7.1 Before You Begin...............................................................................................................................................28
7.2 Creating a Driver Disk.......................................................................................................................................28
7.3 Installing with Windows ...................................................................................................................................29
7.4 Installing with Red Hat Linux or CentOS...........................................................................................................29
7.5 Installing with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server ....................................................................................................29
7.6 Installing with Ubuntu Linux.............................................................................................................................30
7.7 Installing with VMware ....................................................................................................................................31
7.8 Installing with Citrix XenServer ........................................................................................................................32
8.1 Before You Begin...............................................................................................................................................33
8.2 Creating a Driver Disk.......................................................................................................................................33
8.3 Installing on Windows ......................................................................................................................................33
8.4 Installing on Red Hat, CentOS, SuSE, or Fedora Linux.......................................................................................34
8.5 Installing on Ubuntu Linux................................................................................................................................34
8.6 Installing on VMware........................................................................................................................................35
8.7 Installing on Citrix XenServer............................................................................................................................35
9.1 Installing the DKMS Deb Package on Ubuntu Systems.....................................................................................37
9.2 Installing the DKMS RPM Package....................................................................................................................37
9.3 DKMS Reference...............................................................................................................................................38
10.2 About the Microsemi Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility............................................................39
10.3 About the Microsemi Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility..............................................................................39
10.4 About the Adaptec Flash Utility......................................................................................................................40
10.5 Which Utility Should I Use?............................................................................................................................40
11.1 Troubleshooting Checklist...............................................................................................................................41
11.2 Monitoring Disk Drives Status........................................................................................................................41
11.3 Silencing the Alarm ........................................................................................................................................41
11.4 Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure .............................................................................................................42
11.4.1 Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare .....................................................................................42
11.4.2 Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare ..............................................................................42
11.4.3 Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously ......................................................................................42
11.4.4 Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array ................................................................................................43
11.4.5 Multiple Failures in the Same Array ................................................................................................43
11.4.6 Failed SSD in maxCache Device........................................................................................................43
A.1 Terminology Used in This Appendix ................................................................................................................44
A.2 What is SAS?.....................................................................................................................................................44
A.3 How Do SAS Devices Communicate?................................................................................................................44
A.4 What’s a Phy?...................................................................................................................................................45
A.5 What’s a SAS Port?...........................................................................................................................................45
A.6 What’s a SAS Address?.....................................................................................................................................45
A.7 What’s a SAS Connector?.................................................................................................................................46
A.8 What do SAS Cables Look Like?........................................................................................................................46
A.9 How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS? ............................................................................................................46
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