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Serial Attached SCSI 58300, 48300, 44300 HostRAID Controllers Installation and User's Guide
Serial Attached SCSI 58300, 48300, 44300 HostRAID Controllers Installation and User's Guide
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Contents ● 8 Understanding Adaptec Storage Manager Features...44 Overview...44 Physical Devices View 45 Logical Devices View 45 Changing How Drives are Displayed 45 Collapsed and Expanded Views 46 Component ... What's a Phy? ...53 What's a SAS Port 53 What's a SAS Address 54 What's a SAS Connector 54 What do SAS Cables Look Like 54 How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS 54 What are the SAS Connection Options 54 Direct-attach Connections 55 Backplane Connections 55 SAS Expander Connections 55 How is SAS Different from Parallel SCSI 56 Understanding RAID RAID...
Contents ● 8 Understanding Adaptec Storage Manager Features...44 Overview...44 Physical Devices View 45 Logical Devices View 45 Changing How Drives are Displayed 45 Collapsed and Expanded Views 46 Component ... What's a Phy? ...53 What's a SAS Port 53 What's a SAS Address 54 What's a SAS Connector 54 What do SAS Cables Look Like 54 How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS 54 What are the SAS Connection Options 54 Direct-attach Connections 55 Backplane Connections 55 SAS Expander Connections 55 How is SAS Different from Parallel SCSI 56 Understanding RAID RAID...
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It also describes the utilities included in this Guide: ● Adaptec SAS 58300, see page 15 ● Adaptec SAS 48300, see page 16 ● Adaptec SAS 44300, see page 17 These HostRAID controller models are described in this Guide 12 How to Find More Information 12 This Installation and User's Guide explains how to Know Before You Begin 12 Terminology Used in your Adaptec® Serial Attached SCSI controller. What You Need to install your controller kit, and provides a basic overview of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology. About This Guide 1 In this chapter...
It also describes the utilities included in this Guide: ● Adaptec SAS 58300, see page 15 ● Adaptec SAS 48300, see page 16 ● Adaptec SAS 44300, see page 17 These HostRAID controller models are described in this Guide 12 How to Find More Information 12 This Installation and User's Guide explains how to Know Before You Begin 12 Terminology Used in your Adaptec® Serial Attached SCSI controller. What You Need to install your controller kit, and provides a basic overview of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology. About This Guide 1 In this chapter...
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... user guides for Adaptec Storage Manager and the Adaptec HRCONF (HostRAID Configuration) command line utility ● Readme Files ● Cables (type and quantity vary for cable information about your HostRAID controller, see About Your HostRAID Controller on page 13) ● Low-profile bracket (Selected models only) ● Serial Attached SCSI 58300, 48300, 44300 HostRAID Controllers Quick Start Guide...
... user guides for Adaptec Storage Manager and the Adaptec HRCONF (HostRAID Configuration) command line utility ● Readme Files ● Cables (type and quantity vary for cable information about your HostRAID controller, see About Your HostRAID Controller on page 13) ● Low-profile bracket (Selected models only) ● Serial Attached SCSI 58300, 48300, 44300 HostRAID Controllers Quick Start Guide...
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... 54 How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS 54 What are the SAS Connection Options 54 How is SAS Different from Parallel SCSI 56 This section provides a basic overview of the main features of SAS, introduces some common SAS terms, and explains how SAS differs from parallel SCSI. Introduction to the SCSI Trade Association (STATM) Web site at www...
... 54 How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS 54 What are the SAS Connection Options 54 How is SAS Different from Parallel SCSI 56 This section provides a basic overview of the main features of SAS, introduces some common SAS terms, and explains how SAS differs from parallel SCSI. Introduction to the SCSI Trade Association (STATM) Web site at www...
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...you can add 128 end devices-or even more-with each other . How Do SAS Devices Communicate? SAS is an evolution of this chapter. Legacy parallel SCSI is SAS Different from parallel SCSI physically, and has its own types of connectors, cables, connection options, and terminology...SAS connection (called a link-see page 55), Adaptec recommends that lets devices such as computers and disk drives communicate with the use of the array. Link speed is SAS? on page 56. Appendix A: Introduction to SAS ● 52 Terminology Used in This Chapter For convenience, SAS HostRAID controllers...
...you can add 128 end devices-or even more-with each other . How Do SAS Devices Communicate? SAS is an evolution of this chapter. Legacy parallel SCSI is SAS Different from parallel SCSI physically, and has its own types of connectors, cables, connection options, and terminology...SAS connection (called a link-see page 55), Adaptec recommends that lets devices such as computers and disk drives communicate with the use of the array. Link speed is SAS? on page 56. Appendix A: Introduction to SAS ● 52 Terminology Used in This Chapter For convenience, SAS HostRAID controllers...
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...connectors support a single link; A single SAS device may help form links between phys. Internal fan-out cables let you plug a SAS cable into, or the end of YY and ZZ (for instance, 01:--:--). Unlike SCSI devices and SCSI IDs, SAS devices self-configure their SAS addresses. It supports the power and ...signal line cable. In parallel SCSI, XX is the disk drive's channel number, YY is the target number, and ZZ ...
...connectors support a single link; A single SAS device may help form links between phys. Internal fan-out cables let you plug a SAS cable into, or the end of YY and ZZ (for instance, 01:--:--). Unlike SCSI devices and SCSI IDs, SAS devices self-configure their SAS addresses. It supports the power and ...signal line cable. In parallel SCSI, XX is the disk drive's channel number, YY is the target number, and ZZ ...
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... expander (see page 21) Generally speaking, SAS is very different. In summary, although SAS and parallel SCSI both use the SCSI command set SCSI IDs Requires bus termination Standard SCSI connectors Serial Attached SCSI Serial interface Maximum speed 600 MB/sec per phy when in a large data storage topology. SAS lets you mix SAS and SATA disk drives together, and...
... expander (see page 21) Generally speaking, SAS is very different. In summary, although SAS and parallel SCSI both use the SCSI command set SCSI IDs Requires bus termination Standard SCSI connectors Serial Attached SCSI Serial interface Maximum speed 600 MB/sec per phy when in a large data storage topology. SAS lets you mix SAS and SATA disk drives together, and...
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... phys 53 ports 52, 53 SAS address 54 SAS cards 52 SAS devices 52 SAS domain 55 terminology 52 transceivers 52 wide connectors 54 wide ports 53 SAS controllers connecting disk drives 26 SAS devices 52 SCSI comparison to SAS 56 Serial Attached SCSI. See SAS SerialSelect using settings 66 Small Computer...Array of Independent Disks. See SCSI storage management ACU 62 AFU 42 HRCONF 77 SerialSelect 66 storage space 12 stripe, definition 58 stripe-unit size definition 58 performance tuning 58 SuSE driver installation 39 T terminology 12 Adaptec Storage Manager 12 SAS 52 throughput 58 tools ACU 62...
... phys 53 ports 52, 53 SAS address 54 SAS cards 52 SAS devices 52 SAS domain 55 terminology 52 transceivers 52 wide connectors 54 wide ports 53 SAS controllers connecting disk drives 26 SAS devices 52 SCSI comparison to SAS 56 Serial Attached SCSI. See SAS SerialSelect using settings 66 Small Computer...Array of Independent Disks. See SCSI storage management ACU 62 AFU 42 HRCONF 77 SerialSelect 66 storage space 12 stripe, definition 58 stripe-unit size definition 58 performance tuning 58 SuSE driver installation 39 T terminology 12 Adaptec Storage Manager 12 SAS 52 throughput 58 tools ACU 62...