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...Controllers 26 Connecting Directly to the HostRAID Controller 26 Connecting to a System Backplane 27 Installing the Controller to a SAS Expander 28 Next Steps ...28 Creating a Bootable Array Setting the Boot Controller 30 Creating an Array 30 Creating an Array with the ACU 30 Creating an Array with Adaptec Storage...a Driver Disk 38 Installing on Windows 38 Installing on Red Hat or SuSE Linux 39 Installing on NetWare 39 Managing Your Storage Space About Adaptec Storage Manager 41 Installing Adaptec Storage Manager 41 About the HRCONF Command Line Utility 41 About the ARC Utility 42...
...Controllers 26 Connecting Directly to the HostRAID Controller 26 Connecting to a System Backplane 27 Installing the Controller to a SAS Expander 28 Next Steps ...28 Creating a Bootable Array Setting the Boot Controller 30 Creating an Array 30 Creating an Array with the ACU 30 Creating an Array with Adaptec Storage...a Driver Disk 38 Installing on Windows 38 Installing on Red Hat or SuSE Linux 39 Installing on NetWare 39 Managing Your Storage Space About Adaptec Storage Manager 41 Installing Adaptec Storage Manager 41 About the HRCONF Command Line Utility 41 About the ARC Utility 42...
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... Command Line - Step-by-Step 74 Installing and Using the Command Line Utility Installing the Command Line Utility 77 Installing on Windows 77 Installing on Linux 77 Installing on NetWare 77 Starting the Command Line Utility 78 Using the Command Line Utility 78 HRCONF Commands 79 hrconf backup 79 hrconf create...
... Command Line - Step-by-Step 74 Installing and Using the Command Line Utility Installing the Command Line Utility 77 Installing on Windows 77 Installing on Linux 77 Installing on NetWare 77 Starting the Command Line Utility 78 Using the Command Line Utility 78 HRCONF Commands 79 hrconf backup 79 hrconf create...
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...System Requirements ● 19 Kit Contents ● Adaptec SAS HostRAID controller ● HostRAID Installation CD (bootable), including controller drivers, and this Guide ● Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD (not bootable), including user guides for Adaptec Storage Manager and the Adaptec HRCONF (HostRAID Configuration) command line utility ●...174;2000, Server 2003, XP ● Red Hat Linux ● SuSE Linux ● Novell® NetWare® Note: For up-to-date operating system version support, refer to the Adaptec Web Site at www.adaptec.com. ● At least 256 MB (or ...
...System Requirements ● 19 Kit Contents ● Adaptec SAS HostRAID controller ● HostRAID Installation CD (bootable), including controller drivers, and this Guide ● Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD (not bootable), including user guides for Adaptec Storage Manager and the Adaptec HRCONF (HostRAID Configuration) command line utility ●...174;2000, Server 2003, XP ● Red Hat Linux ● SuSE Linux ● Novell® NetWare® Note: For up-to-date operating system version support, refer to the Adaptec Web Site at www.adaptec.com. ● At least 256 MB (or ...
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Note: To install the driver on an existing operating system, see page 29). Before You Begin ...34 Creating a Driver Disk ...34 Installing with Windows ...34 Installing with Red Hat Linux 35 Installing with SuSE Linux...35 Installing with NetWare ...36 This chapter explains how to install your HostRAID controller driver and an operating system onto a bootable array (see page 37. Installing the Driver and an Operating System 7 In this chapter...
Note: To install the driver on an existing operating system, see page 29). Before You Begin ...34 Creating a Driver Disk ...34 Installing with Windows ...34 Installing with Red Hat Linux 35 Installing with SuSE Linux...35 Installing with NetWare ...36 This chapter explains how to install your HostRAID controller driver and an operating system onto a bootable array (see page 37. Installing the Driver and an Operating System 7 In this chapter...
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... driver disk. 8 Continue with Windows You will need a floppy disk to install a third-party driver, press F6. To install the HostRAID controller driver while installing Windows: 1 Insert your Windows CD, then restart the computer. 2 Follow the on-screen instructions to begin the Windows installation... page 35. ● For SuSE Linux, see page 35. ● For NetWare, see next section). Chapter 7: Installing the Driver and an Operating System ● 34 Before You Begin ● Install and connect your HostRAID controller and internal disk drives (see page 24). ● Create a bootable...
... driver disk. 8 Continue with Windows You will need a floppy disk to install a third-party driver, press F6. To install the HostRAID controller driver while installing Windows: 1 Insert your Windows CD, then restart the computer. 2 Follow the on-screen instructions to begin the Windows installation... page 35. ● For SuSE Linux, see page 35. ● For NetWare, see next section). Chapter 7: Installing the Driver and an Operating System ● 34 Before You Begin ● Install and connect your HostRAID controller and internal disk drives (see page 24). ● Create a bootable...
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... the on a floppy disk, then press Enter. To install the HostRAID controller driver while installing Red Hat Linux: 1 Insert the first Red Hat Installation CD. 2 Restart your operating system. 8 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page 40. Chapter 7: Installing the Driver and an Operating System... ● 35 4 Insert the driver disk, then wait until you are installing other third-party devices, install them now. The computer reads the disk. 6 When the Adaptec SAS driver ...
... the on a floppy disk, then press Enter. To install the HostRAID controller driver while installing Red Hat Linux: 1 Insert the first Red Hat Installation CD. 2 Restart your operating system. 8 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page 40. Chapter 7: Installing the Driver and an Operating System... ● 35 4 Insert the driver disk, then wait until you are installing other third-party devices, install them now. The computer reads the disk. 6 When the Adaptec SAS driver ...
