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Appendix E

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Appendix E Troubleshooting Guide

NOTE:

The following is a checklist of the common problems encountered during

installation. For failures that occur during operation, refer to the failure

recovery procedure in the “Disk Failure Management” section.

PROBLEM

CHECK

Text RAID Manager indicates
a SCSI channel failure
detected upon start-up (SCSI
cables connected).

1. Check ID numbers (must be

unique for each device on the
same SCSI channel).

2. Make sure terminators are

properly installed.

3. Check the voltage output of the

power supply.

Initialization failure

1. Check ID numbers (must be

unique for each device on the
same SCSI channel).

2. Make sure terminators are

properly installed.

Cannot detect SCSI drive

1. Check drive power connections.
2. Check drive SCSI cable

connections.

3. Check ID numbers (must be

unique for each device on the
same SCSI channel).

Parity error detected

1. DRAM SIMM should be

replaced.

Logical drive failure detected
during boot-up

1. Check proper installation or

connection of the drives (use the
"View SCSI drives" function to
help locate the problem).

Summary of Contents for PCI-DA2200

Page 1: ...ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual 1 PCI DA2100 PCI to SCSI UltraWide RAID Controller Card PCI DA2200 PCI to SCSI Ultra2 Wide RAID Controller Card User s Manual ...

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Page 4: ... equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Re orient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit different from...

Page 5: ...a RAID System Drive 53 6 2 How Does the RAID Controller Work 54 Chapter 7 BIOS Configuration Utility 59 7 1 Configuration 60 7 2 Color Monochrome 64 Chapter 8 Text RAID Manager User Interface 65 8 1 The Main Menu 65 8 2 Viewing and Editing Logical Drives 74 8 3 Viewing and Editing SCSI ID Map 87 8 4 Viewing and Editing SCSI Drives 93 8 5 Viewing and Editing SCSI Channels 99 8 6 Viewing and Editing...

Page 6: ...6 1 Installing the SCO OpenServer Driver 168 7 Drivers and Utilities for Linux 170 7 1 Making Floppy Diskettes for Red Hat 5 1 Installation 170 7 2 Making Floppy Diskettes for SlackWare 3 2 Installation 171 7 3 Installing Red Hat Linux 171 7 4 Installing SlackWare Linux 173 7 5 Running the ASUS Text RAID Manager for Linux 175 8 Drivers and Utilities for Sun Solaris 176 8 1 Solaris 2 5 x and 2 6 x8...

Page 7: ...s volume The controller has comprehensive drive failure management that allows automatic reassignment of reserved blocks when a bad sector is encountered during a write Hot swapping is supported through automatic disconnection of a failed drive and detection of a reserved drive followed with background rebuilding of data The controller also supports spare drive operation Remarkably all of these fa...

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Page 9: ...lization writes ü PCI Rev 2 1 compliant ü PCI form factor 6 87 L X 4 2 W PCI DA2100 9 21 L x 4 2 W PCI DA2200 ü Supports up to 15 SCSI drives per channel ü Up to 8 logical drives each with independent RAID modes ü Up to 8 partitions per logical drive ü Number of drives for each logical drive has no limitation ü Dynamic mapping of LUNs to logical drives ü Concurrent Background logical drive initial...

Page 10: ...DA2100 or Ultra2 Wide PCI DA2200 SCSI 2 implementation including Tagged Command Queuing and Multi Threaded I O ü Uses Intel 486DX2 100 PCI DA2100 or AMD 5x86 133 PCI DA2200 CPU with all executable firmware downloaded into high speed DRAM ü EDO DRAM supported for enhanced performance ü Up to 64MB PCI DA2100 or 128MB PCI DA2200 of intelligent Read Ahead Write Back cache ü Firmware resides in easy to...

Page 11: ... connected drives into one single volume Increases disk access speed by breaking data into several blocks when reading writing to several drives in parallel With RAID storage speed increases as more drives are added Provides fault tolerance by mirroring or parity operation What are the RAID levels RAID Level Description Minimum Drives Data Availability Performance Sequential Performance Random NRA...

Page 12: ...of Drives The controller treats each drive as a stand alone disk therefore each drive is an independent logical drive JBOD does not provide data redundancy 2GBHardDrive 3GBHardDrive 1GBHardDrive 2GBHardDrive Logical Drive 2 3 1 2 8GBLogicalDrive 2 G B H a r d D r i v e 3 G B H a r d D r i v e 1 G B H a r d D r i v e 2 G B H a r d D r i v e 2 G B L o g i c a l D r i v e 3 G B 1 G B 2 G B L o g i c ...

Page 13: ...drives If there are more than two hard drives RAID 0 1 will be performed automatically Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 Block 8 Block 1 Block 3 Block 5 Block 7 Block 2 Block 4 Block 6 Block 8 Striping Logical Drive Physical Disks Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 Block 8 Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Mirror 1 Mirror 2 Mirror 3 Mirror 4 Mirroring Logic...

Page 14: ...is will depend on the drive number that has been selected for the logical drive RAID 3 Disk Striping with Dedicated Parity Disk Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 Block 8 Block 1 Block 3 Block 5 Block 7 Block 2 Block 4 Block 6 Block 8 Striping Logical Drive Physical Disks Mirror 1 Mirror 3 Mirror 5 Mirror 7 Mirror 2 Mirror 4 Mirror 6 Mirror 8 Striping Mirror Block 1 Block 2 Bl...

Page 15: ...to RAID 3 but the parity data is not stored in one dedicated hard drive Parity information is interspersed across the drive array In the event of a failure the controller can recover regenerate the lost data of the failed drive from the other surviving drives RAID 5 Minimum Disks required 3 Capacity N 1 Redundancy Yes Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 Block 8 Logical Drive Ph...

Page 16: ...e one specified logical drive When a member drive from any of the logical drive fails the Global Spare Drive will join that logical drive and automatically starts to rebuild Logical Drive Local Spare Drive 1 2 3 LS Assigns one Local Spare Drive to a logical drive Logical Drive 1 2 3 X LS Local Spare Drive When one member drive fails the Local Spare Drive joins the logical drive and automatically s...

Page 17: ...Drive to join Logical Drive 0 because of its insufficient capacity However using a 9GB drive as the Global Spare drive for a failed drive that comes from Logical Drive 1 or 2 will bring huge amount of excess capacity since these logical drives require 4 GB only In the settings below the 9 GB Local Spare Drive will aid Logical Drive 0 once a drive in this logical drive failed If the failed drive is...

Page 18: ...e logical drive because the two drives may have already failed To prevent this from happening the controller provides an easy way of identifying for the failed drive That is the read write LED of the failed hard drive will light This LED will prevent you from removing the wrong drive and is also helpful when locating for a drive Logical Drive 0 Local Spare Drive 1 2 3 LS Logical Drive 1 1 2 Logica...

Page 19: ...LED of all connected drives will light for about one minute If the LED of the defective drive did not light on the Flash Selected SCSI Drive function use Flash All SCSI Drives The Flash All SCSI Drives function will light LEDs of all the drives except the defective one R W LED R W LED R W LED R W LED LED Steadily ON LED Steadily ON LED Steadily ON LED Steadily ON LED Steadily ON LED Steadily ON ...

Page 20: ...signed to this logical drive If yes it will automatically start to rebuild If there is no Local Spare Drive available the controller will search for a Global Spare Drive If there is a Global Spare Drive it will automatically rebuild the logical drive If neither a Local Spare Drive nor a Global Spare Drive is available and the Periodic Auto Detect Failure Drive Swap Check Time is Disabled the contr...

Page 21: ... using the Global Spare Drive No No Wait for manual rebuild Yes Has the failed drive been replaced Rebuild using the replaced drive No If neither a Local Spare Drive nor a Global Spare Drive is available the controller will detect the SCSI channel and ID of the failed drive Once the failed drive has been replaced by a new drive used drive it starts to rebuild using the replaced drive If there is n...

Page 22: ... the rebuilding process and choosing High will use the controller s maximum resources to complete the rebuilding process at the shortest time Rebuild priority can be configured through either the Text RAID Manager or the GUI RAID Manager 3 3 2 Verify after Write The controller has the ability to force the hard drives to verify after data has been written to the media of the HDD There are three sel...

Page 23: ...ize or block size also known as chunk size than does Optimization for Random I O with a size of 32K A lot of the controller s internal parameters will also be changed to optimize for sequential or random I O The change will take effect after the controller reboots If the existing logical drives were built with Optimization for Random I O these logical drives will not read write when using Optimiza...

Page 24: ...e and enable SCSI Motor Spin Up in Drive Side SCSI Parameters Power off all hard drives and controller and power them on again All the hard drives will not spin up at this time The controller will then spin up the hard drives one by one at four seconds interval IMPORTANT If the drives are configured as Delay Motor Spin up or Motor Spin up in Random Sequence some of these drives may not be ready ye...

Page 25: ...vice with higher priority can utilize the bus first A device with lower priority will sometimes get a SCSI I O timeout when higher priority devices keep utilizing the bus The default setting for SCSI I O Timeout is 7 seconds It is highly recommended not to change this setting Setting the timeout to a lower value will cause the controller to judge a drive as failed a drive is still retrying or whil...

Page 26: ...nds for SCSI Accessed Fault Tolerant Enclosures It is an enclosure management technology that uses the SCSI bus to interact with the controller A SAF TE compliant enclosure monitors the fan temperature power supply UPS and also provides drive status LED s How does it work The SAF TE device which is often a back plane within a drive bay enclosure must occupy a connector on one of the drive channels...

Page 27: ...ontroller checks to see whether a failed drive has been swapped When a logical drive s member drive fails the controller will detect the failed drive at the selected time interval Once the failed drive has been swapped with a drive that has adequate capacity to rebuild the logical drive the rebuild will begin automatically The default setting is Disabled meaning that that the controller will not A...

Page 28: ...Logical Drive Expansion Mode 1 and Mode 2 On line RAID Expansion Mode 1 Mode 2 Mode 1 Expansion involves adding more SCSI hard disk drives to a logical drive which may require that the user obtain an enclosure with more drive bays The data will be re striped onto the original and newly added disks RAID Expansion Mode 1 2GB 2GB 2GB RAID 5 Logical Drive 4GB 2GB 2GB 2GB 2GB 2GB 2GB 2GB RAID 5 Logical...

Page 29: ... three higher capacity drives RAID Expansion Mode 2 1 3 2 GB RAID 5 4GB 2 GB 2 GB The original logical drive 1 4 GB Copy and Replace one of the member drives New Drive 2 GB RAID 5 4GB 2 GB 2 GB In use Unused Copy and Replace each of the member drives Even if one member drives fails during the Copy and Replace the logical drive will still be available for access RAID Expansion Mode 2 2 3 2 Copy and...

Page 30: ...this may compromise protection of the existing partition s data due to the questions regarding OS capabilities this function is not offered as a choice at this time At the time of this printing the firmware does not support the Copy and Replace function that is required for Mode 2 Expansion Third party hard disk utilities may be used for Mode 2 Expansion of logical drives Future versions of the fi...

Page 31: ...unction Windows NT Workstation does not have this feature 2 The system drive boot drive of a Windows NT system cannot be extended 3 The drive that will be extended should be using the NTFS file system The Example The following example demonstrates the expansion of a 900MB RAID 0 logical drive The Text RAID Manager software that comes with the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 is used to communicate with the ...

Page 32: ...3 32 ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual You can view information about this drive in the Windows NT Server s Disk Administrator ...

Page 33: ...3 33 ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual Place the cursor on Disk 1 right click your mouse and select Properties You will see that the total capacity for the Drive E is just under 900MB ...

Page 34: ...anual Follow the steps described in section 8 2 8 to add SCSI disk drives and perform Mode 1 Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion The 900MB logical drive has become a 1800MB logical drive Place the cursor on that logical drive and then press Enter ...

Page 35: ...ical drive is composed of two 900MB partitions Follow the directions in section 8 3 1 to map the new partition to a Host LUN The new partition must be mapped to a host LUN in order for the HBA host bus adapter to see it Once you have mapped the partition reboot Windows NT The HBA should be able to detect an additional disk ...

Page 36: ...3 36 ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual Return to Windows NT Server s Disk Administrator There now exists a Disk 2 with 900MB of free space Click on Disk 2 to select it ...

Page 37: ...3 37 ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual From the Partition menu select Extend Volume Set ...

Page 38: ...200 User s Manual The screen will display that volume set of Drive E has been extended by the 900MB in Disk2 Move the cursor to Commit Changes Now to confirm that you want the free space to become a part of the same logical drive ...

Page 39: ...DA2200 User s Manual Logical Drive E is now composed of two 900MB partitions with a total volume of 1800MB To see this hold down on the Ctrl key and select both Disk 1 and Disk2 then right click your mouse and select Properties ...

Page 40: ...3 40 ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual Drive E now has a capacity just under 1800MB ...

Page 41: ...review included in it Comment This EPS picture will print to a PostScript printer but not to other types of printers JP1 and JP2 on the PCI DA2100 is for manufacturer s use and should be left open for normal operation JP6 PCI DA2100 LED Connector for Hard Drive Activity Indicator Pin Symbol Type Description 1 VCC P 5V voltage input 2 BUSYLED O Front panel LED BUSY 3 BUSYLED O Front panel LED BUSY ...

Page 42: ...int to a PostScript printer but not to other types of printers JP7 PCI DA2200 LED Connector for Hard Drive Activity Indicator Pin Symbol Type Description 1 VCC P 5V voltage input 2 BUSYLED O Front panel LED BUSY 3 BUSYLED O Front panel LED BUSY 4 VCC P 5V voltage input JP9 PCI DA2200 I2 C Connector Pin Symbol Type Description 1 I2CCLK O I2 C clock 2 GND G Signal ground 3 VCC P 5V voltage input 4 I...

Page 43: ...M with parity is recommended for greater data integrity PCI DA2100 A minimum of 2 Mbytes DRAM is required to be in stalled in the SIMM socket however 4 Mbytes is recommended for full functionality Supports 8 16 32 and 64 Mbytes DRAM SIMM modules up to 64 Mbytes PCI DA2200 A minimum of 8 Mbytes DRAM is required to be in stalled in the SIMM socket however 16 Mbytes is recommended for full functional...

Page 44: ...l 0 PCI DA2200 has two external channels PCI DA2100 devices are terminated on the device jumpers switches PCI DA2200 devices are terminated on the cable external terminator Sample operational set up PCI DA2100 ASUS PCI DA2100 RAID Controller Terminated Terminated SCSI cable SCSI cable Up to 15 drives Up to 15 drives Ultra Wide SCSI Bus Ultra Wide SCSI Bus Sample operational set up PCI DA2200 ASUS ...

Page 45: ... state of terminators embedded on ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 controller are enabled and can be changed by running RAIDMAN EXE or configured in the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 BIOS settings The ASUS PCI DA2200 s Ultra2 Wide SCSI LVD is backward compatible with UltraWide SCSI devices Single ended However any Singled ended devices connecting to an LVD bus will cause all the other LVD devices on the same bus s...

Page 46: ...ve Channel 1 68 pin Internal SCSI Connector Drive Channel 0 68 pin External SCSI connector UltraHigh Density Drive Channel 1 68 pin External SCSI connector UltraHigh Density Channel 0 Embedded LVD Terminator Channel 1 Embedded LVD Terminator CH0 CH1 CH0 CH1 ASUS PCI DA2200 Drive Channel 0 68 pin Internal SCSI Connector Each SCSI drive channel has embedded terminators The termination on each channe...

Page 47: ...CSI Bus LVD Terminator Enabled Terminator Enabled CH0 CH1 CH0 CH1 Up to 15 drives External LVD Terminator SCSI cable Ultra2 Wide SCSI Bus LVD Up to 15 drives External LVD Terminator Termination should be enabled if only the internal SCSI connectors are used to connect the drives All devices including SCSI drives cables and terminators should be Ultra2 Wide LVD SCSI compliant It is not recommended ...

Page 48: ...CSI Bus LVD Terminator Enabled Terminator Enabled CH0 CH1 CH0 CH1 Up to 15 drives External LVD Terminator SCSI cable Ultra2 Wide SCSI Bus LVD Up to 15 drives External LVD Terminator Termination should be enabled if only the external SCSI connectors are used to connect the drives All devices including SCSI drives cables and terminators should be Ultra2 Wide LVD SCSI compliant It is not recommended ...

