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A-11

ICP RAID Configuration Utility

Array-based 
BBS Support

Disabled

All

When 

Enabled

 in systems that 

support BBS, the controller presents 
attached bootable devices up to the 
host system's BIOS for boot device 
selection. This is relevant for logical 
arrays.

Physical 
Drives Display 
during POST

Disabled

All

When 

Enabled

, attached physical 

devices are displayed during system 
POST. Displaying the devices adds a 
few seconds to the overall POST 
time.

CD-ROM Boot 
Support

Enabled

SCSI 
only

When 

Enabled

, the system can be 

booted from a bootable CD.

Removable 
Media Devices 
Support

Enabled

SCSI 
only

When 

Enabled

, removable media 

devices, such as CD drives and Zip 
drives, are supported.

Alarm Control

Enabled

All

When 

Enabled

, the alarm sounds.

1. BBS systems containing SCSI controllers only.

Option

Default

Models 

Affected

Description

Summary of Contents for ICP9014RO

Page 1: ...INSTALLATION AND USER S GUIDE ICP VORTEX RAID CONTROLLER ICP9014RO ICP9024RO...

Page 2: ...f Microsoft Corporation in the US and other countries used under license All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners Changes The material in this document is for information only...

Page 3: ...ort Options For support via Email or phone contact the ICP Technical Support Specialists at icp_support adaptec com 49 0 7132 9620 900 For sales information via Email or phone contact the ICP sales de...

Page 4: ...nrad Zuse Str 9 D 74172 Neckarsulm Germany 49 7132 9620 0 5 THIS LIMITED WARRANTY DOES NOT EXTEND TO ANY PRODUCT WHICH HAS BEEN DAMAGED AS A RESULT OF ACCIDENT MISUSE ABUSE OR AS A RESULT OF UNAUTHORI...

Page 5: ...levision technician for help Use a shielded and properly grounded I O cable and power cable to ensure compliance of this unit to the specified limits of the rules This device complies with part 15 of...

Page 6: ...u R glement sur le mat riel brouilleur du Canada Japanese Compliance Voluntary Control Council Initiative This equipment complies to class B Information Technology equipment based on VCCI Voluntary Co...

Page 7: ...ut the Documentation 1 9 Using the Installation CD 1 9 Booting from the CD With No Operating System 1 10 Using the CD Autorun in Windows 1 10 Browsing the CD 1 11 Installing the Adobe Acrobat Reader 1...

Page 8: ...g the NetWare Driver 3 9 Installing the Driver When You Install NetWare 3 9 Installing the Driver in an Existing NetWare System 3 10 Loading NetWare Drivers During Server Restart 3 11 4 Installing and...

Page 9: ...tializing Drives A 8 Rescanning Drives A 9 Using SCSISelect A 9 Controller Configuration Options A 10 SCSI Configuration Options A 12 Using Disk Utilities A 14 Viewing the Event Log A 15 B ACU for DOS...

Page 10: ...oduction D 2 Installing ARCCONF D 2 Installing ARCCONF for Windows D 2 Installing ARCCONF for NetWare D 3 Installing ARCCONF for Linux D 4 Starting ARCCONF D 5 Using ARCCONF D 5 Status Functions D 6 R...

Page 11: ...xi Contents G Controller Reset Procedures Mode 0 Flash G 2 Create a bootable floppy disk G 2 Mode 0 flash Procedures G 2 H Controller Illustrations LED Function H 2 I Specifications Glossary Index...

Page 12: ...trate unprecedented performance and RAID flexibility For a description of features for your ICP controllers see Controller Features on page 1 4 Overview 1 1 Kit Contents 1 2 Overview of the Installati...

Page 13: ...uild the bootable array as described in Creating a Bootable RAID 5 Array on page 2 4 b Install the driver at the beginning of the operating system installation as described in Chapter 3 c Install ICP...

Page 14: ...ollowing list summarizes the hardware requirements Intel Pentium or equivalent processor A motherboard that meets the following compatibility requirements Complies with the PCI Local Bus Specification...

