SATA RAID Cards ARC-1110/1120/1130/1160/1170 ( 4/8/12/16/24-port PCI-X SATA RAID Controllers ) ARC-1110ML/1120ML/1130ML/1160ML ( 4/8-port Infinband connector and 12/16-port Multi-lane connector PCI-X SATA RAID Controllers ) ARC-1210/1220/1210ML/1220ML/1230/ 1260/1280/ ( 4/8/12/16/24-port PCI-Express SATA RAID Controllers ) ARC-1231ML/1261ML/1280ML (12/16/24-port PCI-Express SATA RAID Controllers) USER Manual Version: 3.
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Contents 1. Introduction............................................................... 10 1.1 Overview........................................................................ 10 1.2 Features......................................................................... 12 2. Hardware Installation................................................ 16 2.1 Before Your Begin Installation............................................ 16 2.2 Board Layout...................................................................
3.7.3.4 Check Volume Set................................................... 69 3.7.3.5 Stop Volume Set Check........................................... 70 3.7.3.6 Display Volume Set Info.......................................... 70 3.7.4 Physical Drives............................................................ 71 3.7.4.1 View Drive Information . ......................................... 71 3.7.4.2 Create Pass-Through Disk........................................ 72 3.7.4.3 Modify a Pass-Through Disk.......
XP/2003/Vista Installation.................................................... 92 4.2.3.1 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System...... 94 4.2.4 Uninstall controller from Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista..... 94 4.3 Driver Installation for Linux............................................... 95 4.4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD........................................... 96 4.5 Driver Installation for Solaris 10......................................... 96 4.6 Driver Installation for Mac 10.x..............
• Greater Two TB Volume Support...................................... 117 • Initialization Mode......................................................... 118 • Stripe Size................................................................... 118 • Cache Mode................................................................. 118 • Tag Queuing................................................................. 119 6.6.2 Delete Volume Set..................................................... 119 6.6.3 Modify Volume Set.
6.9 Information................................................................... 135 6.9.1 RaidSet Hierarchy...................................................... 135 6.9.2 System Information................................................... 136 6.9.3 Hardware Monitor...................................................... 136 Appendix A .................................................................. 138 Upgrading Flash ROM Update Process.....................................
• Adjustable Rebuild Priority............................................... 162 High Reliability.................................................................... 163 • Hard Drive Failure Prediction............................................ 163 • Auto Reassign Sector...................................................... 163 • Consistency Check.......................................................... 164 Data Protection...................................................................
INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction This section presents a brief overview of the SATA RAID Series controller, ARC-1110/1110ML/1120/1120ML/1130/1130ML/1160/ 1160ML/1170 (4/8/12/16/24-port PCI-X SATA RAID Controllers) and ARC-1210/1220/1210ML/1220ML/1230/1230/1231ML/1260/1261ML/ 1280/1280ML (4/8/12/16/24-port PCIe SATA RAID Controllers). 1.
INTRODUCTION chips, which can simultaneously communicate with the I/O processor and read or write data on multiple drives. Unsurpassed Data Availability As storage capacity requirements continue to rapidly increase, users require greater levels of disk drive fault tolerance, which can be implemented without doubling the investment in disk drives. RAID 1 (mirroring) provides high fault tolerance.
INTRODUCTION can be accessed through the ArcHttp proxy server function in Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and more environments. This web browserbased McRAID storage manager utility allows both local and remote creation and modification RAID sets, volume sets, and monitoring of RAID status from standard web browsers. 1.
INTRODUCTION • • • • Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuilding Greater than 2TB per volume set for 64-bit LBA Redundant flash image for adapter availability Support SMART, NCQ and OOB staggered spin-up capable drives Monitors/Notification • System status indication through LED/LCD connector, HDD activity/fault connector, and alarm buzzer • SMTP support for email notification • SNMP agent supports for remote SNMP manager • I2C Enclosure Management Ready (IOP331/332/333) • I2C & SGPIO Enclo
INTRODUCTION • SCO Unixware 7.1.4 • Mac OS 10.X (EFI BIOS support) (For latest supported OS listing visit http://www.areca.com.
INTRODUCTION Internal PCI-Express RAID Card Comparison (ARC-12X1ML/1280) 1231ML 1261ML RAID processor Cache Memory 1280 IOP341 Host Bus Type RAID 6 support 1280ML PCI-Express X8 YES YES YES YES One DDR2 DIMM (Default 256MB, Upgrade to 2GB) Drive Support 12 * SATA ll 16 * SATA ll 24 * SATA ll 24 * SATA ll Disk Connector 3*SFF-8087 4*SFF-8087 6*SFF-8087 24*SATA 15
HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2. Hardware Installation This section describes the procedure for installing the SATA RAID controllers. 2.1 Before Your Begin Installation Thank you for purchasing the SATA RAID Controller as your RAID data storage and management system. This user guide gives you a simple step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring the SATA RAID Controller.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2.2 Board Layout Follow the instructions below to install a PCI RAID Card into your PC / Server.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2-3, ARC-1110ML/1120ML (4/8-port PCI-X SATA RAID Controller) Figure 2-4, ARC-1210ML/1220ML (4-port PCI-Express SATA RAID Controller) 18
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2-5, ARC-1130/1160 (12/16-port PCI-X SATA RAID Controller) Figure 2-6, ARC-1130ML/1160ML (12/16-port PCI-X SATA RAID Controller) 19
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2-7, ARC-1230/1260 (12/16-port PCI-EXpress SATA RAID Controller) Figure 2-8, ARC-1170 (24-port PCI-X SATA RAID Controller) 20
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2-9, ARC-1280 (24-port PCI-Express SATA RAID Controller) Figure 2-10, ARC-1231ML/1261ML/1280ML (12/16/24-port PCI-Express SATA RAID Controller) 21
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Tools Required An ESD grounding strap or mat is required. Also required are standard hand tools to open your system’s case. System Requirement The controller can be installed in a universal PCI slot and requires a motherboard that: ARC-11xx series required one of the following: • Complies with the PCI Revision 2.3 32/64-bit 33/66MHz, 3.3V. • Complies with the PCI-X 32/64-bit 66/100/133 MHz, 3.3V.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Warning: High voltages may be found inside computer equipment. Before installing any of the hardware in this package or removing the protective covers of any computer equipment, turn off power switches and disconnect power cords. Do not reconnect the power cords until you have replaced the covers. Electrostatic Discharge Static electricity can cause serious damage to the electronic components on this SATA RAID controller.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Step 3. Install the PCI RAID Cards To install the SATA RAID controller remove the mounting screw and existing bracket from the rear panel behind the selected PCI slot. Align the gold-fingered edge on the card with the selected PCI expansion slot. Press gently but firmly down to ensure that the card is properly seated in the slot, as shown in Figure 2-11. Next, screw the bracket into the computer chassis. ARC-11xx controllers can fit in both PCI (32-bit/3.3V) and PCI-X slots.