Contents
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Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
Before You Begin............................................................................................... 55
Creating a Driver Disk ...................................................................................... 55
Installing on Windows...................................................................................... 56
Installing on Red Hat or SUSE Linux .............................................................. 56
Installing on NetWare....................................................................................... 56
Installing on OpenServer .................................................................................. 57
Installing on Solaris........................................................................................... 57
Installing on UnixWare .................................................................................... 58
Installing on VMware ....................................................................................... 58
Installing on FreeBSD ....................................................................................... 59
Managing Your Storage Space
About ICP Storage Manager............................................................................. 61
Installing ICP Storage Manager ................................................................. 61
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility........................... 61
About the ICP RAID Configuration Utility .................................................... 62
About the ICP Flash Utility .............................................................................. 62
Which Utility Should I Use? ............................................................................. 62
Solving Problems
Troubleshooting Checklist ............................................................................... 64
Silencing the Alarm........................................................................................... 64
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure ............................................................. 64
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare .............................................. 65
Failed Disk Drive
Not
Protected by a Hot Spare ....................................... 65
Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously................................................ 65
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array........................................................ 65
Multiple Failures in the Same Array .......................................................... 66
Resetting the Controller.................................................................................... 66
Introduction to Serial Attached SCSI
Terminology Used in This Chapter ................................................................. 68
What is SAS?...................................................................................................... 68
How Do SAS Devices Communicate?.............................................................. 69
What’s a Phy? .................................................................................................... 69
What’s a SAS Port? ............................................................................................ 70
What’s a SAS Address?...................................................................................... 70
What’s a SAS Connector? ................................................................................. 70
What do SAS Cables Look Like?....................................................................... 70
How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS? .......................................................... 71
What are the SAS Connection Options?.......................................................... 71
Direct-attach Connections ......................................................................... 71
Backplane Connections .............................................................................. 71
SAS Expander Connections........................................................................ 72
How is SAS Different from Parallel SCSI? ....................................................... 73