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The Status Bar

The status bar at the bottom of the main window displays status information on the icon or the
menu option the mouse pointer is currently placed on. The status bar can be displayed or hidden by
selecting ‘Status Bar’ from the View menu.

Figure 69. Status Bar

Window Menu Commands

These commands allow you to arrange the windows in the application window or to
activate an open window.

Figure 70. Window Menu

Help Menu Commands

Use the Help menu to access online help.

Figure 71. Help Menu

Содержание SRCMR

Страница 1: ...Intel RAID Controller SRCMR User s Guide Order Number A75271 001...

Страница 2: ...ar purpose merchantability or infringement of any patent copyright or other intellectual property right Intel products are not designed intended or authorized for use in any medical life saving or lif...

Страница 3: ...Standard Firmware 21 RAID Hardware Installation and Setup 22 Minimum Hardware Requirements 22 Install the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR in the Intel Server Board 22 Programming the Flash Memory 23 Reco...

Страница 4: ...onto a RAID Volume or Single Disk 46 Windows 2000 NT 4 0 Installation Procedures 47 Installing the OS 47 Installing an OS onto an IDE or SCSI Disk Drive Not Attached to the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR...

Страница 5: ...Tools for Remote Access 64 ASPI Support for NetWare 5 1 64 Tips and Tricks 65 Optimize Data Throughput 65 Cache Memory Allocator Out of Available Memory in PCI ISA Systems 65 NetWare Server Not Stable...

Страница 6: ...The StorCon Program 81 Select Interface 83 Select Controller 83 Monitor and Express Advanced Setup 84 Monitor Menu 85 Express Setup Advanced Setup Menus 85 Monitor Menu 86 View Statistics 86 View Even...

Страница 7: ...ve Failure 115 Remove Hot Fix Drive 116 Hot Fix Pool Access 116 Parity Verify 116 Periodic Parity Verify 116 Build Rebuild Progress 117 Create New Array Drive 117 Notes on the Configuration of RAID 0...

Страница 8: ...ct Access Devices Raw Devices 141 Logical Configuration Window 142 Host Drives 142 Normal Host Drive 142 Local Mounted Cluster Drive 143 Remote Mounted Cluster Drive 143 Private Host Drive Belonging T...

Страница 9: ...nformation Product Regulatory Compliance 175 Product Safety Compliance 175 Product EMC Compliance 175 Product Regulatory Compliance Markings 176 Electromagnetic Compatibility Notices 177 FCC Verificat...

Страница 10: ...Failed Hard Drive 97 33 Select Drive to Repair 98 34 Replace Hard Drive Prompt 98 35 Add Disk to Array Confirmation 98 36 Array Drive Summary 98 37 Array Drive Error State Dialog 98 38 Controller Sett...

Страница 11: ...Settings 130 83 Controller Icon 131 84 Controller Settings Dialogs 131 85 Processor Information 135 86 Physical Drive Information 138 87 Logical Configuration 142 88 Host Drive Information Window 147...

Страница 12: ...e Standards 29 8 Disk Volume and Array Limitations 30 9 Operational States 31 10 Additional Operational States 33 11 Disk Drive Replacement Options 33 12 Linux Path Names 53 13 UnixWare Bus Number Tar...

Страница 13: ...adhere to all warnings cautions and notices in this guide and the other documents in the user documentation set supplied with this product RAID Levels RAID 0 Data Striping Data blocks are split into...

Страница 14: ...Figure 2 two hard disks are mirrored on one I O channel If each hard disk is connected to a separate I O channel it is called Disk Duplexing Figure 3 RAID 1 represents an easy and highly efficient so...

Страница 15: ...the parity hard disk becomes a throughput bottleneck With large data blocks RAID 4 shows significantly improved performance RAID 4 requires a minimum of three disks Figure 4 RAID 4 RAID 5 Data Stripi...

Страница 16: ...a Security Unlike RAID 4 and RAID 5 there is no need to calculate parity information RAID 10 disk arrays offer good performance and data security As in RAID 0 optimum performance is achieved in highly...

Страница 17: ...f the type chain as components of array drives is not recommended WARNING Disk Chaining does not offer any form of data protection Configuring a Chaining Set Using Storage Console 1 Select Create New...

