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...1-7 2 Installing the Controller Overview 2-1 The Adaptec Controller 2-2 Installing the Controller 2-2 Checking Your Controller and Devices 2-4 Determining the Boot Controller 2-4 3 Installing the... Driver Overview of the Driver Installation Process 3-2 Creating a Driver Disk 3-3 Installing the Windows Driver 3-3 Installing the Driver in a New Windows System 3-3 Installing the Driver in an Existing Windows System 3-4 Installing the Red Hat or SuSE Linux...
...1-7 2 Installing the Controller Overview 2-1 The Adaptec Controller 2-2 Installing the Controller 2-2 Checking Your Controller and Devices 2-4 Determining the Boot Controller 2-4 3 Installing the... Driver Overview of the Driver Installation Process 3-2 Creating a Driver Disk 3-3 Installing the Windows Driver 3-3 Installing the Driver in a New Windows System 3-3 Installing the Driver in an Existing Windows System 3-4 Installing the Red Hat or SuSE Linux...
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... Manager on NetWare 4-4 Starting Storage Manager 4-4 Windows Operating Systems 4-5 Linux Operating Systems 4-6 NetWare Operating System 4-6 Logging into Remote Systems 4-7 5 Understanding Adaptec Storage Manager Introduction 5-1 Features 5-1 Overview 5-2 Physical Devices View 5-3 Logical Devices View 5-3 Changing How Drives are Displayed 5-4 Collapsed and Expanded Views 5-4 Component Views 5-5 6 Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility Using the ACU 6-2 Creating Arrays 6-3 Managing Arrays...
... Manager on NetWare 4-4 Starting Storage Manager 4-4 Windows Operating Systems 4-5 Linux Operating Systems 4-6 NetWare Operating System 4-6 Logging into Remote Systems 4-7 5 Understanding Adaptec Storage Manager Introduction 5-1 Features 5-1 Overview 5-2 Physical Devices View 5-3 Logical Devices View 5-3 Changing How Drives are Displayed 5-4 Collapsed and Expanded Views 5-4 Component Views 5-5 6 Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility Using the ACU 6-2 Creating Arrays 6-3 Managing Arrays...
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... processor ■ SuSE Linux - United Linux 1.0, 32-bit ■ Novell NetWare 6.5 1-2 Enterprise Server 9.0 x86, 32-bit and 64-bit - Introduction Kit Contents Your Adaptec controller kit includes: ■ Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA controller ■ Installation CD ■ Low-profile bracket and full-size bracket (attached to controller) ■ Four Serial ATA interface cables ■ Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA Quick Install Guide (printed) ■ Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA Installation and User...
... processor ■ SuSE Linux - United Linux 1.0, 32-bit ■ Novell NetWare 6.5 1-2 Enterprise Server 9.0 x86, 32-bit and 64-bit - Introduction Kit Contents Your Adaptec controller kit includes: ■ Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA controller ■ Installation CD ■ Low-profile bracket and full-size bracket (attached to controller) ■ Four Serial ATA interface cables ■ Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA Quick Install Guide (printed) ■ Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA Installation and User...
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Overview of the Driver Installation Process 3-2 Creating a Driver Disk 3-3 Installing the Windows Driver 3-3 Installing the Red Hat or SuSE Linux Driver 3-5 Installing the NetWare Driver 3-7 3-1 3 Installing the Driver In this Chapter...
Overview of the Driver Installation Process 3-2 Creating a Driver Disk 3-3 Installing the Windows Driver 3-3 Installing the Red Hat or SuSE Linux Driver 3-5 Installing the NetWare Driver 3-7 3-1 3 Installing the Driver In this Chapter...
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... Install and configure the controller and disk drives as described in Installing the Controller on page 3-3. Installing ...the Driver Creating a Driver Disk Before you install your computer boots from the CD drive. 2 Insert the installation CD and turn on the computer. 3 Follow instructions and respond to prompts as described in Creating a Driver Disk on page 2-2. 2 Create a driver disk as necessary to get to the Adaptec... Start Menu. 4 Click Create Driver Disk, then select the appropriate operating system. 5 If you selected Linux, you ...
