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Page 1: ...INSTALLATION AND HARDWARE GUIDE AAA UDMA ULTRA DMA 66 RAID CARD ...

Page 2: ...ard Milpitas CA 95035 2000 Adaptec Inc All rights reserved Adaptec and the Adaptec logo are trademarks of Adaptec Inc which may be registered in some jurisdictions Printed in Singapore STOCK NO 512408 03 Rev A JG 02 2000 SRC 512408 00 Ver AA ...

Page 3: ...R AAA UDMA Ultra DMA 66 RAID Card Installation and Hardware Guide ...

Page 4: ...nt to assure its accuracy Adaptec Inc assumes no liability resulting from errors or omissions in this document or from the use of the information contained herein Adaptec reserves the right to make changes in the product design without reservation and without notification to its users Disclaimer IF THIS PRODUCT DIRECTS YOU TO COPY MATERIALS YOU MUST HAVE PER MISSION FROM THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OF THE...

Page 5: ...Federal Communications Commission Radio Frequency Interference Statement WARNING Changes or modifications to this unit not expressly approved by the party responsible for com pliance could void the user s authority to operate the equipment This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules These limits are designed t...

Page 6: ...Class B EN 50082 1 1992 EN61000 4 2 1998 EN61000 4 3 1998 EN61000 4 4 1995 Australian New Zealand Compliance Statement This device has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pur suant to the Australian New Zealand standard AS NZS 3548 set out by the Spectrum Management Agency Canadian Compliance Statement This Class B digital apparatus meets all requirements o...

Page 7: ...ives 2 6 Setting Jumpers on UDMA Drives to the Master Setting 2 6 Mounting UDMA Drives and Connecting Power Cables 2 7 Additional Hints for UDMA Drives 2 7 Connecting UDMA Drives 2 8 Connecting UDMA Drives to the UDMA Connectors 2 8 Configuring the AAA UDMA 2 11 3 Creating an Array With the ARRAYCONFIG UDMA Utility Creating an Array 3 2 Creating an Array with Express Setup 3 2 Creating an Array wi...

Page 8: ...s 2000 Installing the Array1000UDMA Driver for Windows 2000 5 2 Upgrading Windows NT to Windows 2000 5 2 Installing the Driver For a Fresh Installation of Windows 2000 5 4 Installing the Driver When Windows 2000 is Already Installed 5 5 Windows 2000 Installation and Configuration Notes 5 6 6 Installing the Software Driver for Novell NetWare Installing the Array1000UDMA Driver for Novell NetWare 6 ...

Page 9: ...A 3 Using BIOSSelect Menus A 3 Exiting BIOSSelect A 3 Using the Disk Utilities A 4 BIOSSelect Settings A 5 Bus Interface Definitions A 5 Device Configuration A 5 Additional Options A 6 B Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Checklist B 1 Windows NT Troubleshooting B 2 Error Messages While Setting Up Windows NT B 2 Index ...

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Page 11: ...o each of the four internal UDMA connectors on the AAA UDMA four UDMA drives total Note The AAA UDMA supports UDMA UDMA 33 or 66 hard disk drives only Any combination of UDMA 33 or 66 hard disk drives can be connected to the AAA UDMA Throughout the industry these drives are also often referred to as ATA EIDE IDE or Ultra DMA The AAA UDMA does not support CD ROM tape drives or other non hard disk d...

Page 12: ...rements The minimum system requirements for the AAA UDMA are PCI based 266 MHz Pentium II or equivalent motherboard that is PCI 2 1 compliant An available full length unobstructed PCI slot that supports Bus Mastering A minimum of one UDMA drive UDMA 33 or 66 A standard non buffered 60 ns or faster 3 3V ECC 168 pin EDO DIMM installed on the adapter A 2 MB DIMM is typi cally pre installed See the Ad...

Page 13: ...he AAA UDMA in the system Chapter 2 Connect UDMA drives to the AAA UDMA Chapter 2 Create the first bootable array using the ARRAYCONFIG UDMA utility Chapter 3 Install the appropriate Array1000UDMA software driver for your operating system Chapter 4 Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 Install the Adaptec CI O Management Software See the Adaptec CI O Management Software User s Guide for more infor mation Note B...

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Page 15: ...f UDMA 33 or 66 hard disk drives can be connected to the AAA UDMA Throughout the industry these drives are also often referred to as ATA EIDE IDE or Ultra DMA The AAA UDMA does not support CD ROM tape drives or other non hard disk drive devices AAA UDMA RAID Card Layout 2 2 Installing DIMM Memory 2 3 Installing the AAA UDMA 2 4 Setting Up UDMA Drives 2 6 Connecting UDMA Drives 2 8 Configuring the ...