Страница 18: ...even if the SCSI ID or the controller is changed For reasons of data coherency this information is extremely important for any drive construction consisting of more than one physical drive Level 2 On...

Страница 19: ...Within Storage Console each level of hierarchy has its own menu Level 1 Configure Physical Devices Level 2 Configure Logical Drives Level 3 Configure Array Drives Level 4 Configure Host Drives General...

Страница 20: ...ive SCSI devices of this kind are either operated through the Advanced SCSI programming Interface ASPI MS DOS Windows Novell NetWare or OS 2 or are directly accessed from the operating system UNIX Win...

Страница 21: ...lutions for example for Windows NT the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR is a pure hardware RAID solution All Intel RAID Controllers are equipped with hardware which is well suited for disk arrays The Intel...

Страница 22: ...t all power cords to the unit before removal of any covers Follow the warnings noted in your computer s user or service manual before installing this board ONLY after all the covers are reinstalled sh...

Страница 23: ...nt ESD damage before handling the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR b Power off all system components and disconnect their power cords c Remove the cover from the system to gain access to the PCI slots d Re...

Страница 24: ...our system d On Jumper block J2B1 move jumper from position 1 2 to position 2 3 Reinstall Intel RAID Controller SRCMR in the PCI slot in which it was previously installed Reattach the SCSI drives to t...

Страница 25: ...us transfer mode Synch Transfer Rate Not Configurable Allows for the setting of the speed for the SCSI hard disks 160 MB sec for U160 drives No matter the setting the SCSI bus will negotiate the faste...

Страница 26: ...ed on other SCSI hard disks RAID 1 provides the highest level of redundancy but is also the most expensive solution A combination of RAID levels 0 and 1 is RAID 10 Two RAID 0 stripe sets are mirrored...

Страница 27: ...hich will occur should a second drive fail Therefore redundancy should be restored as soon as possible and in an automated manner Integrating a Hot Fix drive also referred to as hot spare as an immedi...

Страница 28: ...PCI Transfer Rate 528 MB sec Burst PCI Signaling 5 or 3 3 volt Electrical Characteristics Table 5 Electrical Specifications Attribute Measurements Voltage Requirements 5 3 3 Volts all 5 tolerance Powe...

Страница 29: ...a2 SCSI 2 4 40 8 4 12 8 Wide Ultra2 4 80 16 4 12 16 Ultra160 Ultra3 160 16 4 12 16 NOTES 1 May be exceeded in Point to Point and engineered specific applications 2 Use of the word Narrow preceding SCS...

Страница 30: ...ble between the adapters Array Roaming Adapter Device Limitation Support RAID arrays contain Host Drives at least 1 and up to 16 maximum Hard Disk Drives up to 30 maximum spanning both channels all ho...

Страница 31: ...mation is present that is a hard disk can fail without impairing the functionality of the disk array This is the normal state of a disk array The state ready expand indicates that the RAID level and o...

Страница 32: ...32 Intel RAID Controller SRCMR User s Guide Figure 8 Operational State Diagram...

Страница 33: ...ot pluggable disk carrier These carriers are often stupid and do not communicate with the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR or server though they can display the disk drive s temperature or the status of it...

Страница 34: ...c to the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR and the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR driver The hot fix drive is assigned to an array drive There are two types of hot fix drives Private hot fix drive Available fo...

Страница 35: ...l RAID Controller SRCMR Install the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR into the zero channel RAID capable PCI slot Refer to your board documentation for details The example below refers to the Intel SCB2 ser...

Страница 36: ...pears 2 The following two messages will appear at the bottom of the screen Intel R Storage Console to start after POST Please wait to start Intel R Storage Console 3 When Storage Console starts it wil...

Страница 37: ...e number of hard disks that you want to be part of the array with the space bar these hard disks become marked with an For this example we used four hard disks Press Enter Move the selection bar with...

Страница 38: ...he appropriate drive capacity and press Enter 10 The new host drive is created Press F10 to refresh and begin the build process Its status is still build since the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR synchron...

Страница 39: ...he proper boot priority This step may differ from system to system Refer to your system documentation for details The example below refers to the Intel SCB2 server board 1 During POST press F2 to ente...

