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Installation Quick Start Guide

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Create the RAID Software Suite Driver Installation Diskette

Figure 2-10. ROM-DOS Menu

2. From the menu, select Make Diskettes, and press <Enter>. The Select a Type of 

Diskette to Create screen appears. See 

Figure 2-11

.

Figure 2-11. Diskette to Create

3. Press <Enter> to select OS Diskettes. The Select an OS to Create screen appears. See 

Figure 2-12

.

Figure 2-12. OS to Create

4. Highlight the OS to be installed and press <Enter>.

5. Select the specific OS to be installed and press <Enter>.

Summary of Contents for Integrated RAID

Page 1: ...Intel Integrated RAID Installation Quick Start Guide Version 1 1 April 2002 Order Number 273477 001 ...

Page 2: ...ure definition and shall have no responsibility whatsoever for conflicts or incompatibilities arising from future changes to them The RAID Adapter may contain design defects or errors known as errata which may cause the product to deviate from published specifications Current characterized errata are available on request This RAID Adapter as well as the software described in it is furnished under ...

Page 3: ...uirements 16 2 5 2 OS Installation Procedures 16 2 6 Novell NetWare 4 2x and 5 x Installation 17 2 6 1 Minimum Requirements 17 2 6 2 OS Installation Procedures 18 2 7 UnixWare 7 1 1 Installation 19 2 7 1 Minimum Requirements 19 2 7 2 OS Installation Procedures 20 2 8 RAID Software Suite Installation 20 2 8 1 Microsoft Windows 2000 and NT 4 0 20 2 8 2 Novell NetWare 4 2x and 5 x 22 2 8 3 UnixWare 7...

Page 4: ...Screen 21 2 14 Setup Type 22 A 1 Select Controller 24 A 2 Configure Host Drives 25 A 3 Create New Host Drive 25 A 4 Select Physical Drive 26 A 5 Choose Type Menu 26 A 6 Host Drive Creation Confirmation 26 A 7 Drive Capacity 27 A 8 Newly Created Host Drive 27 A 9 Progress Window 28 Tables 2 1 Pre installation Worksheet Creating a Host Drive for the Operating System 9 ...

Page 5: ...mpanying software guide for more complex installations and for installations on different OS s Hardware Installation and User s Guide The Hardware Installation and User s Guide or Hardware Guide covers instructions for installing an IIR controller and provides a guide to its features and specifications For a particular IIR controller its hardware guide documents compatible RAID adapters supported ...

Page 6: ...user documentation set the Quick Start Guide the Hardware Guide and the Software Guide should be used by qualified technical personnel with experience installing and configuring PCI adapter cards Read and adhere to all warnings cautions and notices in this guide and all the guides in the user documentation set supplied with this product Warnings The connection of a non shielded equipment interface...

Page 7: ...Installation Quick Start Guide 7 Warnings and Cautions ESD protection by wearing an antistatic wrist strap and attaching it to a metal part of the computer chassis ...

Page 8: ...umber of disk drives supported for the RAID level you selected 3 In column 3 record the number of disk drives you will use for the host drive 4 In column 4 record the capacity in megabytes MB that you will need on each physical drive You will enter this value as the Used Capacity per Drive when you are creating the host drive Based on the physical drive capacity value and the number of disk drives...

Page 9: ...ls and applicability to your IIR controller refer to the accompanying Hardware Guide 2 2 2 Installing the IIR Controller Warning SHOCK HAZARDS may be present inside the unit in which this card is being installed Disconnect all power cords to the unit before removal of any covers Follow the warnings noted in your computer s user or service manual before installing this board ONLY after all Table 2 ...

Page 10: ...d Connect the other end of the SCSI cable to the SCSI drives or drive enclosure Note Ensure that the end of the SCSI bus is properly terminated Consult the accompanying Hardware Guide for SCSI bus termination details 4 Replace the system cover and reconnect power cord s 2 3 Create a Bootable Host Drive Storage Console StorCon is the software tool used for creating host drives as well as administer...

Page 11: ...de 11 Create a Bootable Host Drive 3 Select the controller and press Enter See Figure 2 2 4 Select the menu option Configure Host Drives and press Enter See Figure 2 3 Figure 2 2 Select Controller Figure 2 3 Configure Host Drives ...

Page 12: ...displays a list of available hard disks see Figure 2 5 6 Use the arrow keys and the Space bar to select two hard disks these hard disks become marked with an as shown in Figure 2 5 and press Enter 7 From the Choose Type menu select RAID 1 and press Enter See Figure 2 6 Figure 2 4 Create New Host Drive Figure 2 5 Select Physical Drive ...

Page 13: ... will be destroyed see Figure 2 7 Confirm your choice by pressing y 9 StorCon asks for the capacity to use for each drive see Figure 2 8 Type in the physical drive capacity that you recorded in Table 2 1 for RAID 1 and press Enter Figure 2 6 Choose Type Menu Figure 2 7 Host Drive Creation Confirmation Figure 2 8 Drive Capacity ...

Page 14: ...leted the RAID 1 disk array changes to ready status for example the data is fully redundant 13 Exit StorCon by pressing Esc several times to escape out of the various menus and pressing y to quit Follow the instructions in the next section to continue the installation 2 4 Create the RAID Software Suite Driver Installation Diskette The RAID Software Suite CD ROM is self booting assuming that your s...