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Installing the Driver on an existing operating system. Before You Begin ...38 Creating a Driver Disk ...38 Installing on Windows ...38 Installing on Red Hat or SuSE Linux 39 Installing on NetWare ...39 This chapter explains how to install your HostRAID controller driver on an Existing Operating System 8 In this chapter... Note: To install the driver while you're installing an operating system, see page 33.
Installing the Driver on an existing operating system. Before You Begin ...38 Creating a Driver Disk ...38 Installing on Windows ...38 Installing on Red Hat or SuSE Linux 39 Installing on NetWare ...39 This chapter explains how to install your HostRAID controller driver on an Existing Operating System 8 In this chapter... Note: To install the driver while you're installing an operating system, see page 33.
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...click Next again. 4 Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the driver installation. 5 Remove the driver disk and restart your controller kit. 3 Follow the on-screen instructions to get to the Adaptec Start Menu. 4 Click Create Driver Disk, from the Main Menu. 5 Select one of the operating systems from the CD... of operating system you begin , install and connect your operating system: ● For Windows, see next section. ● For Red Hat or SuSE Linux, see page 39. ● For NetWare, see page 39. You will need a floppy disk to complete this list: ● Windows ●...
...click Next again. 4 Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the driver installation. 5 Remove the driver disk and restart your controller kit. 3 Follow the on-screen instructions to get to the Adaptec Start Menu. 4 Click Create Driver Disk, from the Main Menu. 5 Select one of the operating systems from the CD... of operating system you begin , install and connect your operating system: ● For Windows, see next section. ● For Red Hat or SuSE Linux, see page 39. ● For NetWare, see page 39. You will need a floppy disk to complete this list: ● Windows ●...
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... press Enter. 3 From the Device types menu, select Continue, then press Enter. 4 From the Device type option, select Modify, then press Enter. 5 Select Storage Adapters, then press Enter. 6 From the Additional Driver Options menu, select Modify, then press Enter. 7 From the Driver Name menu, press the Insert key. ... From the Additional Driver Option menu, select Return to the Novell Web site for any new disk drives. 4 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on the Linux system, xxx is the driver path, and yyy.rpm is the specific mount point on page 40. Installing on NetWare: 1 Start ...
... press Enter. 3 From the Device types menu, select Continue, then press Enter. 4 From the Device type option, select Modify, then press Enter. 5 Select Storage Adapters, then press Enter. 6 From the Additional Driver Options menu, select Modify, then press Enter. 7 From the Driver Name menu, press the Insert key. ... From the Additional Driver Option menu, select Return to the Novell Web site for any new disk drives. 4 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on the Linux system, xxx is the driver path, and yyy.rpm is the specific mount point on page 40. Installing on NetWare: 1 Start ...
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...-mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom 4 Change to the cdrom directory: Red Hat-cd /mnt/cdrom/linux/manager SuSE-cd /media/cdrom/linux/manager 5 Extract the RPM package and install it: rpm --install ./StorMan*.rpm 6 Unmount the Adaptec Storage Manager CD: Red Hat-umount /mnt/cdrom SuSE-umount /media/cdrom Installing on NetWare To install...
...-mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom 4 Change to the cdrom directory: Red Hat-cd /mnt/cdrom/linux/manager SuSE-cd /media/cdrom/linux/manager 5 Extract the RPM package and install it: rpm --install ./StorMan*.rpm 6 Unmount the Adaptec Storage Manager CD: Red Hat-umount /mnt/cdrom SuSE-umount /media/cdrom Installing on NetWare To install...
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...following pages, in alphabetical order. Starting the Command Line Utility To start HRCONF, enter one of Command failed. For example: Environment Windows Linux Batch File .bat .sh Run Script CMD.EXE sh / bash In either mode, if your command fails, you can get are ... zz is HRCONF. For example: adptcd_v2_01 The installation program starts. Follow the on the following commands: ● Windows-c:\\.exe ● Linux-/usr/StorMan/ ● NetWare-load Install_dir* is the directory where the utility is installed and name of available commands, type HRCONF at the ...
...following pages, in alphabetical order. Starting the Command Line Utility To start HRCONF, enter one of Command failed. For example: Environment Windows Linux Batch File .bat .sh Run Script CMD.EXE sh / bash In either mode, if your command fails, you can get are ... zz is HRCONF. For example: adptcd_v2_01 The installation program starts. Follow the on the following commands: ● Windows-c:\\.exe ● Linux-/usr/StorMan/ ● NetWare-load Install_dir* is the directory where the utility is installed and name of available commands, type HRCONF at the ...
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...connections 27, 55 C command line utility 76 D data striping 58 direct-attach connections 26, 55 disk drives connecting to SAS controllers 26 failure recovery multiple arrays 50 multiple disk drives 50 with hot spare 49 without hot spare 50 formatting 68 recovering from...disk drive, hard drive. A ACU creating arrays 62 Adaptec Flash Utility. See AFU Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility. See HRCONF Adaptec Storage Manager installing 41 AFU 42 Array Configuration Utility. See disk drives HRCONF 76 I installation disk drives (SAS) 26 SAS backplane 27 SAS direct-attach 26 L links (SAS) 52 Linux
...connections 27, 55 C command line utility 76 D data striping 58 direct-attach connections 26, 55 disk drives connecting to SAS controllers 26 failure recovery multiple arrays 50 multiple disk drives 50 with hot spare 49 without hot spare 50 formatting 68 recovering from...disk drive, hard drive. A ACU creating arrays 62 Adaptec Flash Utility. See AFU Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility. See HRCONF Adaptec Storage Manager installing 41 AFU 42 Array Configuration Utility. See disk drives HRCONF 76 I installation disk drives (SAS) 26 SAS backplane 27 SAS direct-attach 26 L links (SAS) 52 Linux