Page 16: ... component ground yourself by touching an unpainted metal surface on your computer chassis AAA UDMA RAID Card Layout Figure 2 1 identifies the major components on the AAA UDMA You may find it helpful to refer to this figure while installing the AAA UDMA and attaching UDMA drives to it Figure 2 1 AAA UDMA Major Components 40 pin Internal UDMA Connectors DIMM Socket PCI Bus Contacts DIMM ...

Page 17: ... the AAA UDMA comes pre installed with a DIMM If a DIMM is not pre installed a non buffered 60 ns or faster 3 3V ECC 168 pin EDO DIMM can be used A DIMM of up to 64 MB is supported See the Adaptec Web Site at http www adaptec com tools compatibility u2dimm html for a list of approved DIMMs and vendors Figure 2 2 Installing DIMM in the DIMM Socket 168 pin DIMM DIMM Socket ...

Page 18: ...ower cord 2 Remove the cover from the computer case 3 Locate an unused unobstructed PCI expansion slot and remove the expansion slot cover The expansion slot must be PCI 2 1 or higher and must support Bus Mastering Save the slot cover screw for use in Step 4 4 Insert the AAA UDMA in the PCI expansion slot press down firmly until it clicks into place then replace the slot cover screw Figure 2 3 Ins...

Page 19: ...t disconnect the LED cable from the mother board and connect it to the LED connector on the AAA UDMA If the LED has a 2 pin cable connect the cable to pins 1 and 2 of the LED connector Note If you connect the LED cable to the AAA UDMA the LED lights whenever there is activity on hard disks connected to the AAA UDMA only The LED will no longer light whenever there is activity on hard disks not conn...

Page 20: ... installation hints for UDMA drives are also provided Note If you refer to the UDMA drive s documentation for installation instructions be sure to return to this document to continue with installation of the software included in the package Setting Jumpers on UDMA Drives to the Master Setting Each UDMA drive you are connecting to the AAA UDMA must be set to the Master setting If your UDMA drive is...

Page 21: ... computer Figure 2 5 UDMA Drive Mounted in Drive Bay Additional Hints for UDMA Drives All UDMA Drives If you are booting your system from a single UDMA drive or bootable array the boot order or virtual device order of the drive or array must be set to 0 See Making the Array Bootable on page 3 8 Cable Lengths To connect a UDMA drive to the AAA UDMA a UDMA 66 cable is required Each UDMA 66 cable sho...

Page 22: ... connecting UDMA drives to the AAA UDMA connect only one UDMA drive to each UDMA 66 cable used If you connect more than one drive to a cable the AAA UDMA will not function properly Adaptec strongly recommends that you use only the two connector UDMA 66 cables provided by Adaptec Follow these steps to connect your UDMA drives 1 Locate the 40 pin UDMA 66 cable The UDMA cable has a blue and a black c...

Page 23: ...d of the cable to one of the four UDMA connectors on the AAA UDMA Figure 2 7 Connecting Cable to UDMA Connector 3 Plug the TO DRIVE Black end of the cable to your UDMA drive Figure 2 8 Connecting an UDMA drive 40 pin UDMA 66 Cable UDMA Connector UDMA Drive ...

Page 24: ...2 10 AAA UDMA Installation and Hardware Guide 4 To connect additional UDMA drives repeat steps 1 through 3 Figure 2 9 Connecting Additional UDMA drives IDE 4 IDE 1 IDE 2 IDE 3 ...

Page 25: ...ix B Troubleshooting Before installing the drivers and software for the AAA UDMA RAID card you may want to configure card options e g ID and Parity Checking for the card and the UDMA drives connected to it by running the onboard BIOSSelect utility To do this press F6 when the following prompt appears during BIOS initialization Press F6 for BIOSSelect Utility In most cases it is not necessary to ru...

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Page 27: ...want a bootable array on your system you must use the ARRAYCONFIG UDMA utility to create the bootable array Note ARRAYCONFIG UDMA runs from a self booting dis kette If you are changing the configuration of a system that is already in use on a network log all users off the system and shut it down in an orderly manner before you start ARRAYCONFIG UDMA Creating an Array 3 2 Making the Array Bootable ...