... Install and configure the controller and disk drives as described in Installing the Controller on page 3-3. Installing ...the Driver Creating a Driver Disk Before you install your computer boots from the CD drive. 2 Insert the installation CD and turn on the computer. 3 Follow instructions and respond to prompts as described in Creating a Driver Disk on page 2-2. 2 Create a driver disk as necessary to get to the Adaptec... Start Menu. 4 Click Create Driver Disk, then select the appropriate operating system. 5 If you selected Linux, you ...
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... then restart the system. 5 When the Red Hat Welcome screen appears, type expert or linux dd at the boot prompt. 6 When prompted, insert the driver disk you want to complete the controller installation. 7 Remove the driver disk. 8 If prompted, restart the computer. 9 Your ...New Linux System To install the driver while also installing the Red Hat operating system: 1 Install and configure the controller and disk drives as described in Installing the Controller on page 2-2. 2 Create a driver disk as needed to create an array from the BIOS, see Chapter 6, Adaptec RAID Configuration ...
... then restart the system. 5 When the Red Hat Welcome screen appears, type expert or linux dd at the boot prompt. 6 When prompted, insert the driver disk you want to complete the controller installation. 7 Remove the driver disk. 8 If prompted, restart the computer. 9 Your ...New Linux System To install the driver while also installing the Red Hat operating system: 1 Install and configure the controller and disk drives as described in Installing the Controller on page 2-2. 2 Create a driver disk as needed to create an array from the BIOS, see Chapter 6, Adaptec RAID Configuration ...
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... Alt key to the Red Hat documentation. Installing the SuSE Driver in a New Linux System To install the driver while also installing the SuSE operating system: 1 Install and configure the controller and disk drives as described in Installing the Controller on page 2-2. 2 Create a driver disk as shown in Creating a Driver Disk on page...
... Alt key to the Red Hat documentation. Installing the SuSE Driver in a New Linux System To install the driver while also installing the SuSE operating system: 1 Install and configure the controller and disk drives as described in Installing the Controller on page 2-2. 2 Create a driver disk as shown in Creating a Driver Disk on page...
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Installing the Driver Installing or Updating the Driver in an Existing Red Hat or SuSE Linux System To install the driver in a New NetWare System ■ Installing or Updating Device Drivers After Installing NetWare 3-7 Installing the NetWare Driver This section contains ...the following procedures: ■ Installing the NetWare Driver in an existing Red Hat or SuSE Linux system: 1 Insert the installation CD into the CD device and wait for the system to automount the cd, or manually mount it from a shell by...
Installing the Driver Installing or Updating the Driver in an Existing Red Hat or SuSE Linux System To install the driver in a New NetWare System ■ Installing or Updating Device Drivers After Installing NetWare 3-7 Installing the NetWare Driver This section contains ...the following procedures: ■ Installing the NetWare Driver in an existing Red Hat or SuSE Linux system: 1 Insert the installation CD into the CD device and wait for the system to automount the cd, or manually mount it from a shell by...
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...have installed your operating system documentation. 4-1 Note: You need administrator or root privileges to your Adaptec RAID controller and driver, you are ready to install and use Adaptec Storage Manager-a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) that makes it easy for you to ... having to restart the computer and use the BIOS utility. 4 Installing and Starting Adaptec Storage Manager In this Chapter... Installing Storage Manager on Windows 4-2 Installing Storage Manager on Linux 4-3 Installing Storage Manager on verifying privileges, refer to install Storage Manager.
...have installed your operating system documentation. 4-1 Note: You need administrator or root privileges to your Adaptec RAID controller and driver, you are ready to install and use Adaptec Storage Manager-a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) that makes it easy for you to ... having to restart the computer and use the BIOS utility. 4 Installing and Starting Adaptec Storage Manager In this Chapter... Installing Storage Manager on Windows 4-2 Installing Storage Manager on Linux 4-3 Installing Storage Manager on verifying privileges, refer to install Storage Manager.
