Installation guide

Manual No. 771961 vii
Communication ........................................................................ 4-17
Baud Rate ......................................................................... 4-17
Port ................................................................................... 4-17
Parity ................................................................................. 4-18
Stop Bits ............................................................................ 4-18
Data Bits ........................................................................... 4-18
Event Editor .............................................................................. 4-18
Event ID / User Event ID/ Severity / Default ..................... 4-19
Alarm for the Event ........................................................... 4-19
Event Message Text ......................................................... 4-19
Default All .......................................................................... 4-19
Setting and Modifying Controller Options ........................................ 4-20
Previous Mylex PCI RAID Controllers ...................................... 4-20
New Mylex PCI RAID Controllers ............................................. 4-23
Mylex External RAID Controllers .............................................. 4-25
Advanced Controller Options (All External
RAID Controllers) ............................................................ 4-27
Expert Controller Options (All External
RAID Controllers) ............................................................ 4-29
Fibre Controller Options (External Fibre
Controllers Only) ............................................................. 4-32
Recording Your Changes .................................................. 4-33
SCSI Host Bus Adapters .......................................................... 4-33
Modifying Physical Device Options ................................................. 4-34
Running RAID Assist ....................................................................... 4-36
Entering RAID Assist ................................................................ 4-36
Automatic Configuration ........................................................... 4-38
Assisted Configuration ............................................................. 4-42
Fault Tolerance .................................................................. 4-43
RAID Level (If Fault Tolerance Was Yes) ........................ 4-44
RAID Level (If Fault Tolerance Was No) .......................... 4-45
Logical Drives .................................................................... 4-46
Optimization....................................................................... 4-48
Manual Configuration ............................................................... 4-50
External RAID Controller Operation Overview ................................ 4-56
LUN Mapping Overview ........................................................... 4-57
LUN Mapping in Global Array Manager (FW 5.x or below) ...... 4-57
Host to LUN Mapping Overview ............................................... 4-61
Host to LUN Mapping in Global Array Manager
(FW 6.x or above) .................................................................. 4-61
Selecting the Topology ..................................................... 4-62
Selecting the Port .............................................................. 4-63