IBM Advanced SerialRAID/X, Руководство по установке

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Contents
Safety Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
About This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Related Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
ISO 9000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Chapter 1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Handling the Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Electrostatic Discharge Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
SSA Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Adapter Card Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Summary of Installation Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapter 2. Preparing for Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Determining Your Cable Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Chapter 3. Installing Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Installing the Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Connecting SSA Disk Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Problem Determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Configuring Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 4. Installing the Device Driver Software and Microcode . . . . . . 11
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Installation on an existing server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Installing NT onto an SSA Resource in a New Server . . . . . . . . . . 13
Verifying the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Novell NetWare 4.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Installing on an existing server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Installing NW onto an SSA Resource in a new server . . . . . . . . . . 19
Verifying the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Novell NetWare 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Installation on an existing server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Installing NW onto an SSA Resource in a new server . . . . . . . . . . 23
Verifying the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Chapter 5. Downloading the Latest Microcode . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Downloading the Microcode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Downloading Adapter Microcode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Downloading Disk Microcode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Enclosure Controller Microcode (7133 Models D40 and T40) . . . . . . . . 29
Checking the Existing Levels of Microcode and Host Software . . . . . . . . 30
Appendix A. Connecting SSA Devices to the Adapter . . . . . . . . . . 31
SSA Loops and Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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