Page 15: ...5 06a and 5 07 Novell NetWare 6 x Controller Features This section contains the following subsections Features Overview Features Summary Advanced Features Features Overview The ICP9014RO or ICP9024RO...

Page 16: ...nagement across all ICP host based RAID products using ICP Storage Manager In addition to local console access ICP Storage Manager provides remote configuration and management of RAID subsystems throu...

Page 17: ...ting down your system Online Capacity Expansion Array Level Migration ICP9014RO ICP9024RO Form factor Low profile Low profile PCI compatibility PCI PCI X PCI PCI X PCI bus width max 64 bit 64 bit PCI...

Page 18: ...y without restarting the system For details refer to your Windows documentation Array Level Migration The ICP9014RO or ICP9024RO RAID controllers allow you to migrate from one array type to another Th...

Page 19: ...the Alarm The alarm sounds under the following circumstances When the controller is running and a drive fails For example if a drive becomes unplugged the alarm sounds When restarting the system if an...

Page 20: ...File Contains late breaking technical information Installation and User s Guide this book PDF file on the installation CD with complete information on how to install and configure your controller and...

Page 21: ...matically read the CD you can prompt it to read the CD by clicking on autorun exe from the CD s root directory The CD presents the following options Install ICP Storage Manager Installs the management...

Page 22: ...neral Public License GPL agreement Installing the Adobe Acrobat Reader Both Adobe Acrobat Reader and Viewer are provided on the installation CD These applications allow you to view PDF files Acrobat R...

Page 23: ...hich the operating system has not yet been installed Also available as a DOS based executable see next bullet For details on using the ACU see Appendix A For details on using the DOS based ACU see App...

Page 24: ...emoving and replacing components To prevent ESD damage Use an ESD wrist or ankle strap and ensure that it makes skin contact Connect the equipment end of the strap to an unpainted metal surface on the...

Page 25: ...2 1 2 Installing the Controller and Drives In this Chapter Installing the Controller and Drives 2 2 Determining the Boot Controller 2 3 Creating a Bootable RAID 5 Array 2 4...

Page 26: ...cabinet replace the original full height bracket with the low profile bracket 2 Turn off your computer 3 Unplug the power cord 4 Open the system cabinet 5 Remove the cover from an available 3 3V PCI o...

Page 27: ...t installing SCSI drives see Appendix F About SCSI Determining the Boot Controller Note If your system will contain two or more bootable controllers read this section Otherwise skip this section The I...

Page 28: ...ombination of performance and redundancy on a minimum of three drives Because RAID 5 uses parity it is the safest and most recoverable of all RAID levels What if I prefer a different RAID level That s...

Page 29: ...ization all data is deleted from the disk Before proceeding back up any data you want to keep 8 Press Y The selected drives are initialized then the ACU Menu is displayed again 9 Highlight Create Arra...

Page 30: ...l the driver as described in Chapter 3 Using the Installation CD Note You cannot create the RAID using a CD drive connected to the RAID controller To build a bootable RAID 5 array using the installati...

Page 31: ...in your array Each drive you select is marked with a check 10 Click Next 11 Type the name you want to assign to the RAID 5 you are creating then click Apply The system creates the array The display re...

Page 32: ...er In this Chapter Overview of the Driver Installation Process 3 2 Creating a Driver Disk 3 2 Installing the Windows Driver 3 3 Installing the Linux Module 3 5 Installing the Unix Driver 3 6 Installin...

Page 33: ...during driver installation See Appendix E for a summary of the various RAID levels Note If you don t like your initial RAID level selection you can change it later using Array Level Migration See page...

Page 34: ...emove and label the driver disk Now that you have created your driver disk proceed with the appropriate driver installation procedure Installing the Windows Driver This section contains the following...

Page 35: ...en instructions to complete the installation Installing the Driver in an Existing Windows System To install the driver in an existing Windows system 1 Install and configure the controller and hard dis...

Page 36: ...ler and hard disk drives as described on page 2 2 2 Create the bootable array as described on page 2 4 3 Create the driver disk as described on page 3 2 When finished remove the driver disk 4 Insert t...

