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Contents
Hardware features ........................................................................................................................ 5
Main components on the controller board .................................................................................................... 5
Controller specifications ............................................................................................................................. 5
Overview of the installation procedure ............................................................................................ 7
Installing the controller in an unconfigured server blade ................................................................................. 7
Installing the controller in a previously-configured server................................................................................. 7
Installing the controller hardware.................................................................................................... 9
Preparing the server blade.......................................................................................................................... 9
Installing the controller board...................................................................................................................... 9
Updating the firmware ................................................................................................................ 10
Methods for updating the firmware............................................................................................................ 10
Configuring an array .................................................................................................................. 11
Utilities available for configuring an array .................................................................................................. 11
Setting the boot controller and controller order............................................................................... 12
Setting a controller as the boot controller.................................................................................................... 12
Setting the controller order ....................................................................................................................... 12
Installing device drivers and Management Agents .......................................................................... 14
Installing device drivers............................................................................................................................ 14
Installing Management Agents .................................................................................................................. 14
Upgrading or replacing controller options ..................................................................................... 15
Replacing the battery ............................................................................................................................... 15
Replacing, moving, or adding hard drives..................................................................................... 18
Identifying the status of a hard drive .......................................................................................................... 18
Recognizing hard drive failure .................................................................................................................. 19
Effects of a hard drive failure .......................................................................................................... 20
Compromised fault tolerance .......................................................................................................... 20
Recovering from compromised fault tolerance.................................................................................... 20
Replacing hard drives .............................................................................................................................. 21
Factors to consider before replacing hard drives................................................................................ 21
Automatic data recovery (rebuild).................................................................................................... 22
Upgrading hard drive capacity ....................................................................................................... 24
Moving drives and arrays ........................................................................................................................ 24
Adding drives ......................................................................................................................................... 25
Diagnosing array problems.......................................................................................................... 27
Controller board runtime LEDs................................................................................................................... 27
Battery pack LEDs.................................................................................................................................... 28
Diagnostic tools ...................................................................................................................................... 29
Electrostatic discharge................................................................................................................. 31
Preventing electrostatic discharge .............................................................................................................. 31
Grounding methods to prevent electrostatic discharge.................................................................................. 31
