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Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction............................................................................................... 1
FastTrak S150 SX4 and SX4000 / SX4000 Lite...................................................... 1
XOR Acceleration................................................................................................. 1
Hot-Swapping....................................................................................................... 1
Promise Array Management Utility (PAM)............................................................... 2
Chapter 2: Installation................................................................................................. 3
S150 SX4............................................................................................................. 3
SX4000 / SX4000 Lite.......................................................................................... 3
Memory Module Test............................................................................................... 5
Installing the FastTrak Card .................................................................................... 6
Installing the Hard Drives ........................................................................................ 7
Chapter 3: FastBuild™ Utility ................................................................................... 13
Setup Quick Reference ......................................................................................... 13
Setup Checklist .................................................................................................. 13
Common Tasks.................................................................................................. 13
Entering the FastBuild utility............................................................................... 14
Creating an array from the Define Array screen................................................. 14
Deleting an array from the Delete Array screen................................................. 14
Setting the Halt on Error Option ......................................................................... 14
FastTrak BIOS Reference..................................................................................... 15
Main Menu ............................................................................................................ 17
View Drive Assignments........................................................................................ 18
Define Array .......................................................................................................... 19
Define Array Definition Menu ................................................................................ 20
Creating a RAID 0 Array .................................................................................... 22
Creating a RAID 1 Array .................................................................................... 23
Creating a RAID 0+1 Array ................................................................................ 24
Creating a RAID 5 Array .................................................................................... 25
Hot Spare Drives................................................................................................ 26
Partition and Format Array................................................................................. 26
Setting a Disk Array as Bootable........................................................................ 27
Disk Array Recognition Order............................................................................. 28
Saved Disk Array Information............................................................................. 28
Delete Array .......................................................................................................... 29
Controller Configuration ........................................................................................ 30
Chapter 4: Installing Software Drivers...................................................................... 31
Windows Server 2003 ........................................................................................... 32
Windows XP.......................................................................................................... 34
Windows 2000....................................................................................................... 36
Red Hat Linux 8.0, 9.0........................................................................................... 38
SuSE Linux 8.1, 8.2............................................................................................... 39
Promise RAID Utility for Linux............................................................................... 40