Page 37: ...nixWare and OpenUNIX OpenServer This section contains procedures for installing the driver in OpenServer systems Installing the Driver When You Install OpenServer To install the driver when installing...

Page 38: ...Create the driver disk as described on page 3 2 When finished remove the driver disk 3 Boot the server 4 Insert the driver disk 5 To run the installpkg utility open a terminal window and type the inst...

Page 39: ...on page 3 2 When finished remove the driver disk 4 Insert the Unix installation CD and start the operating system installation 5 When you see the prompt insert the driver disk select Install HBA disk...

Page 40: ...etWare To install the driver when installing NetWare 1 Install and configure the controller and hard disk drives as described on page 2 2 2 Create the driver disk as described on page 3 2 When finishe...

Page 41: ...ed drivers From the lower window menu select Continue then press Enter Note If the driver installation process fails the server console is displayed so you can see the cause of the failure Now that yo...

Page 42: ...ompted to select an additional driver select No 17 Press Esc to exit the Nwconfig utility 18 Create arrays using the ICP RAID Configuration utility see Using the ACU on page A 2 or remotely using ICP...

Page 43: ...cing commas between command line options is optional To modify the startup ncf file 1 At the server console prompt type load nwconfig and press Enter 2 Select the NCF File Options menu then press Ente...

Page 44: ...the computer and use the BIOS utility Note You need administrator or root privileges to install ICP Storage Manager For details on verifying privileges refer to your operating system documentation Ins...

Page 45: ...in your Windows Control Panel To install ICP Storage Manager 1 Insert the controller installation CD and wait for the Autorun executable to start the installation If this does not occur browse the CD...

Page 46: ...ICP Storage Manager type the rpm erase StorMan command For the latest on ICP s support of Linux visit www icp vortex com To install ICP Storage Manager 1 Insert the controller installation CD 2 Mount...

Page 47: ...escogroup com Release Supplement 5 06a is helpful but not required If a previous version of ICP Storage Manager is installed you must remove it before upgrading Any customization files you created whe...

Page 48: ...load these visit www thescogroup com If a previous version of ICP Storage Manager is installed you must remove it before upgrading Any customization files you created when you used the previous versio...

Page 49: ...ollowing line to the etc inittab and etc conf init d kernel files nfra 12346 once sh opt RaidMan RaidAgnt sh Installing ICP Storage Manager on NetWare Notes With NetWare ICP Storage Manager can be use...

Page 50: ...tallation Starting ICP Storage Manager Note You need root privileges to run ICP Storage Manager To start ICP Storage Manager use the following procedures for your operating system Windows Operating Sy...

Page 51: ...or the Administrator or an Administrative User on the system The Administrative User is any member of the local Administrators group which can in a Domain configuration include Domain Administrators U...

Page 52: ...dministrator Logging in as an Administrator allows you to view and modify the RAID configuration You can create and delete logical drives verify logical drives perform migrations and add and remove ho...

Page 53: ...press Enter sh RaidMan sh NetWare Operating System To start ICP Storage Manager on NetWare type the LOAD RAIDMAN command Logging into Remote Systems To log into a remote system 1 From the menu bar of...

Page 54: ...anager 3 For Username enter admin 4 For Password enter ICP Note The username and password are case sensitive When you are logged in for the first time you can add new accounts and change account passw...

Page 55: ...hange and manage arrays For more details on using ICP Storage Manager refer to its embedded online Help system Features You can use ICP Storage Manager to Create and delete arrays Verify arrays Migrat...

Page 56: ...administer and monitor controllers that are installed locally or remotely in your servers or external storage Fine tune controller settings for optimal performance Note Some of these features may not...

Page 57: ...r Indicators next to the controller name report status of the fan and temperature modules on SAF TE enclosure management devices and other devices that monitor these conditions The indicator colors ar...

Page 58: ...capacity A small segment on each drive is reserved for the RAID signature this area is indicated by a gray cap at the end of each bar Note A drive shaded in light blue is not part of any disk group D...