Page 49: ...Ultra2 Wide SCSI Bus LVD External LVD Terminator SCSI cable Ultra2 Wide SCSI Bus LVD External LVD Terminator SCSI cable Ultra2 Wide SCSI Bus LVD External LVD Terminator Internal and External Channel 0 totally Up to 15 drives Internal and External Channel 1 totally Up to 15 drives The termination should be disabled if both internal and external SCSI connectors of the same channel are being used All...

Page 50: ...s LVD External LVD Terminator Internal and External Channel 0 totally Up to 15 drives Internal and External Channel 1 totally Up to 15 drives S E to LVD SCSI Converter Single ended CD ROM Drive or other Single ended device S E to LVD SCSI Converter Single ended MO Drive or other Single ended device It is not recommended to connect any Single ended devices to the LVD drive SCSI bus directly Using a...

Page 51: ...5 1 Using the BIOS RAID Manager 1 When the system is powered on the following text will appear ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 PCI TO SCSI RAID BIOS v1 17B PCI Bus 00 Device 09 Port E000 IRQ 10 EDORAM 8 MB FW 2 12 Press Ctrl I for Configuration Utility Q to Skip 2 Press Ctrl I to enter the BIOS Configuration Utility 3 Choose Configure RAID to enter the terminal emulation 4 Move the cursor to ANSI or anothe...

Page 52: ...e logical drive 6 All the possible RAID levels will be displayed choose a RAID level by using the keys to select a RAID level and press Enter The spear drive assigned in this item is Local Spare drive not Global Spare drive The controller will start initialization and automatically map the logical drive to LUN 0 of the first host channel ...

Page 53: ...ve into one or several partitions Map each partition as one system drive LUN The host SCSI adapter will recognize the system drives after re scanning the host SCSI bus Since the controller is totally operating system independent the operating system of the host computer will not be able to find out whether the attached devices are physical hard drives or virtual system drives created by the RAID c...

Page 54: ...n is disabled 8 bit SCSI Each device has one unique SCSI ID Two devices having the same SCSI ID is not allowed The figure on the left illustrates this To file a document into a cabinet you must put the document into one of the drawers Let s apply this metaphor to SCSI the SCSI ID is the cabinet and the drawers are the LUNs LUN is short for logical unit number Each cabinet SCSI ID can have up to 32...

Page 55: ...2200 A Logical Drive consists of a group of SCSI drives Drives in one logical drive do not have to come from the same SCSI channel Also each logical drive can be configured a different RAID level ASUS RAID Controller Terminator Terminator SCSI cable SCSI cable Up to 15 drives Up to 15 drives Drive Channel 0 Drive Channel 1 ID 5 ID 0 ID 3 ID 2 ID 6 ID 1 ID 0 ID 14 4 GB 4 GB 2 GB 2 GB 4 GB 4 GB 2 GB...

Page 56: ...assigned as the Local Spare Drive of one specified logical drive or as a Global Spare Drive You may divide a logical drive into several partitions or use the entire logical drive as one single partition 2 5GB 2GB 1GB 5GB 1 5GB LUN 0 LUN 1 L ogicalD rive1 Partition0 L ogicalD rive0 Partition1 ID 0 ID 1 L ogicalD rive1 Partition1 L ogicalD rive0 Partition2 L ogicalD rive0 Partition0 LUN 0 LUN 1 LUN ...

Page 57: ...ct as one individual hard drive to the host computer virtually Host SCSI Channel 4 5GB 2GB 1GB 5GB 1 5GB Logical Drive 1 Partition 0 Logical Drive 0 Partition 1 ID 0 ID 2 Logical Drive 1 Partition 1 Logical Drive 0 Partition 2 Logical Drive 0 Partition 0 ID 1 ID 3 ID 4 ID 7 ASUS PCI DA2200 RAID Controller ...

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Page 59: ...Port shows the I O port base address that has been assigned to ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 IRQ shows the Interrupt level that has been assigned to ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 The level is in decimal EDORAM displays the cache RAM type and size that is been installed on ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 FW shows the firmware version number of ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 The ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 BIOS waits 3 seconds for a k...

Page 60: ...1 GB Yes Support for 3 Disks or More MS DOS v5 0 or above Yes Support for NOT ZERO SCSI LUN Yes Configure BIOS Devices Enter Move the cursor to the item desired to change Enable BIOS INT 13H Function Press Space to toggle between Yes or No BIOS Translation Mode Press Space to toggle between Auto and Fixed Use fixed mode together with disabling Support for Disks 1GB for UNIX DOS or UNIX OS2 dual bo...

Page 61: ... to Yes if you want the BIOS to support all SCSI Target LUNs 0 to 7 Configure BIOS Devices Logical Device SCSI ID 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Scanned By BIOS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Logical Device SCSI ID 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Scanned By BIOS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes If this option is selected a status list of SCSI devices scanned by BIOS at BIOS initialization will appear If a SCSI device is n...

Page 62: ...I Yes SCSI ID Use this option to change SCSI ID of SCSI Channel Enable SCSI Termination Use this option to enable disable SCSI termination Configure SCSI Devices Use this option to change the low level SCSI features of SCSI devices Device SCSI ID 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Sync Transfer Period 4ns 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 Enable SCSI Disconnect Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Enable SCSI Parity Yes Yes Yes Ye...

Page 63: ...o enable disable wide SCSI 7 1 4 Configure RAID Configure RAID Configuration Color Monochrome Configure BIOS Configure Card Configure SCSI Reset to Defaults Selecting this option starts the BIOS RAID Manager The utility is identical in appearance and features to the Text RAID Manager See chapter 8 Text RAID Manager User Interface for complete details on the use of the BIOS RAID Manager ...

Page 64: ...A2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual 7 1 5 Reset to Defaults If this option is selected all the configurations are reset to the manufacturer s defaults 7 2 Color Monochrome Switches display mode between color and monochrome ...

Page 65: ...am is called RAIDMAN EXE For NetWare the program is called RAIDMAN NLM Run the program In addition all of the functions of the Text RAID Manager are available from a BIOS configuration utility For complete instructions on starting the BIOS RAID Manager please see section 7 1 4 8 1 The Main Menu 8 1 1 The Initial Screen Cache Status Controller Name Transfer Rate Indicator Gauge Range Cursor Bar Con...

Page 66: ... operates in ANSI mode Terminal VT 100 Mode Enters the Main Menu and operates in VT 100 mode PC Graphic ANSI Color Mode Enters the Main Menu and operates in ANSI color mode Show Transfer Rate Show Cache Status Press ENTER on this item to show the cache status and transfer rate 8 1 1 Main Menu Use the arrow keys to move the cursor bar through the menu item then press ENTER to choose a menu or ESC t...

Page 67: ...gical Drive Status INITING The logical drive is now initializing INVALID The logical drive was created with Optimization for Sequential I O but the current setting is Optimization for Random I O Or The logical drive was created with Optimization for Random I O but the current setting is Optimization for Sequential I O GOOD The logical drive is in good condition ...

Page 68: ...MPLETE Two or more drives failed in the logical drive OnLine Total drive members in the logical drive STB Standby drives available for the logical drive This includes all the spare drives available for the logical drive Fail Failed drive member in the logical drive Name Logical drive name 8 1 4 SCSI Drive s Status Slot Slot number of the SCSI drive Chl The SCSI Channel of the connected drive ...

Page 69: ...initialization ON LINE The drive is in good condition REBUILD Processing Rebuild STAND BY Local Spare Drive or Global Spare Drive The Local Spare Drive s LG_DRV column will show the logical drive number The Global Spare Drive s LG_DRV column will show Global NEW DRV The new drive has not been configured to any logical drive or as a spare drive USED DRV The used drive has not been configured to any...

Page 70: ... The Primary Controller is using the SCSI ID for LUN mapping NA No SCSI ID applied Drive Channel mode only DefSynClk Default SCSI bus sync clock M The default setting of the SCSI channel is Mhz in Synchronous mode Async The default setting of the SCSI channel is Asynchronous mode DefWid Default SCSI Bus Width ...

Page 71: ...M The default setting of the SCSI channel is Mhz in Synchronous mode Async The default setting of the SCSI channel is Asynchronous mode empty The default SCSI bus sync clock has changed Reset the system for the changes to take effect CurWid Current SCSI Bus Width Wide 16 bit SCSI Narrow 8 bit SCSI empty The default SCSI bus width has changed Reset the controller for the changes to take effect ...

Page 72: ...erformance Write Back Cache must be Disabled to use write through when installing operating systems that automatically restarts the system during installation such as Microsoft Windows 95 98 Data in the cache may be cleared before writing to disk thus resulting in data loss Once the operating system is fully installed the cache will be instructed to be written to disk before restarting or shutting...

Page 73: ...l In the example shown above The current setting of SCSI Motor Spin Up is Disabled The current setting of SCSI Reset at Power Up is Enabled The current setting of Disk Access Delay Time is 15 seconds The current setting of Maximum Tag Count is 32 ...

Page 74: ...g a Logical Drive Choose View and Edit Logical Drives in the Main Menu The current logical drive configuration and status will be displayed on the screen Choose a logical drive number that has not yet been defined then press Enter A prompt Create Logical Drive will appear Select Yes and press Enter ...

Page 75: ...8 75 ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual A list of supported RAID levels will appear Choose a RAID level for this logical drive ...

Page 76: ... select Maximum Drive Capacity and then enter the maximum capacity that will be used by each drive You can assign a Local Spare Drive by choosing Assign Spare Drives in the above screen A list of available drives will be displayed on the screen Mark an asterisk on the drive s that will be assigned by moving the cursor bar to that device then pressing Enter Press ESC when done To exit this menu pre...

Page 77: ...s Manual When a fault tolerant RAID level 1 3 or 5 has been selected the controller will start initializing parity A progress indicator will be displayed on the screen After initialization is done the created logical drive is also complete ...

Page 78: ...ion and status will be displayed on the screen Refer to section 8 1 2 Logical Drive s Status for detailed descriptions To view the SCSI drive members of the logical drive choose the logical drive by pressing Enter Choose View SCSI Drives The member drive information will be displayed on the screen Refer to section 8 1 3 SCSI Drive s Status for the detailed descriptions of each item ...

Page 79: ...the logical drive you wish to delete then press Enter Choose Delete logical drive Choose Yes when prompted to confirm 8 2 4 Partitioning a Logical Drive Choose the logical drive you wish to partition then press Enter Choose Partition logical drive then press Enter Choose Yes to confirm ...

Page 80: ...anual The screen will display a partition table of up to 8 partitions with the last partition selected Press Enter and type the desired size for the selected partition then press Enter The remaining size will be allotted to the next partition ...

Page 81: ...d form Move the cursor bar to the partition you wish to delete then press Enter Enter 0 on the partition size to delete this partition The capacity of the deleted partition will be added into the last partition Logical Drive 1000MB Delete Partition 1 Logical Drive 1000MB Partition 3 400MB Partition 2 300MB Partition 1 200MB Partition 0 100MB The capacity of the deleted partitions will be added to ...

Page 82: ...s All the LUN mappings will be removed with any partition change 8 2 6 Assigning a Logical Drive Name Choose the logical drive you wish to assign a logical drive name then press Enter Choose logical drive name then press Enter again The current logical drive name will be displayed on the screen You may now enter the new logical drive name in this field Enter the logical drive name then press Enter...

Page 83: ... Rebuilding Logical Drive Choose the logical drive that has a failed member drive then press Enter Choose Rebuild logical drive then press Enter When prompted with Rebuild Logical Drive select Yes The rebuilding progress will be displayed on the screen ...

Page 84: ...MPORTANT The Rebuild function will appear only when a logical drive with RAID level 1 3 or 5 has a failed drive member Refer to 3 2 3 Automatic Rebuild and Manual Rebuild for more information 8 2 8 Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion From the main menu select View and Edit Logical Drives The logical drive that you wish to expand will be displayed Move the cursor to that logical drive if there is more ...

Page 85: ...ee section 8 4 1 for details on scanning in a SCSI drive Use the arrow keys to select Add SCSI Drives and then press Enter SCSI drives that are available for adding will be displayed Select drives by highlighting them and then pressing Enter An asterisk is displayed by each drive selected When you are finished selecting press Esc to confirm ...

Page 86: ... ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual You will be prompted to confirm that you would like to add the SCSI drives to the logical drive A bar will appear displaying the progress of adding the SCSI drives ...

Page 87: ...sion will be paused and the controller will NOT automatically continue the expansion when the power comes back on Resumption of the RAID expansion must be performed manually If a member drive of the logical drive fails during RAID expansion the Mode 1 expansion will be paused The expansion will resume automatically after logical drive rebuild has been completed 8 3 Viewing and Editing SCSI ID Map ...

Page 88: ...8 88 ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual Choose the SCSI ID you wish to map then press Enter ...

Page 89: ... displayed on the screen To map a LUN to a logical drive s partition select an available LUN one not mapped yet by moving the cursor bar to the LUN then pressing Enter A list of available logical drives will be displayed on the screen Move the cursor bar to the desired logical drive then press Enter ...

Page 90: ...8 90 ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual A partition table of the logical drive will be displayed on the screen Move the cursor to the desired partition then press Enter ...

Page 91: ...200 User s Manual The prompt shown above will display the mapping you wish to create Choose Yes to create the LUN mapping you selected In the example above partition 3 of logical drive 0 will map to LUN 0 of SCSI ID 3 on channel 0 ...

Page 92: ...N Mappings Choose the channel and SCSI ID of the LUN mapping you wish to view or delete A list of the current LUN mapping will be displayed on the screen Move the cursor bar to the LUN mapping you wish to delete then press Enter Select Yes to delete the LUN mapping or No to cancel ...

Page 93: ...anual 8 4 Viewing and Editing SCSI Drives Choose View and Edit SCSI Drives in the Main Menu All drives attached to the drive channels will be displayed on the screen Refer to 8 1 4 SCSI Drive s Status for detailed descriptions of each column ...

Page 94: ...Manual 8 4 1 Scanning a New SCSI Drive Choose a drive and press Enter Choose Scan SCSI drive then press Enter The menu may vary according to the drive status Choose the drive channel and SCSI ID of the drive you wish to scan then press Enter ...

Page 95: ...2 Viewing Drive Information Choose the SCSI drive you wish to view then press Enter Select View drive information The revision number serial number and disk capacity counts in block one block refers to 512K of the drive will be displayed on the screen ...

Page 96: ...to a logical drive or as a spare drive then press Enter Choose Add Local Spare Drive A list of available logical drives will be displayed on the screen Move the cursor bar to a logical drive then press Enter The unassigned SCSI drive will be assigned to this logical drive as the Local Spare Drive When prompted with Add Local Spare Drive choose Yes ...

Page 97: ...al 8 4 4 Adding a Global Spare Drive Move the cursor bar to the SCSI drive that has not yet been assigned to a logical drive or as a spare drive then press Enter Choose Add Global Spare Drive When prompted with Add Global Spare Drive choose Yes ...

Page 98: ...PCI DA2200 User s Manual 8 4 5 Deleting a Spare Drive Global Local Spare Move the cursor to a Local Spare Drive or Global Spare Drive then press Enter Choose Delete Global Local Spare Drive then press Enter again Choose Yes ...

Page 99: ...0 User s Manual 8 5 Viewing and Editing SCSI Channels Choose View and Edit SCSI Channels in the Main Menu A list of all the channels will be displayed on the screen Refer to section 8 1 4 SCSI Channel Status for detailed information ...

Page 100: ...xisting ID s will be displayed on the screen IMPORTANT Any changes to SCSI ID channel settings require a system reset to take effect 8 5 2 Setting a SCSI Channel s Terminator Choose the channel you wish the terminator enabled or disabled then press Enter Choose SCSI Terminator then press Enter A dialog box will appear Choose Yes then press Enter IMPORTANT ...

