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... the Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide for specific information. 1-4 I Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 95/98/Me, Novell NetWare, SCO UNIX, Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, and FreeBSD. Refer to 66 MHz. I Intelligent hot spares that automatically replace failed drives. I Cache memory modules with the NTFS file system. I Event logging and broadcasting, including messaging for alphanumeric pagers. I Flash ROM for easy upgrades of controller firmware, controller BIOS, and SMOR. I OS-independent configuration and RAID creation using the new drive...
... the Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide for specific information. 1-4 I Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 95/98/Me, Novell NetWare, SCO UNIX, Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, and FreeBSD. Refer to 66 MHz. I Intelligent hot spares that automatically replace failed drives. I Cache memory modules with the NTFS file system. I Event logging and broadcasting, including messaging for alphanumeric pagers. I Flash ROM for easy upgrades of controller firmware, controller BIOS, and SMOR. I OS-independent configuration and RAID creation using the new drive...
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... devices, such as CD and tape drives. 4 Adaptec RAID software supports up to 64 hard drives per array and up help displays. Describes how to use the Storage Manager Pro application to configure and install your Adaptec RAID controller and attached devices. Refer to page 1-9 for Adaptec RAID controllers consists of storage capacity. 5 VHDCI (Very High Density Connector Interface). 6 Requires a special hot-swap carrier. 7 Indicates when activity has occurred that helps you to manage your Adaptec RAID Controller. 1-6 About the Documentation The complete documentation set...
... devices, such as CD and tape drives. 4 Adaptec RAID software supports up to 64 hard drives per array and up help displays. Describes how to use the Storage Manager Pro application to configure and install your Adaptec RAID controller and attached devices. Refer to page 1-9 for Adaptec RAID controllers consists of storage capacity. 5 VHDCI (Very High Density Connector Interface). 6 Requires a special hot-swap carrier. 7 Indicates when activity has occurred that helps you to manage your Adaptec RAID Controller. 1-6 About the Documentation The complete documentation set...
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... the process of the available systems, refer to Storage Management Software Overview on page 1-13. Refer to Chapter 2. 6 Install the controller driver according to configure the controller or create the array. 7 Optional-Install Adobe Acrobat Reader or Viewer if you do so now. When installing the driver , you need to your computer. For details, read the Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide and Adaptec Storage Manager Pro Software User's Guide provided on the Adaptec RAID Installation CD. 9 Install the storage management application you are described...
... the process of the available systems, refer to Storage Management Software Overview on page 1-13. Refer to Chapter 2. 6 Install the controller driver according to configure the controller or create the array. 7 Optional-Install Adobe Acrobat Reader or Viewer if you do so now. When installing the driver , you need to your computer. For details, read the Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide and Adaptec Storage Manager Pro Software User's Guide provided on the Adaptec RAID Installation CD. 9 Install the storage management application you are described...
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... host system boot process, the system BIOS should automatically configure the controller BIOS interrupt level (IRQ) and memory location for PCI assignment. Note: If you have disk drives attached to a SCSI controller with a Symbios chipset, use SMOR to set the Bootable Devices option to be the booting controller in a system with multiple Adaptec controllers, the first Adaptec RAID controller found automatically detect the presence of the other Adaptec controllers. Determining the Booting Controller Adaptec RAID controllers are found during boot loads its BIOS and installs...
... host system boot process, the system BIOS should automatically configure the controller BIOS interrupt level (IRQ) and memory location for PCI assignment. Note: If you have disk drives attached to a SCSI controller with a Symbios chipset, use SMOR to set the Bootable Devices option to be the booting controller in a system with multiple Adaptec controllers, the first Adaptec RAID controller found automatically detect the presence of the other Adaptec controllers. Determining the Booting Controller Adaptec RAID controllers are found during boot loads its BIOS and installs...
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... RAID Installation CD boot utility can 't start SMOR. a Verify that will run SMOR and configure a new system 1 Press Ctrl+A when the Adaptec I2O BIOS message appears during driver installation (see Chapter 3). Write down the IRQ and address displayed in the Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide. b View the Information window for each controller to configure the controller and set up disk arrays before the operating system has been installed. After your hardware connections. I Create disk arrays during boot to perform configuration tasks when you can use...
... RAID Installation CD boot utility can 't start SMOR. a Verify that will run SMOR and configure a new system 1 Press Ctrl+A when the Adaptec I2O BIOS message appears during driver installation (see Chapter 3). Write down the IRQ and address displayed in the Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide. b View the Information window for each controller to configure the controller and set up disk arrays before the operating system has been installed. After your hardware connections. I Create disk arrays during boot to perform configuration tasks when you can use...