Page 59: ...click a logical device in the Logical devices view the physical drives that make up the logical device are highlighted in the Physical devices view and vice versa When you click a hotspare the logica...

Page 60: ...scan drives Also available as a stand alone DOS utility as described in Appendix B ACU for DOS SCSISelect Used to change device and controller settings Disk Utilities Used to format or verify media To...

Page 61: ...ther menu To return to the previous menu at any time press Esc The following sections detail each of the ICP RAID Configuration utility menu options Using the ACU The Array Configuration Utility ACU a...

Page 62: ...for the new array then press Insert To deselect a disk highlight the disk then press Delete ACU displays the largest usable space available for each disk You can use available space from multiple dis...

Page 63: ...and select MB megabytes GB gigabytes or TB terabytes from the drop down list If the available space from the selected partitions is greater than the size you specify the remaining space can be used in...

Page 64: ...t Manage Arrays 2 From the List of Arrays dialog box select the array you want to view then press Enter To view properties related to the array s physical disks RAID 0 1 5 Single Level Arrays View the...

Page 65: ...ld verify or rebuild process You may need to change the system BIOS to modify the boot order For more information refer to the system documentation You can make an array bootable so that the system bo...

Page 66: ...hotspare The specified drive is displayed in the Assigned Hotspares drives list 4 Press Enter to save the hotspare assignment 5 If you are finished managing hotspares press Y for yes when prompted to...

Page 67: ...ered array normally 00 in the List of Arrays dialog box For information on determining which disks are associated with a particular array see Viewing Array Properties on page A 5 To initialize drives...

Page 68: ...pted to access the ICP RAID Configuration utility 2 If multiple controllers are installed select the controller you want to configure then press Enter 3 From the ICP RAID Configuration utility menu se...

Page 69: ...roller to act as the boot device Automatic Failover Enabled All When Enabled the controller automatically rebuilds an array when the failed drive is replaced When disabled the array must be rebuilt ma...

Page 70: ...Enabled attached physical devices are displayed during system POST Displaying the devices adds a few seconds to the overall POST time CD ROMBoot Support Enabled SCSI only When Enabled the system can...

Page 71: ...ighest priority on the SCSI channel SCSI Parity Checking Enabled Determines whether the controller verifies the accuracy of data transfer on the SCSI channel You should only disable SCSI Parity Checki...

Page 72: ...Initiate Wide Negotiation is set to Yes and 16 bit devices are attached Initiate Wide Negotiation has no effect with 8 bit devices Enable Disconnection Yes Determines whether the SCSI channel allows...

Page 73: ...t Disk Utilities 4 Select the desired disk then press Enter Choose either Format Disk or Verify Disk Media Format Disk The functionality depends on the controller type as described below SATA Controll...

Page 74: ...so the log is cleared when the system is restarted To access the event log 1 Restart the computer then press Ctrl A when prompted to access the ICP RAID Configuration utility 2 If multiple controllers...

Page 75: ...the following procedure 1 To find the ACU executable acu exe browse to the folder on the controller installation CD that relates to your controller model 2 Insert a bootable floppy disk and copy acu...

Page 76: ...ts to the DOS command line 3 Type ACU on the command line then press Enter To select ACU options highlight the options using the arrow keys and the Tab key then press Enter You can select from the fol...

Page 77: ...he same configuration by running the ACU in playback mode P switch with the resulting script For more details see Record Mode on page B 4 Note The ACU exits with an error if you do not include either...

Page 78: ...ingle HotspareDrives list for all hotspares assigned to the RAID 10 For details see the Method Keyword on page B 9 Record Mode There are two methods available for creating a script file Use Record Mod...

Page 79: ...file When recording an array the ACU uses the default Wait setting equivalent to Wait Yes unless you edit the script file and include Wait No in the array s definition block For details see the Wait...

Page 80: ...the hotspares to assign to the array See page B 8 InitializeAll No No Indicates whether to initialize all the drives connected to the controller See page B 8 Method Yes Build Indicates the method Buil...