Page 101: ...nsfer Speed Move the cursor bar to a channel then press Enter Choose Sync Transfer Clock then press Enter A list of the clock speed will appear Move the cursor bar to the desired speed and press Enter A dialog box Change Sync Transfer Clock will appear Choose Yes IMPORTANT Every time you change the SCSI Transfer Speed you must reset the system for the changes to take effect ...

Page 102: ...ove the cursor bar to a channel then press Enter Select Wide Transfer then press Enter A dialog box Disable Wide Transfer or Enable Wide Transfer will appear Choose Yes IMPORTANT Every time you change the SCSI Transfer Width you must reset the system for the changes to take effect ...

Page 103: ... 103 ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual 8 5 5 Viewing and Editing SCSI Target Drive Channel Move the cursor bar to a Drive channel then press Enter Select View and Edit SCSI Target then press Enter ...

Page 104: ...DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual A list of all the SCSI targets and their current settings will appear Press Enter on a SCSI target and a menu list will appear on the screen Slot Number Slot Number is reserved from use ...

Page 105: ...l Maximum Synchronize Transfer Clock Choose Maximum Sync Xfer Clock then press Enter A dialog box will appear on the screen Enter the clock then press Enter Please refer to Appendix D Sync Clock Period and Sync Clock Frequency for more information ...

Page 106: ...8 106 ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual Wide Transfer Choose Wide Transfer then press Enter Choose Yes in the dialog box to confirm the setting ...

Page 107: ...8 107 ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual Parity Check Choose Parity Check Choose Yes in the dialog box that followed to confirm the setting ...

Page 108: ...8 108 ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual Disconnecting Support Choose Disconnect Support Choose Yes in the dialog box that followed to confirm the setting ...

Page 109: ...er s Manual SCSI I O Timeout Choose SCSI I O Timeout then press Enter A list of available timeout intervals will appear Move the cursor bar to an interval then press Enter Choose Yes in the dialog box that followed to confirm the setting ...

Page 110: ...le tag count numbers will appear Move the cursor bar to a number then press Enter Choose Yes in the dialog box that followed to confirm the setting IMPORTANT Disabling the Maximum Tag Count will disable the internal cache of the SCSI drive Disabling Tag Command Queuing will disable the Write Back cache built in the hard drive ...

Page 111: ...the controller will poll all of the connected drives in the controller s drive channels at the assigned interval Drive removal will be detected even if a host does not attempt to access data on the drive If the Periodic Drive Check Time is set to Disabled the default setting is Disabled the controller will not be able to detect any drive removal that occurs after the controller has been powered on...

Page 112: ...A2200 User s Manual SAF TE Enclosure Monitoring From the Drive side SCSI Parameters menu select Periodic SAF TE Device Check Time Disabled and then press Enter Use the arrow keys to choose the desired SAF TE status check interval ...

Page 113: ...ow keys to select the desired interval for Auto Checking Drive Hot Swap and then press Enter to confirm If a member drive of a logical drive fails the controller will start to check the failed drive to check if it has been replaced i e the controller checks the same drive channel and ID at the assigned interval Once the drive has been replaced with another drive the controller will automatically s...

Page 114: ...I DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual Restoring the Default Setting for Target Choose Restore to default setting then press Enter Choose Yes in the dialog box that followed to restore all the settings of the SCSI target ...

Page 115: ... Disable Choose Caching Parameters then press Enter Select Write Back Cache then press Enter Enabled or Disabled will display the current setting of the Write Back Cache Choose Yes in the dialog box that followed to confirm the setting IMPORTANT Every time you change the Cache Parameters you must reset the system for the changes to take effect ...

Page 116: ...al I O then press Enter The Random or Sequential dialog box will appear depending on the option you have selected Choose Yes in the dialog box that followed to confirm the setting IMPORTANT Every time you change this setting you must reset the system for the changes to take effect Refer to 3 4 1 Optimal for Sequential or Random I O for more information ...

Page 117: ...Maximum Queued I O Count Choose SCSI Parameters then press Enter Choose Maximum Queued I O Count then press Enter A list of available selections will appear Move the cursor bar to an item then press Enter Choose Yes in the dialog box that followed to confirm the setting ...

Page 118: ...8 118 ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual 8 6 3 Drive side SCSI Parameters Choose Drive side SCSI Parameters then press Enter The Drive side SCSI parameters menu will appear SCSI Motor Spin Up ...

Page 119: ...8 119 ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual Choose SCSI Motor Spin Up then press Enter Choose Yes in the dialog box that followed to confirm the setting SCSI Reset at Power Up ...

Page 120: ...o confirm the setting Please refer to section 3 5 2 for more information Disk Access Delay Time Choose Disk Access Delay Time then press Enter A list of selections will appear Move the cursor bar on a selection then press Enter Choose Yes in the dialog box that followed to confirm the setting Please see section 3 5 3 for more information ...

Page 121: ...Count Choose Maximum Tag Count then press Enter A list of selections will appear Move the cursor bar to a selection then press Enter Select Yes in the dialog box that followed then press Enter to confirm the setting Please see section 3 5 5 for more information ...

Page 122: ...8 122 ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual 8 6 4 Disk Array Parameters Choose Disk Array Parameters then press Enter The Disk Array Parameters menu will appear ...

Page 123: ...CI DA2200 User s Manual Rebuild Priority Choose Rebuild Priority then press Enter A list of the priority selections will appear Move the cursor bar to a selection then press Enter Please see section 3 3 1 for more information ...

Page 124: ...Move the cursor bar to an item then press Enter Choose Yes in the dialog box that followed to confirm the setting Refer to section 3 3 2 for more information IMPORTANT Every time you change this setting you must reset the system for the changes to take effect Refer to 3 5 2 SCSI Reset at Power Up for more information ...

Page 125: ...r s Manual 8 6 5 Controller Parameters Controller Name Choose Controller Parameters then press Enter The current controller name will be displayed Press Enter Enter the new controller name in the dialog box that followed then press Enter ...

Page 126: ...ssword Validation Timeout From the Controller Parameters menu select Password Validation Timeout and then press Enter You may select an interval for password validation Always check or Disabled Press Enter and then select Yes to confirm your selection ...

Page 127: ... ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual 8 6 System Functions Choose System Functions in the Main Menu then press Enter The System Functions menu will appear Move the cursor bar to an item then press Enter ...

Page 128: ...Manual 8 7 1 Mute Beeper When the controller s beeper has been activated choose Mute beeper then press Enter Choose Yes and press Enter in the next dialog box to turn the beeper off temporarily The beeper will still activate on the next event ...

Page 129: ...itor the RAID controller by providing the correct password IMPORTANT The controller will verify the password only when entering the Main Menu from the Initial screen Always go back to the Initial screen when the controller is going to be unattended The controller password and controller name are sharing a 16 character space The maximum characters for the controller password is 15 When the controll...

Page 130: ...rd The password can not be replaced unless a correct old password is provided Key in the old password then press Enter If the password is incorrect it will not allow you to change the password Instead it will display the message Password incorrect then go back to the previous menu If the password is correct or there is no preset password it will ask for the new password Setting a New Password Ente...

Page 131: ...m the Initial screen Disabling the Password To disable or delete the password press Enter only in the password column that is used for entering a new password The existing password will be deleted No password checking will occur when entering the Main Menu from the Initial screen 8 7 3 Reset Controller This function is not supported The controller is reset when the system is reset ...

Page 132: ...8 132 ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual 8 7 4 Shutdown Controller This function is not supported The controller is shutdown when the system is shutdown ...

Page 133: ...er s Manual 8 7 5 Controller Maintenance This function is not supported from within the Text RAID Manager Controller maintenance functions such as downloading new firmware can be performed from the start up menu of the Text RAID Manager ...

Page 134: ...w System Information then press Enter A list of information will appear CPU Type The type of CPU installed in the RAID controller Total Cache Size The total DRAM size installed in the controller Firmware Version The version of the firmware Bootrecord Version The version of the boot record Serial Number The serial number of the controller ...

Page 135: ... SNMP Service LAN WAN Internet Host Computer SNMP Agent for Windows NT NetWare SCO OpenServer SCO Unix Ware GUI RAID Manager TCP IP SNMP TCP IP SNMP ASUS RAID Controller Install the SNMP agent for the corresponded operating system on Host computer and enable the SNMP service The client computer running with GUI RAID Manager will be able to administrate the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 RAID Controller re...

Page 136: ...9 136 ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual Enter the Agent name or the IP address and the Community name of the host computer in the first column ...

Page 137: ...l act exactly the same as executing the GUI RAID Manager from the host computer The Controller Index refers to the number of the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 be found by the host computer If there is only one controller installed in the host computer 0 should be chosen When more than one ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 RAID controller installed in the same host computer the second ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 controll...

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Page 139: ...lease see section 8 6 1 Caching Parameters for details on how to disable the write back cache 1 MS DOS ASPI Drivers Installation The ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 can be used as a host adapter for SCSI tape drives and CD ROM drives To access such devices under MS DOS it is necessary to install the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 MS DOS ASPI Manager device driver The ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 MS DOS ASPI Manager allo...

Page 140: ...ectory C ASUS containing the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 ASPI Manager file DA2000 SYS and CD ROM Driver file ASPICDRM SYS a subdirectory C DOS containing the Microsoft CD ROM extension program MSCDEX EXE and MS DOS logical drives C and D have been assigned to hard disks then the following lines should be added to the CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT files respectively In CONFIG SYS file DEVICE C ASUS DA2000...

Page 141: ... 1 and 4 11 2 1 Installing NetWare 3 1x Follow these procedures to install ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 drivers for NetWare 3 11 or 3 12 1 Plug up to four ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 controllers into host PCI slots then power on The ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 BIOS will show the following messages on the screen for each installed ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 PCI TO SCSI RAID BIOS vx xx PCI Bus 00...

Page 142: ...stem console will display the following messages on the screen Loading module DA2000 DSK ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 Disk Driver for NetWare v3 1x Version x xx November 3 1995 Auto loading module DAASPI DSK DA ASPI Manager for NetWare v3 1x v4 0x and v4 1 Version x xx October 27 1995 Supported Slot values are 11 Slot 11 The slot number value is auto detected by the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 driver accordi...

Page 143: ...CI DA2100 DA2200 BIOS Configuration Utility to disable ISA Mailbox Emulation mode default is disabled To do this at system bootup press Ctrl I select Configure Card option then change IO Port Address to DISABLED 2 Use ASUS Text RAID Manager to configure Logical Drives and SCSI Devices and map them to valid SCSI IDs LUNs Note that SCSI ID 7 is reserved for the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 adapter and thu...

Page 144: ...Appendix A 144 ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual will show the following messages on the screen for each installed ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 controller ...

Page 145: ...Ware loadable Module Load Disk Driver Choose a disk driver that corresponding to the disk controller hardware in this server Repeat this step for additional drivers s ISADISK DSK Novell ISADISK AT Compatible Driver MNS16S DSK Mountain Network Solutions Inc SCSI Controller Driver MNS8MM DSK Mountain Network Solutions Inc SCSI 8MM Device Driver MNSDAT DSK Mountain Network Solutions Inc SCSI DDS DAT ...

Page 146: ...DM is located Drives for a large number of disk controllers are included with NetWare You may insert the appropriate NetWare diskette or specify a NetWare CD ROM directory or insert a third party diskette Disk drivers are in the directory NETWARE 40 ________ DISKDRV and LAN drivers are in NETWARE 40 ________ LANDRV on the CD ROM Press F3 to specify a different path Press Enter to continue Continue...

Page 147: ...dable Module Specify a directory path A Continue Enter Specify a different source drive directory F3 Help F1 Previous screen Esc Abort INSTALL ALT F10 11 Insert the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 Driver Diskette into floppy A and give the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 NetWare drivers path by typing netware v4 x and press Enter then wait for the following screen to appears ...

Page 148: ...NetWare v3 1X v4 0x and v4 1 This driver supports up to four ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 Controllers and multiple Loaded Drivers SCSI LUN When you load DA2000 DSK you have to specify which ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 controller you are loading the driver for by using the command line option SLOT N Select multiple disk drivers F5 Load a driver listed Enter Unload a driver Del Scroll help windows F7 up F8 dn ...

Page 149: ...wait 13 Press ALT ESC keys at the same time to switch to system console screen or wait for the NetWare installation program to time out When it times out the following screen will appear NetWare Server Installation v4 x NetWare loadable Module DA2000 DSK did not finish loading in the time allowed 15 seconds Controller will be switched to the system console screen where you may either see it finish...

Page 150: ... NetWare v3 1x v4 0x and v4 1 Version x xx October 27 1995 Supported Slot values are 11 Slot 11 The slot number value is auto detected by the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 driver according to which PCI slot the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 controller been plugged into Write down the slot number for later using in STARTUP NCF 15 Press Enter on system console screen NetWare Server Installation v4 x NetWare loada...

Page 151: ...17 Select Continue with installation and press Enter to continue the installation Note The correct syntax in STARTUP NCF file to load the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 drivers should resemble the following load da2000 slot x x is the slot number of slot into which where the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 has been plugged The slot number is auto detected by ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 driver and shown on the system co...

Page 152: ...2100 DA2200 Miniport Driver for Windows NT 3 5X PCIDA Tag file for driver installation OEMSETUP INF Information file for driver installation TXTSETUP OEM Information file for driver installation README NT3 A text file describing the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 miniport driver 3 1 Installing Driver During WinNT 3 1 3 51 Installation Follow these steps only if Windows NT is not installed on your computer...

Page 153: ...ws NT 3 1 go to step 8 7 Press S to skip mass storage devices detection 8 Windows NT setup cannot find any adapter and displays NONE Press S to specify additional SCSI controllers From the list of SCSI adapters select Other Requires disk provided by a hardware manufacturer 9 Insert the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 distribution diskette into floppy drive A and press Enter The screen displays DA 2000 Seri...

Page 154: ...m WINNT V3_5X to root directory of the backup diskette Use the backup copy as your working diskette 4 Boot Windows NT Select the Windows NT Setup program from the Main program group 5 Select the Options pull down menu and then select Add Remove SCSI Adapters The SCSI Adapter Setup displays a list of installed SCSI Adapters Then select Add to add an ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 controllers to the list 6 ...

Page 155: ... assignments may be different from previous configuration 3 3 Updating Windows NT 3 1 3 51 Device Driver 1 Copy the new device driver from the distribution diskette to the directory SystemRoot system32 drivers where SystemRoot is the system root directory of Windows NT For example if the system root directory is C WINNT then type the following copy a winnt v3_1 da2000 sys c winnt system32 drivers ...

Page 156: ...n the WINNT V4_0X subdirectory for Windows NT 4 0 DA2000 SYS ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 Miniport Driver for Win NT 4 0 PCIDA Tag file for driver installation OEMSETUP INF Information file for driver installation TXTSETUP OEM Information file for driver installation README NT4 A text file describing the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 miniport driver 1 For steps 1 through 5 it is assumed that you want to first ...

Page 157: ...cturer Insert the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 driver diskette and then press Enter 10 Select DA 2000 Series RAID Miniport for NT v4 0 from the list and then press Enter The Windows NT Setup screen will now indicate that it recognizes the RAID Miniport in addition to the IDE CD ROM Setup gives you the choice of specifying additional devices for use with Windows NT press S or of not specifying additional...

Page 158: ... 0 Installation you should choose the device driver called DA 2000 Series RAID Miniport for Alpha NT v4 0 See Section 3 4 steps 6 through 11 for instructions on installing Windows NT 4 0 for DEC Alpha The following files are supplied for driver installation they are put in the ALPHANT V4_0 subdirectory for Windows NT 4 0 DA2000 SYS ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 Miniport Driver for Windows NT 4 0 PCIDA Ta...

Page 159: ...scribes the procedure for installing the driver in a DEC Alpha system that is running Windows NT 4 0 IMPORTANT Under Windows NT 4 0 for DEC Alpha the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 cannot be the boot device 1 Go the Control Panel and select SCSI Adapters 2 Choose the Drivers tab and select the Add button 3 Select the Have Disk button ...

Page 160: ...cons for WINNT and then V4_0 Your selection of the A WINNT V4_0 directory will indicated Note for Windows NT 4 0 for DEC Alpha you should select the A ALPHANT V4_0 directory 6 You will see the DA 2000 Series Miniport Driver for Windows NT 4 0 highlighted in gray Press Enter to select it 7 You will be asked which directory you want to install the driver from Type in A WINNT V4_0 and then press Ente...