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2-12, Mount Cages & Drives Step 5. Connect the SATA Cable Model ARC-11XX and ARC-12XX controllers have dual-layer SATA internal connectors. If you have not yet connected your SATA cables, use the cables included with your kit to connect the controller to the SATA hard drives. The cable connectors are all identical, so it does not matter which end you connect to your controller, SATA hard drive, or cage backplane SATA connector.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Step 5-2. Connect the Multi-lance Cable Model ARC-11XXML has multi-lance internal connectors, each of them can support up to four SATA drives. These adapters can be installed in a server RAID enclosure with a Multi-lance connector (SFF-8470) backplane. Multi-lance cables are not included in the ARC-11XXML package. If you have not yet connected your Multi-lance cables, use the cables included with your enclosure to connect your controller to the Multi-lance connector backplane.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2-15, Min SAS 4i to 4*SATA Cable For sideband cable signal Please refer to page 51 for SGPIO bus. Step 5-4. Connect the Min SAS 4i to Multi-lance Cable Model ARC-1231ML/1261ML/1280ML have Min SAS 4i internal connectors, each of them can support up to four SATA drives. These controllers can be installed in a server RAID enclosure with a Multilance connector (SFF-8470) backplane. Multi-lance cables are not included in the ARC-12XXML package.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Step 5-5. Connect the Min SAS 4i to Min SAS 4i Cable Model ARC-1231ML/1261ML/1280ML have Min SAS 4i (SFF-8087) internal connectors, each of them can support up to four SATA drives and SGPIO (Serial General Purpose Input/Output) side-band signals . These adapters can be installed in a server RAID enclosure with a Min SAS 4i internal connector backplane. Min SAS 4i cables are not included in the ARC-12XXML package.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Name Pin Name Pin HDD R0+ A2 HDD T0+ B2 HDD R0- A3 HDD T0- B3 HDD R1+ A5 HDD T1+ B5 HDD R1- A6 HDD T1- B6 Sideband 0 A8 Sideband 7 B8 Sideband 1 A9 Sideband 3 B9 Sideband 2 A10 Sideband 4 B10 Sideband 6 A11 Sideband 5 B11 HDD R2+ A13 HDD T2+ B13 HDD R2- A14 HDD T2- B14 HDD R3+ A16 HDD T3+ B16 HDD R3- A17 HDD T3- B17 GND A1, A4, A7, A12, A15, A18 GND B1, B4, B7, B12, B15, B18 Table-1 Min SAS 4i cable(SFF8087) pin assignment Step 5-
HARDWARE INSTALLATION If you have not connected your Min SAS 4x cables yet, use the cables included with your enclosure to connect your controller to the Min SAS 4x connector. This type of cable will depend on what enclosure you have. The above diagram shows one example picture of Min SAS 4x cable. Step 6. Install the LED Cable (optional) ARC-1XXX Series Fault/Activity Header Intelligent Electronics Schematic.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION The following diagrams and description describes each type of connector. Note: A cable for the global indicator comes with your computer system. Cables for the individual drive LEDs may come with a drive cage or you may need to purchase them. A: Global indicator connector If the system use only a single global indicator, attach the global indicator cable to the two pins HDD LED connector. The following diagrams show the connector and pin locations.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2-22, ARC-1170 global LED connection for computer case. Figure 2-23, ARC-1280 global LED connection for computer case. Figure 2-24, ARC-1231ML/ 1261ML/1280ML global LED connection for computer case.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION B: Individual LED indicator connector Connect the cables for the drive activity LEDs and fault LEDs between the backplane of the cage and the respective connector on the SATA RAID controller. The following describes the fault/activity LED. LED Normal Status Activity LED When the activity LED is illuminated, there is I/O activity on that disk drive. When the LED is dark, there is no activity on that disk drive.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2-26, ARC1130/1160/1230/1260 individual LED indicators connector, for each channel drive. Figure 2-27, ARC-1170 individual LED indicators connector, for each channel drive. Figure 2-28, ARC-1280 individual LED indicators connector, for each channel drive.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2-29, ARC-1231ML/ 1261ML/1280ML individual LED indicators connector, for each channel drive. C: I2C Connector You can also connect the I2C interface to a SATA backplane enclosure which includes Areca CPLD decoder controller on the backplane. This can reduce the number of activity LED and/or fault LED cables. The I2C interface can also cascade to another SATA backplane enclosure for the additional channel status display.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Figure 2-31, Activity/Fault LED I2C connector connected between SATA RAID controller & 4 SATA HDD backplane. Note: Ci-Design has supported this feature in its 4-port 12-633605A SATA ll backplane. The following is the I2C signal name description for LCD & fault/activity LED.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION The SGPIO bus is used for efficient LED management and for sensing drive locate status. See SFF 8485 for the specification of the SGPIO bus.The number of drives supported can be increased, by a factor of four, by adding similar backplane to maximum of 24 drives (6 backplanes) LED Management: The backplane may contain LEDs to indicate drive status. Light from the LEDs could be transmitted to the outside of the server by using light pipes mounted on the SATA drive tray.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Step 7. Re-check the SATA HDD LED and Fault LED Cable Connections Be sure that the proper failed drive channel information is displayed by the fault and HDD activity LEDs. An improper connection will tell the user to ‘‘Hot Swap’’ the wrong drive. This will remove the wrong disk (one that is functioning properly) from the controller. This can result in failure and loss of system data. Step 8.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Note: Look for latest release versions of drivers, please download from http://www.areca.com.tw Step 11. Install ArcHttp Proxy Server The SATA RAID controller firmware has embedded the web-browser McRAID storage manager. ArcHttp proxy server will enable it. The browser-based McRAID storage manager provides all of the creation, management, and monitor SATA RAID controller status. Please refer to the Chapter 5 for the detail ArcHttp Proxy Server Installation.
HARDWARE INSTALLATION Configuration Utility Operating System Supported McBIOS RAID Manager OS-Independent McRAID Storage Manager (Via Archttp proxy server) Windows 2000/XP/2003, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac SAP Monitor (Single Admin Portal to scan for multiple RAID units in the network, Via ArcHttp proxy server) Windows 2000/XP/2003 SNMP Manager Console Integration Windows 2000/XP/2003, Linux, FreeBSD McRAID Storage Manager Before launching the firmware-embedded web server, McRAID storage manag
HARDWARE INSTALLATION • In-Band-Using PCI-X/PCIe Bus (4/8/12/16/24-port Controller) Before launching the SNMP agent in the sever, you need to enable the fireware-embedded SNMP community configuration first and install Areca SNMP extension agent in your server system.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3. McBIOS RAID Manager The system mainboard BIOS automatically configures the following SATA RAID controller parameters at power-up: • I/O Port Address • Interrupt Channel (IRQ) • Adapter ROM Base Address Use McBIOS RAID manager to further configure the SATA RAID controller to suit your server hardware and operating system. 3.1 Starting the McBIOS RAID Manager This section explains how to use the McBIOS RAID manager to configure your RAID system.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Setup Select An Adapter To Configure ( 3/14/ 0)I/O=DD200000h, IRQ = 9 ArrowKey Or AZ:Move Cursor, Enter: Select, ** Select & Press F10 to Reboot** Use the Up and Down arrow keys to select the adapter you want to configure. While the desired adapter is highlighted, press the Enter key to enter the main menu of the McBIOS RAID manager.
