Contents

 

5.3.1

Integrated Mirroring.......................................................

5-15

 

5.3.2

Integrated Mirroring Enhanced......................................

5-19

 

5.3.3

Integrated Striping (IS) volume......................................

5-22

 

5.3.4

Managing Arrays............................................................

5-25

 

5.3.5

Viewing SAS topology...................................................

5-30

 

5.3.6

Global Properties...........................................................

5-31

5.4

LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility

5-34

 

(P7F-C/4L model only)................................................................

 

5.4.1

Creating a RAID set.......................................................

5-35

 

5.4.2

Adding or viewing a RAID configuration........................

5-41

 

5.4.3

Initializing the virtual drives............................................

5-42

 

5.4.4

Rebuilding failed drives.................................................

5-46

 

5.4.5

Checking the drives for data consistency......................

5-48

 

5.4.6

Deleting a RAID configuration.......................................

5-51

 

5.4.7

Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set......................

5-52

 

5.4.8

Enabling WriteCache.....................................................

5-53

Chapter 6:Driver installation

 

6.1

RAID driver installation................................................................

6-3

 

6.1.1

Creating a RAID driver disk.............................................

6-3

 

6.1.2

Installing the RAID controller driver.................................

6-6

6.2

Intel® chipset device installation...............................................

6-19

6.3

LAN driver installation...............................................................

6-21

6.4

VGA driver installation...............................................................

6-23

 

6.4.1

Windows® Server 2003..................................................

6-23

6.5

Management applications and utilities installation.................

6-25

 

6.5.1

Running the support DVD..............................................

6-25

 

6.5.2

Drivers menu.................................................................

6-25

 

6.5.3

Utilities menu.................................................................

6-26

 

6.5.4

Make disk menu............................................................

6-26

 

6.5.5

Contact information.......................................................

6-26

Appendix:Reference information

 

A.1

P7F-C/SAS Series block diagram................................................

A-3

A.2

P7F-C/4L Series block diagram...................................................

A-4

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