Page 161: ...e Card option then change IO Port Address to DISABLED 2 Use ASUS Text RAID Manager or RS 232 Terminal Interface to configure Logical Drives and SCSI Devices and map them to valid SCSI IDs LUNs Note that SCSI ID 7 is reserved for the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 controller and thus no logical drives or devices should be mapped to this SCSI ID 3 Follow the instructions in Windows 95 98 installation docume...

Page 162: ...l be displayed this is a normal behavior because a virtual target is registered by ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 Miniport Driver to support GUI RAID Manager Please select Do not install a driver and click on OK Don t be alarmed by this message It is perfectly normal to see this message when using the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 under Windows 95 98 15 Make sure that the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 Miniport Driver i...

Page 163: ...e SCSI controller icon then Double click on the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 PCI to SCSI RAID Adapter icon Click on the Driver tab 5 On the Driver tab click on Change Driver 6 Click on the Have Disk button and enter a win95 as the subdirectory to copy the manufacturer s file from Click OK 7 Select ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 PCI to SCSI RAID Adapter and click on OK 8 Click on OK The driver is copied 9 You mu...

Page 164: ...ilbox Emulation mode default is disabled To do this at system bootup press Ctrl I select Configure Card option then change IO Port Address to DISABLED 2 Use ASUS Text RAID Manager or RS 232 Terminal Interface Operation to configure Logical Drives and SCSI Devices and map them to valid SCSI IDs LUNs Note that SCSI ID 7 is reserved for the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 adapter and thus no logical drives or...

Page 165: ... RS 232 Terminal Interface Operation to configure Logical Drives and SCSI Devices and map them to valid SCSI IDs LUNs Note that SCSI ID 7 is reserved for the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 controller and thus no logical drives or devices should be mapped to this SCSI ID 3 Execute the program DDINSTAL by selecting the Device Driver Install icon within the System Setup folder of OS 2 System folder or by typ...

Page 166: ...xclamation character is a negation operator that is it negates the option that follows it 3 Driver Options V Verbose Either Display the driver name version number date adapter Information and device information if the driver loads successfully or display error messages if the driver fails to initialize ET Disable Enable Embedded Target Support Makes the driver disable enable not zero SCSI LUN supp...

Page 167: ...mal value ET Disable Enable Embedded Target Support Makes the driver disable enable not zero SCSI LUN support to the specified adapter by A n Default setting is ET DM Disable Enable Direct Access Storage Device DASD Manager Support Disable Enable all the units connect to the adapter specified by A n to be supported by the IBM supplied DASD manager OS2DASD DMD The default setting is DM SM Disable E...

Page 168: ...ting is DM The boot device MUST be supported by DASD Manager or the computer can not be able to boot OS 2 SM i1 i2 i3 OR SM i1 l1 i2 l2 Disable Enable SCSI Manager Support Where i1 i2 i3 is the specified SCSI Target ID i1 l1 i2 l2 is the specified SCSI Target ID LUN Disable Enable the specified SCSI Target ID LUN of the adapter specified by A n to be supported by the IBM supplied SCSI manager OS2S...

Page 169: ...o configure Logical Drives and SCSI Devices and map them to valid SCSI IDs LUNs Note that SCSI ID 7 is reserved for the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 and thus no logical drives or devices should be mapped to this SCSI ID 3 Check IO devices CD ROM or TAPE drive is properly installed 4 Insert the N1 boot diskette into the floppy drive and turn on the PC When the boot message appears type link as follows SC...

Page 170: ...nd press ENTER 9 At the following prompt type y The BTLD packages will now be added to the Link Kit The Link Kit is not installed Do you wish to install it now y n 10 At the following prompt press ENTER The following packages are on this diskette NAME DESCRIPTION da2x ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 SCSI Disk Array Driver for SCO UNIX system Please enter the names of the packages you wish to install or q t...

Page 171: ...ename IABL11F4 disk 4 NOTE The current driver version supports Linux 2 0 34 of Red Hat 5 1 and SlackWare 3 5 The Red Hat 5 2 Linux 2 0 36 is not yet supported 7 1 Making Floppy Diskettes for Red Hat 5 1 Installation 1 Prepare three formatted floppy diskettes 2 Copy the files of Disk 2 Disk 3 and Disk 4 to a UNIX machine with a floppy drive 3 Place the formatted disk into the floppy drive and use t...

Page 172: ...NG OPERATING SYSTEMS AND PARTITIONING The ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 is a high performance PCI RAID controller with Write Back cache enabled During the installation of some operating systems the installation program might reset the computer automatically while the cache still contains data not yet written to the drives It might cause the installation or partitioning failure To avoid the failure always...

Page 173: ... performance Write Back Caching will bring your system into a higher performance level 2 Connect CD ROM drive to ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 remove or disable any other SCSI adapters from the system red hat 5 1 installation can only use one SCSI adapter during installation The IDE CD ROM drive can be a substitute for the SCSI CD ROM drive 3 If using ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 BIOS v1 17B do not leave Red H...

Page 174: ...NING The ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 is a high performance PCI RAID controller with Write Back cache enabled During the installation of some operating systems the installation program might reset the computer automatically while the cache still contains data not yet written to the drives It might cause the installation or partitioning failure To avoid the failure always switch the cache mode to Write B...

Page 175: ...procedure to create the SlackWare Boot Disk and Root Disk from the SlackWare CD ROM 3 If using ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 BIOS v1 17B do not leave SlackWare CD disc in the CD ROM drive during system reboot The BIOS 1 17B has CD ROM boot ability it detects the CD in the CD ROM drive once it detects the CD disc is bootable the system will boot from CD ROM not from floppy 4 Use ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 Lin...

Page 176: ... PCI DA2100 DA2200 Text RAID Manager RAIDSNMP for Linux disk 3 into the floppy drive and mount it mount r dev fd0 mnt 2 Execute the Raidman in the tools directory cd mnt tools raidman NOTE The current driver version supports Linux 2 0 34 of Red Hat 5 1 and SlackWare 3 5 The Red Hat 5 2 Linux 2 0 36 is not yet supported ...

Page 177: ... cannot be used as the Solaris boot drive 8 1 1 Creating the Driver Diskette from the Image File 1 Find a UNIX system with floppy disk drive 2 Under the command prompt type dd if IAAS111D of dev fd0 bs 1440k where dev fd0 is the floppy drive device where the driver diskette will extract to 8 1 2 Extracting Driver Files Using tar and uncompress 1 Find a system with SUN Solaris 2 5 2 6 for x86 platf...

Page 178: ...PCI DA2100 DA2200 The following packages are available 1 dascx86 RAID In band SCSI Driver for Solaris 2 5 2 6 i386 1 11a 2 mgrx86 ASUS Text RAID Management for Solaris 2 5 2 6 i386 1 51b 3 rhbax86 PCI SCSI RAID Host Adapter Driver i386 1 11d 4 snmpx86 RAID SNMP SUBAGENT for Solaris 2 5 2 6 i386 1 15b Select package s you will to process or all to process all packages default all q 3 A3 After the d...

Page 179: ...all the driver from the directory where the files were extracted type pkgadd d 2101 where 2101 is the directory where the driver files were extracted B2 Follow the instructions from A2 to A7 of above to install the driver and the ASUS Text RAID Manager and RAID SNMP sub agent for Solaris 8 3 Drivers Utilities Solaris 2 5 x 2 6 SPARC The drivers and utilities can be found in the following directory...

Page 180: ...ting the Driver Files Using tar and uncompress 1 Find a system with SUN Solaris 2 5 2 6 for x86 platform installed 2 Make a temporary directory and copy the file IAAS111D_ Z into it cd mkdir 2101 cp sun_tar Z 2101 3 Make sure the last character of the filename Z is capitalized not in lower case If it is in lower case z change it to Z mv sun_tar z sun_tar Z 4 Uncompress the file uncompress sun_tar ...

Page 181: ... package s you will to process or all to process all packages default all q 3 A3 After the driver has been installed the same selections appear again Choose 2 this time to install the ASUS Text RAID Manager for Solaris A4 After the driver installed the same selections appear again Choose 4 this time to install the RAID SNMP sub agent for Solaris This step can be ignored if SNMP remote administrati...

Page 182: ...s were extracted B2 Follow the instruction from A2 to A7 of above to install the driver and the ASUS Text RAID Manager and RAID SNMP sub agent for Solaris 8 5 Configuring RAID in Solaris with Text RAID Manager 1 Change the current directory to where the ASUS Text RAID Manager is located cd usr lib raidsnmp 2 Execute the ASUS Text RAID Manager under command prompt raidman Please refer to chapter 6 ...

Page 183: ...D Maximu m Devices SCSI 1 6 m 8 SCSI 2 3 m 8 Wide SCSI 2 3 m 16 Ultra SCSI 2 1 5 m 8 Ultra SCSI 2 3m 4 Ultra Wide SCSI 2 16 Ultra Wide SCSI 2 1 5 m 8 Ultra Wide SCSI 2 3 m 4 Ultra2 Wide SCSI 12m 16 The maximum device count includes the controller The controller must occupy one SCSI ID on each drive channel The controller usually occupies ID 7 SCSI Bus Width and Maximum Throughput Bus Width SCSI Bu...

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Page 185: ...BIOS firmware boot record are available on the ASUS FTP server or in the form of an MS DOS file on a 5 25 or 3 5 diskette on request To perform the download the following must be available ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 plugged into a host PCI slot and properly functioning RAIDMAN EXE running under MS DOS To perform the download follow the following procedure 1 Select Controller Maintenance menu option un...

Page 186: ...t record file 5 If both firmware and boot record are being downloaded when downloading of boot record is complete repeat step 4 then when prompted for a file name enter the name of firmware file 6 When file transfer is complete please wait a moment while the ASUS PCI DA2100 DA2200 burns the code into the flash memory IMPORTANT Allow the downloading process to finish Do not reset or turn off the co...

Page 187: ... Synchronous Clock Period Sample equation In this example where 20 8Mhz is called the Synchronous Clock Frequency and 12 is called the Synchronous Clock Period Synchronous Clock Period Synchronous Clock Frequency Synchronous Clock Period Synchronous Clock Frequency 10 40 62 4 0 11 30 75 3 3 12 20 88 2 8 15 16 6 100 2 5 18 13 8 110 2 2 25 10 0 120 2 0 31 8 0 135 1 8 37 6 7 0 Asynchronous 43 5 8 50 ...

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Page 189: ...evice on the same SCSI channel 2 Make sure terminators are properly installed 3 Check the voltage output of the power supply Initialization failure 1 Check ID numbers must be unique for each device on the same SCSI channel 2 Make sure terminators are properly installed Cannot detect SCSI drive 1 Check drive power connections 2 Check drive SCSI cable connections 3 Check ID numbers must be unique fo...

Page 190: ...he empty drive entry The logical drive states INVALID 1 Optimization for I O when creating the logical drive in Cache Parameter is different from the current setting 2 Change Optimization for I O to the opposite setting and reset the controller In View and Edit SCSI Drives or View and Edit SCSI Channels the speed is only 20 8Mhz not 40Mhz 1 20 8Mhz is SCSI sync frequency not transfer rate 2 Refer ...

Page 191: ...er or GUI RAID Manager Host Interface PCI Rev 2 1 Cache size Up to 128 Mbytes Host interface Ultra2 Wide SCSI Hard disk interface Ultra2 Wide SCSI Hard disk channels 2 Channel Terminator Active software programmable SCSI protocol SCSI 1 SCSI 2 Ultra Wide SCSI 1 or SCSI 2 auto match or U2 Wide SCSI Ultra2 SCSI transfer rate 80 Mbytes sec synchronous max Max SCSI drives 30 No of logical drives 8 eac...

Page 192: ...nsity internal connector 68 pin ultra high density external connect Ultra2 Wide SCSI cabling Low voltage differential Voltage 5 Volts Current 3 Amp Operating Temperature 5 to 44 C Relative Humidity 10 96 non condensing Operating Altitude Sea level to 10 000 ft Dimensions 9 21 L x 4 2 W x 0 56 H ...

Page 193: ...00 PCI DA2200 User s Manual Appendix G Record the Settings View and Edit Logical Drives Logical Drive Information LG RAID Level On Line DRV STB SB Logical Drive Name Partition Information LG Partition Size MB LG Partition Size MB ...

Page 194: ...iew and Edit Host LUNs LUN Mappings Host Channel Pri Sec Controller SCSI ID LUN Logical Drive Partition Size View and Edit SCSI Drives Slot Chl ID Size MB Ultra Y N Wide Y N LG DRV Global Spare Local Spare Vendor Product ID LG LG LG LG LG LG LG LG LG LG LG LG ...

Page 195: ...de SCSI Parameters Maximum Queued I O Count Auto _________ LUNs per Host SCSI ID 1 LUN 2 LUNs 4 LUNs 8 LUNs Drive Side SCSI Parameters SCSI Motor Spin up Enabled Disabled SCSI Reset at Power Up Enabled Disabled Disk Access Delay Time No Delay _______ Seconds Maximum Tag Count Disabled _______ Disk Array Parameters Rebuild Priority Low Normal Improved High Verifications on Writes Verifications on L...

Page 196: ...r Supply Fail Signal Active High Active Low Fan Fail Signal Active High Active Low Temperature Alert Signal Active High Active Low UPS Power Fail Signal Active High Active Low View System Information Total Cache Size EDO DRAM Normal DRAM _________ MB Firmware Version Bootrecord Version Serial Number ...

Page 197: ...60 BIOS RAID Manager 5 1 7 5 8 1 BIOS configuration utility 7 1 building a RAID system drive 6 1 C cable specifications SCSI B 1 cache disable write back during OS installation A 1 display of RAM type and size 7 1 enable write back 8 49 cache parameters 3 12 record of settings G 3 capacitance B 1 changing the password 8 61 8 62 concurrent rebuild in RAID 0 1 3 10 ...

Page 198: ...hutdown 8 64 controller name 8 58 controller parameters 8 58 CPU 1 1 2 2 Ctrl I 7 1 D data cache 2 2 data rebuilding 2 1 DC resistance B 1 DEC Alpha Windows NT installing driver during NT v4 0 installation A 18 installing driver in existing NT v4 0 system A 19 default setting restoring 7 1 8 48 delay skew B 1 Device 7 1 disable write back 8 49 disabling the password 8 63 disconnecting support 8 43...

Page 199: ...s identifying 3 7 drive side SCSI parameters 3 12 8 52 record of settings G 3 dynamic logical drive expansion 3 16 8 20 F firmware 1 1 2 2 display of version number 7 1 flash all SCSI drives 3 8 selected SCSI drive 3 8 form factor 2 1 G global spare drive 3 5 adding one 8 32 deleting 8 32 H hardware installation 4 1 hot swap drive detection of followed by auto rebuild 8 47 hot swapping 2 1 How doe...

Page 200: ...es 3 7 idle drive failure detection 8 46 impedance B 1 installation DOS ASPI drivers A 1 hardware 4 1 NetWare v4 0x v4 1 v4 11 A 5 OS 2 driver A 23 Windows 95 driver A 20 Installation SCO Unix and UnixWare A 27 IRQ 7 1 J JBOD 3 2 K keys for navigation in Text RAID Manager 5 1 L Linux drivers and utilities for A 29 drivers and utilities for SPARC platform A 36 ...

Page 201: ... deleting 8 15 deleting a partition 8 17 expansion 3 16 8 20 expansion example using Windows NT 3 19 explained 6 3 mapping to an ID LUN 8 23 partitioning 8 15 rebuilding 8 19 record of settings G 1 status 8 3 viewing and editing 8 10 viewing drives and drive members 8 14 LUN 2 1 defined 6 2 LUN mappings record of settings G 2 viewing and deleting 8 27 M main menu 8 1 8 2 manual rebuild 3 9 maximum...