Страница 40: ...mass storage detection 3 When prompted to specify a mass storage controller Select S to specify additional storage devices Insert Windows 2000 Installation driver diskette Press Enter to select the In...

Страница 41: ...cessary refer to Chapter 7 Loading StorCon for detailed instructions 1 Place the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR CD ROM in the CD ROM drive and mount the CD ROM mount dev cdrom mnt cdrom 2 Copy the Storag...

Страница 42: ...floppy diskette in drive 3 Go to the directory windows win2000 In this directory you will find four files and two directories Copy all files and only the winnt directory onto the floppy diskette SCO U...

Страница 43: ...ation in the Enclosure Slot Configuration menu 1 Select the Configure Physical Devices while in the Advanced Setup mode 2 Highlight the SAF TE processor and press Enter 3 Select the Enclosure Slot Con...

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Страница 45: ...ne of two categories Install the OS on either a RAID volume or single disk that is attached to and configured on the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR that you are installing or Install the OS on either an...

Страница 46: ...D Controller SRCMR and to set up a RAID volume NOTE Prior to installing Windows NT disable the Delayed Write Cache of the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR When you do a warm boot by simultaneously pressing...

Страница 47: ...uite Install the operating system software using one of the scenarios boot diskettes or CD ROM below which matches your installation method NOTE For detailed Windows installation procedures please con...

Страница 48: ...Power off the computer 2 Disconnect all power cords 3 Remove the computer case to expose the server board inside Observe all warnings and cautions documented with your computer system to avoid shock...

Страница 49: ...loaded 2 When device detection is complete press S to specify additional storage devices and then select Other Insert the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR diskette into the floppy drive and continue the i...

Страница 50: ...Replacing Compatible Intel RAID Controller SRCMR in Windows 2000 While running Windows 2000 swapping or replacing a SCSI host adapter with another compatible but different model SCSI host adapter is s...

Страница 51: ...e then click on Windows Select the appropriate Windows version 4 A command prompt window appears requesting that you insert a formatted floppy diskette 5 Insert the floppy in the floppy drive and pres...

Страница 52: ...52 Intel RAID Controller SRCMR User s Guide...

Страница 53: ...sion 2 00 srcd 1 09 redhat tgz Remote RAID Configuration Service with start stop script for Red Hat Linux version 1 09 Assumptions About Path Names Since the user may have received StorCon on the CD R...

Страница 54: ...RAID Controller SRCMR Computer must be on the supported hardware list for example Intel SCB2 server board One available 64 bit 66MHz Zero channel RAID compatible PCI slot PCI 2 2 compliant System BIOS...

Страница 55: ...Intel RAID Controller SRCMR is installed in your machine and is connected to drives on which you intend to create a host drive 7 Boot your machine and when prompted press Ctrl g to enter StorCon Crea...

Страница 56: ...linux drivers gdth tgz usr src linux drivers scsi d Unpack and unzip the tar file using the following command tar zxvf usr src linux drivers scsi gdth tgz Linux kernel versions are specific For exampl...

Страница 57: ...irect Access Devices like CD ROMs Streamers DATs etc do NOT require a reservation CAUTION The reservation of SCSI devices is only possible with not initialized SCSI devices Use StorCon to de initializ...

Страница 58: ...N Normal scanning order of PCI controllers according to the system BIOS max_ids x x number of target IDs per SCSI channel accelerates the boot process rescan Y rescan all SCSI channels Ids rescan N s...

Страница 59: ...ive file and rename gunzip d usr sbin storcon 2 00 gz mv usr sbin storcon 2 00 usr sbin storcon Using StorCon Monitoring Utility To run the StorCon utility type storcon at any prompt Select the interf...

Страница 60: ...ee comments in etc srcd conf for details SRCD Installation Instructions from the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR CD ROM 1 Copy the srcd archive to etc may be srcd 1 09 suse tgz or srcd 1 09 redhat tgz cp...

Страница 61: ...ntifies the minimum hardware and software required to successfully install the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR and the accompanying RAID Software Suite Minimum Hardware Requirements Computer with CD ROM d...

Страница 62: ...NetWare 5 xx with the SRCRX HAM Driver 1 Create a driver diskette from the RAID Software Suite CD ROM See Chapter 2 for details to create this disk 2 Start the OS installation from the NetWare bootabl...

