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Understanding Adaptec Storage ManagerFeatures..............................................................................................................40
Overview............................................................................................................ 40
Physical Devices View.................................................................................41
Logical Devices View.................................................................................. 41
Changing How Drives are Displayed............................................................... 41
Collapsed and Expanded Views .......................................................................42
Component Views.............................................................................................43
Solving ProblemsTroubleshooting Checklist............................................................................... 45
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure .............................................................45
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare.............................................. 45
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare....................................... 46
Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously................................................46
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array........................................................ 46
Multiple Failures in the Same Array.......................................................... 46
Understanding RAIDRAID Technology Overview.............................................................................48
Understanding Drive Segments................................................................. 48
Stripe-unit Size............................................................................................48
Selecting a RAID Level and Tuning Performance.....................................48
RAID 0 (Non-RAID Arrays) ............................................................................49
RAID 1 Arrays................................................................................................... 50
RAID 10 Arrays................................................................................................. 50
Using the ARC UtilityIntroduction to the ARC Utility....................................................................... 52
Running the ARC Utility.................................................................................. 52
Creating and Managing Arrays ........................................................................52
Creating a New Array................................................................................. 52
Managing Arrays......................................................................................... 54
Adding/Deleting Hotspares........................................................................56
Managing Bootable Arrays and Devices.................................................... 56
Configuring Disk Drives.............................................................................56
ATAPI Support........................................................................................... 57
Using SATASelect.............................................................................................. 57
SATASelect Options.................................................................................... 58
Formatting and Verifying Disk Drives.............................................................59