Page 28: ...and installed in your system You can use ARRAYCONFIG UDMA in two ways Select Express Setup if you want to create an array quickly and easily ARRAYCONFIG UDMA asks you a few simple ques tions and uses your answers to create the kind of array that best meets your needs Select Custom Setup if you want to perform advanced opera tions such as creating an array with specified disks or adding spare disks...

Page 29: ...disks fails This kind of array has two disks by definition so you will not be prompted to enter the number of disks you want in the array Select Performance and Data Protection with Parity RAID 5 if you want fast performance and data protection and you have three or more disks available for the array This kind of array contains redundant parity data distrib uted across all disks in the array If an...

Page 30: ... your system to boot from the new array 7 When you have finished all these menu selections wait while ARRAYCONFIG UDMA creates the array This may take a long time especially if the drives are large in capacity A message appears when the array has been created An error message appears if ARRAYCONFIG UDMA encounters a problem If this happens run ARRAYCONFIG UDMA again and select the Custom Setup opt...

Page 31: ... disks If one disk in a pair fails data is available The actual data capacity of the array equals half the total available disk space RAID 5 The array contains redundant parity data dis tributed across all disks in the array If any one disk fails data can be reconstructed from the parity information If a second disk fails before the array has been reconstructed all data is lost The actual usable d...

Page 32: ... becomes part of an array When you have selected the number of drives you specified in Step 8 the next screen appears automatically If you are creat ing a RAID 1 RAID 0 1 or RAID 5 array and if there are any unassigned drives the screen prompts you to define dedicated spare drives for the array We recommend that you use a spare pool instead of dedicated spares Caution A spare must have at least th...

Page 33: ...ents 13 Wait for initialization to complete When you see the message Initialization of array name is complete press any key to return to the Disk Array Operations menu 14 Create additional arrays You may use ARRAYCONFIG UDMA to create additional arrays if disks are available how ever we recommend using Adaptec CI O Management Soft ware to create additional arrays CI O is required for array managem...

Page 34: ...UDMA disk in drive A and reboot the system Wait for ARRAYCONFIG UDMA to start automatically 2 Read the text that appears on the initial screens Press any key to view the next screen or press Esc to return to the previous screen 3 Select Custom Setup from the Setup Type Selection menu 4 Select Display Boot Order from the Main menu The Boot Order for Singles and Arrays window appears 5 If the newly ...

Page 35: ...ing the Software Driver for Windows NT Chapter 5 Installing the Software Driver for Windows 2000 or Chapter 6 Installing the Software Driver for Novell NetWare Note You cannot use this procedure to change the boot order of a UDMA disk that is not part of an array If you want to do this create a one disk RAID 0 array from the disk Data is not actually striped on a one disk array ...

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Page 37: ...AYCONFIG UDMA util ity if you plan to boot from an array See Chapter 3 Once Windows NT and the driver are installed install Adaptec CI O Management Software and use it to add delete and manage arrays from the server console CI O is required for array management in order to provide the proper level of fault tolerance and event notification Refer to the Adaptec CI O Management Software User s Guide ...

Page 38: ...ese steps Note During Windows NT installation if your system configuration has multiple arrays and or single drives Windows NT limits the size of the system partition you can create to 1 GByte To work around this 1 GByte limitation see Windows NT 1 GByte Partition Limitation on page 4 5 1 Start your system with the Windows NT Boot disk in the floppy disk drive or the Windows NT Boot CD ROM in the ...

Page 39: ... Adaptec Array1000UDMA Family Manager Set driver disk in your floppy disk drive and press Enter 6 The screen displays the adapter drivers supported on the disk Select the Adaptec Array1000UDMA Family Adapter driver and press Enter 7 If you want to add drivers other than for the AAA UDMA press S and repeat Step 5 for each additional adapter and insert the appropriate disk provided by the hardware m...

Page 40: ...tall Driver window click the Have Disk button 7 Insert the Adaptec Array1000UDMA Family Manager Set driver disk in your floppy disk drive and press Enter Enter the following path to the installation files and then click OK a The Adaptec Array1000UDMA Family Adapter driver is high lighted by default 8 In the Install Driver window Click OK 9 You must restart your computer for the changes to take eff...

Page 41: ... cylinders of data whichever is less or Using MS DOS create a partition using fdisk During Windows NT installation delete the partition created with MS DOS This allows Windows NT Setup to create a system partition larger than 1 GByte but limited to 4 GBytes or 1024 cylinders of data whichever is less If Windows NT Setup Hangs During Windows NT installation the system may hang while the Windows NT ...