Страница 63: ...kage 1 Select Product options then Install a product not listed 2 Change the path to A INSTALL and press Enter to continue 3 Select Storage RAID Controller Driver SRCRX HAM by setting the cursor on it...

Страница 64: ...rt Storage Console STORCON exe or Storage Console Plus Storcon exe from a workstation using a user name of the group SRC_Operator and his her NetWare password ASPI Support for NetWare 5 1 You will nee...

Страница 65: ...0 set maximum concurrent disk cache writes xxxx Where xxxx represents the required number of concurrent disk cache writes Cache Memory Allocator Out of Available Memory in PCI ISA Systems PCI systems...

Страница 66: ...ubstantially Intel RAID Controller SRCMR and Non ASPI Compatible Controllers If an Intel RAID Controller SRCMR is operated under NetWare together with another controller host adapter which does not su...

Страница 67: ...pdf Adding Additional Capacity After an Online Capacity Expansion The additional capacity resulting from an online capacity expansion of an existing array drive is introduced to the system as a new h...

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Страница 69: ...Intel RAID Controller SRCMR the accompanying RAID Software Suite Minimum Hardware Requirements Computer with CD ROM drive not attached to the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR Computer must be on the suppor...

Страница 70: ...roller SRCMR Has Already Been Configured for UnixWare In this case you only have to add an additional entry for the new Intel RAID Controller SRCMR This is carried out by the command etc scsi pdiadd d...

Страница 71: ...stall the Network Information Services NIS package By default the installation will configure your system as an NIS client See your system administrator for configuration of the NIS services NOTE Inst...

Страница 72: ...Controller SRCMRs installed the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR with the lower PCI Slot number is assigned host adapter number 0 and the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR with the higher PCI slot number is assi...

Страница 73: ...RAID Controller SRCMR HA 1 2nd Intel RAID Controller SRCMR each with two SCSI channels 1 Hard Disk as host drive no 0 on HA0 1 Hard Disk as host drive no 0 on HA1 1 Hard Disk as host drive no 1 on HA...

Страница 74: ...y recognized and a corresponding special device file is generated Host drives must be partitioned and a file system file system s must be created You can do this with diskadd cCbBtTdD When using Direc...

Страница 75: ...available from the BIOS Flash RAM version of the StorCon to prevent users from experiencing unrecoverable events StorCon Features StorCon Features Include Diagnosis and configuration functions Online...

Страница 76: ...StorCon on a Fileserver NOTE The Intel RAID Controller SRCMR NetWare driver and the auto loading module CTRLTRAN must have been previously loaded on the fileserver Use the following command to load St...

Страница 77: ...indows NT see Figure 10 Windows 2000 see Figure 11 Click Next to continue the installation 8 Choose the Destination Location Use the default directory for installation click Next 9 Select the Program...

Страница 78: ...78 Intel RAID Controller SRCMR User s Guide Figure 10 Component Selection Windows NT Figure 11 Component Selection Windows 2000...

Страница 79: ...trative rights 2 Open Control Panel and launch the Add Remove programs icon 3 Select the RAID Software Suite and click Change Remove for Windows 2000 or Add Remove for Windows NT 4 The InstallShield W...

Страница 80: ...the StorCon Program Under Windows 95 98 The StorCon program for Windows 95 98 is part of the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR System CD ROM To load the program under Windows 95 98 type the following comman...

Страница 81: ...ower level as components The structure of the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR firmware has four different levels of hierarchy Level 1 where the Physical Devices are found level 2 containing the logical dr...

Страница 82: ...Disks Required Disk 1 1 assignment host drive to hard disk sometimes also called JBOD 1 Chain Concatenation of several hard disks 2 RAID 1 Mirroring 2 RAID 0 Data Striping 2 RAID 4 Data Striping with...

Страница 83: ...me password See Figure 14 After selecting Sockets and TCP IP you may enter the IP address of the server if you choose SPX IPX StorCon will scan the network for suitable servers which have SPX IPX prot...

Страница 84: ...odes Monitor with monitoring functions and Express Setup Advanced Setup with configuration functions Figure 16 Monitor and Express Setup Advanced Setup Menu Menu options can be selected either with th...