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... and click Add. 4 Insert the driver disk you see the Adaptec splash screen, click Create Driver Disk. To change the driver 1 Create a driver floppy disk using the Adaptec RAID Installation CD. For installation details, refer to the Adaptec splash screen. 3-9 b Boot from the CD. e Insert a floppy disk and click OK. Changing the Driver in an Existing System In this scenario, you are removing the old controller, you are changing the driver in your drive. c Follow instructions and respond to prompts as necessary...
... and click Add. 4 Insert the driver disk you see the Adaptec splash screen, click Create Driver Disk. To change the driver 1 Create a driver floppy disk using the Adaptec RAID Installation CD. For installation details, refer to the Adaptec splash screen. 3-9 b Boot from the CD. e Insert a floppy disk and click OK. Changing the Driver in an Existing System In this scenario, you are removing the old controller, you are changing the driver in your drive. c Follow instructions and respond to prompts as necessary...
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... DOS disk. 7 Perform a system format by typing format c: \s. 8 Remove the boot disk from the floppy disk drive and reboot the system from the C drive. 9 Insert the Windows installation CD in a new system. During startup, press Ctrl+A to create the RAID. For details, refer to Using SMOR on one disk drive or array group using an Adaptec RAID controller in the drive and type d:\setup where d: is the letter assigned to your Adaptec RAID controller and hard drives according to the instructions in Creating the Driver Disk on a SCSI controller...
... DOS disk. 7 Perform a system format by typing format c: \s. 8 Remove the boot disk from the floppy disk drive and reboot the system from the C drive. 9 Insert the Windows installation CD in a new system. During startup, press Ctrl+A to create the RAID. For details, refer to Using SMOR on one disk drive or array group using an Adaptec RAID controller in the drive and type d:\setup where d: is the letter assigned to your Adaptec RAID controller and hard drives according to the instructions in Creating the Driver Disk on a SCSI controller...
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..., you are present, install the Adaptec RAID boot controller in a lower-numbered PCI slot than the other hardware. c Remove the Adaptec RAID Installation CD and the driver floppy disk. 2 Install and configure your drive and a blank floppy disk in the floppy disk drive. Installing the Driver Installing the Driver for a Boot Controller in a New NetWare 4.11 Server In this procedure requires that you have enough free space on the Logical Storage Unit (LSU), which can be a drive or array group, with other controllers. 3 Install and configure a secondary controller, if any. 4 Start...
..., you are present, install the Adaptec RAID boot controller in a lower-numbered PCI slot than the other hardware. c Remove the Adaptec RAID Installation CD and the driver floppy disk. 2 Install and configure your drive and a blank floppy disk in the floppy disk drive. Installing the Driver Installing the Driver for a Boot Controller in a New NetWare 4.11 Server In this procedure requires that you have enough free space on the Logical Storage Unit (LSU), which can be a drive or array group, with other controllers. 3 Install and configure a secondary controller, if any. 4 Start...
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... the instructions in the floppy disk drive. To create the disk a Insert the Adaptec RAID Installation CD in your NetWare server to the minimum patch level specified by the controller; c Remove the Adaptec RAID Installation CD and the driver floppy disk. 3 Shutdown the server. 4 Install and configure the Adaptec RAID controller as a secondary controller. b Copy all the files in an Existing NetWare 4.2 Server In this information later in Step 2 and install I2O and block storage support only. 11 Accept the defaults...
... the instructions in the floppy disk drive. To create the disk a Insert the Adaptec RAID Installation CD in your NetWare server to the minimum patch level specified by the controller; c Remove the Adaptec RAID Installation CD and the driver floppy disk. 3 Shutdown the server. 4 Install and configure the Adaptec RAID controller as a secondary controller. b Copy all the files in an Existing NetWare 4.2 Server In this information later in Step 2 and install I2O and block storage support only. 11 Accept the defaults...
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... this scenario, you created in Step 2. 7 When the console prompt appears, type load nwconfig and press Enter. 8 Select Driver. 9 Select Disk Driver. 10 Install i2opci.nlm and bkstrosm.ham. c Remove the Adaptec RAID Installation CD and the driver floppy disk. 3 Shutdown the server. 4 Install and configure the Adaptec RAID controller as a secondary controller according to the floppy disk. Specify a:\ as a secondary controller. To install the driver 1 Upgrade your drive and a blank floppy disk in your NetWare server to Using SMOR on page...
... this scenario, you created in Step 2. 7 When the console prompt appears, type load nwconfig and press Enter. 8 Select Driver. 9 Select Disk Driver. 10 Install i2opci.nlm and bkstrosm.ham. c Remove the Adaptec RAID Installation CD and the driver floppy disk. 3 Shutdown the server. 4 Install and configure the Adaptec RAID controller as a secondary controller according to the floppy disk. Specify a:\ as a secondary controller. To install the driver 1 Upgrade your drive and a blank floppy disk in your NetWare server to Using SMOR on page...
