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14 

TeraPac User Operation and Maintenance Guide 

 

 

Before You Start 

The instructions in this chapter assume that you have just taken delivery of a new TeraPac RAID 
array that you wish to use with an existing MaxPac X-Class system.  In this case, there are many 
different configuration possibilities; for example: 

a)  Your MaxPac may have an IDE hard drive as its main system disk. 

 

In this case, your TeraPac will be shipped to you with an associated MegaRAID SCSI control 
card. You should first insert this PCI card into your MaxPac as discussed in the 

MaxPac X-

Class User Operation and Maintenance Guide

. 

b)  Your MaxPac may have a SCSI hard drive as its main system disk, where this disk has its own 

dedicated SCSI card. 

 

In this case, your TeraPac will be shipped to you with an associated MegaRAID SCSI control 
card. You should first insert this PCI card into your MaxPac as discussed in the 

MaxPac X-

Class User Operation and Maintenance Guide

. 

Note:

 Theoretically, you could remove the existing SCSI card from the MaxPac system and use 

one of the channels from the MegaRAID card to control the internal system disk. However, this is 
NOT recommended (this option should only be exercised in the case of an overwhelming need to 
do s0, such as a lack of available PCI slots). 

c)  Your MaxPac may have a SCSI hard drive as its main system disk, and this disk may be driven 

by one channel of a MegaRAID SCSI control card, in which case the other channel is free to be 
used to control the external TeraPac RAID array. 

The discussions and images in the rest of this chapter assume that your system is configured as 
described in option c). This means that the operating system disk is visible on one of the channels, 
which would not be the case with regards to options a) and b). 

1)  Unpack your MaxPac X-Class system. If this system does not already contain a MegaRAID 

card, then insert this card – which will be shipped with your TeraPac – into your MaxPac as 
discussed in the 

MaxPac X-Class User Operation and Maintenance Guide

. Then connect the 

MaxPac’s cables (power, mouse, keyboard, and network) as described in the 

MaxPac X-Class 

User Operation and Maintenance Guide

. 

Note:

 Do NOT power-up your MaxPac until you have connected it to the TeraPac as discussed 

later in this Chapter. Also, in the case of dual- or triple-display systems, do not unfold the 
display screens at this time (wait until after you have connected the TeraPac to the MaxPac). 

2)  Unpack your TeraPac unit and connect it to the MaxPac as described in Chapter 2 of this 

manual. 

3)  In the case of dual- or triple-display MaxPac systems, unfold the display screens at this time. 

Powering-up Your MaxPac/TeraPac Combo 

1)  Power-up the MaxPac (we are going to perform a quick “sanity check” to prove that the MaxPac 

does not yet see the TeraPac’s RAID array). 

Note:

 The TeraPac doesn’t have an On/Off power switch, because its power-up state is 

automatically controlled by the MegaRAID controller via the TeraPac’s data/control cable. 

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Страница 1: ...TeraPac User Operation and Maintenance Guide MaxVision Corporation 495 Production Avenue Madison AL 35758 USA Part Number 209 0029 0...

Страница 2: ...ctured In the event that the Product returned is not defective you will be responsible for freight costs for return shipment to you The foregoing warranty shall not apply to Product that has been a da...

Страница 3: ...its subject matter It may be modified only by a writing executed by an authorized representative of MaxVision No MaxVision reseller or sales representative is authorized to make any modifications exte...

Страница 4: ...ements 6 Setting Up Your TeraPac 6 Chapter 3 Powering up a New MaxPac TeraPac Combo 9 Before You Start 10 Powering up Your MaxPac TeraPac Combo 10 Chapter 4 Adding a New TeraPac to an Existing MaxPac...

Страница 5: ...TeraPac User Operation and Maintenance Guide 1 Chapter 1 Introduction and Very Important Must Read Information...

Страница 6: ...te important information The exclamation icon is used to annotate cautionary information Fonts Italics font is used for emphasis book titles commands and path and file names Bold may be used to emphas...

Страница 7: ...TeraPac User Operation and Maintenance Guide 3 Chapter 2 Unpacking your TeraPac and Connecting it to a MaxPac...

Страница 8: ...al damage to the box make note of the damage on the delivery form and contact MaxVision support see Appendix A for more details Unpacking the TeraPac TeraPac units are always shipped inside an associa...

Страница 9: ...toward the back of the case as shown in Figure 2 2 Figure 2 2 Use the release catch to operate the handle on the Pelican case 5 Place the Pelican case flat on its back on the floor and open it Figure...

Страница 10: ...nits Ensure that the supplied power is sufficient stable and without spikes or surges for operation of your TeraPac and other required equipment Setting Up Your TeraPac Note The following discussions...