Страница 85: ...ed for remote diagnosis Express Setup Advanced Setup Menus Express Setup and Advanced Setup Chapter 7 have the following menu options See Figure 16 Use Configure Host Drives to configure already exist...

Страница 86: ...ion to the performance report on the drives the menu monitor displays the hard disk I O channel hard disk ID hard disk name and hard disk gross capacity 1MB 1024KB See Figure 18 The figures shown at T...

Страница 87: ...gging On Off to create a log file which records all the statistical values over a longer period If you choose On StorCon asks for the path name of the log file See Figure 19 Figure 19 Logfile Name Vie...

Страница 88: ...unter The Reassigns counter records the number of media defects which occur on a hard drive Defective blocks of a hard drive are assigned substitute blocks spare blocks that are either on the same tra...

Страница 89: ...eter settings Figure 22 Hard Disk Last Status Save Information Use the Save Information menu option to save the configuration information of the selected Intel RAID Controller SRCMR and its devices in...

Страница 90: ...e NOTE In the menu Configure Controller the logging buffer can be cleared with Clear Log Buffer The log is a good source of information for analyzing complex events and problems See Figure 24 Figure 2...

Страница 91: ...g hosts NOTE Apart from minor differences this menu option is identical to menu option Configure Host Drives in Advanced Setup Chapter 7 In Express Setup the user may not select a stripe size defaults...

Страница 92: ...ay is in this state after its first configuration and until you quit StorCon Should an error occur while the array is in the build state the array returns to idle The exception is that if during build...

Страница 93: ...oller SRCMR scans all channels for free hard disks for example hard disks which are not yet part of a host drive and displays these units in a list see Figure 26Use the arrow up and down keys to move...

Страница 94: ...Figure 28 Hard Disk Capacity NOTE If the entire hard disk capacity is not used when configuring a RAID 1 host drive you cannot use the remaining capacity to expand the array drive in the future Figure...

Страница 95: ...of these drives you have to boot the operating system and StorCon from a floppy disk or use StorCon from the Flash RAM of the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR To change the position of a host drive in the...

Страница 96: ...titions Add Hot Fix Drive Add Hot Fix Drive allows you to add a hot fix drive to an existing RAID 1 RAID 4 RAID 5 or RAID 10 array drive There are two different types of hot fix drives Private and Poo...

Страница 97: ...torCon displays a list of array drives which are candidates for online automatic repair NOTE Array drives that are in the Error state are very critical and have lost 2 or even more drives These array...

Страница 98: ...When clearance is given the state of the array drive changes to Rebuild for example the missing data is reconstructed out of the remaining data and redundancy information See Figure 36 Figure 36 Array...

Страница 99: ...of host drives between Intel RAID Controller SRCMRs is very easy and secure even if the SCSI IDs and channels are changed Simply connect the hard disks to the new Intel RAID Controller SRCMR and the h...

Страница 100: ...rdware In contrast to EPROMs Flash RAMs can be reprogrammed many times without the complicated UV light erasing procedure Firmware BIOS and StorCon are part of the SRC_PFW file The file has an extensi...

Страница 101: ...ID Controller SRCMR integrates functionality which allows for the control of up to 16 non intelligent enclosures with up to 15 hard disks each and provides for auto hot plug In the example in Figure 3...

Страница 102: ...g be guaranteed For non intelligent subsystems we recommend only the best quality components disk shuttles cables terminators etc Advanced Settings Within Advanced Settings there are three settings wh...

Страница 103: ...address is always above 1MB Cluster Channels The cluster channels menu see Figure 42 is selectable only with Intel RAID Controllers that are equipped with cluster firmware and allows the user to enab...

Страница 104: ...to not have attributes The next column lists the capacity of the hard disk in MB 1MB 1024KB 1GB 1024MB The last column gives information on the assignment of this physical device to a logical array h...

Страница 105: ...opies Intel RAID Controller SRCMR specific configuration blocks on the hard disk a primary block and a mirrored secondary block The possible settings are different if you select a SCSI hard disk or a...

Страница 106: ...it should also be On If you leave this configuration form with Esc and you have made changes StorCon displays a security request The warning of the destruction of all data Figure 45 may require diffe...