BIOS CONFIGURATION • • • • • Modify volume sets, Modify RAID level/stripe size, Define pass-through disk drives, Modify system functions, and Designate drives as hot spares. 3.3 Configuring Raid Sets and Volume Sets You can configure RAID sets and volume sets with McBIOS RAID manager automatically using “Quick Volume/Raid Setup” or manually using “Raid Set/Volume Set Function”. Each configuration method requires a different level of user input.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.5 Using Quick Volume/Raid Setup Configuration “Quick Volume/Raid Setup” configuration collects all available drives and includes them in a RAID set. The RAID set you create is associated with exactly one volume set. You will only be able to modify the default RAID level, the stripe size, and the capacity of the new volume set. Designating drives as hot spares is also possible in the RAID level selection option.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 The capacity for the current volume set is entered after highlighting the desired RAID level and pressing the Enter key. The capacity for the current volume set is displayed. Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to set the capacity of the volume set and press the Enter key to confirm. The available stripe sizes for the current volume set are then displayed. 4 Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select the current volume set stripe size and press the Enter key to confirm.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Step Action 1 To setup the hot spare (option), choose “Raid Set Function” from the main menu. Select the “Create Hot Spare” and press the Enter key to define the hot spare. 2 Choose “RAID Set Function” from the main menu. Select “Create Raid Set” and press the Enter key. 3 The “Select a Drive For Raid Set” window is displayed showing the SATA drives connected to the SATA RAID controller. 4 Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select specific physical drives.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 11 If space remains in the raid set, the next volume set can be configured. Repeat steps 8 to 10 to configure another volume set. Note: The “Modify Volume Set” method provides the same functions as the “Create Volume Set” configuration method. In the “Volume Set function”, you can use “Modify Volume Set” to change all volume set parameters except for capacity (size). 3.
BIOS CONFIGURATION This password option allows user to set or clear the RAID controller’s password protection feature. Once the password has been set, the user can only monitor and configure the raid controller by providing the correct password. The password is used to protect the internal RAID controller from unauthorized entry. The controller will only prompt for the password when entering the main menu from the initial screen.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Set. Select “Quick Volume/RAID Setup” from the main menu; all possible RAID level will be displayed on the screen. If volume capacity will exceed 2TB, controller will show the “Greater Two TB Volume Support” sub-menu.
BIOS CONFIGURATION A single volume set is created and consumes all or a portion of the disk capacity available in this RAID set. Define the capacity of volume set in the “Available Capacity” popup. The default value for the volume set, which is 100% of the available capacity, is displayed in the selected capacity. Use the UP and DOWN keys to select the capacity, press the Enter key to accept this value.
BIOS CONFIGURATION are certain that your computer performs random reads more often, select a smaller stripe size. Press the Yes option in the “Create Vol/Raid Set” dialog box, the RAID set and volume set will start to initialize it. Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Available Capacity : 160.1GB Quick Volume/Raid Setup Selected Capacity : 160.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume/Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System Information ArrowKey Or AZ:Move Cursor, Enter: Select, ESC: Escape, L:Line Draw, X: Redraw 3.7.2.1 Create Raid Set To define a RAID set, follow the procedure below: 1.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 4. An “Edit The Raid Set Name” dialog box appears. Enter 1 to 15 alphanumeric characters to define a unique identifier for the RAID set. The default RAID set name will always appear as Raid Set. #.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.2.3 Expand Raid Set Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Raid Set Function Quick Volume/Raid Setup Create Raid Set Raid Set Function Raid Set VolumeDelete Set Function Select Drives For Raid Set Expansion Exp Expand Physical DrivesRaid Set Activate Raid Set80.0GBST380013AS Are you Sure? [*]Ch05| Raid System Function Create Spare 80.
BIOS CONFIGURATION • Migrating Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Raid Set Function Quick Volume/Raid Setup Create Raid Set Raid Set Function The Raid Set Information Raid Set VolumeDelete Set Function Expand RaidSet Set Name : Raid Set # 00 Physical DrivesRaid Activate Raid Set Disks Member : 4 Raid System Function Create Hot Spare Raid State : Migrating Ethernet Configuration DeleteEvents Hot Spare Total Capacity
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Raid Set Function Quick Volume/Raid Setup Create Raid Set Raid Set Function Raid SetRaid Set Information The VolumeDelete Set Function Expand Physical DrivesRaid Set Raid Set Name : Raid Set # 00 Active Raid Set Activate Raid Set Raid System Function : 4 Create HotMember Spare Disks Ethernet Configuration State : Migrating DeleteEvents HotRaid Spare View System T
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.2.6 Delete Hot Spare Select the target hot spare disk to delete by clicking on the appropriate check box. Press the Enter keys to select a hot spare disk drive, and press Yes in the “Delete Hot Spare” screen to delete the hot spare.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.3 Volume Set Function A volume set is seen by the host system as a single logical device; it is organized in a RAID level within the controller utilizing one or more physical disks. RAID level refers to the level of data performance and protection of a volume set. A volume set can consume all of the capacity or a portion of the available disk capacity of a RAID set. Multiple volume sets can exist on a RAID set.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Volume Set Function Quick Volume/Raid Setup Raid Set Function Create Volume Set Volume Set Function Create Volume From Raid Set Delete Volume Set Physical Drives Modify Volume Raid Set # 00 Raid System FunctionSet Check Volume Set Raid Set # 01 Ethernet Configuration StopVolume Check View System Events Display Volume Info.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Volume Set Function Quick Volume/Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Create Volume Set Creation Volume Set Function Create Volume From Raid Set Delete Volume Set Physical Drives Volume Name : Volume Set # 00 Modify Function Volume SetRaid Set # 00 Initialization Mode Raid System Raid Level : 5 Check Volume SetRaid Set # 01 Ethernet Configuration Capacity : 160.
BIOS CONFIGURATION The available RAID levels for the current volume set are displayed. Select a RAID level and press the Enter key to confirm.
BIOS CONFIGURATION • No It keeps the volume size with max. 2TB limitation. • LBA 64 This option uses 16 bytes CDB instead of 10 bytes. The maximum volume capacity supports up to 512TB. This option works on different OS which supports 16 bytes CDB. Such as: Windows 2003 with SP1 Linux kernel 2.6.x or latter • For Windows It change the sector size from default 512 Bytes to 4k Byetes. the maximum volume capacity up to 16TB. This option works under Windows platform only.
BIOS CONFIGURATION • Stripe Size This parameter sets the size of segment written to each disk in a RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, or 6 logical drive. You can set the stripe size to 4 KB, 8 KB, 16 KB, 32 KB, 64 KB, or 128 KB.
BIOS CONFIGURATION • SCSI ID Each device attached to the SATA card, as well as the card itself, must be assigned a unique SCSI ID number. A SCSI channel can connect up to 15 devices. It is necessary to assign a SCSI ID to each device from a list of available SCSI IDs.
