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Contents
5.2.5 Rebuilding failed drives ................................................. 5-22
5.2.6 Checking the drives for data consistency ..................... 5-24
5.2.7 Deleting a RAID conguration ....................................... 5-27
5.2.8 Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set ...................... 5-28
5.2.9 Enabling the WriteCache .............................................. 5-29
5.3 Intel
®
Matrix Storage Manager Option ROM Utility ................. 5-30
5.3.1 Creating a RAID 0 set (Stripe) ...................................... 5-31
5.3.2 Creating a RAID 1 set (Mirror) ...................................... 5-33
5.3.3 Creating a RAID 10 set (Stripe + Mirror) ....................... 5-34
5.3.4 Creating a RAID 5 set (Parity) ...................................... 5-35
5.3.5 Deleting a RAID set ...................................................... 5-36
5.3.6 Resetting disks to Non-RAID ........................................ 5-37
5.3.7 Exiting the Intel
®
Matrix Storage Manager .................... 5-37
5.4 Global Array Manager ................................................................ 5-38
5.5 LSI Logic MPT Setup Utility
(DSBF-D12/SAS model only) .....5
-39
5.5.1 Integrated Mirroring ....................................................... 5-39
5.5.2 Integrated Mirroring Enhanced ..................................... 5-43
5.5.3 Integrated Striping (IS) volume ..................................... 5-45
5.5.4 Managing Arrays ........................................................... 5-48
5.5.5 Viewing SAS topology ................................................... 5-53
5.5.6 Global Properties .......................................................... 5-55
Chapter 6: Driver installation
6.1 RAID driver installation ............................................................... 6-1
6.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk ............................................ 6-1
6.1.2 Installing the RAID controller driver ................................ 6-2
6.2 LAN driver installation ............................................................... 6-11
6.2.1 Windows 2000/Server 2003 ...........................................6-11
6.2.2 Red Hat/SuSE Linux ..................................................... 6-16
6.3 VGA driver installation............................................................... 6-17
6.3.1 Windows
®
2000/Server 2003 ........................................ 6-17
6.4 Management applications and utilities installation ................ 6-20
6.4.1 Running the support CD ............................................... 6-20