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N440BX & T440BX Server Boards

Installation and Operating Summary

 

of the

Mylex* AcceleRAID* 200 RAID Controller

Revision 1.0

September 2, 1998

Summary of Contents for N440BX

Page 1: ...N440BX T440BX Server Boards Installation and Operating Summary of the Mylex AcceleRAID 200 RAID Controller Revision 1 0 September 2 1998 ...

Page 2: ...s including liability or warranties relating to fitness for a particular purpose merchantability or infringement of any patent copyright or other intellectual property right Intel products are not intended for use in medical life saving or life sustaining applications Intel may make changes to specifications and product descriptions at any time without notice The N440BX may contain design defects ...

Page 3: ...RAID 200 HARDWARE STARTING THE DACCF UTILITY 5 USING AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION TO CREATE A RAID5 ARRAY WITH 3 OR MORE DRIVES 7 USING NEW CONFIGURATION TO CREATE A CUSTOM RAID ARRAY 7 BACKING UP THE CONFIGURATION INFORMATION TO A FLOPPY 8 INITIALIZING THE RAID ARRAY 8 EXITING THE DACCF UTILITY SOFTWARE 8 INSTALLING AN OPERATING SYSTEM 9 TROUBLESHOOTING 10 APPENDIX A MYLEX ACCELERAID 200 DRIVER SUPPOR...

Page 4: ...ot Intel s N440BX T440BX NA440BX NC440BX are examples of such Server boards and systems AcceleRAID adapters bring the performance and fault tolerance of RAID to entry level and mid range server applications at the lowest overall price On Intel N440BX and T440BX Server Boards control of the on board SCSI channels is given to the zero channel RAID controller by routing the interrupts from the on boa...

Page 5: ...l drives or New Configuration to create a custom RAID array 4 Save Backup the configuration to a floppy 5 Initialize the system drives 6 Install the Network Operating system Installing the Mylex AcceleRAID 200 hardware starting the DACCF utility Hardware configuration used for this example Intel N440BX Server Board Intel Astor chassis two Intel Pentium II Processors with 100MHz System Bus operatin...

Page 6: ...e connected to the RAID Controller In the Astor chassis the managed SCSI Hot Swap Back Plane HSBP assigns SCSI device IDs and ensures proper termination Jumpers on the HSBP control configuration of SCSI ID s for the Hot Swap drives Consult the Astor Chassis Subassembly Product Guide for further information on jumper settings and their definitions 5 Power on the system and enter the BIOS Setup by p...

Page 7: ...he Main Menu of the DACCF utility choose New Configuration 2 Under the New Configuration menu choose 1 Define Pack 3 The table on the left shows boxes for each possible drive location A status will appear in each box for which a drive is installed under the appropriate channel and drive ID Drives that are installed and ready will have RDY displayed ONL represents drives that are currently online A...

Page 8: ...second copy of the configuration information also One copy can be taken off site and the other taped into the server chassis to ensure it will be available if needed 9 Proceed to the next section Initializing the RAID array to prepare the drives for use Initializing the RAID array 1 From the main menu choose 05 Initialize System Drive 2 From the Initialize System Drive menu choose 1 Select System ...

Page 9: ...dapter will be reported as having failed If this is done the configuration will have to be re entered or restored from backup floppy The installation requires using the three install floppy diskettes in addition to the CD this allows the user to perform a Custom installation which allows skipping detection of the Symbios Logic SCSI controller and separate installation the Mylex drivers Below is a ...

Page 10: ...ure that the power supply is attached to correct connectors two along the edge of the board for the two Intel chassis one closer to the center of the board for 20 pin ATX standard power supply 4 Ensure the Power Supply is providing at least 800mA of 5V standby current to support WOL if not disable WOL via Server Board jumper 5 Ensure correct EDO cache memory installed in the Mylex AcceleRAID 200 S...

Page 11: ...celeRAID 200 Driver Support Operating System Driver Support Windows NT 3 51 4 0 Advanced Server NetWare 3 x 4 x non NWPA SMP SCO UnixWare 2 1 7 0 UNIX OSR 5 x OS 2 x 3 x SMP DOS 5 x 6 x and above Mylex web site www mylex com ...

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