Страница 107: ...set of the system and may help for deeper failure analysis or tracing De initialize Disk WARNING This option destroys all data on the hard disk This menu option allows you to de initialize a hard disk...

Страница 108: ...you must configure the subsystem more precisely it s intelligence the so called SEP SAF TE Enclosure Processor See Figure 47 NOTE Non initialized disks can not be configured as no RAID configuration...

Страница 109: ...Storage Console 109 Figure 49 Block Diagram of a SAF TE Subsystem...

Страница 110: ...drive If it is a logical drive of the type Disk it only consists of one single hard disk If a logical drive consists of more hard disks it is of the type Chain concatenation of several hard disks F3...

Страница 111: ...18GB drive must have at least that capacity Figure 53 Drive Size If you select two or more physical drives with the space bar and press Enter StorCon suggests the creation of a logical drive of the ty...

Страница 112: ...an manage up to 35 array drives with different RAID levels simultaneously Obviously the number of hard disks will limit the number of parallel arrays that can be used Figure 54 Select Array Drive NOTE...

Страница 113: ...an array drive RAID 0 to RAID 4 and vice versa RAID 0 to RAID 5 and vice versa Expansion Expansion of the capacity of an array drive NOTE If the entire hard disk capacity is not used when configuring...

Страница 114: ...ssible because the array drive is without redundancy The replacement logical drive has to have at least the same capacity as the failed one The replacement is carried out either with StorCon or StorCo...

Страница 115: ...capacity of 3300MB A hot fix drive for this array must have at least 1100MB of storage capacity NOTE To avoid wasting valuable storage capacity it is recommended that all logical drives forming an arr...

Страница 116: ...by means of the data present on the other logical drives of the array drive and the parity data The Parity Verify function allows you to check the consistency of an array drive s parity data The verif...

Страница 117: ...ive window appears StorCon lists all logical drives which are free not yet part of an array or host drive The selection bar is moved with the arrow up down keys and a logical drive is selected deselec...

Страница 118: ...all hard disks with 0 and no further parity calculation is necessary This build method is pretty fast but the build must be successfully finished before you can leave StorCon otherwise the build mode...

Страница 119: ...isk failure For the purpose of the following considerations we define the term time without redundancy TWR as the time it takes to replace a failed hard drive assuming there is no hot fix drive instal...

Страница 120: ...ay to introduce new capacity Figure 66 Host Drive Configuration Change Drive Name Use this command to change the name of a host drive The host drive name serves to identify a host drive within StorCon...

Страница 121: ...be merged Since the new host drives have a larger capacity StorCon has to write new header information on the new host drives This command results in all data being lost Partition Host Drives The par...

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Страница 123: ...late the parity data of RAID 4 and RAID 5 array drives Online capacity expansion of array drives Split and merge host drives Hot Plug Replace a failed member of an array drive Hot Fix Configure a spar...

Страница 124: ...ndow bar of the toolbar or drag and drop the toolbar back under the menu bar You can also place the toolbar on the bottom of the StorCon window Table 18 Toolbar Icons Icon Opens Closes Description Sel...

Страница 125: ...is currently placed on The status bar can be displayed or hidden by selecting Status Bar from the View menu Figure 69 Status Bar Window Menu Commands These commands allow you to arrange the windows i...

Страница 126: ...2 File Menu View Menu Commands Use the items in this menu to open or close the windows of the main components of StorCon or change the appearance of the main window Figure 73 View Menu The Chart Menu...

Страница 127: ...l Configuration Menu Set the refresh rate for the Physical or the Logical Configuration windows This is the rate that is used by StorCon to update the contents of the physical and logical configuratio...

Страница 128: ...an Intel RAID Controller SRCMR for all further actions within StorCon See Figure 78 Figure 78 Logical Configuration Menu Select the desired protocol Windows NT 95 98 Sockets IBM NetBIOS for the commun...

Страница 129: ...D Controller SRCMR and then the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR itself The selection and de selection is done by double clicking on the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR The selected protocol system and Intel R...

Страница 130: ...SI or fibre channel busses of the selected Intel RAID Controller SRCMR and the devices connected with these busses Click on the physical configuration icon to open the window See Figure 82 for an exam...

Страница 131: ...formation on a controller see the first controller settings dialog in Figure 84 Right click on the icon to Change Settings Save Information or do a Firmware Update These configuration setting selectio...

