SAS and SATA HostRAID Controller
Installation and User’s Guide
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Contents
3 Kit Contents and System Requirements
1 About This Guide
2 About Your HostRAID Controller
5 Getting Started
6 Creating a Bootable Array
7 Installing the Driver and an Operating System
8 Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
Understanding RAID
Solving Problems
9 Managing Your Storage Space
Introduction to SAS
Using the Adaptec Flash Utility for DOS
Using the ARC Utility
Glossary Index
HostRAID Controller LED and I2C Connector Reference
Safety Information
Technical Specifications
Terminology Used in this Guide
About This Guide
How to Find More Information
In this chapter
Conventions Used in This Guide
How to Find More Information
What You Need to Know Before You Begin
Terminology Used in this Guide
Chapter 1 About This Guide l
About the Adaptec 58300 Controller
About Your HostRAID Controller
HostRAID Controller Features
In this chapter
Array Level Features
HostRAID Controller Features
Chapter 2 About Your HostRAID Controller l
Chapter 2 About Your HostRAID Controller l
About the Adaptec 58300 Controller
External miniSAS Connectors J3 Aggregate Activity LED Header
3.3V PCI-X Connector
Chapter 2 About Your HostRAID Controller l
About the Adaptec 48300 Controller
J3 Aggregate Activity LED Header External SAS Connector
Internal SAS Connector 3.3V PCI-X Connector
Chapter 2 About Your HostRAID Controller l
About the Adaptec 44300 Controller
Internal SAS Connector
3.3V PCI-X Connector
Chapter 2 About Your HostRAID Controller l
About the Adaptec 1430SA Controller
J2 Connector I2C
PCIe X4 connector
Chapter 2 About Your HostRAID Controller l
About the Adaptec 1420SA Controller
J1 connector I2C J7 Aggregate Activity LED Header J2 LED connector
3.3V/5V PCI-X connector
Chapter 2 About Your HostRAID Controller l
About the Adaptec 1220SA Controller
SATA I 1.5Gbps, SATA II 3.0Gbps
Chapter 2 About Your HostRAID Controller l
About the Adaptec 1225SA Controller
External SATA connectors J1 LED Connector
PCIe X1 connector
In this chapter
Kit Contents and System
Requirements
Kit Contents
System Requirements
Kit Contents
SAS and SATA HostRAID Controllers Quickstart Guide
Disk Drives
Installing the HostRAID Controller and
Before You Begin
Installing the HostRAID Controller
External miniSAS SFF-8088 to SAS SFF-8470 cable
Selecting Disk Drives
Selecting SAS Cables
Internal SAS SFF-8484 to SAS SFF- 8484 cable
Internal SFF-8484 to 4x SATA fanout cable
Chapter 4 Installing the HostRAID Controller and Disk Drives l
External SFF-8088 to SFF-8088 cable
Internal SFF-8484 to 4x SFF-8482 fanout cable
Internal SATA to SATA cables
Connecting Disk Drives to SAS HostRAID Controllers
Selecting SATA Cables
External SATA eSATA cable Internal 4x SATA to SFF-8484 fanout cable
Connecting to a Backplane on page
Connecting Directly to the HostRAID Controller
Connecting to a Backplane
Connecting Directly to the HostRAID Controller see below
Installing the SAS HostRAID Controller to a SAS Expander
Connecting Disk Drives to SATA HostRAID Controllers
Checking Your Controller and Devices
Setting the Boot Controller
Next Steps
Choosing a RAID Level
Getting Started
Choosing Installation Options
Basic Installation Steps
Installing with an Operating System On a Bootable Disk Drive/Array
Choosing Installation Options
Basic Installation Steps
Installing with an Operating System
Installing on an Existing Operating System
Creating an Array
Creating a Bootable Array
Making Your Array Bootable
In this chapter
Creating an Array with the ACU
Creating an Array
Creating an Array with Adaptec Storage Manager
6 Select Express configuration..., then click Next
Making Your Array Bootable
Continue with Installing the Driver and an Operating System on page
In this chapter
Installing the Driver and an Operating
System
Note To install the driver on an existing operating system, see page
Installing with SUSE Linux on page Installing with NetWare on page
Installing with Windows
Creating a Driver Disk
Installing with Windows on page Installing with Red Hat Linux on page
8 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
Installing with Red Hat Linux
Installing with SUSE Linux
8 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
11 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
Installing with NetWare
Installing on Windows Vista
Installing the Driver on an Existing
Operating System
Installing on Windows XP or Windows
Installing on Windows Vista on page
Installing on Windows XP or Windows
Creating a Driver Disk or an Array
Installing on Windows XP or Windows 2003 next section
6 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
Installing on Windows Vista
Installing on Red Hat or SUSE Linux
Installing on NetWare
13 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page
7 From the Driver Name menu, press the Insert key
About the ARC Utility
Managing Your Storage Space
About the HRCONF Command Line Utility
About Adaptec Storage Manager
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager
About the HRCONF Command Line Utility
About Adaptec Storage Manager
About the Adaptec Flash Utility
About the ARC Utility
Which Utility Should I Use?
