Contents
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Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
Before You Begin............................................................................................... 53
Creating a Driver Disk ...................................................................................... 53
Installing on Windows...................................................................................... 54
Installing on Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP................................ 54
Installing with Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista ......................... 54
Installing on Red Hat or SUSE Linux .............................................................. 54
Installing on OpenServer .................................................................................. 55
Installing on UnixWare .................................................................................... 55
Installing on Solaris........................................................................................... 55
Installing on VMware ....................................................................................... 56
Installing on FreeBSD ....................................................................................... 56
Managing Your Storage Space
About Adaptec Storage Manager ..................................................................... 58
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager .......................................................... 58
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility........................... 58
About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility ............................................. 59
About the Adaptec Flash Utility ....................................................................... 59
Which Utility Should I Use? ............................................................................. 59
Solving Problems
Troubleshooting Checklist ............................................................................... 61
Monitoring Disk Drives Status......................................................................... 61
Silencing the Alarm........................................................................................... 61
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure ............................................................. 62
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare .............................................. 62
Failed Disk Drive
Not
Protected by a Hot Spare ....................................... 62
Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously................................................ 62
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array........................................................ 63
Multiple Failures in the Same Array .......................................................... 63
Resetting the Controller.................................................................................... 63
Introduction to SAS
Terminology Used in This Chapter ................................................................. 66
What is SAS?...................................................................................................... 66
How Do SAS Devices Communicate?.............................................................. 67
What’s a Phy? .................................................................................................... 67
What’s a SAS Port? ............................................................................................ 68
What’s a SAS Address?...................................................................................... 68
What’s a SAS Connector? ................................................................................. 68
What do SAS Cables Look Like?....................................................................... 68
How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS? .......................................................... 69
What are the SAS Connection Options?.......................................................... 69
Direct-attach Connections ......................................................................... 69
Backplane Connections .............................................................................. 69