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README.TXT

Adaptec ASR-7805/ASR-7805Q/ASR-71605/ASR-71605Q/ASR-71605E/ASR-71685/ASR-72405 SAS/SATA

RAID Controllers

NOTE: All Adaptec by PMC products are UL listed and for use only with UL listed ITE.

as of October 16, 2012

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Please review this file for important information about issues

and errata that were discovered after completion of the standard

product documentation. In the case of conflict between various

parts of the documentation set, this file contains the most

current information.

The following information is available in this file:

1. New Features in this Release

2. Software and Documentation

2.1 Driver & Utility Software

2.2 Documentation

3. Installation and Setup

3.1 Installation Instructions

3.2 Bootable DVD Mode

3.3 DKMS Driver Setup for Red Hat 6/CentOS 6

3.4 uEFI-Mode OS Setup

3.5 Solaris 11 Express Setup

3.6 Fedora Linux Setup

3.7 Debian Linux Setup

3.8 Ubuntu Linux Setup

3.9 maxView Storage Manager Setup

3.9.1 Windows 8 Setup

3.9.2 Linux Setup

3.9.3 Changing Credentials

3.10 Adaptec maxCache Setup

3.10.1 maxCache Container Configuration

4. Known Limitations

4.1 Installation DVD

4.2 Linux Boot Device

4.3 AFM-700 Flash Backup Unit

4.4 maxView Storage Manager

4.4.1 Browser Issues

4.4.2 Remote System Issues

4.5 Power Management

4.6 ATAPI Devices

4.7 Drive Compatibility Issues

4.8 System Compatibility Issues

4.9 RAID 50/RAID 60, Max Drives

4.10 RAID 10 Rebuild Order

4.11 Verify with Fix

4.12 ARCCONF Backward Compatibility

4.13 Online Help Issues

4.14 Uninstallation Issues

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1. New Features in this Release

- Adaptec Series 7 SAS/SATA RAID Controllers, 6Gb/s, PCIe Gen 3,

with optional AFM-700 flash backup unit

- maxView Storage Manager, Web-based storage management

software; replaces Adaptec Storage Manager (ASM) JAVA

client

- Adaptec maxCache 3.0, SSD caching software, with

redundant write back caching support

- Support for maxView Storage Manager GUI and ARCCONF command

line utility on VMware Guest OSs

Summary of content (8 pages)

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-------------------------------------------------------------------README.TXT Adaptec ASR-7805/ASR-7805Q/ASR-71605/ASR-71605Q/ASR-71605E/ASR-71685/ASR-72405 SAS/SATA RAID Controllers NOTE: All Adaptec by PMC products are UL listed and for use only with UL listed ITE. as of October 16, 2012 -------------------------------------------------------------------Please review this file for important information about issues and errata that were discovered after completion of the standard product documentation.
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- uEFI/HII interface pre-boot BIOS* *Requires support for uEFI specification V2.10 or higher - Health monitoring for AFM-700 flash backup unit from GUI, BIOS, and command line - ARCCONF command line utility feature update -------------------------------------------------------------------2. Software and Documentation 2.1 Driver & Utility Software - Adaptec Firmware/BIOS/Drivers/Utilities Version 8.
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- maxView Storage Manager Online Help - Adaptec SAS RAID Controllers README.TXT file - Adaptec PerfMon Utility README.TXT file -------------------------------------------------------------------3. Installation and Setup 3.1 Installation Instructions The Adaptec SAS RAID Controllers Installation and User's Guide contains complete installation information for the controllers and drivers. The Adaptec RAID Controllers Command Line Utility User's Guide contains complete installation information for ARCCONF.
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After installing the Debian Linux driver, you must replace the SCSI Device Partition Name in Debian’s GRUB bootloader with a UUID. Failure to update the partition name may cause the system to hang when the OS is rebooted. In the GRUB bootloader file "menu.lst", replace the SCSI device partition name (for instance, /dev/sda1), with UUID=. 3.
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(or chcon -t textrel_shlib_t /usr/StorMan/pegasus/lib/lib* relocation failed) if any other binary 3.9.3 maxView Storage Manager Setup - Changing Credentials To change maxView Storage Manager's login credentials after changing the OS-level username/password for the Administrator's account: 1. Run changecredentials.exe (in the maxView Storage Manager installation directory): changecredentials.exe 2. Start maxView Storage Manager and login with the new credentials. 3.
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number or serial number. - In dual-controller systems, the controller order in maxView Storage Manager and the BIOS differs. Example: with an Adaptec 72405 and 7805 installed, the BIOS reports the 72405 as controller 1 and the 7805 as controller 2; in the GUI, the controller order is reversed. - On CentOS 5.8 x64, email notifications may not be sent for logical drive creations, degraded logical drives, or logical drives that are rebuilding or fully rebuilt.
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the Logical Drive Creation wizard is not saved after the logical drive is created. It is always disabled. WORKAROUND: enable power management for the logical drive with the Set Properties operation. 4.6 ATAPI Devices Adaptec Series 7 controllers do not support ATAPI CD-ROM, DVD, or tape devices. 4.7 Drive Compatibility Issues - With OCZ Vertex SSDs with FW 1.4, logical drives comprising these SSDs will fail under I/O load. WORKAROUND: upgrade to FW 1.5.
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models. As a result, the ARCCONF user's guide and online help show command options that are not supported by Adaptec Series 7 controllers. Examples: with Adaptec Series 7, ARCCONF CREATE does not support 16KB and 32KB stripe sizes or RAID 5EE; with ARCCONF SETMAXCACHE, Adaptec Series 7 does not support ADDTOPOOL or REMOVEFROMPOOL. 4.13 Online Help Issues In the maxView Storage Manager online help, some links show the full file path to the topic, rather than the topic title. The link itself is unaffected. 4.