BIOS CONFIGURATION • Cache Mode User can set the cache mode to either “Write Through” or “Write Back” cache.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.3.2 Delete Volume Set To delete volume set from a RAID set, move the cursor bar to the “Delete Volume Set” item, then press the Enter key. The “Volume Set Functions” menu will show all Raid Set # items. Move the cursor bar to a RAID set number, then press the Enter key to show all volume sets within that RAID set. Move the cursor to the volume set number that is to be deleted and press Enter key to delete it.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Volume Set Function Quick Volume/Raid Setup Select Volume To Modify Raid Set Function Volume Modification Create Volume Set Volume Set # 00 Volume Set Function ModifySet Volume From Raid Set Delete Volume Physical Drives Volume Name : Volume Set # 00 Modify Volume SetRaid Set # 00 t Raid System Function Raid Level : 6 Check Volume Set Raid Set :# 160.
BIOS CONFIGURATION For greater 2TB expansion: • If your system installed in the volume, don't expand the volume capacity greater 2TB, currently OS can’t support boot up from a greater 2TB capacity device. • Expand over 2TB used LBA64 mode. Please make sure your OS supports LBA64 before expand it. 3.7.3.3.2 Volume Set Migration Migrating occurs when a volume set is migrating from one RAID level to another, when a volume set strip size changes, or when a disk is added to a RAID set.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Volume Set Function Quick Volume/Raid Setup Select Volume To Check Raid Set Function Create Volume Set Volume Set # 00 Volume Set Function Check Volume From Raid Set Delete Volume Set Physical Drives Modify Function Volume SetRaid Set # 00 Check The Volume ? Raid System Check Volume Set Ethernet Configuration Raid Set # 01 Yes StopVolume Check View System Events
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.
BIOS CONFIGURATION When you choose this option, the physical disks connected to the SATA RAID controller are listed. Move the cursor to the desired drive and press Enter to view drive information. 3.7.4.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.4.4 Delete Pass-Through Disk Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume/Raid Setup Physical Drive Information Raid Set Function VolumeView Set Function Drive Information Select The Drive Physical Drive Information DrivesPass-Through Create Disk Delete Pass-Through Raid System ModifyFunction Pass-Through Disk Pass Through |ST380013AS Ch01| 80.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.5 Raid System Function To set the RAID system function, move the cursor bar to the main menu and select the “Raid System Function” item and then press Enter key. The “Raid System Function” menu will show multiple items. Move the cursor bar to an item, then press Enter key to select the desired function.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.5.
BIOS CONFIGURATION screen. The system will automatically go back to the initial screen if it does not receive any command in 20 seconds. To set or change the password, move the cursor to “Raid System Function” screen, press the “Change Password” item. The “Enter New Password” screen will appear. To disable the password, only press Enter key in both the “Enter New Password” and “Re-Enter New Password” column. The existing password will be cleared. No password checking will occur when entering the main menu.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.5.
BIOS CONFIGURATION be dynamically rescheduled or re-ordered, along with the necessary tracking mechanisms for outstanding and completed portions of the workload. The SATA RAID controller allows the user to choose the SATA Mode: SATA150, SATA150+NCQ, SATA300, SATA300+NCQ. 3.7.5.7 HDD Read Ahead Cache Allow Read Ahead (Default: Enabled)—When Enabled, the drive’ s read ahead cache algorithm is used, providing maximum performance under most circumstances.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Areca RAID controller has included the option for customer to select the disk drives sequentially stagger power up value. The values can be selected from 0.4s to 6s per step which powers up one drive. Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Raid System Function Power On Quick Volume/Raid Setup Mute The Stagger Alert Beeper Raid SetAlert Function Beeper Setting 0.4 Volume Change Set Function Password 0.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.5.10 HDD SMART Status Polling An external RAID enclosure has the hardware monitor in the dedicated backplane that can report HDD temperature status to the controller. However, PCI cards do not use backplanes if the drives are internal to the main server chassis. The type of enclosure cannot report the HDD temperature to the controller. For this reason, "HDD SMART Status Polling" was added to enable scanning of the HDD temperature function.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main MenuRaid System Function Quick Volume/Raid Mute TheSetup Alert Beeper Raid Set Function Alert Beeper Setting Volume Set Function Change Password Physical Drives JBOD/RAID Function Raid System Function TaskController Background Priority Fan Detection Ethernet Configuration Maximum SATA Mode Disabled View System Events HDD Read Ahead Cache Enabled Clear Event Buffer Pow
BIOS CONFIGURATION The controller provides three truncation modes in the system configuration: “Multiples Of 10G”, “Multiples Of 1G”, and “No Truncation”. Multiples Of 10G: If you have 120 GB drives from different vendors; chances are that the capacity varies slightly. For example, one drive might be 123.5 GB, and the other 120 GB. “Multiples Of 10G” truncates the number under tens. This makes the same capacity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume/Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System Information ArrowKey Or AZ:Move Cursor, Enter: Select, ESC: Escape, L:Line Draw, X: Redraw 3.7.6.
BIOS CONFIGURATION ure the DHCP function of the controller, move the cursor bar to “DHCP Function” item, then press Enter key to show the DHCP setting. Select the “Disabled’ or ‘Enabled” option to enable or disable the DHCP function. If DHCP is disabled, it will be necessary to manually enter a static IP address that does not conflict with other devices on the network. 3.7.6.
BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.7.6.3 Ethernet Address A MAC address stands for “Media Access Control” address and is unique to every single Ethernet device. On an Ethernet LAN, it’s the same as your Ethernet address. When you’re connected to a local network from the SATA RAID controller Ethernet port, a correspondence table relates your IP address to the SATA RAID controller’s physical (MAC) address on the LAN.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Choose this option to view the system events information: Timer, Device, Event type, Elapsed Time, and Errors. The RAID system does not have a real time clock. The time information is the relative time from the SATA RAID controller powered on. 3.7.8 Clear Events Buffer Use this feature to clear the entire events buffer. 3.7.9 Hardware Monitor To view the RAID controller’s hardware monitor information, move the cursor bar to the main menu and click the “Hardware Monitor” link.
BIOS CONFIGURATION Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Quick Volume/Raid Setup The System Information Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Main Processor : 500MHz IOP331 Physical Drives CPU ICache Size : 32KB Raid System Function CPU DCache Size : 32KB/Write Back Ethernet Configuration System Memory : 128MB/333MHz View System Events Firmware Version : V1.31 2004-5-31 Clear Event Buffer BOOT ROM Version : V1.
DRIVER INSTALLATION 4. Driver Installation This chapter describes how to install the SATA RAID controller driver to your operating system. The installation procedures use the following terminology: Installing operating system on the SATA volume If you have a new drive configuration without an operating system and want to install operating system on a disk drive managed by the SATA RAID Controller. The driver installation is a part of the operating system installation.
DRIVER INSTALLATION These driver diskettes are intended for use with new operating system installations. Determine the correct kernel version and identify which diskette images contain drivers for that kernel. If the driver file ends in .img, create the appropriate driver diskette using “dd” utility. The following steps are required to create the driver diskettes: 1. The computer system BIOS must be set to boot-up from the CD-ROM. 2. Insert the SATA Controller Driver software CD disc into the CDROM drive.
DRIVER INSTALLATION 4.2 Driver Installation for Windows The SATA RAID controller can be used with Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Vista. The SATA RAID controllers support SCSI Miniport and StorPort device driver for Windows Server 2003/Vista. 4.2.1 New Storage Device Drivers in Windows 2003/XP-64/Vista The Storport driver is new to Windows 2003/XP-64/Vista.