Page 42: ...MA util ity so that the lowest ID is a member of the boot array Microsoft BackOffice Small Business Server Microsoft BackOffice Small Business Server features a non bootable installation CD and setup boot disks which do not ask for a third party driver disk Manufacturer supplied hardware support disks To have the installation program prompt you for the third party driver disk do the following 1 Co...

Page 43: ...MA utility if you plan to boot from an array See Chapter 3 Once Windows 2000 and the driver are installed install Adaptec CI O Management Software and use it to add delete and manage arrays from the server console CI O is required for array management in order to provide the proper level of fault tolerance and event notification Refer to the Adaptec CI O Management Software User s Guide for instru...

Page 44: ...ng The following steps assume that the Adaptec Array1000UDMA RAID Host Adapter is the boot adapter for the Windows NT setup that you may have 1 Startup Windows 4 0 completely 2 Insert the Windows 2000 CD into the CD ROM drive The Windows 2000 setup will prompt you with two choices Upgrade to Windows 2000 Recommended Install a new copy of Windows Selecting Upgrade will replace the existing operatin...

Page 45: ...t at the end of this phase of setup 6 After the system reboots and the Windows 2000 setup is resumed press F6 when this message is displayed Press F6 if you need to install third party SCSI drivers 7 Insert the Windows 2000 Driver disk for AAA UDMA when the setup prompts you to insert the manufacturer supplied disk into drive A and then continue 8 Adaptec Array1000UDMA Family Manager Set for Windo...

Page 46: ...is message is displayed Press F6 if you need to install third party SCSI drivers 3 Insert the Windows 2000 Driver disk for AAA UDMA when the setup prompts you to insert the manufacturer supplied disk into drive A and then continue 4 Adaptec Array1000UDMA Family Manager Set for Windows 2000 driver will be displayed Select this driver and continue with the rest of the Windows 2000 installation 5 You...

Page 47: ...O I want to select the hardware from a list and click on the Next button 9 This screen has a list of hardware device types Select SCSI and RAID controllers and click on the Next button 10 This screen has a list of manufacturers and their hardware device models Select the Have Disk button You will be prompted to insert the manufacturer supplied disk Insert the Windows 2000 Driver Disk for AAA UDMA ...

Page 48: ...e array is not listed in Windows 2000 Disk Management until the array is initialized This is normal Windows 2000 functionality Boot Order In Windows 2000 vs ARRAYCONFIG UDMA During Windows 2000 installation Windows 2000 does not show the devices in the boot order Instead it shows the arrays with the lower ID first To minimize confusion during Windows 2000 instal lation try one of the following Dis...

Page 49: ...the first array using the ARRAYCONFIG UDMA utility if you plan to boot from an array See Chapter 3 Once NetWare and the driver are installed install Adaptec CI O Management Software from the server console CI O is required for array management in order to provide the proper level of fault tolerance and event notification Refer to the Adaptec CI O Manage ment Software User s Guide for instructions ...

Page 50: ...structions below for the version of NetWare you are installing NetWare 4 11 Follow these instructions only if you are installing NetWare 4 11 for the first time 1 Create a DOS partition and install DOS on your system 2 Edit the autoexec bat file to include a command line for mscdex exe the mscdex exe file is included with MS DOS 6 x and above The following sample command lines for the autoexec bat...

Page 51: ...hen prompted to save existing file c nwserver nbi nlm select No 15 When prompted to save existing file c nwserver nwpaload nlm select No 16 When prompted to save existing file c nwserver nwpa nlm select No 17 When prompted select Select Modify driver parameters 18 Enter a valid slot number then press Enter to save field data 19 Press F10 to save parameter settings 20 When prompted select Save para...

Page 52: ...AAA UDMA slot number If loaded without command line parameters NetWare lists valid slot numbers The AAA UDMA will be listed in the parameter list however do not select it NetWare 4 2 and 5 0 Follow these instructions only if you are installing NetWare 4 2 and 5 0 for the first time 1 Create a DOS partition and install DOS on your hard disk drive 2 Edit the autoexec bat file to include a command li...

Page 53: ...rs drivers for adapters that are not present in your system 10 Insert the Adaptec Array1000UDMA Family Manager Set driver disk in your floppy disk drive 11 Select Storage Adapters and press Enter 12 To add Storage Adapter driver press Insert 13 Press Insert again to add an unlisted driver 14 Press F3 to specify a different path Enter the following path a 15 Select Return to Driver Summary and pres...

