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Safety Information and Technical Specifications
Table of Contents
Introduction
Overview ...........................................................................................................vii
Product Features ...............................................................................................vii
Operating Systems Supported ..........................................................................vii
An Important Note to Users ..............................................................................vii
Contacting SuperMicro ..................................................................................... viii
Chapter 1 Safety Guidelines
1-1 ESD Safety Guidelines ........................................................................................ 1-1
1-2 General Safety Guidelines ................................................................................... 1-1
1-3 An Important Note to Users ................................................................................. 1-1
Chapter 2 LED Indicators and Connectors
2-1 Front Connectors and Jumpers ........................................................................... 2-1
Front Connectors ............................................................................................ 2-1
2-2 Front Connector and Pin Definitions .................................................................... 2-2
2-3 Front Jumper Locations and Pin Definitions ........................................................ 2-3
LED INDICATORS .......................................................................................... 2-4
Front Pane LEDs ............................................................................................ 2-4
RAID Minimum Drive Requirements ............................................................... 2-5
Chapter 3 Driver Installation
3-1 Performing a Quick Configuration ........................................................................ 3-1
3-2 Configuring Arrays and Logic Drives .................................................................. 3-2
Starting the MegaRAID BIOS CU ................................................................... 3-2
Using Easy Configuration ............................................................................... 3-3
Using New Configuration and View/Add Configuration .................................. 3-4
Creating a Global Hotspare Drive ................................................................... 3-6
Initializing Logical Drives ................................................................................. 3-7
3-3 Setting the Hard Disk Write Cache and Read Ahead Policies ............................ 3-9
3-4 Rebuilding a Drive ............................................................................................. 3-10
3-5 Hot Plug Support ................................................................................................3-11
3-6 Checking Data Consistency ............................................................................... 3-12
3-7 Viewing and Changing Device Properties ......................................................... 3-13
Viewing and Changing Adapter Properties ................................................... 3-14
Viewing and Changing Logical Drive Properties .......................................... 3-15
Viewing Physical Drive Properties ................................................................ 3-15