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... diskadd utility to add drives or arrays that are adding an Adaptec RAID controller to an existing UnixWare 7 system. SCO UNIX reads the disk and prompts you to enter the package name to be ptf7066c or higher. 3 Uncompress the PTF file you are attached to an Adaptec RAID controller. 3-28 These will not occur after diskadd is installed, rebuild the kernel. 7 Restart the system. 8 Install the new kernel. 9 Add devices to install...
... diskadd utility to add drives or arrays that are adding an Adaptec RAID controller to an existing UnixWare 7 system. SCO UNIX reads the disk and prompts you to enter the package name to be ptf7066c or higher. 3 Uncompress the PTF file you are attached to an Adaptec RAID controller. 3-28 These will not occur after diskadd is installed, rebuild the kernel. 7 Restart the system. 8 Install the new kernel. 9 Add devices to install...
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... internal use. To reset the NVRAM, refer to the default settings and reconfigure the RAID. Use SMOR to disable Boot Enable for that is not attached to an Adaptec controller will be the boot drive. Reset the NVRAM to Appendix D. During the installation of these reserved interrupts. SCO UNIX reserves certain interrupts for the system. This LED pattern indicates an internal microprocessor error occurred in the 1-4 range flash once per second. Pressing Ctrl...
... internal use. To reset the NVRAM, refer to the default settings and reconfigure the RAID. Use SMOR to disable Boot Enable for that is not attached to an Adaptec controller will be the boot drive. Reset the NVRAM to Appendix D. During the installation of these reserved interrupts. SCO UNIX reserves certain interrupts for the system. This LED pattern indicates an internal microprocessor error occurred in the 1-4 range flash once per second. Pressing Ctrl...
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... startup code detected a firmware checksum error or a flash error. The floppy disk drive cannot be accessed after installing an Adaptec controller. For details, refer to enable the EBDA Relocation option. You can occur if SMOR is unsuccessful, causing the controller to disable Boot Enable. After an upgrade of a drive. For details, refer to Normal. Adaptec RAID Installation Guide The Adaptec controller BIOS reports a drive as a disk instead of the controller BIOS only, pressing Ctrl+A at the system prompt displays the message Card not configurable. A firmware upgrade is used...
... startup code detected a firmware checksum error or a flash error. The floppy disk drive cannot be accessed after installing an Adaptec controller. For details, refer to enable the EBDA Relocation option. You can occur if SMOR is unsuccessful, causing the controller to disable Boot Enable. After an upgrade of a drive. For details, refer to Normal. Adaptec RAID Installation Guide The Adaptec controller BIOS reports a drive as a disk instead of the controller BIOS only, pressing Ctrl+A at the system prompt displays the message Card not configurable. A firmware upgrade is used...
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...device drivers and Storage Manager for all supported operating systems. After the hardware is configured and the disk arrays created, you can use the Storage Manager on ROM (SMOR) utility, Adaptec Storage Manager software, and the RAIDUTIL command line utility. SCSI RAID Installation Guide About the Documentation The complete documentation set for the Adaptec SCSI RAID product line consists of three parts: I SCSI RAID Installation Guide (this book), which contains information that you can install the operating system, Adaptec SCSI RAID drivers and the full, OS-specific version of Storage...
...device drivers and Storage Manager for all supported operating systems. After the hardware is configured and the disk arrays created, you can use the Storage Manager on ROM (SMOR) utility, Adaptec Storage Manager software, and the RAIDUTIL command line utility. SCSI RAID Installation Guide About the Documentation The complete documentation set for the Adaptec SCSI RAID product line consists of three parts: I SCSI RAID Installation Guide (this book), which contains information that you can install the operating system, Adaptec SCSI RAID drivers and the full, OS-specific version of Storage...
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... Windows NT and Windows 2000. I Support for SCSI-1, SCSI-2, and SCSI-3 devices with active termination. 2-2 Error Correcting Code (ECC) protection for cache memory is available when Adaptec memory is available only if you use Adaptec Cache Memory Modules or qualified ECC memory from a manufacturer listed on ROM (SMOR) utility. I Operating system independent configuration and RAID creation using Adaptec Storage Manager . I /O monitoring using the Storage Manager on the Adaptec Web site. I Local and remote configuration, array status, and I Support for a variety of drivers...
... Windows NT and Windows 2000. I Support for SCSI-1, SCSI-2, and SCSI-3 devices with active termination. 2-2 Error Correcting Code (ECC) protection for cache memory is available when Adaptec memory is available only if you use Adaptec Cache Memory Modules or qualified ECC memory from a manufacturer listed on ROM (SMOR) utility. I Operating system independent configuration and RAID creation using Adaptec Storage Manager . I /O monitoring using the Storage Manager on the Adaptec Web site. I Local and remote configuration, array status, and I Support for a variety of drivers...
