Table of Contents

 

Chapter 1 - Overview

1-1

Chapter 2 - Installation

2-1

2.1

Inspection

2-1

2.2

E.S.D. Warning

2-1

2.3

Rack Mounting

2-1

2.4

Connecting to the management port

2-1

2.5

Power-Up

2-2

2.6

System Tests

2-2

2.7

Connecting the Fibre Channel Ports

2-2

Chapter 3 - Understanding Your RAM-SAN

3-1

3.1

Interface Slot Numbering

3-1

3.2

Inside the RAM-SAN

3-1

3.3

Bus Layout

3-1

3.4

Power

3-1

3.5

Configuration Board and LEDs

3-2

3.6

The Front Panel Display

3-3

Chapter 4 – Configuring the RAM-SAN

4-1

4.1 The RAM-SAN Monitor

4-1

4.2

Configuring the Ethernet Port

4-1

4.3

Configuring LUNS

4-1

4.3.1 A Worked Example on Changing the RAM-SAN Configuration

4-2

4.3.2 Resizing LUNs

4-3

4.3.3 Attaching Fibre Channel Ports to the LUNs

4-3

4.3.4 Creating LUN Masks

4-4

4.3.5 Saving the Configuration to Flash RAM

4-5

Chapter 5 – Using the Management Port

5-1

5.1 testmem

5-1

5.2 errchat <on/off>

5-1

5.3 exit (quit)

5-1

5.4 help

5-1

5.5 history

5-2

5.6 ipconfig

5-2

5.7 log

5-2

5.8 partition

5-2

5.9 performance

5-2

5.10 password

5-2

5.11 reboot <hard/soft>

5-2

5.12 reset <port>

5-2

5.13 status [port]

5-3

Chapter 6 - Troubleshooting

6-4

6.1

Basic Items to Check

6-4

6.2

Management Port Fails to Boot

6-4

6.2.1 MCP21 Does Not Display Characters

6-5

6.2.2 Boot Sequence Does Not Complete

6-5

6.2.3 Does Not Accept Character Input

6-5

6.3

RAM-SAN Boots Incorrectly

6-5

6.3.1 RAM-SAN Detects Partial or No Memory

6-5

6.3.2 RAM-SAN Does Not Detect all Devices

6-6

6.3.3 Catastrophic Boot Error Detected

6-6

6.4

Finding Bad Memory

6-6

6.4.1 Locating a Bad Memory Board

6-6

6.4.2 Confirming a Bad Memory Board

6-6

6.5

Confidence Diagnostic, DIAGMEM, Fails

6-7

6.6

A Power Board LED Does not Light or Blinks or Bad Fuse LEDs are Lit

6-7

6.7

Configuration LED Stays Lit

6-7

6.8

ECC Errors Detected

6-8

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