ICP GDT RS Series, User Manual

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C. Quick-Setup .................................................................................................................................................54
C.1 What is the Aim of Quick-Setup ?.........................................................................................................54
C.2 What is the ICP Controller Firmware ? ......................................................................................................54
C.2.1 The Different RAID Levels..................................................................................................................56
C.2.2 Levels of Hierarchy Within the ICP Firmware .......................................................................................59
C.2.3 Using CD-ROMs, DATs, Tapes, etc......................................................................................................60
C.3 Example 1 - Installing a Single SCSI Hard Disk.........................................................................................60
C.4 Example 2 - Installing a Mirroring Array - RAID 1 .....................................................................................62
C.5 Example 3 - Installing a RAID 5 Disk Array...............................................................................................63
C.6 Trying to Answer The Initial Questions......................................................................................................65
C.6.1 How Many Hard Disks Should be Integrated Into the Disk Array ?.........................................................65
C.6.2 Which Level of Redundancy is Needed ?.............................................................................................66
C.6.3 Do we Need Hot Fix drives ?..............................................................................................................66
C.7 States of a RAIDYNE® Disk Array ...........................................................................................................67
C.7.1 "Idle" State.....................................................................................................................................67
C.7.2 "Build" State...................................................................................................................................67
C.7.3 "Ready" State..................................................................................................................................67
C.7.4 "Fail" State .....................................................................................................................................67
C.7.5 "Rebuild" State................................................................................................................................67
C.7.6 "Expand" State................................................................................................................................67
C.7.7 "Error" State....................................................................................................................................67
C.8 Methods for the Replacement of a Disk Drive ............................................................................................69
D. Using Microsoft MS-DOS ...............................................................................................................................72
D.1 Transparency of Host Drives....................................................................................................................72
D.2 Partitioning a Host Drive and Transferring MS-DOS...................................................................................72
D.3 CONFIG.SYS and the Driver GDTX000.EXE ................................................................................................72
D.4 Expanded Memory Managers..................................................................................................................73
D.5 Using a CDROM Drive under MS-DOS ......................................................................................................74
D.5.1 Example: Using the ASW Software for the CDROM ..............................................................................75
D.5.2 Example: Using corelSCSI for the CDROM...........................................................................................75
D.6 The ICP ASPI Manager GDTASPI.EXE........................................................................................................76
D.6.1 Using ASW ASPIDISK.SYS ................................................................................................................77
D.6.2 Using corelSCSI...............................................................................................................................77
D.7 Installing Windows 95 ...........................................................................................................................78
D.7.1 The ICP Controller is the primary controller.........................................................................................78
D.7.2 The ICP Controller is the secondary controller......................................................................................79
D.7.3 Update the ICP Windows 95 Driver....................................................................................................79