Page 202: ...O optimization for sequential or random I O 3 12 OS 2 command line options of IFT 2101U2 OS 2 driver A 25 driver installation A 23 installing driver during v2 x 3 0 installation A 23 installing driver in an existing v2 x 3 0 system A 24 updating IFT 2101U2 OS 2 device driver A 24 P parameters cache 3 12 8 49 controller 8 58 disk array 3 11 drive side SCSI 3 12 SCSI 8 51 parity check 8 42 partition...

Page 203: ...lidation timeout 8 59 PCI bus 7 1 periodic drive check time 8 46 periodic drive swap auto check 3 16 8 47 peripheral device active signal record of settings G 4 port I O 7 1 propagation delay B 1 Q queued I O count maximum 8 51 quick setup 5 1 R RAID 0 1 3 4 0 3 3 1 3 3 3 3 4 5 3 5 a definition 3 1 configuring 6 1 RAID level 5 1 RAID levels 3 1 RAID management 3 1 ...

Page 204: ...oller 8 63 S SAF TE 3 15 periodic check time 8 47 SCO Unix driver installation A 27 SCSI I O timeout 3 13 8 44 SCSI bus maximum throughput B 1 width B 1 SCSI channel 6 2 record of settings G 3 setting the terminator 8 35 status 8 6 viewing and editing 8 33 8 34 SCSI drive record of settings G 2 scanning a new one 8 29 status 8 4 viewing and editing 8 28 viewing information 8 30 SCSI drive channel ...

Page 205: ... I O optimization for 3 12 8 50 set up basic operation 4 4 shutdown controller 8 64 single drive control JBOD 3 2 slot number 8 39 SNMP establishing the connection 9 1 GUI RAID Manager via 9 1 Solaris drivers and utilities for x86 platform A 34 installing SPARC platform driver and Text RAID Manager A 37 installing x86 platform driver and text RAID Manager A 35 Text RAID Manager A 38 spanning NRAID...

Page 206: ... 3 3 4 striping with interspersed parity RAID 5 3 5 striping with mirroring RAID 0 1 3 4 synchronize transfer clock maximum 8 40 synchronous clock frequency D 1 period D 1 system functions 8 60 system information record of settings G 4 viewing 8 66 T tag command queuing 8 45 tag count maximum 3 14 8 45 8 54 Text RAID Manager 8 1 keys 5 1 transfer rate B 1 transfer speed setting it 8 36 transfer wi...

Page 207: ...ing current settings 8 8 viewing system information 8 66 VT 100 terminal 5 1 W Windows 95 driver installation A 20 updating device driver A 22 Windows NT example of RAID expansion 3 19 installing driver during DEC Alpha v4 0 installation A 18 installing driver during v4 0 installation A 16 installing driver in existing DEC Alpha v4 0 system A 19 updating device driver in v3 1 3 51 system A 15 ...

Page 208: ...Index ASUS PCI DA2100 PCI DA2200 User s Manual 208 This page is left intentionally blank ...

Page 209: ...GUI RAID Manager For ASUS Disk Array Controllers User s Guide Revision 1 5 ...

Page 210: ...es the right to revise this publication and to make changes from time to time in the content hereof without obligation to notify any person of such revisions or changes Trademarks ASUS and ASUSTeK are registered trademarks of Computer Inc Microsoft Windows Windows NT and MS DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U S and other countries Novell and NetWare are registered trade...

Page 211: ...laying and Hiding the Status Bar 16 3 6 Working with Windows 18 3 7 Exiting GUI RAID Manager 37 4 Array Management 1 4 1 Background Information 3 4 2 Operation without Spare Drives 5 4 3 Before you Start 7 4 4 Defining Enclosures 8 4 5 Setting Controller Configuration 11 4 6 Setting Channel Configuration 13 4 7 Scanning in Drives 17 4 8 Creating and Deleting Logical Drives 19 4 9 Assigning Spare D...

Page 212: ...ax Notification 21 5 7 Configuring an E Mail Notification 24 5 8 Configuring a Broadcast Message Notification 27 6 Running in Demo Mode 1 6 1 Introduction 2 6 2 Starting the Demo Program 3 6 3 Failing a Drive 5 6 4 Exiting the Demo Program 8 A Command Summary 1 Menu Commands 1 Command Buttons 6 B Troubleshooting 1 Startup Errors 2 Notification Errors 3 SNMP Errors 5 C RAID Levels 1 RAID Descriptio...

Page 213: ...rnet This guide discusses how to install and use the GUI RAID Manager to manage disk array systems incorporating ASUS PCI to SCSI or SCSI to SCSI controllers In addition to the GUI RAID Manager you can also use the on board RS 232 menu interface SCSI to SCSI controllers only or the text based RAID Managers available for various operating systems to manage disk array systems incorporating ASUS disk...

Page 214: ...up the system security displaying and hiding the toolbar and status bar working with various disk array windows and exiting from the program Chapter 4 Array Management Provides information on disk array management including defining enclosures setting the controller and channel configurations scanning in drives creating and deleting logical drives assigning spare drives rebuilding logical drives c...

Page 215: ...system management and for demonstrating the GUI RAID Manager functionality without connecting to a real disk array Appendix A Command Summary Summarizes the available commands and command buttons in the GUI RAID Manager Appendix B Troubleshooting Provides troubleshooting tips for some problems you may encounter while using the GUI RAID Manager Appendix C RAID Levels Provides information about the ...

Page 216: ...1 1 1 Introduction This chapter provides information about the GUI RAID Manager management program These include the following topics System description Feature summary Feature highlights ...

Page 217: ...understanding of the relationship between disk array elements and simplifies the normally complicated process of array configuration The GUI RAID Manager also provides real time reporting on the status of the entire array thus making the task of monitoring disk arrays virtually effortless The GUI RAID Manager complements the on board console interface found on the ASUS SCSI to SCSI controllers and...

Page 218: ...s with a disk array system Illustrates graphically and clearly the relationship between various disk array elements At a glance monitoring of the entire disk array status Supports remote management over the network of host agent running Windows NT or Windows 95 98 via the Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP Supports remote management over the telephone line via a pair of modems one directly co...

Page 219: ...gging in various event occurrences including the time when an event occurs event severity and event description log file can be accessed using any text editor program Supports statistics monitoring for displaying I O throughput history Provides innovative user configurable event notification functions Ø Configurable severity level qualifying the event severity that will initiate the selected notif...

Page 220: ...figurable address book for keeping names E mail addresses and messages to be sent Ø Broadcast notification over the LAN Provides user configurable address book containing names groups and network addresses to which the specified message will be broadcasted Broadcasts user configurable message along with the event description Ø Facsimile FAX notification via a local FAX modem Provides user configur...

Page 221: ...dows specifications It draws symbolic icons representing physical and logical drives and logical volumes on the screen to identify the current configuration of a disk array system Pull down and pop up menus are used with all command options listed You just point and click the mouse button to select an icon or command The program also identifies the current status of various drives by changing the ...

Page 222: ... a drive its icon is removed from the enclosure window This feature is particularly useful in cases where a drive fails and you need to identify its exact location for subsequent replacement In addition to monitoring drives in the enclosure the enclosure window also allows you to monitor the status of the power supply fan temperature inside the enclosure and the status of the uninterruptible power...

Page 223: ... you can specify retry periods depending on your specific needs 1 3 4 Remote Management via SNMP or Modem The GUI RAID Manager supports remote management of the ASUS disk array controllers over a LAN using SNMP or over the telephone line using a dial up modem Management over the LAN is achieved through the exchanges of SNMP management packets between the remote GUI RAID Manager station and the SNM...

Page 224: ...ocal Host with SNMP Agent RAID Controller Alternatively for management at even greater distances the RS 232 port on the RAID controller can be directly connected to a modem and a GUI RAID Manager running on a remote station can dial in and manage the array over the telephone line See the figure below for information GUI RAID Manager Station Local Host RAID Controller Modem Fax Modem Fax Telephone ...

Page 225: ...ay system is safe from any unauthorized modifications 1 3 6 Demo Mode The GUI RAID Manager provides a Demo program for use as a learning tool and for demonstration purposes This tool allows you to experiment on various disk array configurations and monitor how the system responds and operates under such conditions without connecting to a real disk array This Demo program supports all management fu...

Page 226: ...ASUS GUI RAID Manager Introduction 1 3 Feature Highlights 1 11 ...

Page 227: ...contains information about software setup and hardware setup for local and remote management The following topics are discussed System requirements Hardware setup Software setup Downloading new releases of the GUI RAID Manager program ...

Page 228: ...tor Microsoft compatible mouse At least one available RS 232 port if remote management over the telephone line is desired Hayes compatible modem if pager telephone event notification is desired or FAX modem if FAX event notification is desired SNMP service for Windows NT if SNMP remote management is desired Local host running ASUS SNMP agent for SNMP remote management only IBM compatible 386 or ab...

Page 229: ...cted controller Local management is simpler than remote management for it requires less hardware in its configuration Remote management is more complicated than local management but provides the following benefits Allows management even at distant remote places Since remote management utilizes the network cable or the telephone line management anywhere around the globe is possible All you need is ...

Page 230: ...CSI controller the host The following figure illustrates a typical setup for a PCI to SCSI controller GUI RAID Manager Station PCI to SCSI RAID Controller PCI Bus Since the controller is already installed in the host no extra connection is necessary Just load the necessary driver for the controller and then run the GUI RAID Manager from the local host to start management of the disk array system ...

Page 231: ...ed port that is COM1 COM2 etc 2 Configure the RS 232 serial communication port of the local host to correspond to that of the interface on the controller You will only need to set the baud rate the GUI RAID Manager automatically sets the other communications parameters If you want to modify the baud rate setting on the controller use the on board console interface or the GUI RAID Manager For infor...

Page 232: ...ternatively you can manage the disk array system from other GUI RAID Manager stations on the network Network setup requires running the GUI RAID Manager on the target manager station s and enabling the SNMP service on the local host The following figure illustrates a typical network setup PC System with GUI RAID Manager Windows NT SNMP Agent PC System with ASUS DA 2200 Windows NT 95 98 SNMP Agent ...

Page 233: ...modem connected to the SCSI to SCSI controller NOTES Ensure that the baud rates of the RS 232 port and the modem are set accordingly otherwise you will encounter communication problems The PCI to SCSI controller does not support direct connection to a modem for remote management To manage this controller using the modem you will need to connect the modem instead to the local host s serial interfac...

Page 234: ...isting SCSI cable instead How is it able to use the SCSI cable In band SCSI technology translates the original commands into standard SCSI commands These SCSI commands are then sent to and received from the SCSI raid controller The GUI RAID Manager can administrate the RAID controller just as it could before via RS 232C Note It is assumed that users of In band SCSI possess the following a third pa...

Page 235: ...he one shown in this example From the Main Menu press t or s to select View and Edit Configuration Parameters Press Enter and then use the t or s to select Host side SCSI Parameters Then press Enter You will need to make adjustments in the following four submenu s Peripheral Device Type Peripheral Device Qualifier Device Support for Removable Media and LUN Application Different host operating syst...

Page 236: ...alifier Device Support for Removabl e Media LUN Applicability NT 4 0 3 connected disabled All Undefined LUNs NT 5 0 3 connected enabled All Undefined LUNs NetWare 4 x 1f connected disabled All Undefined LUNs SCO Unix 5 0x 7f connected either is okay All Undefined LUNs UnixWare 2 1x 3 connected either is okay All Undefined LUNs Solaris 2 5 x 2 6 7f connected either is okay All Undefined LUNs ...

Page 237: ... Device 7 Unknown Device 1f Processor Type 3 Example Settings for Windows NT 4 0 The settings for Windows NT 4 0 are provided here as an example For the settings for other operating systems please refer to the table above Peripheral Device Type Parameters Reference for Various Operating Systems On the front panel use t or s to select Peripheral Device Type Parameters and then press Enter Periph De...

Page 238: ... s mentioned above Use the arrow keys to scroll down to Device Qualifier press t or s to select Device Qualifier Connected The default setting is Connected If your Front Panel reads Disconnected press ENT and you will be prompted to change to Connected If your Device Qualifier setting reads Connected press Esc to return to the Host side SCSI submenu s Use the t or s to select Support for Removable...

Page 239: ...on and then press Enter The default setting is All Undefine LUN Press Enter and use t or s to select Undefine LUN 0 s Press Enter to accept The screen should display the following message The RAID controller adjustments necessary to use In band SCSI have been completed For locally accessing the host computer see section 4 10 3 1 Local Connection SNMP Not Required all steps LUN Application All Unde...

Page 240: ...e made see section 4 10 3 2 Remote Connection SNMP Required 2 3 2 Using In band SCSI in GUI RAID Manager Local Connection SNMP Not Required If you are using the GUI RAID Manager on the host computer that is using In band SCSI ie local access SNMP service is not required You may now connect by going to FILE CONNECT and selecting the port address ...

Page 241: ... of the GUI RAID Manager please refer to the GUI RAID Manager User Guide In the figure above the Agent Site is a host computer connected to a RAID controller via a SCSI cable The Manager Site is a Windows NT system with the GUI RAID Manager The Agent Site could be running an operating system other than Windows NT ASUS provides the In band SCSI SNMP agents for the following operating systems Window...

Page 242: ...e cable which is used to transfer data between the host computer and the RAID there s no need for an extra SCSI cable 2 The host computer s operating system has SNMP service installed 3 The host computer has the In band SCSI SNMP agent installed for the corresponding operating system The example described herein is Windows NT 4 The host computer is up and running IMPORTANT This following applies t...

Page 243: ...selected 3 The GUI RAID Manager is running IMPORTANT This following applies to Windows NT 4 0 with Service Pack 3 if the SNMP Service is installed after the Service Pack 3 has been installed Service Pack 3 must be re installed in order for the SNMP service to work properly Example Settings for Agent Site Using Windows NT 1 Install SNMP Service in Windows NT Look for the Network icon in the Control...

Page 244: ...ep called Install the SNMP Agent and GUI RAID Manager If the SNMP Service is not yet installed click on Add and choose SNMP Service to install IMPORTANT This following applies to Windows NT 4 0 with Service Pack 3 if the SNMP Service is installed after the Service Pack 3 has been installed Service Pack 3 must be re installed in order for the SNMP service to work properly ...

Page 245: ...ct both the SNMP Manager Site and SNMP Agent Site options Complete the installation by following the on screen instructions Example Settings for Manager Site 1 Install the SNMP manager and GUI RAID Manager During the installation of GUI RAID Manager click to select the option SNMP Manager Site Complete the installation by following the on screen instructions 1 Run the GUI RAID Manager Start the co...

Page 246: ...ype choose SCSI Bus Interface The Controller Index refers to the sequence of the RAID controller which is going to be administrated If only one RAID controller is installed in the agent site computer choose 0 If there is more than one RAID controller installed in the agent site computer choose 1 to administrate the second RAID controller Choose 2 to administrate the third RAID controller etc ...

Page 247: ...to set up the GUI RAID Manager in your system Before proceeding with the setup procedure read through the notes listed in the Before you Start section You will need the information provided in this section to complete setup successfully 2 4 1 Before you Start Before starting with setup read through the notes listed below and ensure that you understand each These notes will help facilitate the setu...

Page 248: ...u will only need to set up for a Local Manager Site For fast setup just accept the default values presented by the setup program For remote management over the network using SNMP ensure that the remote manager station has Windows NT You will need to set up for an SNMP Manager Site on the remote station and SNMP Agent Site on the local host The setup program helps you achieve these tasks by providi...

Page 249: ...ess This will minimize the possibility of encountering system errors during setup Then click OK to continue 4 To accept the default destination directory click on the setup button at the top left portion of the screen to specify a different directory click on the Change Directory button and then specify the directory you want The following screen will then appear ...

Page 250: ... transactions from remote manager stations will be processed you need the SNMP Agent Site option for a remote manager station where array management will be performed over the network you need the SNMP Manager Site option To select an option just check its corresponding check box You may select more than one option if you want be reminded though that the more options you select the bigger the disk...

Page 251: ... will be displayed 7 Click OK 8 If necessary restart the SNMP service Setup is complete You may now start managing the disk array system For information on first time operating instructions see Chapter 3 Basic Operations at Startup 2 4 3 Program Updates As ASUS valued customer you are entitled to free program updates You can download the latest GUI RAID Manager program from ASUS FTP sites at ftp A...

