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Zero-Channel RAID Board

(AZCRB)

E1369

Installation Guide

First Edition V1

August 2003

Содержание AZCRB

Страница 1: ...Zero Channel RAID Board AZCRB E1369 Installation Guide First Edition V1 August 2003 ...

Страница 2: ...LITY OF SUCH DAMAGES ARISING FROM ANY DEFECT OR ERROR IN THIS DOCUMENTATION OR PRODUCT Product warranty or service will not be extended if 1 the product is repaired modified or altered unless such repair modification of alteration is authorized in writing by ASUS or 2 the serial number of the product is defaced or missing Products and corporate names appearing in this documentation may or may not ...

Страница 3: ...graphy 4 Welcome 5 1 Package contents 5 2 Features 6 3 Board layout 8 4 Board installation 9 5 RAID configuration 13 5 1 Configuring arrays and logical drives 15 5 2 Easy Configuration 16 5 3 New Configuration 25 5 3 View Add Configuration 28 ASUS Contact Information 32 ...

Страница 4: ...icates a keyboard key to press Ctrl M Indicates a key combination to press simultaneously or consecutively text input Indicates text or command that you have to type on the screen NOTE Tips and additional information CAUTION Information to prevent damage to the components ...

Страница 5: ...s standoffs Support CD Installation guide Welcome Thank you for buying the ASUS Zero Channel RAID board AZCRB Now you can create and manage multiple disk arrays within your ASUS AP1600R 1U system with PR DSLR533 motherboard With the convenient online management and configuration utilities bundled creating a RAID system has never been easier If any of the items is damaged or missing contact your de...

Страница 6: ...sor and 64MB ECC SDRAM cache and 64MB ECC SDRAM RAID features RAID levels 0 1 5 support Background initialization for Quick RAID 5 setup 40 logical drives per controller Auto resume during array rebuild or reconstruction if the system shuts down Variable stripe size for all logical drives Supports multiple caching policies Write back Write through Read Ahead disable enable adaptive Cached direct I...

Страница 7: ...nd NVRAM Auto detection of failed drives Automatic and transparent rebuild of hot spare drives Hot swapping of drives without shutting the system down SAF TE enclosure management support SMART support Utilities Power Console Plus for Windows NT 2000 XP 203 MegaManager WebBIOS ...

Страница 8: ...neath the board fit the RAID connectors on the PR DLSR533 motherboard Make sure that your system motherboard is PR DLSR533 Only the proprietary RAID connectors on this motherboard will support the AZCRB PR DLSR533 PR DLSR533 AZCRB Connectors AZCRB RAID connectors Standoff ...

Страница 9: ...00R system manual for instructions 3 Remove the PCI riser card and bracket assembly by pulling up the metal lever to release and detach the assembly from the chassis Before handling the board touch a bare metal portion of the system to discharge static electricity from your body Wear a wrist strap grounded to the system chassis when handling the board PCI Riser Card and Bracket Assembly Metal Leve...

Страница 10: ...10 ASUS Zero Channel RAID Board 4 Locate the proprietary RAID connectors on the motherboard 5 Remove the board from its anti static packaging RAID connectors on the motherboard ...

Страница 11: ...the RAID connectors to the corresponding connectors on the motherboard The two holes with standoffs on the board should also align with the holes beside the RAID connectors on the motherboard 7 Use a Phillips screwdriver to secure the board with two screws through the holes ...

Страница 12: ...ASUS Zero Channel RAID Board 8 When the board is secure replace the riser card assembly into the chassis 9 Replace the chassis cover Install the hard disks following the instructions on your system manual ...

Страница 13: ... to start the utility during the Power On Self Tests POST prior to entering the operating system To start the MegaRAID Configuration Utility Turn on the system During POST hold the Ctrl and press M when the following message appears Press Ctrl M to run MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility The MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility menu appears See the menu image on the next page If you do not press Ct...

Страница 14: ...l drives Objects Select to access controllers logical drives and physical drives individually Format Select to format hard disk drives Rebuild Select to rebuild failed hard disk drives Check Consistency Select to verify the correctness of the redundancy data in logical drives configured as RAID level 0 1 or 5 MegaRAID BIOS Config Utility 40 Ld Ver5 40 Apr 21 2003 Standard Adapter 01 Use cursor key...

Страница 15: ...ring arrays and logical drives The procedure for each configuration method varies on the level of user input The succeeding sections give specific instructions on the method that you wish to use Refer to the MegaRAID Configuration Software Guide in the support CD for detailed information 1 Select a configuration method 2 Designate hot spares optional 3 Create arrays using the available physical dr...

Страница 16: ...licy read policy and cache policy parameters To use Easy Configuration 1 From the Management menu use the arrow keys to highlight Configure then press Enter 2 Select Easy Configuration then press Enter MegaRAID BIOS Config Utility 40 Ld Ver5 40 Apr 21 2003 Standard Adapter 01 Use cursor keys to navigate between items and Press ENTER to select an option Defines Physical Arrays An array will automat...

