INTRODUCTION
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1.2.3 Controller Firmware
The system provides RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 3, 5 and 6 RAID config
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urations. It can be managed either through the LCD control panel
or by the system-embedded configuration utilities. Its high data
availability and protection derives from the following capabilities:
Online Capacity Expansion, Online RAID Level Migration, Dynamic
Volume Extension, Array Roaming, Global Online Spare, Automat-
ic Drive Failure Detection, Automatic Failed Drive Rebuilding, Disk
Hot Spare, and Instant Availability/Background Initialization.
The RAID subsystem firmware is stored on the controller flash
ROM and is executed by the Intel 80219 I/O processor. The firm
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ware can also be updated through the RS-232or LAN port without
the need to replace any hardware chips. During the controller
ROM flash process, it is possible for a problem to occur resulting
in corruption of the controller firmware. A corrupted firmware in
the controller firmware would make the controller inoperable and
bring the system down. The Redundant Flash provides a unique
redundancy feature that helps ensure against controller availabil-
ity. This reduces the risk of system failure due to firmware crash.
In addition to the stored programs in ROM. The NVRAM store
the event log and lists of pending write operation issued to any
drives. These data are checksum protected so that after a power
failure, the controller will consistency for all check outstanding
writes on region.
1.3 RAID Concept
1.3.1 RAID Set
A Raid Set is a group of disk containing one or more volume sets.
It has the following features in the RAID controller. A volume Set
must be created either on an existing raid set or on a group of
available individual disks (disks that are not yet a part of an raid
set). If there are pre-existing raid sets with available capacity and
enough disks for specified RAID level desired, then the volume
set will be created in the existing raid set of the user’s choice. If
physical disk of different capacity are grouped together in a raid
set, then the capacity of the smallest disk will become the effec-
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