Promise Technology TX4, TX8 user manual

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Main ULTRATRAK100 TX4 ULTRATRAK100 TX8 COPYRIGHT TRADEMARKS IMPORTANT DATA PROTECTION INFORMATION NOTICE Page TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Page INTRODUCTION ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION UltraTrak100 TX4 and UltraTrak100 TX8 FEATURES AND BENEFITS GETTING STARTED UNPACK ULTRATRAK100 INSTALL HARD DRIVES UltraTrak100 TX4 and UltraTrak100 TX8 Figure 1. UltraTrak100 Disk Drive Access (TX4 Shown) CONNECTING THE SCSI CABLES Figure 2. Back of UltraTrak100 TX4 (see Figure 8 for TX8) SCSI CABLE CONNECTION AND TERMINATION DAISY CHAINING MULTIPLE ARRAYS Figure 3. Daisy Chaining Several UltraTrak100s Together DAISY CHAINING WITH OTHER SCSI DEVICES Figure 4. Daisy Chaining UltraTrak100 with Other SCSI Devices CONNECT POWER CABLE AND SWITCH POWER ON MAIN POWER SWITCH ASSIGN A SCSI ID CONFIGURE THE ULTRATRAK100 HOW TO AUTOMATIC ALLY CREATE AN ARRAY HOW TO MANUALLY CREATE AN ARRAY GIGABYTE BOUNDARY CHOOSING STRIPE BLOCK SIZE CHOOSING A RAID LEVEL Page PARTITION AND FORMAT THE ARRAY MAINTENAN CE DRIVE STATUS INDICATORS Figure 5. Location of Drive Status Indicators (TX4 shown) MEANING OF STATUS INDICATORS CRITICAL & OFFLINE ARRAYS REBUILDING/SYNCHRONIZING FAULT TOLERANT ARRAYS WHEN A DISK DRIVE FAILS REPLACING A DISK DRIVE MODULE DRIVE REPLACEMENT Figure 6. Drive Carrier Figure 7. Connecting Cables to Disk Drive REPLACING A POWER SUPPLY MODULE (TX8 ONLY) Figure 8. Back of UltraTrak100 TX8 ULTRATRAK100 FRONT PANEL INTERFACE THE LCD MESSAGES Idle Mode IDLE MODE CONFIGURATION MENU View Status VIEW STATUS MENU User Manual VIEW ENCLOSURE The View Enclosure menu displays the following information: Page CONFIGURE ARRAY User Manual You will see the following message if all of the drives are already configured: Page User Manual SAVE CHANGES MENU Page Page Page Configure Cache CONFIGURE CACHE Configure SCSI CONFIGURE SCSI MODE Select one of the following SCSI ID modes: See below See page 34 Page CONTACTING PROMISE SUPPORT TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES Page LIMITED WARRANTY DISCLAIMER OF OTHER WARRANTIES Page RETURNING PRODUCT FOR REPAIR (USA & CANADA) Page APPENDIX A - TECHNOLOGY BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION TO RAID Figure A1. RAID 0 striping interleaves data across multiple drives RAID 0 STRIPING RAID 1 MIRRORING Figure A2. RAID 1 mirrors identical data to two dr ives RAID 0+1 STRIPING/MIRROR Figure A3. RAID 0+1 striping and mirroring of two drive pa irs RAID 3 BLOCK STRIPING WITH PARITY DRIVE Figure A4. RAID 3 multiple drives stripe data w/ one dedicated parity drive Page JBOD (SPANNING) Appendix B - Frequently Asked Questions