Resetting the Controller
Solving Problems
Troubleshooting Checklist
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare
Troubleshooting Checklist
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare
Multiple Failures in the Same Array
Resetting the Controller
Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array
9 Insert the other floppy disks when prompted
Understanding RAID
Stripe-Unit Size
RAID Technology Overview
RAID 0 Non-RAID Arrays
Understanding Drive Segments
RAID 1 Logical Drive = 250 GB
RAID 1 Arrays
RAID 10 Arrays
Disk Drives in Logical Drive
Disk Drives in Logical Drive
Selecting the Best RAID Level
RAID 10 Logical Drive = 500 GB
In this chapter
Introduction to SAS
What is SAS?
What’s a SAS Connector?
Terminology Used in This Appendix
What is SAS?
What’s a Phy?
How Do SAS Devices Communicate?
What’s a SAS Port?
How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS?
What’s a SAS Connector?
What’s a SAS Address?
What do SAS Cables Look Like?
SAS Expander Connections
What are the SAS Connection Options?
Direct-Attach Connections
Backplane Connections
How is SAS Different from Parallel SCSI?
Appendix A Introduction to SAS
SAS addresses self-configured by SAS
Standard SCSI connectors
SAS connectors see page
In this chapter
Using the ARC Utility
Using SerialSelect
Using SATASelect
Creating a New Array
Introduction to the ARC Utility
Running the ARC Utility
Creating and Managing Arrays
1 In the Array Properties menu, select an array type, then press Enter
Rebuilding Arrays
Managing Arrays
Rebuilding Arrays next section Viewing Array Properties on page
Deleting Arrays on page Enabling/Disabling Write Cache on page
Deleting Arrays
Adding/Deleting Hot Spares
Enabling/Disabling Write Cache
ATAPI Support
Using SerialSelect
Managing Bootable Arrays and Devices
Configuring Disk Drives
SerialSelect Options
Using SATASelect
Enabled
Formatting and Verifying Disk Drives
SATASelect Options
Appendix C Using the ARC Utility
3 Select Disk Utilities
Locating Disk Drives
Identifying Disk Drives
3 Select Disk Utilities
4 Select Controller Log Information, then press Enter
Viewing the Event Log
In this Appendix
Using the Adaptec Flash Utility for
AFU Commands
Updating Flash Using AFU Command Line
System Requirements
Introduction
Compatibility Information
Obtaining the Firmware
Running the AFU from the Command Line on page
Running the AFU
Creating the Firmware Kit On Floppy Disks
Running the Menu-Based AFU
Running the AFU from the Command Line
AFU Commands
HELP
SAVE
LIST
AFU VERIFY /CController ID /D UFI File Path
UPDATE
VERIFY
AFU UPDATE /CController ID /D UFI File Path
VERSION
Updating Flash Using AFU Command Line
To update all HostRAID controllers simultaneously
To update a single HostRAID controller
To update multiple HostRAID controllers
AFU UPDATE /C contnumbera,contnumberb
Adaptec 44300 Activity LED Connector Specification
Connector Reference
Adaptec 58300 Activity LED Connector Specification
Adaptec 48300 Activity LED Connector Specification
Appendix E HostRAID Controller LED and I2C Connector Reference
Adaptec 58300 Activity LED Connector Specification
Adaptec 48300 Activity LED Connector Specification
J4-SFF-8484 Connector
J1-LED Connector
Adaptec 44300 Activity LED Connector Specification
Adaptec 1430SA Activity LED and I2C Connector Specification
J4-SFF-8484 Connector
J2-LED Connector
Adaptec 1420SA Activity LED and I2C Connector Specification
J2-I2C Connector
J4-Activity LED Connector
J1-Activity LED Connector
Adaptec 1220SA Activity LED Connector Specification
Adaptec 1225SA Activity LED Specification
J1-I2C Connector
Electrostatic DischargeESD
Safety Information
In this chapter
Technical Specifications
Environmental Specifications
DC Power Requirements
Appendix G Technical Specifications
Environmental Specifications
DC Power Requirements
Current Requirements
Glossary
See stripe
See channel
See failed
See configure
Page
Page
striped array
volume
See simple volume
stripe size
Index
SATASelect SerialSelect utilities
SAS direct-attach
SATASelect
Windows driver installation
Index
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