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Chapter 6
Using the Configuration Utility
SAS2IRCU is a command-line utility that you use to configure the Integrated RAID
functions of SAS2 controllers. SAS2IRCU runs in the DOS, Linux, EFI, and Windows
Pre-Installation (WinPE) environments. It is a minimally interactive program that you can
execute from a command-line prompt or a shell script. When you use SAS2IRCU
commands, the program sends results to the environment through the program status
value that it returns when it exits.
Typical uses for this utility include, but are not limited to, system configuration on the
manufacturing floor, post-delivery configuration by end users, and ongoing configuration
and monitoring of Integrated RAID devices.
6-1 Hardware and Software Requirements
SAS2IRCU runs on the following platforms.
• X86 - X86 or compatible
• EFI - UEFI 2
• EM64T/AMD64
• Sun SPARC® (v9)
SAS2IRCU works with storage devices that are compliant with existing SCSI standards.
SAS2IRCU requires PCI 2.x or PCI 3.0 firmware and MPI v2.0. SAS2IRCU supports the
following operating systems:
• WinPE 1.x (Server 2003/XP), WinPE 2.0 (Vista), WinPE 2.1 (Server 2008) Requires
Windows® driver v2.00.00.17 or greater.
• UEFI 2.1 Linux® 2.6 Kernel - RHEL 5, SLES 10 Requires Linux driver
v00.255.04.00 or greater.
• MS-DOS® 6.22 and FreeDOS 1.0
SAS2IRCU runs on DOS only if the system BIOS supports 32-bit BIOS services,
including the PCI BIOS services. SAS2IRCU uses these services to locate the controller
and its interface registers because it needs to directly access the controller chip’s
interface registers.
NOTE: SAS2IRCU is a configuration utility for the manufacturing environment.
End users should use the SAS2 BIOS Configuration Utility to create and
manage Integrated RAID volumes. See
Chapter 4: "Integrated Mirroring and
Integrated Mirroring Enhanced" on page 4-1 and Chapter 5: "Integrated
Striping" on page 5-1 for further details.