Page 15: ...kettes and press Enter The Select a Type of Diskette to Create screen appears See Figure 2 11 Figure 2 11 Diskette to Create 3 Press Enter to select OS Diskettes The Select an OS to Create screen appears See Figure 2 12 Figure 2 12 OS to Create 4 Highlight the OS to be installed and press Enter 5 Select the specific OS to be installed and press Enter ...

Page 16: ...ft Windows 2000 RAID Software Suite CD ROM 9 MB of free hard disk space for the RAID Software Suite Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Server or Advanced Server RAID Software Suite Driver Installation diskette see Section 2 4 for instructions to create this diskette One blank high density floppy diskette may be required to create the installation diskette Microsoft Windows NT 4 0 RAID Software Su...

Page 17: ...s automatically selected Press Enter 5 Complete the text based portion of the Windows installation procedures Reboot and continue with the GUI based portion of the installation 6 After the operating system is completely installed go to Section 2 8 to complete the installation 2 5 2 2 Installing Windows Using the Bootable Windows CD ROM 1 Insert the bootable floppy diskette and power on the compute...

Page 18: ... diskette into drive A 5 Press Enter on the IIR driver list 6 Press Insert in the IIR controller driver menu 7 Press F3 and change the path to A DRIVERS 4XX then press Enter 8 Select the SRCRX HAM driver and complete the installation 2 6 2 2 New Installation of NetWare 5 0 with the SRCRX HAM Driver Important The SRCRX HAM driver depends on a later version of the NWPA NLM than was shipped on the Ne...

Page 19: ...to install a new server all data on the existing server will be lost Press ENTER to continue If the warning dialog box appears press Enter 11 Complete the installation 2 6 2 3 New Installation of NetWare 5 1x with the SRCRX HAM Driver 1 Create a driver diskette from the RAID Software Suite CD ROM See Section 2 4 for details to create this disk 2 Start the OS installation from the NetWare bootable ...

Page 20: ...ing See Section 2 4 for instructions to create this disk 3 During the installation of UnixWare you will be prompted to install the Network Information Services NIS package By default the installation will configure your system as an NIS client See your system administrator for configuration of the NIS services Note Installation of this service may take an extended period of time If you do not plan...

Page 21: ...up exe 3 A welcome screen appears Click Next 4 License Agreement Click Yes after reading to agree 5 Setup Type Select one of the following for Local or Remote administration of the IIR controller see Figure 2 14 and click Next Server Utilities Services and Drivers This option allows for local administration of the IIR controller Client Remote Utilities only Figure 2 13 RAID Software Setup Splash S...

Page 22: ...his completes the installation procedure for Windows 2 8 2 Novell NetWare 4 2x and 5 x 2 8 2 1 Installing the IIR Controller Tools Kit Package Note STORCON NLM will not find any controllers unless SRCRX HAM is already loaded and running 1 Select Product options then Install a product not listed 2 Change the path to A INSTALL and press Enter to continue 3 Select Storage RAID Controller Tools Kit ST...

Page 23: ...sers who will use this interface 3 Load SRCIPX NLM 4 Start Storage Console Storcon exe or Storage Console Plus Storcon exe from a workstation using a user name of the group SRC_Operator and his her NetWare password 2 8 3 UnixWare 7 1 1 No additional steps are necessary to install the RAID Software Suite once you have completed the UnixWare 7 1 1 installation described in Section 2 7 ...

Page 24: ...es that you have already completed instructions detailed in Section 2 1 Determining the RAID Configuration A 1 Installing a RAID 5 Disk Array with Hot Fix 1 Power on the computer 2 Press Crtl g when the IIR BIOS message appears to load XROM StorCon 3 Select the controller and press Enter See Figure A 1 4 Select the menu option Configure Host Drives and press Enter See Figure A 2 Figure A 1 Select ...

Page 25: ...e A 3 and press Enter StorCon displays a list of available hard disks Figure A 4 6 Use the arrow keys and the Space bar to select the number of hard disks for your RAID 5 array minimum of three disks to a maximum of 15 disks per channel In this RAID Figure A 2 Configure Host Drives Figure A 3 Create New Host Drive ...

Page 26: ...in Figure A 4 Press Enter to accept your selections 7 From the Choose Type menu select RAID 5 HotFix and press Enter See Figure A 5 8 StorCon displays a warning that all data on the selected disks will be destroyed see Figure A 6 Confirm your choice by pressing y Figure A 4 Select Physical Drive Figure A 5 Choose Type Menu Figure A 6 Host Drive Creation Confirmation ...

Page 27: ... Cluster Refer to your product s Hardware Guide to determine if clustering is supported before pressing y or n to confirm your choice The new host drive is created See Figure A 8 11 Exit StorCon by pressing Esc several times to escape out of the various menus and pressing y to quit Depending on the size of the host drive the RAID 5 build process may take a considerable amount of time You may exit ...

Page 28: ... Upon successful completion of the build process the RAID 5 disk array changes to ready status for example the data is fully redundant You may continue the installation by following the instructions in Section 2 4 Create the RAID Software Suite Driver Installation Diskette Either section 2 5 2 6 or 2 7 for the applicable OS for your system Section 2 8 RAID Software Suite Installation Figure A 9 Pr...

Page 29: ...x I installation warnings and cautions 6 M microsoft windows NT 16 R raid adapter minimum requirements 9 pre installation worksheet 9 regulatory information 6 regulatory information 6 U user s manual intended audience 5 W warnings and cautions 6 ...

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