User`s guide

Contents ● 8
Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
Before You Begin............................................................................................... 48
Creating a Driver Disk ...................................................................................... 48
Installing on Windows...................................................................................... 49
Installing on Red Hat or SuSE Linux ............................................................... 49
Installing on NetWare....................................................................................... 49
Installing on OpenServer.................................................................................. 50
Installing on UnixWare .................................................................................... 50
Installing on Solaris........................................................................................... 51
Installing on FreeBSD ....................................................................................... 51
Managing Your Storage Space
About Adaptec Storage Manager ..................................................................... 53
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager .......................................................... 53
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility........................... 53
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Utility ................................................... 54
About the Adaptec Flash Utility....................................................................... 54
Which Utility Should I Use?............................................................................. 54
Solving Problems
Troubleshooting Checklist ............................................................................... 56
Silencing the Alarm........................................................................................... 56
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure ............................................................. 56
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare.............................................. 57
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare....................................... 57
Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously................................................ 57
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array........................................................ 57
Multiple Failures in the Same Array .......................................................... 58
Resetting the Controller.................................................................................... 58
Introduction to Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Terminology Used in This Chapter ................................................................. 60
What is SAS?...................................................................................................... 60
How Do SAS Devices Communicate?.............................................................. 61
What’s a Phy? .................................................................................................... 61
What’s a SAS Port?............................................................................................ 62
What’s a SAS Address?...................................................................................... 62
What’s a SAS Connector? ................................................................................. 62
What do SAS Cables Look Like?....................................................................... 63
How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS? .......................................................... 63
What are the SAS Connection Options?.......................................................... 63
Direct-attach Connections ......................................................................... 63
Backplane Connections .............................................................................. 64
SAS Expander Connections........................................................................ 64
How is SAS Different from Parallel SCSI? ....................................................... 65