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Contents
Hardware features ........................................................................................................................ 5
Board components .................................................................................................................................... 5
Controller specifications ............................................................................................................................. 5
Overview of the installation procedure ............................................................................................ 7
Installing the controller in an unconfigured server .......................................................................................... 7
Installing the controller in a previously-configured server................................................................................. 7
Installing the controller hardware.................................................................................................... 9
Before beginning the installation ................................................................................................................. 9
Preparing the server................................................................................................................................... 9
Installing the controller board...................................................................................................................... 9
Connecting storage devices...................................................................................................................... 10
Connecting internal storage ............................................................................................................ 10
Connecting external storage ........................................................................................................... 11
SAS cable part numbers ................................................................................................................. 11
Updating the firmware ................................................................................................................ 12
Methods for updating the firmware............................................................................................................ 12
Configuring an array .................................................................................................................. 13
Utilities available for configuring an array .................................................................................................. 13
Setting the boot controller and controller order............................................................................... 14
Setting a controller as the boot controller.................................................................................................... 14
Setting the controller order ....................................................................................................................... 14
Installing device drivers and Management Agents .......................................................................... 16
Installing device drivers............................................................................................................................ 16
Installing Management Agents .................................................................................................................. 16
Upgrading or replacing controller options ..................................................................................... 17
Replacing a battery ................................................................................................................................. 17
Replacing, moving, or adding hard drives..................................................................................... 19
Identifying the status of a hard drive .......................................................................................................... 19
Recognizing hard drive failure .................................................................................................................. 20
Effects of a hard drive failure .......................................................................................................... 21
Compromised fault tolerance .......................................................................................................... 21
Recovering from compromised fault tolerance.................................................................................... 21
Replacing hard drives .............................................................................................................................. 22
Factors to consider before replacing hard drives................................................................................ 22
Automatic data recovery (rebuild).................................................................................................... 23
Upgrading hard drive capacity ....................................................................................................... 25
Moving drives and arrays ........................................................................................................................ 25
Adding drives ......................................................................................................................................... 26
Diagnosing array problems.......................................................................................................... 27
Controller board runtime LEDs................................................................................................................... 27