DRIVER INSTALLATION For details, see Chapter 3 “McBIOS RAID manager”. Once a volume set is created and configured, continue with next step to install the operating system. 3. Insert the Windows setup CD and reboot the system to begin the Windows installation. Note: The computer system BIOS must support bootable from CD-ROM. 4. Press F6 key as soon as the Windows screen shows ”Setup is Inspecting your Computer’s Hardware Configuration”.
DRIVER INSTALLATION 9. After the installation is completed, reboot the system to load the new drivers/operating system. 10. See Chapter 5 in this manual to customize your RAID volume sets using McRAID storage manager. 4.2.2.2 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System When you reboot the system, log in as a system administrator. Continue with the following steps to make any additional volume sets or pass-through disks accessible to Windows.
DRIVER INSTALLATION 2. Start the system and then press Tab+F6 to enter the McBIOS RAID manager utility. Use the configuration utility to create the raid set and volume set. For details, see Chapter 3, McBIOS RAID Manager. Once a volume set is created and configured, continue with installation of the driver. 3. Re-Boot Windows and the OS will recognize the SATA RAID Controller and launch the “Found New Hardware Wizard”, which guides you in installing the SATA RAID driver. 4.
DRIVER INSTALLATION 4.2.3.1 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System When you reboot the system, log in as a system administrator. The following steps show how to make any new disk arrays or independent disks accessible to Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID controller hardware, driver, and Windows are installed and operational in your system. 1. Partition and format the new arrays or disks using Disk Administrator: a.
DRIVER INSTALLATION 3. Go to “Control Panel” and select “System”. Select the “Hardware” tab and then click the “Device Manager” button. In “Device Manager”, expand the “SCSI and RAID Controllers” section. Right click on the “Areca SATA RAID Adapter” and select “uninstall”. 4. Click “Yes” to confirm removing the SATA RAID driver. The prompt to restart the system will then be displayed. 4.
DRIVER INSTALLATION 4.4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD This chapter describes how to install the SATA RAID controller driver to FreeBSD. Before installing the SATA RAID driver to FreeBSD, complete following actions: 1. Install and configure the controller and hard disk drives according to the instructions in Chapter 2, Hardware Installation. 2. Start the system and then press Tab+F6 to enter the McBIOS RAID Manager configuration utility.
DRIVER INSTALLATION 2. Double-click on the following file that resides at \ packages\MacOS to add the installer on the Finder. a). install_mraid_mac.zip (For Power Mac G5) b). install_mraid_macpro.zip (For Mac Pro) 3. Launch the installer by double-clicking the install_mraid_mac or install_mraid_macpro on the Finder. 4. Follow the installer steps to install Areca driver, MRAID (archttp64 and arc_cli utility) at the same time. 5. Reboot your Power Mac G5 or Mac Pro system.
DRIVER INSTALLATION 4.8 Driver Installation for NetWare 6.5 Please refer to the “readme.txt” file on the software CD or a manual from website: http://www.areca.com.
ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 5. ArcHttp Proxy Server Installation Overview After hardware installation, the SATA disk drives connected to the SATA RAID controller must be configured and the volume set units initialized before they are ready to use. The user interface for these tasks can be accessed through the builtin configuration that resides in the controller’s firmware.
ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 5.1 For Windows You must have administrative level permissions to install SATA RAID software. This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID hardware and Windows are installed and operational in your system. Screen captures in this section are taken from a Windows XP installation. If you are running another version of Windows, your instalation screen may look different, but the ArcHttp proxy server installation is essentially the same. 1.
ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION Click on the “Start” button in the Windows task bar and then click “Program”, select the “McRAID” and run “ ArcHttp proxy server”. The ArcHttp proxy server dialog box appears. 1. When you select “Controller#01(PCI)” then click “Start” button. Then web broswer McRAId storage manager appears. 2. If you select “Cfg Assistant” then click “Start” button. The “ArcHttp Configuration” appears. (Please refer to section 5.6 ArcHttp Configuration) 5.
ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION (2). Copy \PACKAGES\Mac\http directory to local (Ex:/ usr/local/sbin). Or (1). Download from the www.areca.com.tw or from the email attachment. 2. You must have administrative level permissions to install SATA RAID controller ArcHttp proxy server software. This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID hardware and driver are installed and operational in your system.
ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION Controller [1] Http: New Recv 243 bytes Controller [1] Http: Send [174] bytes back to the client (3). If you need the “Cfg Assistant”, please refer to section 5.6 ArcHttp Configuration. (4). See the next chapter detailing the McRAID storage manager to customize your RAID volume set. 5.3 For FreeBSD You should have administrative level permissions to install SATA RAID software.
ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION firmware embedded McRAID storage manager can configure and monitor the SATA RAID controller via ArcHttp proxy server. The Archttp proxy server for Mac, please reference Chapter 4.6 Driver Installation for Mac 10.x or refer to the the Mac_manual_xxxx. pdf that resides at CD \DOCS directory. You can install driver, archttp64 and arc-cli from software CD < CD >\package\ Mac OS directory at the same time. 5.
ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION Scanning PCI Device: Select “Yes” for ARC-1XXX series adapter Scanning RS-232 Device: No Scanning Inband Device: No • Mail Configuration When you open the mail configuration page, you will see following settings: SMTP server IP Address: Enter the SMTP server IP address which is not McRAID storage manager IP. Ex: 192.168.0.2 Sender Name: Enter the sender name that will be shown in the outgoing mail.
ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION MailTo Name: Enter the alert receiver name that will be shown in the outgoing mail. Mail Address: Enter the alert receiver mail address. Ex: admin@areca.com.tw Note: Please make sure you have completed mail address before you submit mail configurations. • SNMP Trap Configuration Please refer to the 6.8.4 SNMP configuration(12/16/24-port) section. Configure configuration and submit.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6. Web Browser-based Configuration Before using the firmware-based browser McRAID storage manager utility, do the initial setup and installation of this product. If you need to boot up the operating system from a volume set, you must first create a RAID volume by using McBIOS RAID Manager. Please refer to section 3.3 Using Quick Volume /Raid Setup Configuration for information on creating this initial volume set.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION Linux or more and a supported browser. A locally managed system requires all of the following components: • A supported web browser, which should already be installed on the system. • Install ArcHttp proxy server on the SATA RAID system. (Refer to Chapter 5, Archttp Proxy Server Installation) • Remote and managed systems must have a TCP/IP connection.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION • Start-up McRAID Storage Manager from Linux/ FreeBSD/Solaris/Mac Local Administration To configure the SATA RAID controller. You need to know its IP address. You can find the IP address assigned by the Archttp proxy server installation:Binding IP:[X.X.X.X] for[Computer IP Address] and controller listen to port for [Port Number]. (1). Launch your McRAID storage manager by entering http:// [Computer IP Address]:[Port Number] in the web browser. (2).
