Contents ●8
Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
Before You Begin...............................................................................................50
Creating a Driver Disk...................................................................................... 50
Installing on Windows......................................................................................51
Installing on Red Hat or SUSE Linux.............................................................. 51
Installing on NetWare.......................................................................................51
Installing on OpenServer.................................................................................. 52
Installing on Solaris...........................................................................................52
Installing on UnixWare.................................................................................... 53
Installing on VMWare...................................................................................... 53
Installing on FreeBSD....................................................................................... 53
Managing Your Storage Space
About Adaptec Storage Manager .....................................................................56
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager.......................................................... 56
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility...........................56
About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility............................................. 57
About the Adaptec Flash Utility....................................................................... 57
Which Utility Should I Use?............................................................................. 57
Solving Problems
Troubleshooting Checklist............................................................................... 59
Silencing the Alarm........................................................................................... 59
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure .............................................................59
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare.............................................. 60
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare....................................... 60
Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously................................................60
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array........................................................ 60
Multiple Failures in the Same Array.......................................................... 61
Resetting the Controller....................................................................................61
Introduction to Serial Attached SCSI
Terminology Used in This Chapter .................................................................63
What is SAS?...................................................................................................... 63
How Do SAS Devices Communicate?..............................................................64
What’s a Phy? ....................................................................................................64
What’s a SAS Port?............................................................................................ 65
What’s a SAS Address?...................................................................................... 65
What’s a SAS Connector?................................................................................. 65
What do SAS Cables Look Like?.......................................................................65
How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS? ..........................................................66
What are the SAS Connection Options?.......................................................... 66
Direct-attach Connections......................................................................... 66
Backplane Connections.............................................................................. 66
SAS Expander Connections........................................................................67
How is SAS Different from Parallel SCSI?....................................................... 68