Page 81: ...value A drive is identified by its channel number ID target and LUN separated by colons for example 0 0 0 or 0 1 0 Separate multiple drive identifiers with commas Prior to creating any new arrays the...

Page 82: ...e space on the specified hotspares is sufficient to serve as failover for the array When assigning hotspares to a multilevel array HotspareDrives assigns all the hotspares in the list to all arrays wi...

Page 83: ...xamples Type Volume Type RAID1 Method Keyword Method is an optional keyword indicating which method to use when creating a redundant RAID 1 5 and 10 array Possible values are Build the default Perform...

Page 84: ...an integer or a decimal number followed by the unit keyword MB megabytes GB gigabytes or TB terabytes Note A unit keyword is required with a numeric size value If no unit keyword is specified the ACU...

Page 85: ...rwise the ACU waits by default Note If the host is powered off before the build verify or clear process completes and is then restarted the process resumes without any user intervention Examples Wait...

Page 86: ...ou can include multiple channel definition blocks within a script file each beginning with a Channel keyword and value Example Channel 0 ControllerID Keyword ConrollerID is an optional keyword to chan...

Page 87: ...page B 3 for the list of valid command line switches 5 Unable to read system configuration The ACU was unable to get the configuration information from the specified controller 6 No drives detected Th...

Page 88: ...Create a 500MB volume labeled MySystem Array MySystem Type Volume Size 500MB Drives 0 0 0 End Create a 2GB mirror labeled MyMirror Array MyMirror Type RAID1 Size 2GB Use drives 1 and 2 Drives 0 1 0 0...

Page 89: ...ee drive RAID 5 Create a maximum size RAID 5 labeled MyData Array MyData Type RAID5 Size Maximum Use the maximum stripe size StripeSize 64 Clear the array don t build verify it Method Clear Don t wait...

Page 90: ...accidentally damaging the controller s flash contents Still you must be careful to use the IFU correctly otherwise you could render the controller inoperable Note If you are updating multiple control...

Page 91: ...y Reads the contents of a controller s flash components and compares it to the contents of the specified UFI file Version Displays version information about a controller s flash components List Lists...

Page 92: ...file you usually get the most recent version of IFU To create the firmware floppy disks 1 Create a bootable MS DOS floppy disk and copy the following files to this disk IFU exe AAxxx01 ufi where xxx...

Page 93: ...DOS floppy disk or from a DOS partition on a bootable drive You can use the drive connected to the controller you are updating Note When updating the controller flash I O is not possible Before you ca...

Page 94: ...command switches Examples The following are examples of commands you can use to display help information A IFU HELP A IFU LIST The LIST command displays the IFU supported controllers installed on you...

Page 95: ...ault is 0 which means that if the computer has multiple controllers the IFU defaults to controller 0 unless you specify otherwise You can specify a single controller ID for example C 0 multiple IDs se...

Page 96: ...he computer following an UPDATE command Command Syntax The command syntax for the UPDATE command is as follows IFU UPDATE C Controller ID D UFI File Path Command Switches For details on the C and D sw...

Page 97: ...d D switches see the SAVE command on page C 6 Example The following example shows a typical system response after a verify command has been performed A IFU VERIFY C 0 ICP Flash Utility V4 0 0 B5749 c...

Page 98: ...puter 3 Insert the bootable disk that contains the IFU utility 4 Turn on the computer 5 Enter the system setup utility and verify that your computer is set up to boot from the bootable disk 6 If you h...

Page 99: ...te C 0 2 3 c Updating the Flash on All Controllers Simultaneously To flash the firmware on all controllers type ifu update C all Note The UFI file identifies the appropriate controllers so you do not...

Page 100: ...D 1 D Installing and Using the Command Line Utility In this Appendix Introduction D 2 Installing ARCCONF D 2 Starting ARCCONF D 5 Using ARCCONF D 5...

Page 101: ...settings Copy configurations from one computer to another Recover from a failed physical drive and rebuild an affected logical drive Isolate problems and determine their causes This utility is provid...