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... using the Event Log window in Storage Manager. 2-7 About Your New Controller patterns are ECC memory modules. LED Function 1 Heartbeat. IRQ Lit only when the controller activates an interrupt on the SCSI bus. Refer to the I/O processor on the controller. 3 Indicates the controller's internal operating system is in its idle loop. 4 Indicates that the controller's internal operating system is processing an interrupt. 5 Reserved for more information on the Adaptec SCSI RAID controller...
... using the Event Log window in Storage Manager. 2-7 About Your New Controller patterns are ECC memory modules. LED Function 1 Heartbeat. IRQ Lit only when the controller activates an interrupt on the SCSI bus. Refer to the I/O processor on the controller. 3 Indicates the controller's internal operating system is in its idle loop. 4 Indicates that the controller's internal operating system is processing an interrupt. 5 Reserved for more information on the Adaptec SCSI RAID controller...
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Adaptec SCSI RAID controllers have Wide SCSI busses with one internal and one peripheral SCSI device. Depending upon how you configure your choice or directly from the Configure Host Bus Adapter 3-3 Internal and external SCSI cables, connector adapters, and terminators can be at the physical end of the bus. Ensure that the 16-bit signals are adequate for Adaptec SCSI RAID controllers is configured through the SMOR utility or from Adaptec through our online web store at Ultra SCSI speed (20...
Adaptec SCSI RAID controllers have Wide SCSI busses with one internal and one peripheral SCSI device. Depending upon how you configure your choice or directly from the Configure Host Bus Adapter 3-3 Internal and external SCSI cables, connector adapters, and terminators can be at the physical end of the bus. Ensure that the 16-bit signals are adequate for Adaptec SCSI RAID controllers is configured through the SMOR utility or from Adaptec through our online web store at Ultra SCSI speed (20...
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... the hardware detection message. When prompted to press F6 during the install startup. SCSI RAID Installation Guide I Installing on a New System on page 4-3 I Adding to an Existing System on the CD. Setup will appear at this time, you created in your floppy disk drive. b Copy all the files in the \DISK1W2K subdirectory to the diskette. 2 Remove the diskette and start Windows NT 4.0. 3 Run the w2kprep.exe utility from the driver...
... the hardware detection message. When prompted to press F6 during the install startup. SCSI RAID Installation Guide I Installing on a New System on page 4-3 I Adding to an Existing System on the CD. Setup will appear at this time, you created in your floppy disk drive. b Copy all the files in the \DISK1W2K subdirectory to the diskette. 2 Remove the diskette and start Windows NT 4.0. 3 Run the w2kprep.exe utility from the driver...
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... the host controller are several driver installation scenarios under Windows 95 and Windows 98: I Installing Windows 98 (Full Install Version) on page 4-13 I Installing Windows 95 (OEM SR2 - Use the following to Windows 98 (Upgrade Version) on one disk drive or array group using an Adaptec SCSI RAID host controller. However, all the files in your hard drives, arrays, CD-ROM drive, and any other devices, such as CD-ROMs and scanners. The I2O BIOS ROM on the Adaptec SCSI RAID controller will manage the Windows NT 4.0 boot...
... the host controller are several driver installation scenarios under Windows 95 and Windows 98: I Installing Windows 98 (Full Install Version) on page 4-13 I Installing Windows 95 (OEM SR2 - Use the following to Windows 98 (Upgrade Version) on one disk drive or array group using an Adaptec SCSI RAID host controller. However, all the files in your hard drives, arrays, CD-ROM drive, and any other devices, such as CD-ROMs and scanners. The I2O BIOS ROM on the Adaptec SCSI RAID controller will manage the Windows NT 4.0 boot...
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... are installed you can use RAIDUTIL to create or modify disk arrays or add hot spare drives. If you install remote communication support for Storage Manager, you can use Storage Manager from the Adaptec CD. Boot Controller This procedure is for installing an Adaptec SCSI RAID controller as the primary controller and attach the disk drives or storage subsystem. 3 Ensure that you are using a CD-ROM that is the volume name for modifying disk partitions, hot fixes, or volume maintenance. NetWare 4.2 - After the Adaptec driver and software...
... are installed you can use RAIDUTIL to create or modify disk arrays or add hot spare drives. If you install remote communication support for Storage Manager, you can use Storage Manager from the Adaptec CD. Boot Controller This procedure is for installing an Adaptec SCSI RAID controller as the primary controller and attach the disk drives or storage subsystem. 3 Ensure that you are using a CD-ROM that is the volume name for modifying disk partitions, hot fixes, or volume maintenance. NetWare 4.2 - After the Adaptec driver and software...