Страница 132: ...hich are available under DOS without loading a special driver Memory Test Configures the strategy and duration of the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR cache memory test during the boot phase A more intensi...

Страница 133: ..._PFW 009 which indicates the version stepping Download the packed files which contain the latest programs drivers for the operating system used on your system Observe the following order when carrying...

Страница 134: ...are represented in the physical configuration window in Figure 82 and in Table 21 Each processor controls one I O channel Table 21 I O Processor Icons Item Description SCSI processor SE single ended...

Страница 135: ...own in Table 22 to get channel information on a processor see the channel info dialog in Figure 85 Right click on the icon to Change Settings Rescan ID s or do a Hot Plug Add Disk See Figure 85 These...

Страница 136: ...FC I O processor fibre channel Rescan ID s This function allows you to rescan one or all ID s terms_scsi_id of the selected SCSI channel It displays an overview of all powered SCSI devices which are c...

Страница 137: ...mation they will be deleted when creating a new logical drive terms_logical_drive All data will be lost Direct Access Devices Direct access devices can be initialized and subsequently used for logical...

Страница 138: ...138 Intel RAID Controller SRCMR User s Guide Figure 86 Physical Drive Information...

Страница 139: ...l Configuration Synchronous Transfer Different to the older asynchronous transfer mode synchronous transfer offers higher transfer rates on the SCSI bus The maximum synchronous data transfer rate depe...

Страница 140: ...rameters Tagged Queues This feature enables modern hard disk drives to receive several commands at one time and then process them in an optimized order A few mainly older drives do not support this fe...

Страница 141: ...ray drives or host drives These devices are either controlled by a software driver for example an ASPI module the operating system or an application Non direct access devices cannot be initialized or...

Страница 142: ...Figure 87 Logical Configuration To get detailed information on a drive double click on an icon shown in Table 25 The window that opens depends on the type of the device To change the logical configur...

Страница 143: ...ID Controller SRCMR for example remote mounted You may only change the configuration of a local mounted host drive Remote Mounted Cluster Drive A Remote Mounted Cluster Drive is a host drive on a clus...

Страница 144: ...ntroller SRCMR but with several Intel RAID Controller SRCMRs in different servers shared I O channels Usually when booting a cluster the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR starting up first will gain control...

Страница 145: ...e RAID level The RAID level is displayed under the array drive icon Double click on an icon to get more information on the state of an array See Figure 88 Right click the desired drive to select an ar...

Страница 146: ...User s Guide Table 26 Array Drive Icons continued Icon Description RAID 1 RAID 0 Logical Drives Logical drives consist of one or more physical drives Table 27 Logical Drive Icons Icon Description Rig...

Страница 147: ...hange disk settings The Host Drive Information Window Double click on the host drive icon This window contains information on a host drive terms_host_drive See Figure 88 Figure 88 Host Drive Informati...

Страница 148: ...tion Window Double click on the array drive icon This window shows information on an array drive for example a disk array See Figure 89 Figure 89 Array Drive Information Window Drive No The logical nu...

Страница 149: ...invalid missing drives In this condition invalid drives exist during the build process initial copy of data from the master to the slave Pool Hot Fix Indicates when the pool hot fixterms_hot_fix acce...

Страница 150: ...the logical drive It can be ready missing not available after reset or failed for example no longer available for the controller Capacity The available capacity of array drives or host drives Attribut...

Страница 151: ...stem from crashing and to hinder the unintentional deletion of drives all partitions on the host drive and its related host drives if it is split into several host drives must be deleted before the ho...

Страница 152: ...ct a single physical drive by clicking on it If you want to select more than one physical drive simply draw a frame around the physical drives or press the Ctrl key and then click on all the physical...

Страница 153: ...tributed over all drives parity striping This option verifies online the parity information of the selected RAID 4 or RAID 5 array drive If this option is selected for several array drives the process...

Страница 154: ...arity recalculate is completed the array drive s state changes again into ready with the addition of patch This notification has no relevance to the operation of the array drive but is a reminder that...

Страница 155: ...must be ready The data on the array drive remain intact and are not affected by the expansion The additional capacity is introduced as a new host drive If a logical drive fails during the expansion t...

