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Gigabyte Adaptec 7902W chip, Configuration

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Double click 

RAID Controller

 item, 

RAID Controller Properties 

window   

is pop-up, then click “

Reinstall Driver

” button. 

 

 

Note

 Windows will automatic detect the RAID controller and then 

pop-up “New Hardware Found” window, please click “Cancle” and 

install driver by manually. 

 

Summary of Contents for Adaptec 7902W chip

Page 1: ...1 Server Systems and Motherboards Raid Configuration and Driver installation guide For Adaptec 7902W chip ...

Page 2: ... a RAID 0 Striped 7 1 4 2 Create a RAID 1 Mirrored 9 1 4 3 Create a RAID 1 0 12 1 4 4 Deleting a RAID set 14 1 4 5 Rebuilding a RAID 1 Set 15 2 RAID driver installation 2 1 Installing the Adaptec 7902W RAID controller 18 2 1 1 Windows 2000 2003 Installing the driver in new system 18 2 1 2 Windows 2000 2003 Adding the controller to an existing system 19 2 1 3 RedHat 9 0 23 ...

Page 3: ... than a single disk If one disk fails then all data in the array is lost RAID 1 Mirroring copy from one hard disk to second hard disk such both of them contains exactly the same data in case of failure of one disk the system will boot through the second disk and data is still available to use therefore RAID 1 0 is a combine with data striping and data mirroring Take a stripe pair of disks and mirr...

Page 4: ...ls screen item 3 Choose Onboard Device item Onboard H W SCSI Enable 4 Save your change and Exist BIOS setup 1 4 Adaptec 7902W RAID configuration utility Adaptec 7902W RAID controller is built in BIOS code even you create software RAID after detected SCSI devices that you need to start SCSI select utility by pressing Ctrl A during the controller BIOS startup The illustrator is an Adaptec 7902W host...

Page 5: ... your SCSI hard disk drives be detected on your system in general a SCSI bus can support up to 15 devices and the controller connected to its 16 bit bus Return Options choose Configure View SCSI Controller Settings Select HostRAID options and Enabled it ...

Page 6: ...6 Save Changes Made screen will pop up please click Yes Options item will become 3 selections please pull down to Configure View HostRAID Settings ...

Page 7: ...y or Spare capability of SCSI hard disk drives 1 4 1 Create a RAID 0 Stripe From the Create RAID menu please click RAID 0 High Performance No Fault Tolerance that disk drives set requires for the maximum of 4 drives All required SCSI hard disk drives will appears in the Select RAID members screen ...

Page 8: ...Of course you also can select 16 KB or 32 KB by your application Enter 1 15 alphabetic or numeric characters to assign RIAD name and press Enter to proceed If you would like to set this array on bootable please select Yes on this window and apposite please select No ...

Page 9: ...ertied After configure successfully please exit Adaptec SCSISelct Utility window and restart system 1 4 2 Create RAID 1 Mirrored From the Create RAID menu click RAID 1 Fault Tolerance that disk drives set requires for the maximum of 2 drives ...

Page 10: ...the Select RAID members screen Select default Create new RAID 1 on RIAD 1 build option In the RAID 1 Build Option item you also can choose copy data from one hard disk to the second hard disk Enter 1 15 alphabetic or numeric characters to assign RIAD name ...

Page 11: ...ect Yes on this window and apposite please select No After RAID 1 builds the array propertied completed you can select other disk drives for Spare SPARE Set one drive on stand by should prompt for replacement of the dead one if one of the hard disk drive failing ...

Page 12: ...system 1 4 3 Create RAID 1 0 From the Create RAID menu please click RAID 10 Fault Tolerance High Performance that you want to add to create array then press Enter Select default Strip size 64 KB from the menu then press Enter Of course you also can select 16 KB or 32 KB by your application ...

Page 13: ...ic characters to assign RIAD name All required SCSI hard disk drives will appears in the Select RAID members screen If you would like to set this array on bootable please select Yes on this window whereas select No Click Yes to proceed ...

Page 14: ...y please exit Adaptec SCSISelct Utility window and restart system 1 4 4 Deleting a RAID set From the Adaptec SCSIselect utility menu go to the Stiped R0 properties Press Del key to display the Main Menu below This is the fastest and easiest method to delete your first array ...

Page 15: ...n SCSI HostRAID BIOS does checks RAID 1 condition each time If one of the disk broken it is appears which drive failure After replaced a drive restart a system and during the POST screen please press Ctrl A into the SCSI utility Note Please determined which drive in the RAID has failed and need to be replaced ...

Page 16: ...Utility menu press Enter on ID 1 Mirrored R1 property From the SCSIRAID properties menu press R key to rebuild a replaced drive A prompt message will pop up after you ready for rebuild replaced drive please choose YES button ...

Page 17: ...em with Adaptec 7902W SCSI RAID driver installed needs have an appropriate driver for the RAID controller to operate properly If you would like add RAID driver to an existing system the driver may be direct installed from the CD whereas install the RAID driver in new system usually will require a driver disk please extract RAID driver into floppy disk form CD or GIGABYTE web site ...

Page 18: ...ress F6 during the message appears Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver Press S to specify additional device when Windows prompted Note You only have 5 seconds to press the F6 key during the installation startup Press F6 at this time otherwise you must restart the Windows 2000 XP installation process to complete this procedure correctly ...

Page 19: ...ra 320 SCSI cards Windows XXXX depend on your type of operating system then press Enter to proceed 2 1 2 Windows 2000 XP 2003 Adding the controller to an existing system If you would like add the RAID controller to an existing system please restart system and into Computer Management window My Computer click right button choose Manage ...

Page 20: ... item RAID Controller Properties window is pop up then click Reinstall Driver button Note Windows will automatic detect the RAID controller and then pop up New Hardware Found window please click Cancle and install driver by manually ...

Page 21: ...floppy disk that you earlier extract RAID driver into floppy disk Select Install the software automatically Recommended then press Enter Hardware Update Wizard window appears system doing search a suitable driver automatically ...

Page 22: ...r installation is done click Finish Please repeat the above step and installing Host RAID SCSI Processor Device After the Host RAID SCSI Processor Device installed completely please restart system then initial partition ...

Page 23: ...nux system does require SCSI RAID driver installation To install the host RAID controller 1 Boot Red Hat 9 from the CD 1 2 When the Red Hat Linux 9 screen appears type linux dd then press enter When dialogue window Do you have a drive disk pop up please click Yes by pressing Tab key ...

Page 24: ...fd0 item when the system asks which device you would like to use then press Enter A prompt message is pop up after your floppy disk has already inserted Choose YES button while the system has ready for loading this driver Please continue with the Linux install while the driver to installed the system ...

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