Page 252: ...te or on a 5 25 or 3 5 diskette The file available at the FTP site is usually a self extracting file that contains the following FW30Bxyz Firmware Binary where xyz refers to the firmware version B30Buvw Boot Record Binary where uvw refers to the boot record version README TXT Read this file first before upgrading the firmware or boot record It contains the most up to date information which is very...

Page 253: ...his is the case there is no need to upgrade the Boot Record Binary Upgrading the firmware using In band SCSI GUI RAID Manager The In band SCSI connection and the ability to upgrade the firmware via In band SCSI are supported in ASUS GUI RAID Manager version 1 61B and later versions This version of the GUI RAID Manager is for use with the firmware 2 11 If the firmware currently in the controller is...

Page 254: ...load Boot Record and Firmware 2 Provide the boot record binary filename the GUI RAID Manager will start to download the boot record binary to the controller 3 After the boot record download completed provide the firmware filename to the GUI RAID Manager It will start to download the firmware to the controller 4 Shutdown the system which is accessing the RAID then reset the controller in order to u...

Page 255: ... appears Choose Controller Maintenance If both boot record and firmware are desired to upgrade choose Download Firmware 2 Provide the firmware filename to the GUI RAID Manager It will start to download the firmware to the controller 3 Shutdown the system which is accessing the RAID then reset the controller in order to use the new downloaded firmware ...

Page 256: ...p security Displaying and hiding the toolbar Displaying and hiding the status bar Working with various system windows Exiting from the GUI RAID Manager 3 1 Starting the GUI RAID Manager Depending on your hardware setup you can start the GUI RAID Manager in various ways For local management your task is quite simple Please refer to the appropriate section below for information 4 4Starting the GUI R...

Page 257: ...ager group window double click on the ASUS GUI RAID Manager icon The ASUS GUI RAID Manager main window appears on the screen 3 Connect to the disk array system For information on how to connect see the Connecting and Disconnecting from a Disk Array System section of this chapter For remote management see the appropriate section below 4 4Starting the GUI RAID Manager for remote management via netwo...

Page 258: ...t yet open 3b From the ASUS GUI RAID Manager group window double click on the ASUS GUI RAID Manager icon The ASUS GUI RAID Manager main window appears on the screen 4 Connect to the disk array system For information on how to connect see the Connecting and Disconnecting from a Disk Array System section of this chapter 4 4Starting the GUI RAID Manager for remote management via telephone line 1 Ensu...

Page 259: ...your GUI RAID Manager station and the target system Once a connection is established successfully management can be started Disconnection is used for breaking the link between the GUI RAID Manager station and the array system This option is particularly useful in cases where multiple disk array systems are being managed at the same time instead of restarting the GUI RAID Manager every time you nee...

Page 260: ...ed If none are installed then no PCI Bus entries will be displayed 2 Select the corresponding entry for a PCI to SCSI controller Based on the previous figure the entry should be PCI Bus 0 PCI Dev 12 Port D000 Irq 11 The enabling of the toolbar buttons signifies a successful connection 4 4Connecting to a SCSI to SCSI controller from the local host 1 From the File menu select Connect or Click on the...

Page 261: ...troller via the RS 232 cable To select a different COM port click on the down arrow button at the right of the box then select the desired option 4 From the Baud Rate drop down list box select the baud rate setting on the RS 232 port of the controller To select perform the same procedure described in step 3 You can modify the baud rate on the controller through the on board console interface or th...

Page 262: ...at came with the controller 5 Click OK The enabling of the toolbar buttons signifies a successful connection 4 4Connecting to a PCI to SCSI controller from a remote station via network 1 From the File menu select Connect or Click on the Connect Open command button The following submenu appears on the screen 2 Select SNMP The Settings of SNMP Interface dialog box appears on the screen ...

Page 263: ...nity names act as passwords that screen accesses to the SNMP agent of a particular network device Before access is granted to a requesting station this station must incorporate a valid community name to its request otherwise the SNMP agent will deny access to the system By default most network devices use public as one of their community names This value is case sensitive 5 In the Agent side Commu...

Page 264: ...ou need 6 Click OK The enabling of the toolbar buttons signifies a successful connection 4 4Connecting to a SCSI to SCSI controller from a remote station via network 1 From the File menu select Connect or Click on the Connect Open command button The following submenu appears on the screen 2 Select SNMP The Settings of SNMP Interface dialog box appears on the screen ...

Page 265: ...ommunity names of the SNMP agent Community names act as passwords that screen accesses to the SNMP agent of a particular network device Before access is granted to a requesting station this station must incorporate a valid community name to its request otherwise the SNMP agent will deny access to the system By default most network devices use public as one of their community names This value is ca...

Page 266: ... rate setting on the RS 232 port of the controller To select perform the same procedure described previously If you wish to modify the baud rate setting on the controller use the on board console interface or the GUI RAID Manager For information on the latter see Chapter 4 Array Management 6 Click OK The enabling of the toolbar buttons signifies a successful connection 4 4Connecting to a SCSI to S...

Page 267: ...ton at the right of the box then select the option you need 4 From the Baud Rate drop down list box specify the baud rate of the modem connected to your GUI RAID Manager station To select perform the same procedure described in step 3 5 Click OK The enabling of the toolbar buttons signifies a successful connection 4 4 Disconnecting from the disk array system From the File menu select Disconnect Al...

Page 268: ... first time just press ENTER After gaining control set a password to provide security to the managed disk array system The set password will be saved into the memory of the GUI RAID Manager station You can also set an inactivity time which will determine when to reactivate the password security feature after a period of station inactivity If within the specified period there is no activity from th...

Page 269: ...word you want in the New Password text box taking note that the password is case sensitive 5 Type in again the password in the Verify Password text box to confirm 6 Click OK 3 4 Displaying and Hiding the Toolbar The GUI RAID Manager provides a toolbar located just beneath the menu bar for displaying the available command buttons These buttons serve various purposes which are described in detail in...

Page 270: ...pace for viewing the various disk array elements or for executing various management operations hide the toolbar if you need to use the command buttons for simplified operations unhide the toolbar You also have the option to hide the status bar located beneath the windows display area for even bigger working space For information about this option see the Displaying and Hiding the Status Bar secti...

Page 271: ...he Status Bar The status bar at the bottom of the windows display area supplies information about the results of the different disk array operations and errors that occur on the system You can hide or display the status bar depending on your particular needs If you need bigger working space you can hide the status bar if you are closely monitoring the status of the disk array system unhide the sta...

Page 272: ...n Status Bar until the check mark next to this command disappears The status bar will disappear from the ASUS GUI RAID Manager main window 4 4 Unhiding the status bar From the View menu click on Status Bar until a check mark appears next to this command The status bar will reappear in the ASUS GUI RAID Manager main window ...

Page 273: ...MS Windows procedures This section describes how to work with the GUI RAID Manager windows 3 6 1 Using the Main Window After starting the GUI RAID Manager the ASUS GUI RAID Manager main window appears on the screen All management operations pertaining to the disk array system will be performed within the main window The following describes the various components found on the main window Menu Bar T...

Page 274: ...hidden if bigger working space is required for certain management operations For information on how to hide the toolbar see the Displaying and Hiding the Toolbar section of this chapter The following figure displays the command buttons on the toolbar Connect Open Tile In Sequence Enclosure Physical Drives Logical Drives Logical Volume Host LUN Assignment Event Log Notification Statistics Ø The Con...

Page 275: ...tton displays the Physical Drives window for configuring the controller and the physical drives included in the disk array system This button provides the same function as the Physical Drive command in the Open menu Ø The Logical Drives command button displays the Logical Drives window for creating and configuring logical drives in the disk array system This button provides the same function as th...

Page 276: ...n menu The windows display area is where the system displays the GUI RAID Manager windows You have the option to arrange the displayed windows on this area in various ways depending on your specific needs The Window menu provides you with the commands you will need to arrange these windows For information on how to do this see the Arranging Windows section of this chapter The status bar displays r...

Page 277: ...iled information on how to create enclosures The Enclosure window is particularly useful in monitoring the status of the physical drives It provides you with a real time report on the drive status using symbols and colors to represent various conditions The following figure illustrates how the GUI RAID Manager represents the various drive conditions Assigned Normal Drive Spare Drive Failed Drive V...

Page 278: ...n about a particular drive by simply placing the mouse pointer on its respective icon A table similar to the following appears This table displays the current configuration of the drive including the drive s slot number the channel number of the connector on the controller to which the drive s SCSI cable is connected the ID number of the connector on the SCSI cable where the drive is installed the...

Page 279: ...ording to their actual locations in the drive bays while the Physical Drives window presents them based on the connectors they connect onto To display the Physical Drives window you can either click on the Physical Drives command button or select the Physical Drives command from the Open menu A window similar to the following will appear on the screen Front Panel SCSI Channel Icons SCSI ID Host Ch...

Page 280: ... information about a particular object in this window simply place the mouse pointer on its respective icon Letting the mouse pointer hover over the front panel displays the following table This table shows some information about the controller including the total cache size the version of the firmware currently stored in the Flash memory the boot record version serial number and the CPU type Lett...

Page 281: ...SCSI channel to which the drive is connected the SCSI ID of the drive the drive s capacity current status transfer rate the ID number of the logical drive to which the drive belongs if it belongs to one and the drive vendor and product identifier strings if available The Physical Drives window also allows you to modify the configuration of the controller and the SCSI channels and scan in newly add...

Page 282: ...sor and UPS device In the GUI RAID Manager it reports this failure information to the user by displaying a red X on whichever device has failed Fault Bus only collects the failure signals it does not detect the temperature fan rotation power supply failure or the UPS power failure Either a user designed circuit or a 3rd party circuit is necessary for Fault Bus This circuit must be configured prope...

Page 283: ...What is SAF TE SAF TE stands for SCSI Accessed Fault Tolerant Enclosures It is an enclosure management technology A SAF TE compliant enclosure monitors the fan temperature power supply UPS and also provides drive status LED s Note the system integrator must connect the cables from the SAF TE device to the drive status LED s in the drive cannisters The SAF TE enlcosure connects to the RAID Controll...

Page 284: ... will be detected and its presence will be displayed in the GUI RAID Manager program in place of the Fault Bus icon SAF TE Support Drive Status Indicators UPS Failure Signal Input Power Supply Failure Signal Input Cooling Fan Failure Signal Input Temperature Alert Signal Input SAF TE Chipset SCSI RAID Controller Front Panel error alert GUI RAID Manager error alert SAF TE chipset connects to the dr...

Page 285: ...ic Operations at Startup 3 30 3 6 Working with Windows SAF TE is configured by selecting the SAF TE Polling Period under the SCSI menu Intervals ranging from 05 to 60 seconds are available The default polling period is Disabled ...

Page 286: ...either a spare is detected and rebuilding is automatically started or the drive is replaced and rebuilding is manually initiated While rebuilding a logical drive the GUI RAID Manager reports the progress of the rebuilding process by filling in the color of the logical drive accordingly After rebuilding is complete the logical drive will display its normal color signifying on line condition To faci...

Page 287: ...isplays the ID number of the logical drive the RAID level total capacity current status total number of physical drives combined to create this logical drive number of spare drives and number of failed drives For more information on how to create delete and rebuild logical drives see Chapter 4 Array Management 3 6 5 Using the Volume Window The GUI RAID Manager provides a Volume window for use in t...

Page 288: ...e disk array elements you simply drag logical drives over to the Volume window and drop them into the logical volume being created To display the Volume window you can either click on the Logical Volume command button or select the Logical Volume command from the Open menu A window similar to the following will appear on the screen Created Logical Volume Not Yet Created Partitions Logical Drive Co...

Page 289: ...cal volume These include the total number of partitions into which the volume has been divided and their respective sizes This table also displays the volume ID and its total capacity For information on how to create delete and set partitions for logical volumes see Chapter 4 Array Management 3 6 6 Using the Host LUN Assignment Window The Host LUN Assignment window depicts the Logical Unit Numbers...

Page 290: ...available host channels and their respective LUN assignments LUNs with mapped volumes or partitions appear with book icons on their connectors These icons are similar to those used for logical volumes only that they appear smaller If you need information on any of these mappings just place the mouse pointer on the target book icon A table similar to the following appears on the screen This table d...

Page 291: ...such a way that they appear according to their uses and the maximum number of elements are displayed All commands in the Window menu are standard MS Windows commands except for Tile In Sequence The Tile In Sequence command is specifically designed for disk array management It arranges the open windows based on their uses with each window reduced to fit all elements within its width Since all eleme...

Page 292: ...e Window menu select Tile Vertical 3 7 Exiting GUI RAID Manager Exiting from the GUI RAID Manager terminates the current management session with the disk array system When you exit the system automatically saves the disk array configuration for use later when connecting to the same system The system also releases all used or occupied resources for use by other applications 4 4 Exiting from the GUI...

Page 293: ...drives Creating logical drives Assigning spare drives Deleting logical drives Rebuilding logical drives Creating logical volumes Defining volume partitions Deleting volume partitions Deleting logical volumes Mapping logical volumes or partitions to host LUNs Deleting LUN mapping Displaying the contents of the event log Monitoring performance statistics If this is your first time to manage a disk a...

Page 294: ...er Array Management 4 2 4 1 Background Information chapter Background Information to get basic information about disk array management You will need this basic knowledge to be able to effectively use the GUI RAID Manager ...

Page 295: ...ly used levels while RAID levels 2 and 4 are the less popular ones Appendix C RAID Levels gives information about these levels including the benefits of each ASUS disk array controllers support hot swapping where a failed drive can be replaced while the disk array system continues to function Spares can also be assigned so that as soon as a drive fails the spare will be automatically configured in...

Page 296: ...ing physical drives into one logical drive gives you a disk array with a certain RAID level To view logical drives use the Logical Drives window Logical volumes These volumes are created using logical drives Combining logical drives into one logical volume gives you a single logical unit with even larger capacity Logical volumes or their partitions are mapped to various host LUNs To view logical v...

Page 297: ...lure recovery when a spare drive is not available Depending on the design of the system it may be possible to remove a defective drive and replace it with a new drive without shutting down the system hot swapping Alternatively the system can be shut down at a convenient time and the failed drive replaced If the replacement drive is installed on the same channel and SCSI ID you can then proceed wit...

Page 298: ... A defective drive must be promptly replaced and data rebuilt CAUTION When performing hot swapping be sure to remove only the defective drive Removing the wrong drive will result in unrecoverable data loss Use the Enclosure or Physical Drives window to locate the exact location of the failed drive ...

Page 299: ...r comes back from a period of inactivity the configuration will be password protected After specifying the correct password all subsequent configuration modifications will be permitted without any password protection however if there is no station activity within a specified period of time the password will be put back into effect By default the GUI RAID Manager station comes without any password ...

Page 300: ...ith an X mark on its icon 4 4 Creating an enclosure 1 Display the Enclosure window if not yet displayed To display it click on the Enclosure command button or select the Enclosure command from the Open menu If you have not defined an enclosure yet for the disk array system the Enclosure window will be blank otherwise the existing enclosures appear in the window If you want to delete an existing en...

Page 301: ...in your configuration 6 To fill in the drive bays in the enclosure just created display the Physical Drives window To display this window click on the Physical Drives command button or select the Physical Drives command from the Open menu 7 From the Physical Drives window drag the physical drives to their respective drive bays in the Enclosure window 8 Check to ensure that all drives are in their ...

Page 302: ...e left side or top side of the enclosure icon and press and hold the left mouse button 2 Drag the icon to the desired location within the Enclosure window When you have reached the target location release the mouse pointer to drop the enclosure icon 4 4 Deleting an enclosure 1 Double click on any area of the enclosure icon except on occupied drive bays The following message will appear on the scre...

Page 303: ...ystem The write back cache allows write data to be stored in the cache memory prior to writing to the disk thereby pipelining the I O write process SCSI Reset on Power up This parameter determines whether or not the controller will assert SCSI bus reset during power on initialization Staggered Drive Spin Up This parameter determines whether or not the controller will sequence the drives to start s...