Страница 11: ...over away to reveal the TeraPac s data control cable and power cable Figure 2 8 Figure 2 7 Figure 2 8 3 Now pull the right hand thumbscrew out from the main case and slide the protective panel out of...

Страница 12: ...data control cable into the TeraPac Figure 2 12 Note Make sure that you tighten the jack screws so as to hold the connector firmly in place Figure 2 11 Figure 2 12 7 Connect the TeraPac s main power...

Страница 13: ...TeraPac User Operation and Maintenance Guide 9 Chapter 3 Powering up a New MaxPac TeraPac Combo...

Страница 14: ...of the MegaRAID card is controlling an internal SCSI disk the main system disk on one of its channels and the external TeraPac RAID array on its other channel 1 Power up the MaxPac as discussed in th...

Страница 15: ...ed that you copy a few large files and folders from the main system drive to the TeraPac array to ensure that everything is working as expected don t forget to delete these files from the TeraPac when...

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Страница 17: ...TeraPac User Operation and Maintenance Guide 13 Chapter 4 Adding a New TeraPac to an Existing MaxPac...

Страница 18: ...egaRAID SCSI control card in which case the other channel is free to be used to control the external TeraPac RAID array The discussions and images in the rest of this chapter assume that your system i...

Страница 19: ...art the power up sequence again be prepared to press the Ctrl M keys that is press the Ctrl key and the M key at the same time as discussed in the following notes 5 Observe the BIOS reporting that it...

Страница 20: ...ng placed in the MegaRAID configuration utility 7 Use the Up Down arrow keys to highlight the Configure item in the main menu Figure 4 3 Figure 4 3 8 Press the Enter key to select this option 9 Use th...

Страница 21: ...starting at 8 The minimum number of disks in a TeraPac are three because this is the smallest number that can support RAID 5 in which case these would be numbered 8 9 and 10 The maximum number of dri...

Страница 22: ...in Figure 4 7 you will of course have to repeat this process more times if you have more disks in your TeraPac Figure 4 7 16 Once all of the drives are shown as being Online and blinking press the En...

Страница 23: ...three because this is the smallest number that can support RAID 5 in which case these would be numbered 8 9 and 10 The maximum number of drives is eight which will be numbered from 8 to 15 17 Press th...

Страница 24: ...el proceed to step 21 Alternatively if you wish to change this RAID level use the Up Down arrow keys to highlight the RAID item as shown in Figure 4 10 Next press the Enter key to access the RAID Leve...

Страница 25: ...serve the Save Configuration sub dialog that appears Use the Up Down arrow keys to highlight the required Yes item Figure 4 13 Figure 4 13 23 Press the Enter key to confirm this selection which will r...

Страница 26: ...u to the View Add Configuration dialog Figure 4 15 Figure 4 15 25 As we now wish to verify our configuration press the Enter key to select this option Observe the system scanning the disks as reported...

Страница 27: ...rive 1 is the system disk with a RAID level of 0 while logical drive 2 is our TeraPac array with a RAID level of 5 make a note of the corresponding values on your system for future reference 28 Now we...

Страница 28: ...e 4 19 30 Use the numeric keypad to specify the number of the logical drive from whence you wish the system to boot logical drive 1 which equates to the main system drive in the case of this example c...

Страница 29: ...nd side of the ensuing dialog is the Logical Drives sub dialog Use the Up Down arrow keys to highlight the TeraPac array logical drive 2 in this example configuration as shown in Figure 4 21 Figure 4...

Страница 30: ...nitialization which will first cause the Initialize Yes No sub dialog to appear Use the Up Down keys to select the Yes option as shown in Figure 4 23 Figure 4 23 36 Press the Enter key to confirm your...

Страница 31: ...nted with the Exit dialog and then use the Up Down arrow keys to select the Yes option Figure 4 25 Figure 4 25 39 Press the Enter key to confirm this selection 40 When you are presented with a message...

Страница 32: ...the Disk Management item As we have a newly initialized array the Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard should automatically appear If you draw this dialog out of the way for a moment you should see two...

Страница 33: ...er associated with the TeraPac is selected this is drive 1 in our example configuration as we discovered in Figure 27 Figure 4 29 46 Click the Next button which will result in a dialog prompting you t...

Страница 34: ...48 Click the Finish button to complete the process If you now turn your attention back to the Computer Management window you will see that Disk 1 or the equivalent on your system is now shown as bein...

Страница 35: ...e is shown with diagonal lines Click your mouse in the corresponding area associated with Disk 1 to see that become shaded selected Figure 4 33 Figure 4 33 50 Now right click in this shaded area and s...

Страница 36: ...tion and Maintenance Guide Figure 4 34 51 Click the Next button which will result in a dialog prompting you to select the type of volume you wish to create Figure 4 35 Ensure that the Simple option is...