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION To configure RAID controller on a remote machine, you need to know its IP address. The IP address will default show in McBIOS RAID manager of “Ethernet Configuration” or “System Information” option. Launch your firmware-embedded TCP/IP & web browser-based McRAID storage manager by entering http:// [IP Address] in the web browser. Note: You can find controller Ethernet port IP address in McBIOS RAID manager “System Information” option. 6.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.3 Main Menu The main menu shows all available functions, accessible by clicking on the appropriate link. Individual Category Description Quick Function Create a default configuration, which is based on the number of physical disks installed; it can modify the volume set Capacity, Raid Level, and Stripe Size. RaidSet Functions Create a customized RAID set. VolumeSet Functions Create customized volume sets and modify the existed volume sets parameter.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION The number of physical drives in the SATA RAID controller determines the RAID levels that can be implemented with the RAID set. You can create a RAID set associated with exactly one volume set. The user can change the RAID level, stripe size, and capacity. A hot spare option is also created depending upon the existing configuration.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.5.2 Delete Raid Set To delete a RAID set, click on the “Deleted Raid Set” link. The “Select The Raid Set To Delete” screen is displayed showing all existing RAID sets in the current controller. Click the RAID set number you which to delete in the select column on the delete screen. Click the “Confirm The Operation” check box and click on the “Submit” button in the screen to delete it. 6.5.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION The new additional capacity can be utilized by one or more volume sets. The volume sets associated with this RAID set appear for you to have chance to modify RAID level or stripe size. Follow the instruction presented in the “Modify Volume Set ” to modify the volume sets; operation system specific utilities may be required to expand operating system partitions. Note: 1. Once the “Expand Raid Set” process has started, user can not stop it. The process must be completed. 2.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION To activate the incomplete the RAID set, click on the “Activate Raid Set” link. A “Select The RAID SET To Activate” screen is displayed showing all RAID sets existing on the current controller. Click the RAID set number to activate in the select column. Click on the “Submit” button on the screen to activate the RAID set that had a disk removed (or failed) in the power off state. The SATA RAID controller will continue to work in degraded mode. 6.5.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION tion. The RAID controller uses the time as the RAID set signature. The RAID set may have different time after the RAID set is recovered. The “SIGANT” function can regenerate the signature for the RAID set. 6.5.8 Offline Raid Set This function is for customer being able to unmount and remount a multi-disk volume. All Hdds of the selected RAID set will be put into offline state, spun down and fault LED in fast blinking mode.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 3. The maximum addressable size of a single volume set is not limited to 2 TB because the controller is capable of 64-bit mode. However, the operating system itself may not be capable of addressing more than 2 TB. See the Areca website for details. To create a volume set on a RAID set, move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the “Create Volume Set” link. This “Select The Raid Set To Create On It” screen will show all RAID set numbers.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION "Greater Two TB Volume Support" sub-menu. Greater Two TB Volume Supports: No, 64bit LBA and For Windows options. For more details please download PDF file from ftp://ftp. areca.com.tw/RaidCards/Documents/Manual_Spec/ Over2TB_050721.zip • Initialization Mode Press Enter key to define “Background Initialization”, “Foreground Initialization” or “No Init (To Rescue Volume)”.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION controller is a large SCSI device. Assign an ID from a list of SCSI IDs. SCSI LUN: Each SCSI ID can support up to 8 LUNs. Most SATA RAID controllers treat each LUN like a SATA disk. • Tag Queuing The Enabled option is useful for enhancing overall system performance under multi-tasking operating systems. The Command Tag (Drive Channel) function controls the SCSI command tag queuing support for each drive channel. This function should normally remain enabled.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION modify. Click the “Submit” button. The following screen appears. Use this option to modify the volume set configuration. To modify volume set attributes, move the cursor bar to the volume set attribute menu and click it. The “Enter The Volume Attribute” screen appears. Move the cursor to an attribute item and then click the attribute to modify the value.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.6.3.2 Volume Set Migration Migrating occurs when a volume set is migrating from one RAID level to another, when a volume set strip size changes, or when a disk is added to a RAID set. Migration status is displayed in the volume state area of the “Volume Set Information” screen. 6.6.4 Check Volume Set To check a volume set from a RAID set: (1). Click on the “Check Volume Set” link. (2). Click on the volume set from the list that you wish to check.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.6.5 Stop VolumeSet Check Use this option to stop the “Check Volume Set function”. 6.7 Physical Drive Choose this option to select a physical disk from the main menu and then perform the operations listed below. 6.7.1 Create Pass Through Disk To create pass through disk, move the mouse cursor to the main menu and click on the “Create Pass Through” link. The “Select the IDE Drive For Pass Through” screen appears.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.7.2 Modify Pass Through Disk Use this option to modify the “Pass Through Disk Attribute”. The user can modify the Cache Mode, Tagged Command Queuing, and SCSI channel/ID/LUN on an existing pass through disk. To modify the pass through drive attribute from the pass through drive pool, move the mouse cursor bar and click on the “Modify Pass Through” link.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.7.4 Identify Selected Drive To prevent removal of the wrong drive, the selected fault LED will blink so as to physically locate the intended disk when “Identify Selected Drive” is selected. To identify the selected drive from the drives pool, click “Identify Selected Drive”. The “Select The IDE Device For Identification” screen appears mark the check box for the SATA device from the drive pool.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION • JBOD/RAID Configuration JBOD is an acronym for “Just a Bunch Of Disk”. A group of hard disks in a RAID controllers are not set up as any type of RAID configuration. All drives are available to the operating system as an individual disk. JBOD does not provide data redundancy. User needs to delete the RAID set, when you want to change the option from the RAID to the JBOD function.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION SATA RAID controller has included the option for customer to select the disk drives sequentially stagger power up value. The values can be selected from 0.4s to 6s per step which powers up one drive. • Empty HDD Slot LED The firmware has added the "Empty HDD Slot LED" option to setup the fault LED light "ON "or "OFF" when there is no HDD installed. When each slot has a power LED for the HDD installed identify, user can set this option to "OFF".
