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Side 2

Understanding the Audible Alarm

The audible alarm will beep under two conditions: When a drive has failed, and during and following a

rebuild.

The drive failure alarms are as follows:

■

Degraded Array: Short tone, one second on, one second off

■

Failed Array: Long tone, three seconds on, one second off

■

Hot Spare Commissioned: Short tone, one second on, three seconds off

The drive failure tones will repeat until the problem is corrected or until the alarm is silenced or disabled.

The rebuild alarm tone remains ON during the rebuild. After the rebuid completes, an alarm with a different

tone will sound, signaling the completion of the rebuild. This is a one-time (non-repeating) tone.

The alarm can be disabled either in the Intel

BIOS Console or in the Intel

Web Console 2 management

utilities. When disabled, the alarm will not sound unless it is re-enabled in one of the utilities.

The alarm can be temporarily silenced either in the Intel

BIOS Console or in the Intel

Web Console 2

management utilities. The alarm is not disabled and will sound again if another event occurs. The

temporarily silenced alarm will be enabled if the system is power cycled.

Use the Intel

RAID BIOS Console Utility to Create a RAID Volume

Note: As necessary, see “Choosing the Right RAID Level” on side 1 of this Quick Start

User's Guide for a brief description of the RAID levels.

Power on the system and press <Ctrl> + <G> when the following screen

is displayed.

After a brief pause, the RAID BIOS Console screen is displayed.

Click Configuration Wizard.

Select New Configuration and click Next.

For this example, Manual Configuration is used. Click Next.

(For further information, see the Intel

RAID Software User’s Guide on the

Resource CD.)

Add physical drives to the array by pressing the <Ctrl> key while clicking on

entries under Physical Drives. Once you have selected all the drives you

wish to add to the array, click Add To Array. Then, click Next.

Define further arrays or click Accept DG if finished. Then, click Next.

Select the RAID Level from the drop-down list. Select the Stripe Size.

Enter the size of the logical drive. Click Accept.

Maximum size of drive

located here

Click Next.

Click Yes.

Creation of a RAID volume is now complete.

Select Fast Initialize to do a preliminary initialization of the drives

for loading the operating system. A full initialization will occur in

the background.

When the Intel

RAID BIOS Console starts, it will display the

Intel

RAID Controller RS2PI008 installed in the system. Click on the

"Adapter No." radio button to choose the controller, and then click Start.

After OS Installation: Windows*

4 4

Install the Operating System Drivers

Create Installation Media

Microsoft

Windows 2003*

To manage a RAID array, install Intel

RAID Web Console 2

Install the Intel

RAID Web Console 2 package from the Resource CD.

Choose one of four installation modes: Complete (installs all features), Client (administrative machine only), Server (can be managed remotely), or StandAlone (only manages itself).

To start Intel

RAID Web Console 2 from within the OS: Choose Start | Programs | RAID WebConsole | RAID WebConsole 2. For additional details, see the Intel

RAID Software

User’s Guide.

Create installation media (floppy disk required for Microsoft Windows 2003*; removable

media, such as a floppy disk, USB device, or CD/DVD-ROM, required for Microsoft

Windows 2008*). See the instructions at the right.

Boot the server and start the OS installation.

Press the <F6> key as soon as the first

screen appears.

When prompted to specify a mass

storage controller:

Extract the contents of the ZIP file and run Setup.exe from the Disk1 folder.

Unpack Linux_rwc2_**tar.gz.

Remove any line breaks and allow permissions by typing

$> tr -d ‘\15\32’ < existing_file_name > new_file_name

$> chmod a+x new_file_name

Run ./install.sh

When you see: “Where do you want to

install windows?”, select Load Driver,

and then click Next.

Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the Windows installation.

Obtain the drivers either from the resource CD or the Intel web site.

Extract the files from the zip file to your

hard drive. Copy the appropriate files to a

floppy disk (for Microsoft Windows 2003*)

or removable media (for Microsoft

Windows 2008*).

If using the Resource CD, insert the resource CD. Browse to \Drivers and then the matching OS folder.

Go to http://downloadcenter.intel.com and locate your product under Server Products in the left menu.

Copy the matching .sys, .cat,

.oem, and .inf driver files to a floppy disk

or removable media.

Extract the driver update disk (DUD) image (file

extension .img) from the zip file to your hard drive.

If you have a system with Microsoft Windows*, you

will need a third-party utlity such as ‘rawrite’ to

extract the DUD image to a floppy disk. For a system

under Linux or Sun Solaris*, use the ‘dd’ command

as follows:

Microsoft Windows*

Linux*

When prompted by the Load Driver dialog:

a. Insert the removable installation media

that you created in step 1 above.

b. Press the <Enter> key to select the

“Installation Driver” and continue with

the Windows installation.

b. Insert the installation driver disk that

you created in step 1 above.

c. Press the <Enter> key to select the

“Installation Driver” and continue with

the Windows installation.

a. Press <S> to specify additional storage

devices.

Create installation media (removable media, such as a floppy disk, USB device,

or CD/DVD-ROM, required). See the instructions at the right.

At the boot prompt, insert the

Linux installation disk that you created

in step 1.

Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation. The RAID controller

driver is automatically detected and installed.

Boot the system with Red Hat*

Enterprise Linux CD-ROM.

Boot the system with SuSE* Linux

Enterprise Server (SLES) CD-ROM.

When the first screen displays, insert the

Linux installation disk that you created

step 1.

Press the <F5> key for SLES 10 or the

<F6> key for SLES 9 to load the driver,

and then select an installation menu

option.

Type Linux dd, and press the

<Enter> key.

Microsoft

Windows 2008*

Red Hat*

Enterprise Linux

SuSE* Linux

Enterprise Server

dd if=<image_file_name> of=<path-to-media>

‘path-to-media’ is usually /dev/fd0, but may

differ if you are using a USB floppy drive.

Install the Intel

RAID Web Console 2 package from the Resource CD.

RS2PI008

NOTE: Encryption is not available on this product.