Страница 37: ...Click the Next button which will result in a dialog prompting you to assign a drive letter Figure 4 37 It is recommended that you accept whatever default the system recommends E in this case but you...

Страница 38: ...ac or some other appropriate name It is also recommended that you check the Quick Format box unless you are operating under security requirements that oblige you to perform a full format Figure 4 38 5...

Страница 39: ...Figure 4 39 56 Click the Finish button to complete the formatting operation In the Computer Management window you will now observe that Disk 1 has now been allocated the E drive letter and its status...

Страница 40: ...ded that you copy a few large files and folders from the main system drive to the TeraPac array to ensure that everything is working as expected don t forget to delete these files from the TeraPac whe...

Страница 41: ...TeraPac User Operation and Maintenance Guide 37 Chapter 5 Recovering From Powering Up a MaxPac Without Its TeraPac...

Страница 42: ...e the recovery process we first have to cause the problem situation to occur 1 Ensure that the system is powered down disconnect the TeraPac s data control cable from the MaxPac and then power up the...

Страница 43: ...ussed below Early in the boot up sequence the MegaRAID controller will report that it s found two logical drives but that one has failed Figure 5 3 Figure 5 3 5 Press the Ctrl M key combination when y...

Страница 44: ...e Up Down keys to highlight the Physical Drive item in the ensuing menu Figure 5 5 Figure 5 5 8 Press the Enter key to select this item Observe the system scanning the drives as reported in the status...

Страница 45: ...data they contain 10 Use the Up Down arrow keys to highlight one of the failed drives its usual to start with Drive 8 and work our way up 11 Press the Enter key to select the highlighted drive then u...

Страница 46: ...to select the Yes option as shown above then press the Enter key to confirm this selection This drive is now reported as being Online Figure 5 9 Figure 5 9 14 Repeat steps 10 through 13 fir the remai...

Страница 47: ...1 Figure 5 11 16 Press the Enter key to confirm this selection 17 When you are presented with a message that the configuration has changed and you need to press the Ctrl Alt Delete keys to reboot pres...

Страница 48: ...de 19 Click the symbol next to the Storage item if this item is in its collapsed state in the left hand navigation pane and then select the Disk Management item This time the system does find the Tera...

Страница 49: ...TeraPac User Operation and Maintenance Guide 45 Chapter 6 Detecting Isolating and Replacing a Failed TeraPac Disk...

Страница 50: ...gure 6 1 Figure 6 1 2 At this point unless you ve previously disabled it a very annoying warning beeper will be trying to alert you to the fact that there is a problem However even though a drive has...

Страница 51: ...to select this item and then use the Up Down arrow keys to highlight the Alarm Control item in the ensuing menu Figure 6 4 Figure 6 4 5 Press the Enter key to select this item and then use the Up Dow...

Страница 52: ...nd then use the Up Down arrow keys to highlight the Yes item in the ensuing menu Figure 6 6 Figure 6 6 7 Press the Enter key to confirm this selection 8 Press the Esc key repeatedly until you regress...

Страница 53: ...d Configuration item in the ensuing menu Figure 6 8 Figure 6 8 10 Press the Enter key to select this item and observe the system scanning the disks and reporting its progress in the status bar at the...

Страница 54: ...trol Alt Delete to reboot the system 13 Once the system has powered up into Windows right click on the My Computer icon on your desktop and then select left click the Manage item from the ensuing pop...

Страница 55: ...ystem disconnect the TeraPac lie it face down on the table and remove the four screws holding the back cover Figure 6 12 16 Lift the cover away to reveal a brass colored retaining and protection plate...

Страница 56: ...isk 10 has failed so turn the TeraPac around to expose the front size and remove the three screws attaching disk 10 to the chassis Figure 6 17 8 9 10 11 12 15 14 13 Figure 6 16 Figure 6 17 21 Gently e...

Страница 57: ...pin pairs associated with binary weights 2 and 8 combined these equal 10 which is the number of the failed drive The point is that the replacement drive must be keyed to match the number of the failed...

Страница 58: ...ility Use the Up Down keys to highlight the Rebuild item in the main menu Figure 6 22 Figure 6 22 28 The Rebuild option will bring this drive into the RAID array and reload it with its share of the RA...

Страница 59: ...flashing to indicate that it has indeed been selected 30 Press the F10 key to initiate the rebuild process and use the Up Down keys to highlight the Yes option in the ensuing menu Figure 6 24 Figure...

Страница 60: ...he Esc key repeatedly until you are presented with the Exit dialog and then use the Up Down arrow keys to select the Yes option Figure 6 26 Figure 6 26 33 Press Enter to confirm this selection and the...

Страница 61: ...r is required to ship the product referencing the RMA number on the outside of the original or equivalent packaging with a copy of MaxVision s invoice enclosed The return shipment must be sent insured...

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