly into a blank disk 1 Insert the Linux installation CD into your optical drive and start the system Then input linux dd when the following screen appears and press Enter 2 Then you could see the reading action in the following screen ...

Page 47: ...to the ﬂoopy drive and follow the instruction to proceed with the installation Press Yes and then press Enter 4 Select fd0 to install from ﬂoopy drive Select OK and press Enter If a USB ﬂoopy drive is deployed please select sda to install from the ﬂoopy disk ...

Page 48: ...ading from the drive disk in the ﬂoopy drive 6 When the installation is completed please select No and press Enter to enter the Linux OS if more drivers are to be installed please select Yes and press Enter then repeat the step 3 4 to proceed with the installation ...

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Page 50: ...II 1 2 Intel Xeon Pentium Intel Windows MS DOS Microsoft 2005 LSI MegaRAID Q2143 V1 0 2005 07 ...

Page 51: ...D III V VI VI 1 1 SCSI 1 2 1 2 RAID 0 RAID 1 1 4 1 3 RAID 5 1 10 1 4 RAID 50 1 13 1 5 RAID 10 1 22 1 6 1 28 1 7 Migration 1 29 1 8 Hotspare 1 30 1 9 1 32 2 1 SCSI RAID 2 2 2 1 1 Windows 2 2 2 1 2 Red Hat Linux 2 5 ...

Page 52: ...IV 1 2 Windows RAID 3 RAID ...

Page 53: ...LSI MegaRAID V 1 http tw asus com 2 ...

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Page 55: ...Windows RAID ...

Page 56: ...1 2 1 1 SCSI 1 WebBIOS SCSI Channel Properties LSI Ctrl H LSI WebBIOS WebBIOS Start Copyright AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INC Press Ctrl M to Run Configuration Utility Or press Ctrl H for WebBIOS ...

Page 57: ...LSI MegaRAID 1 3 2 320 1 320 0 320 2 3 SCSI Capabilities Fast Ultra Ultra II U160 U320 Submit ...

Page 58: ...1 4 1 2 RAID 0 RAID 1 1 Ctrl H MegaRAID BIOS P h y s i c a l D r i v e r s Configuration Wizard RAID 4 Termination Disabled Submit Termination Enabled ...

Page 59: ...LSI MegaRAID 1 5 3 Custom Configuration Auto Configuration Configuration Wizard RAID 2 RAID New Configuration Next ...

Page 60: ...1 6 5 RAID Array RAID 1 Accept Array Next 4 Ctrl 2 Ready Drives Accept Array RAID 1 RAID 1 2 RAID 0 2 ...

Page 61: ...LSI MegaRAID 1 7 7 RAID 1 RAID RAID 1 size Select Size RAID 1 size 35002 MB Accept Next 6 RAID RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID Select Size Accept Next RAID 0 RAID 0 size 70004 MB Accept Next ...

Page 62: ...1 8 9 Yes 8 Logical Drivers RAID Accept ...

Page 63: ...LSI MegaRAID 1 9 11 Set Boot Drive Go RAID 1 10 Yes Logical Drives Initialize ...

Page 64: ...1 10 1 3 RAID 5 1 Ctrl H MegaRAID BIOS P h y s i c a l D r i v e r s Configuration Wizard RAID 2 RAID New Configuration Next ...

Page 65: ...LSI MegaRAID 1 11 3 Custom Configuration Auto Configuration Configuration Wizard RAID 4 Ctrl 3 Ready Drives Accept Array Array 1 RAID 5 RAID 5 3 ...

Page 66: ...1 12 5 RAID 6 RAID Array 1 Next ...

Page 67: ...LSI MegaRAID 1 13 7 RAID 5 Select Size RAID 5 Size Accept 8 RAID Accept ...

Page 68: ...1 14 9 Yes No 10 Yes Logical Drives Initialize ...

Page 69: ...LSI MegaRAID 1 15 11 Set Boot Drive Go RAID 1 ...

Page 70: ...1 16 1 4 RAID 50 1 Ctrl H MegaRAID BIOS P h y s i c a l D r i v e r s Configuration Wizard RAID 2 RAID New Configuration Next ...

Page 71: ...LSI MegaRAID 1 17 3 Custom Configuration Auto Configuration Configuration Wizard RAID 4 Physical Drivers Ready 6 RAID 50 6 8 10 ...

Page 72: ...1 18 5 Ctrl 3 Ready Drives Accept Array 3 Array 1 6 3 Array 2 Accept Array Arrays Array 1 Array 2 Next ...

