User`s guide

Contents ● 8
Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
Before You Begin............................................................................................... 55
Creating a Driver Disk ...................................................................................... 55
Installing on Windows...................................................................................... 56
Installing on Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP................................ 56
Installing with Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows Vista ... 56
Installing on Red Hat or SUSE Linux .............................................................. 56
Installing on OpenServer.................................................................................. 57
Installing on UnixWare .................................................................................... 57
Installing on Solaris........................................................................................... 57
Installing on VMware ....................................................................................... 58
Installing on FreeBSD ....................................................................................... 58
Managing Your Storage Space
About Adaptec Storage Manager ..................................................................... 60
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager .......................................................... 60
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility........................... 60
About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility ............................................. 61
About the Adaptec Flash Utility....................................................................... 61
Which Utility Should I Use?............................................................................. 61
Solving Problems
Troubleshooting Checklist ............................................................................... 63
Monitoring Disk Drives Status......................................................................... 63
Silencing the Alarm........................................................................................... 63
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure ............................................................. 64
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare.............................................. 64
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare....................................... 64
Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously................................................ 64
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array........................................................ 65
Multiple Failures in the Same Array .......................................................... 65
Failed Drive in MaxIQ Pool ....................................................................... 65
Resetting the Controller.................................................................................... 65
Introduction to SAS
Terminology Used in This Chapter ................................................................. 68
What is SAS?...................................................................................................... 68
How Do SAS Devices Communicate?.............................................................. 69
What’s a Phy? .................................................................................................... 69
What’s a SAS Port?............................................................................................ 70
What’s a SAS Address?...................................................................................... 70
What’s a SAS Connector? ................................................................................. 70
What do SAS Cables Look Like?....................................................................... 70
How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS? .......................................................... 71
What are the SAS Connection Options?.......................................................... 71
Direct-attach Connections ......................................................................... 71