Page 304: ...perations at Startup 4 4 Setting the controller configuration 1 Display the Physical Drives window by clicking on the Physical Drives command button or selecting the Physical Drives command from the Open menu 2 From the Physical Drives window double click on the displayed controller that is front panel for a SCSI to SCSI controller or card layout for a PCI to SCSI controller The Controller Setting...

Page 305: ...arameter to Disabled 6 Use the RS 232 Baud Rate drop down list box to set the baud rate of the RS 232 port on the controller If you have a host computer terminal or other device such as a modem connected to this port specify here the baud rate of the connected device or set the port s baud rate here and make the baud rate of the device correspond to this value 7 If you want to modify the password ...

Page 306: ...number 0 For a PCI to SCSI controller this parameter is permanently set to Drive Termination This parameter enables or disables SCSI channel termination SCSI cables must be properly terminated at both ends that is when connecting one end of a SCSI cable to a channel the termination of the channel must be enabled Note that the other end of the cable must also be properly terminated You can terminat...

Page 307: ...suming narrow transfer Data transfer across the SCSI bus can be either 8 bits or 16 bits at a time The former is referred to as narrow transfer while the latter is referred to as wide transfer At the same synchronous transfer clock rate data transfer rate using wide transfer will be double that using narrow With synchronous transfer clock of 10 MHz data transfer rate will be 10 Mbytes second under...

Page 308: ...rives window double click on the corresponding SCSI Channel icon of the target channel SCSI Channel icons are displayed on the card layout of a PCI to SCSI controller or just below the front panel of a SCSI to SCSI controller The Channel Setting dialog box will appear 3 If you are using a SCSI to SCSI controller select the channel mode from the Channel Mode drop down list box To select click on th...

Page 309: ...7 From the Default Xfer Width drop down list box select whether to use narrow or wide transfer To use narrow transfer select Narrow to use wide transfer select Wide 8 Click OK to save the new channel configuration into the non volatile memory of the controller 4 7 Scanning in Drives Disk scanning is a process in which a newly installed drive is introduced to the disk array system You need to scan ...

Page 310: ... the Physical Drives window double click on the connector corresponding to the SCSI ID of the drive being scanned A confirmation message similar to the following will appear on the screen 3 Click OK The system will scan for a drive with the specified ID and then will display either a successful message or an error message 4 Click OK The GUI RAID Manager will place a drive icon on the respective co...

Page 311: ...be selected if so desired In the manual method you select the drives you want to be included in and the RAID level of the logical drive To assist in the selection of the RAID level the GUI RAID Manager recommends a RAID level based on the number of drives you have selected You can either accept the recommended RAID level or specify the one you prefer The GUI RAID Manager also provides you with the...

Page 312: ...licking on the Physical Drives command button or selecting the Physical Drives command from the same menu 2 From the Logical Drives window double click on an unused logical drive icon or Double click the right mouse button on an unused logical drive icon and then select Create from the displayed menu The Logical Drive Creation dialog box will appear 3 If you want to use the automatic method check ...

Page 313: ... a spare drive For information on the various RAID levels see Appendix C RAID Levels 7 The value in the Max Drive Capacity MB text box determines how much capacity from each drive will be used in the logical drive It may be useful to utilize this parameter to restrict capacity when the possibility exists that replacement drives acquired in the future might have slightly less capacity than the driv...

Page 314: ...omatically configured into the array and reconstruction or rebuilding will immediately commence Logical drives can support multiple spare drives this configuration however is rarely used due to its high cost and uncommon occurrences of drive failures A practical configuration calls for one spare drive per logical drive after rebuilding on this drive just replace the failed drive and then configure...

Page 315: ...Logical Drives windows To display the former click on the Physical Drives command button or select the Physical Drives command from the Open menu To display the Logical Drives window click on the Logical Drives command button or select the Logical Drives command from the same menu 2 From the Physical Drives window position the mouse pointer on the icon of the drive you wish to be the spare drive a...

Page 316: ... be initiated manually Before initiating a manual rebuild you need to first replace the failed drive If you install the replacement drive on the same connector that is same channel and SCSI ID then you can proceed with the rebuilding process otherwise you need to scan in the drive first 4 4 To rebuild a logical drive 1 Display the Logical Drives window by clicking on the Logical Drives command but...

Page 317: ...volume will be released making them available again for logical volume creation 4 4 To create a logical volume 1 Display the Logical Drives and Volume windows To display the former click on the Logical Drives command button or select the Logical Drives command from the Open menu To display the Volume window click on the Logical Volume command button or select the Logical Volume command from the sa...

Page 318: ...t 4 26 4 11 Creating and Deleting Logical Volumes 6 Select Volume Then from the next menu select Create LV The logical volume is now created You may now define its partitions See the Creating and Deleting Partitions section of this chapter ...

Page 319: ...logical volume 1 Display the Volume window by clicking on the Logical Volume command button or selecting the Logical Volume command from the Open menu 2 Double click the right mouse button on the target logical volume The following menu will appear 3 Select Volume Then from the next menu select Delete LV ...

Page 320: ...hen partitioning becomes irrelevant however if the volume is to be mapped to multiple host LUNs then you need to define partitions for later mapping to specific LUNs NOTE You can create a maximum of eight partitions per logical volume 4 4 Creating partitions for a logical volume 1 Display the Volume window by clicking on the Logical Volume command button or selecting the Logical Volume command fro...

Page 321: ...mouse pointer on the logical volume icon and then moving the displayed dotted line As you move the line the partition size changes accordingly The table reflects the changes on the size of the affected partition Click the mouse button when the desired size is reached or move the mouse pointer over to the vertical scroll bar for micro adjustment then click OK 6 If you wish to create a subpartition ...

Page 322: ...logical volume is now ready for mapping to host LUNs See the Mapping Logical Volumes Partitions to Host LUNs section of this chapter 4 4 Deleting logical volume partitions 1 Display the Volume window by clicking on the Logical Volume command button or selecting the Logical Volume command from the Open menu 2 Double click on the partition you wish to delete The following menu appears on the screen ...

Page 323: ...rtitions 4 31 4 Select Delete Partition 5 Repeat the same procedure to delete the other unwanted partitions 6 After deleting partitions double click the right mouse button on the current logical volume 7 From the displayed menu select Partition Then select Set Partition ...

Page 324: ... an entire logical volume to a host LUN 1 Display the Volume and Host LUN Assignment windows To display the former click on the Logical Volume command button or select the Logical Volume command from the Open menu To display the Host LUN Assignment window click on the Host LUN Assignment command button or select the Host LUN Assignment command from the same menu 2 From the Volume window position t...

Page 325: ...button 3 Drag the partition over to the target host LUN and then release the mouse button 4 Repeat the same procedure for the other remaining partitions on the logical volume to be mapped 4 4 Deleting a host LUN mapping 1 Display the Host LUN Assignment window by clicking on the Host LUN Assignment command button or selecting the Host LUN Assignment command from the Open menu 2 From the Host LUN A...

Page 326: ...u can view the contents of this text file using any text editor program such as Windows NOTEPAD application You can also print out the contents of the log file on a printer for reference purposes In the event of a system failure you can use the print outs for diagnosis 4 4 To display the event log 1 Click on the Event Log command button or select the Event Log command from the Open menu The Event ...

Page 327: ...ASUS GUI RAID Manager Array Management 4 14 Displaying the Event Log 4 35 2 To scroll through the list use the vertical scroll bars ...

Page 328: ...d These values are displayed in a graphical format to facilitate reference 4 4To monitor the current data traffic on the disk array system Click on the Statistics command button or select the Statistics command from the Open menu The Statistics window appears The Statistics window displays the amount of data being read from and written to the disk array system in MB per second Read values appear i...

Page 329: ...ing traditional methods meant backing up re creating and then restoring Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion a new feature of firmware version 2 11 allows users to add new SCSI hard disk drives and expand a RAID 0 3 or 5 Logical Drive without powering down the system 4 16 1 Two Modes of Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion There are two modes of Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion Mode 1 and Mode 2 Dynamic Logi...

Page 330: ... enclosure with more drive bays The data will be re striped onto the original and newly added disks In the figure above new drives are added to increase the capacity of a 4 Gigabyte RAID 5 logical drive The two new drives increase the capacity to 8 Gigabytes RAID Expansion Mode 1 2GB 2GB 2GB RAID 5 Logical Drive 4GB 2GB 2GB 2GB 2GB 2GB 2GB 2GB RAID 5 Logical Drive 8GB RAID Expansion Add in New Dri...

Page 331: ...Gigabyte RAID 5 logical drive using Mode 2 Expansion Drives are copied and replaced one by one onto three higher capacity drives RAID Expansion Mode 2 1 3 2 GB RAID 5 4GB 2 GB 2 GB The original logical drive 1 4 GB Copy and Replace one of the member drives New Drive 2 GB RAID 5 4GB 2 GB 2 GB In use Unused Copy and Replace each of the member drives Even if one member drives fails during the Copy an...

Page 332: ...he member drives have been replaced 4 GB New Drive 2 GB RAID 5 4GB 2 GB 4 GB In use Unused Copy and Replace each member drive After all the member drives have been replaced execute the RAID Expansion to use the additional capacity RAID Expansion Mode 2 3 3 3 RAID 5 4GB 4 GB 4 GB 4 GB RAID Expansion RAID 5 8GB or RAID 5 8GB n partitions Partition n 1 In use Unused After the RAID Expansion the addit...

Page 333: ...on Third party hard disk utilities may be used for Mode 2 Expansion of logical drives Later versions of the firmware will support Copy and Replace Example RAID Expansion in Windows NT Server Limitations When Using Windows NT 4 0 1 Only the Windows NT Server Disk Administrator includes the Extend Volume Set function Windows NT Workstation does not have this feature 2 The system drive boot drive of ...

Page 334: ...cal Drive Expansion The Example The following example demonstrates the expansion of a 900MB RAID 0 logical drive The GUI RAID Manager is used to connect to the RAID controller You can view information about this drive in the Windows NT Server s Disk Administrator ...

Page 335: ...D Manager Array Management 4 16 Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion 4 43 Place the cursor on Disk 1 right click your mouse and select Properties You will see that the total capacity for the Drive E is just under 900MB ...

Page 336: ...e logical drive first right click on the logical drive icon and then select Add SCSI Drive The logical drive icon will appear to be degraded while the new drives are being added to the logical drive The color will return to normal once the adding the drives has been completed When you rest the mouse on the logical drive icon you now see that the capacity has increased from 900MB to 1800MB ...

Page 337: ... Follow the directions in section 4 13 to map the new partition to a Host LUN The new partition must be mapped to a host LUN in order for the HBA host bus adapter to see it Once you have mapped the partition reboot Windows NT The HBA should be able to detect an additional disk Return to Windows NT Server s Disk Administrator There now exists a Disk 2 with 900MB of free space Click on Disk 2 to sel...

Page 338: ...ASUS GUI RAID Manager Array Management 4 46 4 16 Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion From the Partition menu select Extend Volume Set ...

Page 339: ...ynamic Logical Drive Expansion 4 47 The screen will display that volume set of Drive E has been extended by the 900MB in Disk2 Move the cursor to Commit Changes Now to confirm that you want the free space to become a part of the same logical drive ...

Page 340: ... 4 16 Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion Logical Drive E is now composed of two 900MB partitions with a total volume of 1800MB To see this hold down on the Ctrl key and select both Disk 1 and Disk2 then right click your mouse and select Properties ...

Page 341: ...ASUS GUI RAID Manager Array Management 4 16 Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion 4 49 Drive E now has a capacity just under 1800MB ...

Page 342: ...nager Array Management 4 50 4 17 Redundant Controller 4 17 Redundant Controller Redundant Controllers For the SCSI to SCSI controllers the GUI RAID Manager is capable of monitoring a redundant controller configuration ...

Page 343: ... Management 4 17 Redundant Controller 4 51 The failed controller will display a red X Primary and Secondary controllers must be configured using the front panel Please refer to your RAID controller instruction manual for details ...

Page 344: ...to configure notifications to occur in response to various disk array events For example if you configure an e mail notification the GUI RAID Manager will send an e mail to selected computers on the network if the event that just occurred falls within the selected notification level If the notification is detailed enough the recipient can respond accordingly The notification function makes it poss...

Page 345: ... message notification installed in your system 5 2 Before You Begin Before the GUI s event notification can be used some adjustments may need to be made to the Windows NT configuration 5 2 1 Pre configuring for a Pager Notification in Windows NT 4 0 There are no special steps required for using pager notification however the modem must be properly installed The same is true for Fax Notification se...

Page 346: ...ministrators who desire fax notification have two choices one installing a MAPI compliant fax software or two obtaining the file FAX_I386 EXE from Microsoft which at the time of this printing is freely available from their web server at the following URL http www microsoft com ntworkstation fax htm The following are instructions for installing fax service using the FAX_I386 EXE file ...

Page 347: ...ification Configuration 5 4 5 2 Before You Begin 1 From the Windows Start bar run the file FAX_I386 EXE Enter information regarding your desired fax configuration as prompted 2 Open the Control Panel and click on the Mail icon ...

Page 348: ...ID Manager Notification Configuration 5 2 Before You Begin 5 5 3 The Windows Messaging Settings Properties window will be displayed The profile now displays two new services Fax Address Book and Fax Mail Transport ...

Page 349: ...r page as well as the fax s font and size Please see section 5 6 for complete details on Configuring a Fax Notification 5 2 3 Pre configuring E Mail Service in Windows NT 4 0 Microsoft Windows NT 4 0 ships with the Internet Mail E mail service Administrators who desire E mail notification have two choices one using the Internet Mail service which ships with NT 4 0 or two installing a third party M...

Page 350: ...ollowing are instructions for installing the Internet Mail service in Windows NT 4 0 1 Open the Control Panel and click on the Mail icon 2 The Windows Messaging Settings Properties window will be displayed If no services have been selected for this profile click on the Add button ...

Page 351: ... GUI RAID Manager Notification Configuration 5 8 5 2 Before You Begin 3 Select Internet Mail and then click on OK 4 Fill in all of the fields with the settings for your Internet account and then click on OK ...

Page 352: ...he correct computer name s are entered for the recipient s of the broadcast Please see section 5 8 for complete details on Configuring a Broadcast Message Notification 5 3 Notification Levels The GUI RAID Manager classifies disk array events into three levels depending on their severity These include Level 1 Level 2 and Level 3 The first event level covers notificational events such as initializat...

Page 353: ...ple Events SCSI Target Select Timeout SCSI Target Phase Signal Error SCSI Target Unexpected Disconnect SCSI Target Negotiation Error SCSI Target Timed Out SCSI Target Parity Error SCSI Bus Reset Issued SCSI Target Not Ready Error SCSI Target Media Error SCSI Target Hardware Error SCSI Target Unit Attention SCSI Target Unexpected Sense Date SCSI Target Block Reassignment Failure SCSI Target Unexpec...

Page 354: ...ll only select Level 3 events 5 4 Configuring Notification Options The RAID Manager Options dialog box allows you to enable or disable the notification function of the GUI RAID Manager select the notification level specify the event countdown limit and stop all on going pager notifications Event countdown is the latency time between event occurrence and notification sequence initiation this helps ...

Page 355: ... the right of this box then select the option you want The All Events option includes Levels 1 2 and 3 events Warning covers Levels 2 and 3 events Alert covers Level 3 events Default notification level is Alert 4 In the Event Countdown Limit text box type in the latency time you need This determines how long to wait after the occurrence of the event before actually sending the configured notificat...

Page 356: ...an configure a pager notification that will send a message to a paging device when a specific disk array event occurs in the system It is recommended that a unique number be assigned to identify a specific disk array system Since messages received on a pager may vary widely you need to assign a number to facilitate reference For example if the disk array system in the Accounting Department of your...

Page 357: ... and remove entries and select which of these entries will receive notification from the system 4 4To maintain the pager address book 1 From the Notification menu select Pager à Address Book or Click on the Notification command button and then select Pager à Address Book The Address Book for Pager Notification dialog box appears The list box on the left of this dialog box displays the current cont...

Page 358: ...o add a delay between the sending of this number and the sending of the actual message add commas at the end of the pager number The more commas you add the longer the delay is You can also add commas in front of the message 5 Type in the appropriate message in the Message text box If you want to add a delay between the sending of the pager number and the sending of this message add commas in fron...

