User`s guide

Contents ● 8
Installing with UnixWare ................................................................................. 53
Installing with VMware .................................................................................... 53
Installing with FreeBSD .................................................................................... 54
Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
Before You Begin............................................................................................... 56
Creating a Driver Disk ...................................................................................... 56
Installing on Windows...................................................................................... 57
Installing on Red Hat or SUSE Linux .............................................................. 57
Installing on NetWare....................................................................................... 57
Installing on OpenServer.................................................................................. 58
Installing on Solaris........................................................................................... 58
Installing on UnixWare .................................................................................... 59
Installing on VMware ....................................................................................... 59
Installing on FreeBSD ....................................................................................... 60
Managing Your Storage Space
About Adaptec Storage Manager ..................................................................... 62
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager .......................................................... 62
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility........................... 62
About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility ............................................. 63
About the Adaptec Flash Utility....................................................................... 63
Which Utility Should I Use?............................................................................. 63
Solving Problems
Troubleshooting Checklist ............................................................................... 65
Silencing the Alarm........................................................................................... 65
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure ............................................................. 65
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare.............................................. 66
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare....................................... 66
Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously................................................ 66
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array........................................................ 66
Multiple Failures in the Same Array .......................................................... 67
Resetting the Controller.................................................................................... 67
Introduction to Serial Attached SCSI
Terminology Used in This Chapter ................................................................. 69
What is SAS?...................................................................................................... 69
How Do SAS Devices Communicate?.............................................................. 70
What’s a Phy? .................................................................................................... 70
What’s a SAS Port?............................................................................................ 71
What’s a SAS Address?...................................................................................... 71
What’s a SAS Connector? ................................................................................. 71
What do SAS Cables Look Like?....................................................................... 71
How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS? .......................................................... 72
What are the SAS Connection Options?.......................................................... 72