5-13 Enabling SAS RAID
After the hardware is set up, you should install the operating system and the SAS RAID drivers, you may wish to confi gure a RAID array with your SAS drives. This section gives an outline of the Adaptec SAS Utility program and instructions for creating a RAID array on your system.
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is a physical storage technology that employs a serial transmission of data with SCSI protocol. Serial transmission results in the use of much thinner cables than those used for (parallel) SCSI data transmission. This serial link supports a transfer rate from 3 Gb/sec.
Enabling SAS RAID
Before entering the SAS utility, you must enable SAS with the onboard jumper (see Chapter 1). After setting the SAS jumper to "enabled", power up the system and hit the <Cntrl> + <A> keys on boot up to enter the utility. You should then see the main screen as shown in Figure