Page 54: ...r When NetWare is Already Installed To update or install the cdaudmah ham driver if NetWare is already installed follow the instructions below for the version of NetWare you have installed NetWare 4 11 1 Copy the cdaudmah ham file from the Adaptec Array1000UDMA Family Manager Set driver disk into the server s startup directory e g c nwserver on your hard disk Note For NetWare 4 1 the cdaudmah ham ...

Page 55: ...m driver is load pathname cdaudma Netware Installation and Configuration Notes Larger Than 4 GByte Arrays When installing NetWare on an array 4 GBytes or larger the Install program erroneously reports that the DOS partition is too small It however does allow you to continue installation Ignore this error message Unloading cdaudmah ham When running Adaptec CI O Management Software do not unload cda...

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Page 57: ...e card This appendix describes the default settings explains when you should change them and gives instructions for doing so BIOSSelect also includes disk utilities to list the IDs of devices con nected to the AAA UDMA and to format disk drives Instructions for using these utilities are included BIOSSelect Default Settings A 2 Starting the BIOSSelect Utility A 3 Using the Disk Utilities A 4 BIOSSe...

Page 58: ...ng the BIOSSelect Utility on page A 3 Detailed descriptions of each setting begin on page A 5 BIOSSelect Option Available Settings Default Settings Bus Interface Definitions Host Adapter ID 0 15 7 Parity Checking Enabled Disabled Enabled Device Configuration Enable Disconnection Yes No Yes Enabled Initiate Wide Negotiation Yes No Yes Enabled Send Start Unit Command Yes No Yes Enabled Include In BI...

Page 59: ...pter Settings screen To toggle the display between color and monochrome modes press F5 from the main BIOSSelect screen this feature does not work on some monitors Exiting BIOSSelect To exit BIOSSelect press Esc until a message prompts you to exit if you changed any host adapter settings you are prompted to save the changes before you exit Select Yes to exit then press any key to reboot the system ...

Page 60: ...that displays the following option Format Disk This utility allows you to perform a low level format on a hard disk Each hard disk must be low level for matted before you can use your operating system s partition ing and file preparation utilities such as MS DOS Fdisk and Format Note Low level formatting takes a long time for large capac ity disk drives The Adaptec Format Disk utility is compatibl...

Page 61: ...isconnection When set to Yes allows the device to disconnect from the bus sometimes called Disconnect Recon nect Leave the setting at Yes if two or more devices are con nected to the AAA UDMA If only one device is connected changing the setting to No results in slightly better performance Initiate Wide Negotiation When set to Yes the AAA UDMA attempts 16 bit data transfer wide negotiation When set...

Page 62: ...Guide Additional Options Array1000 BIOS When set to Enabled the AAA UDMA BIOS is installed and all Int13 except bootable CD ROM devices are supported at boot time When set to Disabled the AAA UDMA BIOS is not installed The default is Enabled ...

Page 63: ...ocumentation for the slot location Does your computer CMOS setup require you to enable PCI bus parameters see your computer documentation If so run the CMOS Setup program and assign the parame ters usually IRQ Enable PCI Slot and Enable Master Are all UDMA cables and power cables connected If you are having trouble booting from an UDMA drive or array verify that the drive or array has been selecte...

Page 64: ...ed to load Windows NT from the CD ROM No Accessible Boot Device When attempting to boot from the Windows NT installation CD this message indicates that the NT CD ROM does not contain Array1000UDMA drivers To avoid this failure try the following 1 Reboot the Windows NT installation CD 2 When the prompt Setup is inspecting your computer system s hardware appears press the F6 key repeatedly 3 Windows...

Page 65: ...s parameters B 1 C Cache memory 2 3 CD ROM drive install Windows 2000 5 4 install Windows NT 4 2 Channels 2 5 CMOS setup B 1 Components 2 2 customer support ii D Devices connecting 2 8 2 10 DIMM 1 2 2 3 Disconnection A 2 A 5 Drivers for NetWare 6 2 for Windows 2000 5 2 for Windows NT 4 2 E Enable disconnection A 2 A 5 Expansion slot 2 4 F Format disk A 4 H Hard disk drives 2 7 Hardware installatio...

Page 66: ...bles 2 11 R RAID 0 3 5 RAID 0 1 3 5 RAID 1 3 5 RAID 5 3 5 Requirements system 1 2 S sales information iii SCSI cables B 1 channels 2 5 connecting devices 2 8 2 10 ID numbers A 5 installation hints for devices 2 7 parity checking A 5 SCSISelect Utility 2 11 A 1 A 6 Send start unit command A 2 A 5 Spare disks 3 5 startup ncf 6 4 support customer ii System requirements 1 2 T technical support ii Tech...

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