Page 102: ...nstalling ARCCONF for NetWare Complete the following steps to install ARCCONF for NetWare 1 Start the computer 2 Exit to the console screen From the console prompt mount the CD drive Type the followin...

Page 103: ...is the specific device file for the CD block device and mountpoint is the specific mount point on the Linux system 4 Copy ARCCONF to your hard disk Type the following command and press Enter cp mount...

Page 104: ...if your command has failed When you run ARCCONF in batch mode you run a script At the end of your batch file you will either receive a zero return code indicating SUCCESS or a non zero return code in...

Page 105: ...includes the type of operation status logical drive number logical drive size and percentage of the operation completed Note GETSTATUS reports currently active operations for both ARCCONF commands and...

Page 106: ...opyback attempts to keep data in the original drive slots after a logical drive is rebuilt ARCCONF COPYBACK controller ON OFF where controller is the controller number ON enables and OFF disables the...

Page 107: ...ZE indicates the logical drive stripe size in KB The default is 64KB size is one of the following values MAX indicates that you want to use all available space on the disk Desired size in MB raidlevel...

Page 108: ...ive identifier NOPROMPT is an optional parameter to suppress user prompt Example ARCCONF DELETE 1 LOGICALDRIVE 1 NOPROMPT Return Values SUCCESS 0x00 Successful termination FAILURE 0x01 Bad arguments o...

Page 109: ...a snaphot STOP logical drive Breaks the snapshot of a logical drive BACKUP logical drive logical drive Copies the entire first drive to the second logical drive After flashcopy is complete the backed...

Page 110: ...driver and firmware versions Logical drive status RAID level and size Physical drive type device ID presence of PFA Physical drive state ARCCONF GETCONFIG controller type where controller is the cont...

Page 111: ...roller is the controller number type is the type of log to retrieve DEVICE DEAD EVENT UART Example ARCCONF GETLOGS 1 DEVICE Return Values SUCCESS 0x00 Indicates the command completed successfully FAIL...

Page 112: ...ted successfully FAILURE 0x01 Indicates the command failed romupdate Allows new firmware and BIOS to be flashed to the controller A reboot is required for the new firmware to take effect Note This fun...

Page 113: ...essfully FAILURE 0x01 Indicates the command failed setstate Changes the state of a physical drive from its current state to the designated state Hotspare ARCCONF SETSTATE controller Channel Device HSP...

Page 114: ...able below shows the number of drives needed and supported for your controller according to RAID level Note Select RAID drives of equal capacity and performance Otherwise the RAID is limited in capaci...

Page 115: ...iping scheme creates no redundancy to protect the data However because the drives share load equally RAID 0 provides the best read and write performance of any RAID type An example of a RAID 0 array i...

Page 116: ...controller generates parity every time data is written to the array which is distributed in stripes across all the drives The total parity occupies the equivalent of one drive In the event of a drive...

Page 117: ...is good because the load is spread equally across all the drives RAID 10 This dual level RAID type is created by using two or more equal sized RAID 1 arrays to create a RAID 0 Both read and write perf...

Page 118: ...el RAID 5s provides efficient redundancy Parity B0 Data 7 Data 11 Parity B3 Drive Data 4 Data 5 RAID 5 RAID 5 Data 3 Parity B1 Data 10 Data 15 Drive Data 2 Data 6 Parity B2 Data 14 Drive Parity A0 Dat...

Page 119: ...educed ICP does not recommend using SCSI devices older than Ultra2 Caution HVD devices are not supported and will damage your controller See Mixing SE Devices with LVD Devices on page F 3 for more det...

Page 120: ...losure requires it For details refer to the enclosure User s Guide The RAID controller ID can be changed to any ID from 0 through 7 using the ICP RAID Configuration utility Note Do not change the cont...

Page 121: ...ces Support 4 Press Esc until the Reboot window appears 5 Restart the computer Mixing SE Devices with LVD Devices If you are mixing SE devices with LVD devices Ensure proper termination by using a cab...

Page 122: ...G 1 G Controller Reset Procedures In this Appendix This Appendix describes the procedures that you can use to reset your controller in the event it becomes inoperable Mode 0 Flash G 2...

