Asus LSISAS RAID Card PIKE 1064E, User Manual

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Contents
About this guide ......................................................................................... iv
PIKE 1064E/1068E specifications summary............................................. vi
Chapter 1: Product introduction
1.1 Welcome! ...................................................................................... 1-2
1.2 Package contents ......................................................................... 1-2
1.3 Card layout ................................................................................... 1-3
1.4 System requirements ................................................................... 1-3
1.5 Card installation ........................................................................... 1-4
Chapter 2: RAID configuration
2.1 Setting up RAID ............................................................................ 2-2
2.1.1 RAID definitions .............................................................. 2-2
2.1.2 Installing hard disk drives ................................................ 2-2
2.2 LSI Corporation MPT Setup Utility ............................................. 2-3
2.2.1 Integrated Mirroring volume ............................................ 2-4
2.2.2 Integrated Mirroring Enhanced volume ........................... 2-8
2.2.3 Integrated Striping (IS) volume ..................................... 2-10
2.2.4 Managing Arrays ........................................................... 2-12
2.2.5 Viewing SAS topology ................................................... 2-17
2.2.6 Global Properties .......................................................... 2-18
2.3 MegaRAID Storage Manager ..................................................... 2-21
2.3.1 Hardware and Software Requirements ......................... 2-21
2.3.2 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Sofware on
Microsoft Windows OS ...................................................2-21
2.3.3 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Sofware for Linux ..2-25
2.3.4 Linux Error Messages ................................................... 2-26
2.3.5 Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software ........... 2-27
2.3.6 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window .......................... 2-29
Chapter 3: Driver installation
3.1 RAID driver installation ............................................................... 3-2
3.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk ............................................ 3-2
3.1.2 Windows
®
Server 2003 OS ............................................. 3-4
3.1.3 Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux OS ........................................ 3-9
3.1.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server OS ................................3-11