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION • HDD SMART Status Polling An external RAID enclosure has the hardware monitor in the dedicated backplane that can report HDD temperature status to the controller. However, PCI type controllers do not use backplanes if the drives are internal to the main server chassis. The type of enclosure cannot report the HDD temperature to the controller. For this reason, "HDD SMART Status Polling" function was added to enable scanning of the HDD temperature function.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION • Disk Capacity Truncation Mode SATA RAID controller use drive truncation so that drives from differing vendors are more likely to be able to be used as spares for each other. Drive truncation slightly decreases the usable capacity of a drive that is used in redundant units. The controller provides three truncation modes in the system configuration: “Multiples Of 10G”, “Multiples Of 1G”, and “No Truncation”.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.8.2 Ethernet Configuration (12/16/24-port) Use this feature to set the controller Ethernet port configuration. A customer doesn’t need to create a reserved space on the arrays before the Ethernet port and HTTP service are working. The firmware-embedded Web Browser-based RAID storage manager can access it from any standard internet browser or from any host computer either directly connected or via a LAN or WAN with no software or patches required.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.8.3 Alert by Mail Configuration (12/16/24port) To configure the SATA RAID controller e-mail function, move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the “System Controls” link. The “System Controls” menu will show all items. Move the cursor bar to the “Alert By Mail Config” item, then select the desired function. This function can only be set via web-based configuration. The firmware contains a SMTP manager monitoring all system events.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION • SNMP Trap Configurations Enter the SNMP Trap IP Address. • SNMP System Configurations About community, please refer to Appendix C of SNMP community name. The system Contact, Name and Location that will be shown in the outgoing SNMP Trap. • SNMP Trap Notification Configurations Please refer to Appendix D of Event Notification Table. 6.8.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION • NTP Sever Address The most important factor in providing accurate, reliable time is the selection of NTP servers to be used in the configuration file. Typical NTP configurations utilize multiple redundant servers and diverse network paths in order to achieve high accuracy and reliability. Our NTP configuration supports two existing public NTP synchronization subnets.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.8.6 View Events/Mute Beeper To view the SATA RAID controller’s information, click on the “View Events/Mute Beeper” link. The SATA RAID controller “System Events information” screen appears. Choose this option to view the system events information: Timer, Device, Event type, Elapse Time and Errors. The RAID system does not have a built-in real time clock. The time information is the relative time from the SATA RAID controller power on. 6.8.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.8.8 Clear Events Buffer Use this feature to clear the entire events buffer information. 6.8.9 Modify Password To set or change the SATA RAID controller password, select “Modify Password” from the menu and click on the “Modify Password” link. The “Modify System Password” screen appears. The manufacture default password is set to 0000. The password option allows user to set or clear the SATA RAID controller’s password protection feature.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.8.10 Update Firmware Please refer to the appendix A Upgrading Flash ROM Update Process. 6.9 Information 6.9.1 RaidSet Hierarchy Use this feature to view the SATA RAID controller current RAID set, current volume set and physical disk configuration. Please reference this chapter “Configuring Raid Sets and Volume Sets”.
WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION 6.9.2 System Information To view the SATA RAID controller’s information, move the mouse cursor to the main menu and click on the “System Information” link. The “Raid Subsystem Information” screen appears. Use this feature to view the SATA RAID controller’s information. The controller name, firmware version, serial number, main processor, CPU data/instruction cache size and system memory size/ speed appear in this screen. 6.9.
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APPENDIX Appendix A Upgrading Flash ROM Update Process Since the SATA RAID controller features flash firmware, it is not necessary to change the hardware flash chip in order to upgrade the RAID firmware. The user can simply re-program the old firmware through the In-Band PCI-X/PCIe bus or Out-of-Band Enthernet port McRAID storage manager. New releases of the firmware are available in the form of a DOS file on the shipped CD or Areca’s web site.
APPENDIX 1. To upgrade the RAID controller firmware, move the mouse cursor to “Upgrade Firmware” link. The “Upgrade The Raid System Firmware” screen appears. 2. Click "Browser". Look in the location to which the firmware upgrade software was downloaded. Select the file name and click “Open”. All files (BIOS, BOOT, FIRM and MBR0) can be updated through this function. 3. Click “Confirm The Operation” and press the “Submit” button. 4.
APPENDIX From a remote PC, you can directly open a web browser and enter the IP address. Then enter user name and password to login and start your management. You can find the firmware update feature in the browser console: "System Controls" option. Upgrading Firmware Through nflash DOS Utility Areca now offers an alternative means communication for the SATA RAID controller – Upgrade the all files (BIOS, BOOT, FIRM and MBR0) without necessary system starting up to running the ArcHttp proxy server.
APPENDIX Note: Areca SAS and SATA ll RAID controller firmware version 1.43 date: Feb 2007 and later has supported the ATA-8 spec for HDD microcode download, allowing customer using nflash DOS utility or web browser to upgrade ATA-8 spec for microcode download supported HDD's firmware connected with Areca's entire family RAID controllers without necessary removing any single drive and upgrade.
APPENDIX Appendix B Battery Backup Module (ARC6120-BATTxx) The SATA RAID controller operates using cache memory. The Battery Backup Module is an add-on module that provides power to the SATA RAID controller cache memory in the event of a power failure. The Battery Backup Module monitors the write back cache on the SATA RAID controller, and provides power to the cache memory if it contains data not yet written to the hard drives when power failure occurs.
APPENDIX Battery Backup Capacity Battery backup capacity is defined as the maximum duration of a power failure for which data in the cache memory can be maintained by the battery. The BBM’s backup capacity varied with the memory chips that installed on the SATA RAID controller. Capacity 128MB DDR Memory Type Battery Backup duration (Hours) Low Power (18mA) 56 Operation 1. Battery conditioning is automatic.
APPENDIX 2. 3. 4. to 5. 6. Disconnect the BBM cable from J2 on the RAID controller. Disconnect the battery pack cable from JP2 on the BBM. Install a new battery pack and connect the new battery pack JP2. Connect the BBM to J2 on the SATA RAID controller. Disable the write-back function from the McBIOS or Utility. Note: Do not remove BBM while system is running. Battery Functionality Test Procedure: 1. Writing amount of data into controller volume, about 5GB or bigger. 2.
APPENDIX Appendix C SNMP Operation & Definition Overview The McRAID storage manager includes a firmware-embedded Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent and SNMP Extension Agent for the SATA RAID controller. An SNMP-based management application (also known as an SNMP manager) can monitor the disk array. An example of An SNMP management application is Hewlett-Packard’s Open View.
APPENDIX MIB Compilation and Definition File Creation Before the manager application accesses the SATA RAID controller, it is necessary to integrate the MIB into the management application’s database of events and status indicator codes. This process is known as compiling the MIB into the application. This process is highly vendor-specific and should be well-covered in the User’s Guide of your SNMP application. Ensure the compilation process successfully integrates the contents of the ARECARAID.
APPENDIX Starting the SNMP Function Setting • Community Name Community name acts as a password to screen accesses to the SNMP agent of a particular network device. Type in the community names of the SNMP agent. Before access is granted to a request station, this station must incorporate a valid community name into its request; otherwise, the SNMP agent will deny access to the system. Most network devices use “public” as default of their community names. This value is case-sensitive.
APPENDIX 2. Run the setup.exe file that resides at: \packages\ windows\http\setup.exe on the CD-ROM. (If SNMP service was not installed, please install SNMP service first.) 3. Click on the “Setup.exe” file then the welcome screen appears. 4. Click the “Next” button and then the “Ready Install the Program” screen appears. Follow the on-screen prompts to complete Areca SNMP Extension Agent installation.
APPENDIX 5. A Progress bar appears that measures the progress of the Areca SNMP Extension Agent setup. When this screen complete, you have completed the Areca SNMP Extension Agent setup. 6. After a successful installation, the “Installshield Wizard Completed” dialog box of the installation program is displayed. Click the “Finish” button to complete the installation. Starting SNMP Trap Notification Configruations To start "SNMP Trap Notification Configruations", There have two methods.
APPENDIX SNMP Community Configurations Please refer to the community name in this appendix. SNMP Trap Notification Configruations The "Community Name" should be the same as firmwareembedded SNMP community. The "SNMP Trap Notification Configruations" include level 1: Serious, level 2: Error, level 3: Warning and level 4: Information.
