Adaptec 3405 - About Your RAID Controller; Standard RAID Controller Features; Array-level Features

Contents ● 8
Installing with VMware .................................................................................... 61
Installing with FreeBSD .................................................................................... 61
Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
Before You Begin............................................................................................... 63
Creating a Driver Disk ...................................................................................... 63
Installing on Windows...................................................................................... 64
Installing on Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP................................ 64
Installing with Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows Vista ... 64
Installing on Red Hat or SUSE Linux .............................................................. 64
Installing on OpenServer.................................................................................. 65
Installing on UnixWare .................................................................................... 65
Installing on Solaris........................................................................................... 65
Installing on VMware ....................................................................................... 66
Installing on FreeBSD ....................................................................................... 66
Managing Your Storage Space
About Adaptec Storage Manager ..................................................................... 68
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager .......................................................... 68
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility........................... 68
About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility ............................................. 69
About the Adaptec Flash Utility....................................................................... 69
Which Utility Should I Use?............................................................................. 69
Solving Problems
Troubleshooting Checklist ............................................................................... 71
Monitoring Disk Drives Status......................................................................... 71
Silencing the Alarm........................................................................................... 71
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure ............................................................. 72
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare.............................................. 72
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare....................................... 72
Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously................................................ 72
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array........................................................ 73
Multiple Failures in the Same Array .......................................................... 73
Failed Drive in MaxIQ Pool ....................................................................... 73
Resetting the Controller.................................................................................... 73
Introduction to SAS
Terminology Used in This Chapter ................................................................. 76
What is SAS?...................................................................................................... 76
How Do SAS Devices Communicate?.............................................................. 77
What’s a Phy? .................................................................................................... 77
What’s a SAS Port?............................................................................................ 78
What’s a SAS Address?...................................................................................... 78
What’s a SAS Connector? ................................................................................. 78
What do SAS Cables Look Like?....................................................................... 78