Page 359: ... destination to the address book 9 Repeat the same procedure to add the other entries you want 10 If you want to delete an entry from the address book select it from the list box and then click on the Remove button 11 If you want to modify the settings of a particular entry select it and then click on the Properties button From the displayed dialog box modify the parameters you want 5 5 2 Presched...

Page 360: ...based on the selected notification level 4 4 To preschedule a pager notification 1 From the Notification menu select Pager à Address Book or Click on the Notification command button and then select Pager à Address Book The Address Book for Pager Notification dialog box appears The list box on the left of this dialog box displays the current contents of the pager address book 2 From the list box se...

Page 361: ...ASUS GUI RAID Manager Notification Configuration 5 18 5 5 Configuring a Pager Notification 3 Click on the Period button The Scheduled Period for Calling Pager dialog box appears ...

Page 362: ...iod Min text box For example if you want to send a notification to the selected destination every hour from 1 00 AM up to 5 00 AM set From and To to 0100 and 0500 respectively and Period Min to 60 6 Click OK 5 5 4 Stopping On going Pager Notification Once initiated the pager notification function will repeatedly send the notification to the destination pagers at a specific time interval You have t...

Page 363: ...t box in the Address Book for Pager Notification dialog box select the target entry then click on the Properties button The Personal Information Pager dialog box appears displaying the current settings of the selected entry To determine if there is any on going pager notification on the selected pager check the Error Recovery Status field If this field displays Active it means that there is if thi...

Page 364: ...sing the fax notification function of the system You will also need to connect a fax modem to your computer Installing a fax modem can be a tricky process so consult your operating system manuals for instructions on how to install your fax modem software Since the GUI RAID Manager depends largely on the fax service installed to the MAPI of Windows NT for the delivery of fax messages most fax notif...

Page 365: ...dd and remove entries and select which of these entries will receive notification from the system 4 4 To maintain the fax address book 1 From the Notification menu select Fax à Address Book or Click on the Notification command button and then select Fax à Address Book The Address Book for Fax Notification dialog box appears The list box on the left of this dialog box displays the current contents ...

Page 366: ...y the fax message you want to relay to the selected user 5 To enable fax notification for this particular entry select the Enable option button To disable select the Disable option button 6 If you want to check the reachability of the selected user click on the Test button 7 Click OK to add the specified entry to the address book The Choose Profile dialog box appears on the screen 8 To accept the ...

Page 367: ...PI compliant e mail service You will need these services to enable the e mail notification function of the GUI RAID Manager In addition to this you will also need a network interface card or modem to connect your manager station to the network or Internet Since the GUI RAID Manager depends largely on services mentioned above for the delivery of e mail messages most e mail notification parameters a...

Page 368: ...nd remove entries and select which of these entries will receive notification from the system 4 4 To maintain the e mail address book 1 From the Notification menu select E mail à Address Book or Click on the Notification command button and then select E mail à Address Book The Address Book for E mail Notification dialog box appears The list box on the left of this dialog box displays the current c...

Page 369: ...ng the Microsoft Internet Mail service 4 In the Message text box specify the message you want to send to the selected user 5 To enable e mail notification for this particular entry select the Enable option button To disable select the Disable option button 6 If you want to check the reachability of the selected user click on the Test button 7 Click OK to add the specified entry to the address book...

Page 370: ...fication The GUI RAID Manager provides a way to notify selected users on the network by sending broadcast messages to their respective stations This notification method only works on Windows NT stations with the Windows NT Messenger service installed If your system does not have these programs you will not be able to use this method In addition to these programs your station also needs a network i...

Page 371: ...send messages to multiple users This is achieved through the broadcast message address book provided by the GUI RAID Manager From this book you can add and remove entries and select which of these entries will receive notification from the system 4 4 To maintain the broadcast message address book 1 From the Notification menu select Broadcast à Address Book or Click on the Notification command butt...

Page 372: ...ppear 3 In the Computer Name text box type in the computer name for the computer that will receive a broadcast message Be sure that the name you specify has a network account with Windows NT 4 In the Message text box specify the message you want to send to the selected computer 5 To enable broadcast message notification for this particular entry select the Enable option button To disable select th...

Page 373: ...preschedule the broadcast message notification for a particular destination to occur automatically at specific intervals This notification will be sent regardless of the events occurring in the disk array system NOTE The prescheduled broadcast message notification does not affect in any way the configured broadcast message notification prescheduled broadcast message notification is triggered by ti...

Page 374: ... on the left of this dialog box displays the current contents of the broadcast message address book 2 From the list box select the target entry then click on the Properties button The Personal Information Broadcast dialog box appears 3 Click on the Period button The Scheduled Period for Broadcast dialog box appears ...

Page 375: ...tive Period Min text box For example if you want to send a notification to the selected destination every hour from 1 00 AM up to 5 00 AM set From and To to 0100 and 0500 respectively and Period Min to 60 6 Click OK 5 8 3 Stopping On going Broadcast Notification The broadcast message notification function automatically retransmits the message to a destination computer until an ACK acknowledgment m...

Page 376: ... 4 4To stop message retransmission to a particular destination 1 From the list box in the Address Book for Messenger Information dialog box select the target entry then click on the Properties button The Personal Information Broadcast dialog box appears displaying the current settings of the selected entry To determine if there is any on going broadcast message notification to the selected compute...

Page 377: ...Configuration 5 34 5 8 Configuring a Broadcast Message Notification 2 If there is on going broadcast message notification and you want to stop subsequent retransmissions check the Stop In Progress Event Notification check box 3 Click OK ...

Page 378: ...de This chapter provides information on how to run the GUI RAID Manager in Demo mode These include the following topics Introduction about the Demo program Starting the Demo program Failing a drive Exiting the Demo program ...

Page 379: ...nditions The Demo program supports all management functions available in the actual GUI RAID Manager making management of the virtual disk array system as real as possible You can select the controller for your virtual system the number of host for SCSI to SCSI controller only and drive channels the number of physical drives configure your logical drives and volumes partition logical volumes and m...

Page 380: ...imulates management of a disk array system you will not need any of these devices 4 4 To start the Demo program 1 Start the GUI RAID Manager by performing the appropriate startup procedure described in the Starting the GUI RAID Manager section of Chapter 3 Basic Operations at Startup 2 From the File menu select Connect or Click on the Connect Open command button The following submenu appears on th...

Page 381: ...roller select Target Controller 5 From the Channel Count drop down list box select the total number of channels you want to assign to the selected controller To select click on the down arrow button at the right of the box Then select the option you want from the displayed list Maximum setting for each controller is eight As you select a value the program enables the corresponding number of Channe...

Page 382: ... system using the available commands Try experimenting on various commands to see how the system reacts and also to help clarify the use of such commands All disk array icons on the screen respond accordingly just like a real system For information on disk array management see Chapter 4 Array Management NOTE The management operations you perform and settings you specify in Demo mode do not have an...

Page 383: ...spare drive If there is no spare drive assigned to the selected logical drive the failed drive must be replaced and rebuilding must be initiated manually If the replacement drive is installed on a different connector you will need to first scan in the drive and assign it as a spare drive for the affected logical drive before rebuilding can be initiated While the logical drive is being rebuilt its ...

Page 384: ...the screen 3 Select Fail One Drive The Demo program fails one of the drives belonging to the selected logical drive The Physical Drives window and the Enclosure window if implemented displays which drive has failed The Logical Drives window displays the selected logical drive in degraded mode The system will then react to this situation based on its current configuration that is whether or not a s...

Page 385: ...k array system installed in your computer quit from the Demo program and then connect to your disk array system Quitting from the Demo program only requires disconnecting from it 4 4 Exiting from the Demo program From the File menu select Disconnect All toolbar buttons except the Connect Open and Notification command buttons turn gray signifying termination of the Demo program ...

Page 386: ...e indicated in the tables inside angle brackets For example Connect C means that you can connect to a disk array system by selecting Connect from the File menu or by pressing the C key on your keyboard File Menu Commands Command Description Connect C Connects the GUI RAID Manager station to a particular disk array system for management This command has the same function as the Connect Open command...

Page 387: ...scription Enclosure E Displays the Enclosure window This command has the same function as the Enclosure command button found on the toolbar Physical Drive P Displays the Physical Drives window This command has the same function as the Physical Drives command button found on the toolbar ...

Page 388: ...bar Event Log L Displays the Event Log window This command has the same function as the Event Log command button found on the toolbar Statistics S Displays the Statistics window This command has the same function as the Statistics command button found on the toolbar View Menu Commands Command Description Toolbar T Toggles between displaying and hiding the toolbar To display the toolbar select this...

Page 389: ...ndows command that cascades windows in such a way that they overlap with each other making their title bars visible Tile Horizontal H A standard Windows command that arranges windows into smaller sizes fitting them horizontally next to each other Tile Vertical V A standard Windows command that arranges windows into smaller sizes fitting them vertically next to each other Notification Menu Commands...

Page 390: ...n function From this command you can enable or disable the notification function select the event severity specify the event countdown limit and stop all on going pager notifications Help Menu Commands Command Description Contents Displays the GUI RAID Manager on line help manual About RAID Manager Displays some information about the GUI RAID Manager program ...

Page 391: ...ence Enclosure Physical Drives Logical Drives Logical Volume Host LUN Assignment Event Log Notification Statistics Command Button Description Connect Open Connects your GUI RAID Manager station to a particular disk array system for management Has the same function as the Connect command in the File menu After connection to a disk array system has been established successfully this button becomes t...

Page 392: ...ysical Drives window Has the same function as the Physical Drive command found in the Open menu Logical Drives Displays the Logical Drives window Has the same function as the Logical Drive command found in the Open menu Logical Volume Displays the Volume window This button has the same function as the Logical Volume command in the Open menu Host LUN Assignment Displays the Host LUN Assignment wind...

Page 393: ...ASUS GUI RAID Manager Command Summary A 8 Command Buttons Command Button Description Statistics Displays the Statistics window Has the same function as the Statistics command in the Open menu ...

Page 394: ...oubleshooting This appendix provides troubleshooting tips for common problems you may encounter while using the GUI RAID Manager These include the following topics Startup errors Notification errors SNMP errors ...

Page 395: ...ou specify correspond to the actual settings on the RS 232 port Check also for the required hardware and cable connection Error Message2 Error encountered during OPEN Selected Port Not Available Cause2 The COM Port you selected does not exist in your system Solution2 Specify the correct COM port in the Settings of RS 232 Interface dialog box Be sure to select the port to which the disk array syste...

Page 396: ...ion telephone line etc Check also if the specified pager number is correct If the selected COM port is in use by another program or device select a different COM port from the Settings for Modem dialog box Or locate the program or device that is using the port and disable or remove it Check the documentation that comes with the modem for information on how to set properly the modem initialization ...

Page 397: ... system there is no modem connected modem is not properly connected to the RS 232 port of the computer modem is not connected to a telephone line bad telephone line Fax transmission is not supported by the modem you should be using a Fax modem wrong Fax number selected COM port is currently in use by another program or device or modem is configured incorrectly Solution3 Install the Microsoft Fax E...

Page 398: ...he selected destinations Error Condition5 LAN Broadcast notification does not work Cause5 This error can be caused by one or more of the following the system you are using is not a Windows NT station the Windows NT Messenger Service is not properly installed the local host is not properly connected to the network destination station is not connected to the LAN or the computer name is not set Solut...

Page 399: ...is error can be caused by one or more of the following the SNMP agent is not reachable over the LAN or WAN the SNMP service is not properly installed on the local host and or the remote manager station the GUI RAID Manager s SNMP agent software is not installed on the local host or the disk array controller is not installed or properly connected Solution2 Check the LAN WAN connections install the ...

Page 400: ...event of a disk failure disk access will still continue normally with the failure transparent to the host system RAID has six levels RAID 0 5 RAID levels 1 3 and 5 are the most commonly used levels while RAID levels 2 and 4 are virtually never used The following sections described in detail each of the commonly used RAID levels Non RAID Storage One common option for expanding disk storage capacity...

Page 401: ... 2 GB Hard drive Logical Drive 2 3 1 2 8 GB Logical Drive RAID 0 RAID 0 implements block striping where data is broken into logical blocks and striped across several drives Although called RAID 0 this is not a true implementation of RAID because there is no facility for redundancy In the event of a disk failure data is lost In block striping the total disk capacity is equivalent to the sum of the ...

Page 402: ...wo copies of data on separate disks or arrays data is protected against a disk failure If at any time a disk on either side fails the good disks can provide all of the data needed thus preventing downtime In disk mirroring the total disk capacity is equivalent to half the sum of the capacities of all SCSI drives in the combination Thus combining four 1GB SCSI drives for example would create a sing...

Page 403: ...wo disk copies thus reducing total effective data access time RAID 1 0 1 RAID 1 0 1 combines RAID 0 and RAID 1 Mirroring and Disk Striping RAID 0 1 allows multiple drive failure because of the full redundancy of the hard disk drives If more than two hard disk drives are chosen for RAID 1 RAID 0 1 will be performed automatically IMPORTANT RAID 0 1 will not appear in the list of RAID levels supporte...

Page 404: ... disk fails the original data can be reconstructed from the parity information In RAID 3 the total disk capacity is equivalent to the sum of the capacities of all SCSI drives in the combination excluding the parity drive Thus combining four 1GB SCSI drives for example would create a single logical drive with a total disk capacity of 3GB This combination appears to the system as a single logical dr...

Page 405: ...same redundancy available in RAID 3 though the parity information this time is distributed across all disks in the array Data and relative parity are never stored on the same disk In the event a disk fails original data can be reconstructed using the available parity information For small I Os as few as one disk may be activated for improved access speed RAID 5 offers both increased data transfer ...

Page 406: ...D 5 C 7 Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 Block 8 Logical Drive Physical Disks Block 1 Parity 3 4 Block 6 Block 7 Block 2 Block 3 Parity 5 6 Block 8 Parity 1 2 Block 4 Block 5 Parity 7 8 Striping non dedicated Parity ...

Page 407: ...6 Connect Open command button 3 4 3 5 3 7 3 9 3 11 3 19 6 3 A 1 controller configuration 4 1 4 12 4 13 controllers 1 2 1 3 1 6 1 8 3 25 4 3 creating logical drives 4 19 D data traffic 4 36 data transfer clock rate 4 15 dedicated parity C 5 deleting partitions 4 31 disk mirroring C 3 disk spanning C 1 Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion 4 37 E Enclosure command button 3 22 4 8 A 2 enclosure management ...

Page 408: ... 5 Logical Drives command button 3 20 3 31 4 20 4 21 4 23 4 24 4 25 6 7 A 3 Logical Drives window 3 20 3 31 4 4 4 20 4 21 4 23 4 24 6 6 6 7 A 3 A 7 Logical Volume command button 3 20 4 25 4 27 4 28 4 30 4 32 A 3 logical volume partitions 1 4 3 20 4 30 4 32 logical volumes 1 4 1 6 1 10 3 20 3 32 3 33 3 34 3 36 4 1 4 25 6 2 M main window 3 1 3 3 3 16 3 17 3 18 3 36 management functions 1 4 1 10 6 2 ...

Page 409: ...6 6 7 A 2 A 7 program updates 2 26 R RAID 0 4 3 C 1 C 2 C 4 RAID 1 4 21 4 23 C 3 C 4 RAID 1 0 1 C 4 RAID 3 4 21 4 23 C 5 C 6 RAID 5 4 21 4 23 C 6 RAID levels 3 33 4 3 4 21 4 25 C 1 C 4 rebuilding logical drives 1 4 Redundant Controller 4 50 remote management 1 3 1 8 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 6 2 7 2 23 3 2 3 3 replacement drives 4 4 4 21 S SAF TE enclosure management 3 28 polling period 3 30 scroll bars 3 21 ...

Page 410: ...ASUS GUI RAID Manager Index Index 4 V Volume window 3 20 3 33 4 25 4 27 4 28 4 30 4 32 4 33 A 3 A 7 W wide transfer 4 15 4 17 windows display area 3 15 3 16 3 21 ...

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