APPENDIX hardware and Linux are installed and operational in your system. For the SNMP Extension Agent Installation for Linux procedure, please refer to \packages\Linux\SNMP\Readme or download from http://www.areca.com.tw SNMP Extension Agent Installation for FreeBSD You must have administrative level permission to install SATA RAID software. This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID hardware and FreeBSD are installed and operational in your system.
APPENDIX Appendix D Event Notification Configurations The controller classifies disk array events into four levels depending on their severity. These include level 1: Urgent, level 2: Serious, level 3: Warning and level 4: Information.
APPENDIX PassThrough Disk Created Inform Pass Through Disk created PassThrough Disk Modified Inform Pass Through Disk modified PassThrough Disk Deleted Inform Pass Through Disk deleted B.
APPENDIX C. RAID Set Event Event Level Meaning Create RaidSet Warning New raidset created Delete RaidSet Warning Raidset deleted Expand RaidSet Warning Raidset expanded Rebuild RaidSet Warning Raidset rebuilding RaidSet Degraded Urgent Raidset degraded Action Replace HDD D.
APPENDIX Telnet Log Serious a Telnet login detected InVT100 Log In Serious a VT100 login detected API Log In Serious a API login detected Lost Rebuilding/ MigrationLBA Urgent Some rebuilding/ migration raidset member disks missing before power on. Reinserted the missing member disk back, controller will continue the incompleted rebuilding/ migration. Note: It depends on models, not every model will encounter all events.
APPENDIX Appendix E RAID Concept RAID Set A RAID set is a group of disks connected to a RAID controller. A RAID set contains one or more volume sets. The RAID set itself does not define the RAID level (0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 6, etc); the RAID level is defined within each volume set. Therefore, volume sets are contained within RAID sets and RAID Level is defined within the volume set.
APPENDIX In the illustration, volume 1 can be assigned a RAID level 5 of operation while volume 0 might be assigned a RAID level 10 of operation. Alternatively, the free space can be used to create volume 2, which could then be set to use RAID level 5. Ease of Use Features • Foreground Availability/Background Initialization RAID 0 and RAID 1 volume sets can be used immediately after creation because they do not create parity data.
APPENDIX on the existing volume sets (residing on the newly expanded RAID set) is redistributed evenly across all the disks. A contiguous block of unused capacity is made available on the RAID set. The unused capacity can be used to create additional volume sets. A disk, to be added to a RAID set, must be in normal mode (not failed), free (not spare, in a RAID set, or passed through to host) and must have at least the same capacity as the smallest disk capacity already in the RAID set.
APPENDIX • Online RAID Level and Stripe Size Migration For those who wish to later upgrade to any RAID capabilities, a system with Areca online RAID level/stripe size migration allows a simplified upgrade to any supported RAID level without having to reinstall the operating system. The SATA RAID controllers can migrate both the RAID level and stripe size of an existing volume set, while the server is online and the volume set is in use.
APPENDIX is completed, the volume set transitions to degraded mode. If a global hot spare is present, then it further transitions to rebuilding state. • Online Volume Expansion Performing a volume expansion on the controller is the process of growing only the size of the lastest volume. A more flexible option is for the array to concatenate an additional drive into the RAID set and then expand the volumes on the fly.
INTRODUCTION ically take its place and the data previously located on the failed drive is reconstructed on the global hot spare. For this feature to work properly, the global hot spare must have at least the same capacity as the drive it replaces. Global hot spares only work with RAID level 1, 10, 3, 5, or 6 volume set. You can configure up to three global hot spares with ARC-11xx/12xx. The “Create Hot Spare” option gives you the ability to define a global hot spare disk drive.
APPENDIX The Hot-Swap function can be used to rebuild disk drives in arrays with data redundancy such as RAID level 1, 10, 3, 5, and 6. • Auto Rebuilding If a hot spare is available, the rebuild starts automatically when a drive fails. The SATA RAID controllers automatically and transparently rebuild failed drives in the background at user-definable rebuild rates.
APPENDIX initialization, after a volume rebuilds, it does not require a system reboot. High Reliability • Hard Drive Failure Prediction In an effort to help users avoid data loss, disk manufacturers are now incorporating logic into their drives that acts as an "early warning system" for pending drive problems.
APPENDIX tentially defective. A subsequent write to that location will initiate a sector test and relocation should that location prove to have a defect. Auto Reassign Sector does not affect disk subsystem performance because it runs as a background task. Auto Reassign Sector discontinues when the operating system makes a request. • Consistency Check A consistency check is a process that verifies the integrity of redundant data.
APPENDIX mal operating conditions, the batteries last for three years before replacement is necessary. • Recovery ROM The SATA RAID controller firmware is stored on the flash ROM and is executed by the I/O processor. The firmware can also be updated through the PCI-X/PCIe bus port or Ethernet port (if equipped) without the need to replace any hardware chips. During the controller firmware upgrade flash process, it is possible for a problem to occur resulting in corruption of the controller firmware.
APPENDIX • RAID 0 RAID 0, also referred to as striping, writes stripes of data across multiple disk drives instead of just one disk drive. RAID 0 does not provide any data redundancy, but does offer the best highspeed data throughput. RAID 0 breaks up data into smaller blocks and then writes a block to each drive in the array.
APPENDIX • RAID 10 RAID 10 is a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1, combing stripping with disk mirroring. RAID Level 10 combines the fast performance of Level 0 with the data redundancy of Leve1 1. In this configuration, data is distributed across several disk drives, similar to Level 0, which are then duplicated to another set of drive for data protection. RAID 10 has been traditionally implemented using an even number of disks, some hybrids can use an odd number of disks as well.
APPENDIX • RAID 5 RAID 5 is sometimes called striping with parity at byte level. In RAID 5, the parity information is written to all of the drives in the controllers rather than being concentrated on a dedicated parity disk. If one drive in the system fails, the parity information can be used to reconstruct the data from that drive. All drives in the array system can be used for seek operations at the same time, greatly increasing the performance of the RAID system.
APPENDIX • RAID 6 RAID 6 provides the highest reliability. It is similar to RAID 5, but it performs two different parity computations or the same computation on overlapping subsets of the data. RAID 6 can offer fault tolerance greater than RAID 1 or RAID 5 but only consumes the capacity of 2 disk drives for distributed parity data. RAID 6 is an extension of RAID 5 but uses a second, independent distributed parity scheme.
APPENDIX 1 10 3 5 170 Also known as mirroring All data replicated on N separated disks. N is almost always 2. This is a high availability solution, but due to the 100% duplication, it is also a costly solution. Half of drive capacity in array devoted to mirroring. 2 Also known Block-Interleaved Parity. Data and parity information is subdivided and distributed across all disks. Parity must be the equal to the smallest disk capacity in the array.
APPENDIX 6 RAID 6 provides the highest reliability. Similar to RAID 5, but does two different parity computations. RAID 6 offers fault tolerance greater that RAID 1 or RAID 5. Parity data consumes the capacity of 2 disk drives. 4 Highest reliability Reads are similar to RAID 0; Writes are slower than a single disk Reads are similar to RAID 0; Writes are slower than a single disk.
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