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... Manager Installing Storage Manager on Adaptec's support of Storage Manager is the name of the linux driver folder 4 Extract the RPM package and install it: rpm --install ./StorMan*.rpm 5 Unmount the product installation CD: for Red Hat for SuSE cd /media/... installation CD. 2 Mount the product installation CD: for Red Hat mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom for SuSE mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom 3 Change to 12 Adaptec RAID controllers. ■ Storage Manager includes the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). ■ If a previous version of Linux, visit www.adaptec.com.
... Manager Installing Storage Manager on Adaptec's support of Storage Manager is the name of the linux driver folder 4 Extract the RPM package and install it: rpm --install ./StorMan*.rpm 5 Unmount the product installation CD: for Red Hat for SuSE cd /media/... installation CD. 2 Mount the product installation CD: for Red Hat mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom for SuSE mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom 3 Change to 12 Adaptec RAID controllers. ■ Storage Manager includes the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). ■ If a previous version of Linux, visit www.adaptec.com.
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...■ User-Logging in as an Administrator allows you to view and modify the RAID configuration. Installing and Starting Adaptec Storage Manager Linux Operating Systems 1 Type the following command to change to the Adaptec Storage Manager installation directory: cd /usr/StorMan 2 Type the following command, then press...and password. ■ Guest-Logging in as a User allows you to view the RAID configuration, verify logical drives, and add and remove hotspares. NetWare Operating System To start Adaptec Storage Manager on the NetWare operating system, type the LOAD RAIDMAN command in as a...
...■ User-Logging in as an Administrator allows you to view and modify the RAID configuration. Installing and Starting Adaptec Storage Manager Linux Operating Systems 1 Type the following command to change to the Adaptec Storage Manager installation directory: cd /usr/StorMan 2 Type the following command, then press...and password. ■ Guest-Logging in as a User allows you to view the RAID configuration, verify logical drives, and add and remove hotspares. NetWare Operating System To start Adaptec Storage Manager on the NetWare operating system, type the LOAD RAIDMAN command in as a...
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Index A ACU using to manage arrays 6-2 Adaptec RAID Configuration utility overview 1-6 Adaptec Storage componet views 5-5 Adaptec Storage Manager features 5-1 logical devices view 5-3 overview 1-6, 5-2 physical devices view 5-3 Adobe Acrobat Reader, installing 1-5 Array Configuration Utility. See ACU Array Properties dialog box deleting arrays 6-7 Array-based BBS Support controller setting 6-10 Arrays creating bootable arrays 6-6 arrays stripe size 6-4 B Bootable...
Index A ACU using to manage arrays 6-2 Adaptec RAID Configuration utility overview 1-6 Adaptec Storage componet views 5-5 Adaptec Storage Manager features 5-1 logical devices view 5-3 overview 1-6, 5-2 physical devices view 5-3 Adobe Acrobat Reader, installing 1-5 Array Configuration Utility. See ACU Array Properties dialog box deleting arrays 6-7 Array-based BBS Support controller setting 6-10 Arrays creating bootable arrays 6-6 arrays stripe size 6-4 B Bootable...
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... Reader 1-5 installing NetWare driver 3-8 L Linux driver installation in existing system 3-7 in new system 3-5 M Manage Arrays option 6-5 N NetWare device drivers 3-9 NetWare driver installation 3-8 O operating system compatibility 1-2 P P6 pin assignments 2-2 Physical Drives Display during POST controller setting 6-10 R Read caching 6-4 Rebuilding arrays 6-8 requirements hardware 1-3 Ripple and Noise B-1 Runtime BIOS controller setting 6-10 S safety information 1-6 SCSI...
... Reader 1-5 installing NetWare driver 3-8 L Linux driver installation in existing system 3-7 in new system 3-5 M Manage Arrays option 6-5 N NetWare device drivers 3-9 NetWare driver installation 3-8 O operating system compatibility 1-2 P P6 pin assignments 2-2 Physical Drives Display during POST controller setting 6-10 R Read caching 6-4 Rebuilding arrays 6-8 requirements hardware 1-3 Ripple and Noise B-1 Runtime BIOS controller setting 6-10 S safety information 1-6 SCSI...