Страница 156: ...ndow It is possible to add more than one drive at a time If no physical drives are offered you have to use the Hot Plug Add Disk function first to add new drives You can open the progress information...

Страница 157: ...e 96 Add Hot Fix Drive The capacity of the hot fix drive has to be larger or equal than the capacity of the components of the array drive For example The logical drives of the array drive have 4 2GB c...

Страница 158: ...drive icon Enable or disable the access of an array drive to the pool hot fix terms_hot_fix of hot fix drives If the access is enabled this means that if a member of an array drive fails a drive can b...

Страница 159: ...er and slave Remove a RAID 1 Component Remove a Mirror Drive Click the right mouse button on the logical drive icon Here you can remove a drive from a RAID 1 array drive If the array drive is in the b...

Страница 160: ...le build patch ready patch This indicates that the original array drive For example the parity information was recalculated or the array drive has been patched from the error state into the fail state...

Страница 161: ...has begun the array drive assumes the build state While the array drive is in the build state redundancy information is calculated and stored to the components of the array drive The disk array will a...

Страница 162: ...the last status physical_drive_laststat from the physical drive information to analyze the cause of the drive failure Additionally check for retries terms_retry and or reassigns terms_grown_defect A...

Страница 163: ...drives by dragging and dropping them from the physical and logical configuration windows into the statistics window To change the layout of the lines adjust the scales of the axis or remove drives fr...

Страница 164: ...ntains icons representing the severity of the event The second column lists how often the event occurred Note that some events may occur often The next column lists the date and the time when the even...

Страница 165: ...StorCon Help StorCon includes an online help function You can choose the Help menu or the pointer with the question mark to obtain online help for an icon or function There is also an index which all...

Страница 166: ...166 Intel RAID Controller SRCMR User s Guide Figure 107 StorCon Help...

Страница 167: ...tel RAID Controller SRCMR Service Intel RAID Controller SRCMR CTRLSRV and the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR Mail tool on each server that is equipped with Intel RAID Controller SRCMR Thus remote access...

Страница 168: ...er SRCMR Service Under Workstation you can add workstations which receive broadcast messages from the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR In the device driver section you can add or remove parameters for the...

Страница 169: ...Storage Console Plus 169 Figure 110 RAID Configuration Service Add Remove Users...

Страница 170: ...See Figure 111 Figure 111 RAIDMail After loading IIRMAIL EXE and selecting Settings configure the mail tool If you select Local System all messages are displayed on the server itself If you select Lo...

Страница 171: ...Storage Console Plus 171 Figure 113 Workstation Names...

Страница 172: ...User s Guide Figure 114 illustrates a typical message generated by Intel RAID Controller SRCMR Mail The Mail option allows the interfacing to a standard mailing system like Microsoft Outlook or Exchan...

Страница 173: ...cable credit card exchange rate plus applicable VAT Intel reserves the right to change pricing for telephone support at any time without notice Or contact your local dealer or distributor For an updat...

Страница 174: ...0 6310003 Vietnam 632 6368416 IDD via Philippines In Japan 0120 868686 Domestic 81 298 47 0800 Outside country In Latin America Brazil 0021 0811 408 5540 Mexico 001 800 628 8686 Colombia 980 9 122 118...

Страница 175: ...0950 UL 60950 3rd Edition US Canada EN 60 950 European Union IEC 60 950 International CE Low Voltage Directive 73 23 EEC European Union GOST R 50377 92 Russia Product EMC Compliance FCC ICES 003 Class...

Страница 176: ...l be marked with the following regulatory markings CULus Listing Marks CE Mark FCC Marking Class A Australia C Tick Mark Taiwan BSMI Marking Class A Russia GOST R Marking Korea RRL MIC Mark In additio...

Страница 177: ...tions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interferen...

Страница 178: ...nt standard entitled Digital Apparatus ICES 003 of the Canadian Department of Communications CE Declaration of Conformity Europe This product has been tested in accordance to and complies with the Low...

Страница 179: ...l brouilleur du Canada Warnings and Cautions Warnings Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the manufacturer could void the user s authority to operate the equipment Cautions Take precaut...

Страница 180: ...180 Intel RAID Controller SRCMR User s Guide...

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