Asus LSISAS RAID Card PIKE 1068E - Manual (Page 3)

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Contents
Contents ...................................................................................................... iii
About this guide ......................................................................................... iv
PIKE 1064E/1068E specifications summary............................................. vi
Chapter 1: Product introduction
1.1 Welcome! ...................................................................................... 1-2
1.2 Package contents ......................................................................... 1-2
1.3 Card layout ................................................................................... 1-3
1.4 System requirements ................................................................... 1-3
1.5 Card installation ........................................................................... 1-4
Chapter 2: RAID configuration
2.1 Setting up RAID ............................................................................ 2-2
2.1.1
RAID definitions .............................................................. 2-2
2.1.2 Installing hard disk drives ................................................ 2-2
2.2 LSI Corporation MPT Setup Utility ............................................. 2-3
2.2.1
Integrated Mirroring volume ............................................ 2-4
2.2.2 Integrated Mirroring Enhanced volume ........................... 2-8
2.2.3 Integrated Striping (IS) volume ..................................... 2-10
2.2.4 Managing Arrays ........................................................... 2-12
2.2.5 Viewing SAS topology ................................................... 2-17
2.2.6 Global Properties .......................................................... 2-18
Chapter 3: Driver installation
3.1 RAID driver installation ............................................................... 3-2
3.1.1
Creating a RAID driver disk ............................................ 3-2
3.1.2 Windows ® Server 2003 OS ............................................. 3-4
3.1.3 Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux OS ........................................ 3-9
3.1.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server OS ................................3-11