User Manual
BC4000 Series RAID Controllers
02/13/06
B ro ad c om C o r p or at i on
Document
BC4000-UM100-R
Index
Page 165
RAID0 2, 3, 5, 43
RAID1 2, 3, 4, 5, 43, 55
RAID10 2, 3, 4, 43
RAID10n 2, 3, 4, 43
RAID1n 2, 3, 4, 43
RAID5 2, 3, 4, 43, 55
RAID50 2, 3, 4, 43
RAIDConsole
main interface 65
starting 60
RAIDCore media CD 22
RAIDCore Service 113
RC_DISK 67
RC_Legacy 67
Read and write back cache 92
Read cache 67, 92
Read/Write cache 67
Recovering arrays 113
Recovering arrays from RAIDConsole 92
Red Hat Linux
installing bcadm on 33, 34
installing controller drivers 29
installing controller with existing OS 31
installing controller with new OS 29
operating system considerations 5
system requirements for 12
Redundancy 4
Redundant type array 94
Reinstalling the RAIDCore Service 113
Reliability considerations 4
Removing arrays
from bcadm 118, 133
from RAIDConsole 91
Rescanning
affecting array and disk states 44
after removing disks, from RAIDConsole 91
disks and arrays, from the BIOS 57
disks, from RAIDConsole 69
with sparing options 47
RESTORE task type 46, 67
resume boot 59
S
SATA 35
connecting cables 17
Scheduling a consistency check, from RAIDConsole 95
scsi_mod module 31
serial converters 43
Setting
boot modes, from the BIOS 58
cache attributes, from bcadm 118
event notifications, from RAIDConsole 104
event priorities, from RAIDConsole 104
task priorities, from bcadm 118
Skipping initialization 72
Small icons 103
Sparing options
about 47
dedicated 47, 49
distributed 47
global 47, 49
using, from bcadm 118
Spindles 4
Splitting mirrored arrays 6
from bcadm 139
from RAIDConsole 96
Start consistency check
from RAIDConsole 94
Starting a task from RAIDConsole 46
States for arrays and disks 44
Stop consistency check
from bcadm 118
from RAIDConsole 94
Stopping a task, from RAIDConsole 46
Swapping arrays, from the BIOS 55
System 12
System requirements for installing controller 12
T
Tasks
changing priority level, from RAIDConsole 93
ETA for 66
in Array List 67
percent complete 66
scheduling consistency check, from RAIDConsole 95
setting priorities, from bcadm 118
starting and stopping, from RAIDConsole 46
types of 46
toggling the legacy board ID 59
Total capacity 67
Transfer drivers to floppy disk 22
TRANSFORM task type 46
Transforming
arrays, from bcadm 134
arrays, from RAIDConsole 84
Turning 113
U
Unhiding arrays
from RAIDConsole 90
from the BIOS 56
Uninstalling the RAIDCore Service 113
Upgrade Disk wizard 72