Страница 17: ...lected drive as a hot spare The command bar hot keys change depending on the active configuration window Command bar hot keys MegaRAID BIOS Config Utility 40 Ld Ver5 40 Apr 21 2003 Standard Adapter 01 SPACE Array ENTER Configure F2 Drive Information F3 Logical Drives F4 HotSpare Ch 1 ID 0 DISK 17521MB FUJITSU MAN3184MC 0109 Management Configure Initialize Objects Format Rebuild Check Consistency E...

Страница 18: ...1 03 ONLIN A01 04 0 1 6 5 4 3 2 ID Channel 2 0 1 6 5 4 3 2 3 Use the arrow keys to select a specific physical drive then press the Space bar to associate the selected drive with the current array The indicator for the selected drive changes from READY to ONLIN Axx xx where Axx xx means A array number drive number For example ONLIN A01 01 means disk drive 1 in array 1 If possible use identical driv...

Страница 19: ...physical drives RAID 5 requires at least three physical drives The ASUS AP1600R system with PR DLSR533 motherboard supports four 4 hard disk drives HDDs that may be configured to RAID 0 or RAID 5 using the AZCRB If you wish to configure more HDDs into multiple physical arrays spanning of arrays you may opt to connect a storage system to the AP1600R Refer to the MegaRAID Configuration Software Guid...

Страница 20: ...tion The Logical Drive Configured screen appears showing the logical drive being configured and the existing logical drives if any 5 Set the RAID level for the logical drive Highlight RAID then press Enter to display the available RAID levels 6 Select your desired RAID level e g RAID 5 and press Enter to confirm RAID 5 Size 52563MB Advanced Menu Accept Logical Drive 1 RAID 0 RAID 5 RAID Level ...

Страница 21: ... either 2KB 4KB 8KB 16KB 32KB 64KB or 128KB A larger stripe size allows better performance when your system does sequential reads often Other set to a smaller stripe size Write Policy sets the caching method In Write back method the controller sends a data transfer completion signal to the host when the controller cache has received all the data in a transaction In Write through the controller sen...

Страница 22: ...using read ahead fi the two most recent disk accesses occurred in sequential sectors If all the requests are random the algorithm reverts to Normal but succeeding requests are still evaluated for possible sequential operation Cache Policy applies to reads on a specific logical drive and does not affect the read ahead cache Cache I O specifies that all reads are buffered in the cache memory Direct ...

Страница 23: ...ct Logical Drive Management Configure Initialize Objects Format Rebuild Check Consistency Logical Drives Configured LD RAID Size Stripes StrpSz Drive State 1 5 52563MB 4 64KB OPTIMAL Logical Drives Logical Drive 1 Logical Drive 1 RAID 5 Size 52563MB Advanced Menu Accept 8 When finished defining the current logical drive select Accept then press Enter 9 If you have remaining unconfigured disk drive...

Страница 24: ...03 Standard Adapter 01 ENTER Select Initialize Will Destroy Data on Selected Logical Drive s Management Configure Initialize Objects Format Rebuild Check Consistency Logical Drives Configured LD RAID Size Stripes StrpSz Drive State 1 5 52563MB 4 64KB OPTIMAL Logical Drives Logical Drive 1 Initialize YES NO Before doing the next steps make sure that you do not have data in the hard disk drives that...

Страница 25: ...The New Configuration ARRAY SELECTION MENU appears showing the devices currently connected to the controller MegaRAID BIOS Config Utility 40 Ld Ver5 40 Apr 21 2003 Standard Adapter 01 Use cursor keys to navigate between items and Press ENTER to select an option Erases Configuration Management Configure Initialize Objects Format Rebuild Check Consistency Configure Easy Configuration New Configurati...

Страница 26: ...ELECTION MENU ID Channel 1 READY READY READY READY 0 1 6 5 4 3 2 ID Channel 2 0 1 6 5 4 3 2 The New Configuration ARRAY SELECTION MENU appears Use the command bar hot keys to perform the configuration functions Press F2 to display the manufacturer data and error count for the selected drive F3 to display the logical drives that have been configured F4 to designate the selected drive as a hot spare...

Страница 27: ...ect a specific physical drive then press the Space bar to associate the selected drive with the current array The indicator for the selected drive changes from READY to ONLIN Axx xx where Axx xx means A array number drive number For example ONLIN A01 01 means disk drive 1 in array 1 If possible use identical drives with the same type and capacity in one array If you use drives of different capacit...

Страница 28: ...pears showing the devices currently connected to the controller MegaRAID BIOS Config Utility 40 Ld Ver5 40 Apr 21 2003 Standard Adapter 01 Use cursor keys to navigate between items and Press ENTER to select an option Management Configure Initialize Objects Format Rebuild Check Consistency Configure Easy Configuration New Configuration View Add Configuration Clear Configuration Specify Bootable Log...

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Страница 32: ...echnical Support Address 44370 Nobel Drive Fremont Support Fax 1 502 933 8713 CA 94538 USA General Support 1 502 995 0883 General Fax 1 502 933 8713 Web Site usa asus com General Email tmd1 asus com Support E mail tsd asus com ASUS COMPUTER GmbH Germany and Austria Marketing Technical Support Address Harkortstr 25 D 40880 Ratingen Support Hotline 49 2102 95990 Components BRD Germany 49 2102 959910...

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