Adaptec SAS/SATA/SCSI RAID Controllers - Manual (Page 8)

Contents ●
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Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
Before You Begin............................................................................................... 50
Creating a Driver Disk ...................................................................................... 50
Installing on Windows...................................................................................... 51
Installing on Red Hat or SUSE Linux .............................................................. 51
Installing on NetWare....................................................................................... 51
Installing on OpenServer .................................................................................. 52
Installing on Solaris........................................................................................... 52
Installing on UnixWare .................................................................................... 53
Installing on VMWare ...................................................................................... 53
Installing on FreeBSD ....................................................................................... 53
Managing Your Storage Space
About Adaptec Storage Manager ..................................................................... 56
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager .......................................................... 56
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility........................... 56
About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility ............................................. 57
About the Adaptec Flash Utility ....................................................................... 57
Which Utility Should I Use? ............................................................................. 57
Solving Problems
Troubleshooting Checklist ............................................................................... 59
Silencing the Alarm........................................................................................... 59
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure ............................................................. 59
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare .............................................. 60
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare ....................................... 60
Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously................................................ 60
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array........................................................ 60
Multiple Failures in the Same Array .......................................................... 61
Resetting the Controller.................................................................................... 61
Introduction to Serial Attached SCSI
Terminology Used in This Chapter ................................................................. 63
What is SAS?...................................................................................................... 63
How Do SAS Devices Communicate?.............................................................. 64
What’s a Phy? .................................................................................................... 64
What’s a SAS Port? ............................................................................................ 65
What’s a SAS Address?...................................................................................... 65
What’s a SAS Connector? ................................................................................. 65
What do SAS Cables Look Like?....................................................................... 65
How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS? .......................................................... 66
What are the SAS Connection Options?.......................................................... 66
Direct-attach Connections ......................................................................... 66
Backplane Connections .............................................................................. 66
SAS Expander Connections........................................................................ 67
How is SAS Different from Parallel SCSI? ....................................................... 68