Page 73: ...9 7 Array 1 RAID RAID 5 Span Enabled With spanning RAID 5 Select Size RAID 5 Size Accept 8 Array 2 Array 1 RAID 50 7 1L26 1Z26 1I37 1Z37 RAID 5 Spna Enable Array 1 R5 size Ctrl Configuration Array 1 Array 2 Accept Next ...

Page 74: ...1 20 9 Yes 10 Yes Logical Drives Initialize ...

Page 75: ...LSI MegaRAID 1 21 11 Set Boot Drive Go RAID 1 12 WebBIOS Physical LogicalDrivers Array RAID ...

Page 76: ...1 22 1 5 RAID 10 1 Ctrl H MegaRAID BIOS P h y s i c a l D r i v e r s Configuration Wizard RAID 2 RAID New Configuration Next ...

Page 77: ...LSI MegaRAID 1 23 3 Custom Configuration Auto Configuration Configuration Wizard RAID 4 Ctrl 2 Ready Drives Accept Array Array 1 RAID 0 Array 2 RAID 10 4 ...

Page 78: ...1 24 5 RAID 6 Array 2 Array 1 Next ...

Page 79: ... Array 1 RAID 1 Span Enabled With Spannong RAID 1 size Select Size RAID 1 Size Accept Next 8 Array 2 Array 1 RAID 10 7 1L26 1Z26 1I37 1Z37 RAID 1 Spna Enable Array 1 R1 size Ctrl Configuration Array 1 Array 2 Accept Next ...

Page 80: ...1 26 9 Yes No 10 Yes Logical Drives Initialize ...

Page 81: ...LSI MegaRAID 1 27 11 Set Boot Drive Go RAID 1 ...

Page 82: ...1 28 1 6 1 MegaRAID WebBIOS Rebuild Progress 2 Rebuilding Progress Abort Go ...

Page 83: ...n only Array 1 RAID Migration 1 Array RAID RAID Migration only 2 Go B RAIDMigrationwithaddition Array RAID Migration with addition RAID Go 1 7 Migration 1 SCSI backplane Scan Devices Physical Drivers Ready Logical Drivers Array Migration ...

Page 84: ...1 30 2 Make Hptspare Go Hotspare 1 8 Hotspare 1 Ready Physical Drives Hotspare RAID Online Hotspare RAID RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 10 RAID 50 ...

Page 85: ...LSI MegaRAID 1 31 4 Hotspare Offline Go 3 Hotspare ...

Page 86: ...1 32 1 9 1 Ctrl H MegaRAID BIOS Physical Drivers Configuration Wizard 2 Clear Configuration Next RAID array ...

Page 87: ...LSI MegaRAID 1 33 3 Logical Drives Accept 4 Yes ...

Page 88: ...1 34 5 W e b B I O S Physical Drivers Ready Logical Drivers ...

Page 89: ...Windows RAID ...

Page 90: ...t Linux SuSE Linux OS Operating System 2 1 1 Windows LSI MegaRAID SCSI 320 0 320 1 320 ASUS AZ CRB Driver Windows SCSI RAID Driver Windows Windows Windows 2000 Windows 2000 MakeDisk exe Windows 2003 win2003 32bit 64bit MakeDisk exe zip Windows exe MakeDisk exe 2 Windows F6 3 S ...

Page 91: ...ID Products for Windows 2000 Driver Windows 2003 Server LSI MEGARAID Products for Windows 2003 x86 Windows XP RAID 320 0 AZCRB MegaRAID SCSI 320 0 controller RAID 320 1 MegaRAID SCSI 320 1 RAID controller RAID 320 2 MegaRAID SCSI 320 2 RAID controller ...

Page 92: ...2 4 7 Windows 6 Windows XP Windows 2003 Server Windows S ...

Page 93: ...at Linux LSI MegaRAID Driver Red Hat SuSe 9 0 SCSI RAID Driver Linux Redhat 2 10 8 Linux_2 10 8 2 1 Redhat and SuSe 9 0 Drivers megaraid2 v2 10 8 2 rhl90 kernels img Red Hat 9 0 zip Windows exe MakeDisk exe 2 Linux linux dd Enter ...

Page 94: ...2 6 4 Y e s Enter 3 ...

Page 95: ...LSI MegaRAID 2 7 6 5 fd0 OK Enter USB sda USB ...

Page 96: ...2 8 7 No Enter Linux Yes Enter 3 4 ...

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