Page 123: ...ee Appendix H Controller Illustrations Create a bootable floppy disk To create a bootable floppy disk to use when Mode 0 flashing your firmware 1 Download the firmware version currently installed on y...

Page 124: ...Procedures 5 Insert the appropriate disk when prompted 6 When the flash is complete power off the computer and remove the jumper 7 Power on the computer and verify that the controller completes the bo...

Page 125: ...ations This Appendix shows the ICP RAID controllers ICP9014RO SCSI RAID Component Layout Battery connector External VHDCI SCSI connector Mounting bracket Internal high density SCSI connector PCI X con...

Page 126: ...ED Condition Indication At power up several blinks Controller is powering up After power up periodic blinking Controller is idle Solid yellow light Controller is sending or receiving data on the SCSI...

Page 127: ...Requirements Current Requirements Ambient temperature without battery backup module 0 C to 50 C Relative humidity 10 to 90 noncondensing Altitude up to 3 000 meters Ripple and noise 50 mV peak to pea...

Page 128: ...ncy or enhanced I O performance See also container volume spanned volume and RAID signature Also known as a container array initialization See initialize available space partition Unused space on an i...

Page 129: ...that serves as intermediate storage for data that is read from or written to drives capacity Total usable space available in megabytes or gigabytes channel Any path or bus used for the transfer of dat...

Page 130: ...iled The data is intact but redundancy has been compromised Any further failure would cause the array to fail and result in data loss dirty data Data that has been written to a cache but which has not...

Page 131: ...d multiple drive failures A failed array is inaccessible and data is lost failed partition A partition that is no longer usable by an array because it is either logically bad and therefore no longer n...

Page 132: ...as a replacement for one of the other drives in the array in the event of a failure I impacted An impacted array is one which has been created but for some reason the initial build operation did not c...

Page 133: ...ystem as if it were a single storage unit low level format Process performed by the drive firmware that completely removes the file system from the disk M migration See reconfiguration mirrored array...

Page 134: ...th no on going background controller activity All data written to an array that has been quick initialized is protected R RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks alternative definition Redundant Arr...

Page 135: ...lable segments A RAID segment is part of a logical device it can be used by only one logical device at a time Available segments can be used to define a new logical device If the disk is not part of a...

Page 136: ...triped array striped array See RAID signature and RAID 5 on page E 3 T task An operation that occurs only on the RAID controller asynchronous to all other operations for example initializing a disk or...

Page 137: ...s keyword B 8 Method keyword B 9 properties B 6 ReadCache keyword B 10 Size keyword B 10 StripeSize keyword B 6 Type keyword B 11 Wait keyword B 11 WriteCache keyword B 11 array level migration 1 7 Ar...

Page 138: ...nition block B 7 initializing drives B 8 E ECC cache support 1 12 electrostatic discharge 1 13 Enable disconnection A 13 End property array definition block B 7 B 12 channel definition block B 12 envi...

Page 139: ...n Win dows 4 2 Linux module 3 5 NetWare 3 9 OpenServer 3 6 OpenUnix 3 8 Unix driver 3 6 UnixWare 3 8 Windows driver 3 3 installing Adobe Acrobat Reader 1 11 installing controller and drives 2 2 K kit...

Page 140: ...1 3 hardware 1 3 system 1 3 Ripple and Noise I 1 romupdate ARCCONF D 13 S safety information 1 13 SAVE command C 6 script files syntax B 5 comments in B 5 script mode B 3 SCSI device configuration A...

Page 141: ...r 4 5 V VERIFY command C 8 Verify disk media A 14 VERSION command C 8 Voltage requirement I 1 W Wait property array definition block B 11 Wide negotiation A 13 Windows ARCCONF starting D 5 installing...

Page 142: ...me GmbH Konrad Zuse Str 9 74172 Neckarsulm Germany 2005 ICP vortex All rights reserved ICP and the ICP logo are trademarks of ICP vortex which may be registered in some jurisdictions Part Number CDP 0...

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