Adaptec 48300 - Manuals

1 About This Guide In this chapter... What You Need to Know Before You Begin .......................................................................... 11 Terminology Used in this Guide ............................................................................................ 11 How to Find More I...

Chapter 1: About This Guide ● 11 What You Need to Know Before You Begin You should be familiar with computer hardware, data storage, Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) technology, and the input/output (I/O) technology—SAS—used by your HostRAID controller. (For an introduction to SAS, see pa...

2 About Your HostRAID Controller In this chapter... HostRAID Controller Features .............................................................................................. 13 Upgrading the HostRAID Controller Firmware................................................................... 13 About th...

Chapter 2: About Your HostRAID Controller ● 13 HostRAID Controller Features ● Flash ROM for updates to controller firmware Adaptec Flash Utility (AFU), BIOS, and the Array Configuration Utility (ACU). ● Event logging and broadcasting, including messaging for alphanumeric pagers. ● Support for Adapte...

Chapter 2: About Your HostRAID Controller ● 14 About the Adaptec SAS 58300 Controller The Adaptec SAS 58300 is a low-profile PCI-X to 8-Phy SAS 1.0 HostRAID controller with these features: Form factor Low-profile PCI compatibility PCI-X PCI bus width (max) 64-bit PCI bus speed (max) 133 MHz PHYs 8 C...

Chapter 2: About Your HostRAID Controller ● 15 About the Adaptec SAS 48300 Controller The Adaptec SAS 48300 is a low-profile PCI-X to 8-Phy SAS 1.0 HostRAID controller with these features: Form factor Low-profile PCI compatibility PCI-X PCI bus width (max) 64-bit PCI bus speed (max) 133 MHz PHYs 8 C...

Chapter 2: About Your HostRAID Controller ● 16 About the Adaptec SAS 44300 Controller The Adaptec SAS 44300 is a low-profile PCI-X to 4-Phy SAS 1.0 HostRAID controller with these features: Form factor Low-profile PCI compatibility PCI-X PCI bus width (max) 64-bit PCI bus speed (max) 133 MHz PHYs 4 C...

Chapter 3: Kit Contents and System Requirements ● 18 Kit Contents ● Adaptec SAS HostRAID controller ● HostRAID Installation CD (bootable), including controller drivers, and this Guide ● Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD (not bootable), including user guides for Adaptec Storage Manager and the ...

4 Getting Star ted In this chapter... Choosing a RAID Level .......................................................................................................... 20 Selecting Disk Drives................................................................................................................

Chapter 4: Getting Star ted ● 20 Choosing a RAID Level This section provides a brief overview of the RAID levels supported by your HostRAID controller, including the minimum and maximum number of disk drives required by each. RAID 0 (Non-redundant Array) —Stripes data across multiple disk drives. Im...

Chapter 4: Getting Star ted ● 21 Depending on your requirements, you can use any of these cables: Adaptec recommends using only Adaptec SAS cables. For more information or to purchase cables, visit the Adaptec Web site at www.adaptec.com. Installation Options When you install your HostRAID controlle...

Chapter 4: Getting Star ted ● 22 Installing on an Existing Operating System 1 Install and connect your controller and internal disk drives (see page 23 ). If your controller has an external connector, you can connect external disk drives as well (or instead). 2 Install the controller driver (see pag...

Chapter 5: Installing the HostRAID Controller and Disk Drives ● 24 Before You Begin ● Read the Safety Information on page 77 . ● Familiarize yourself with your HostRAID controller’s physical features and the RAID levels that it supports (see page 12 ). ● Ensure that you have the right quantity of di...

Chapter 5: Installing the HostRAID Controller and Disk Drives ● 25 Connecting Disk Drives to HostRAID Controllers You can connect SAS disk drives, SATA disk drives, or a combination of both to your HostRAID controller. There are no jumpers or switches to set before installation. If you plan to build...

Chapter 5: Installing the HostRAID Controller and Disk Drives ● 26 Connecting to a System Backplane In a backplane connection, disk drives and SAS cards are attached to and communicate with each other through a system backplane. The number of disk drives is limited to the number of slots available o...

Chapter 5: Installing the HostRAID Controller and Disk Drives ● 27 Installing the Controller to a SAS Expander You can use a SAS edge expander to connect multiple disk drives to your HostRAID controller or multiple controllers. Commands can be sent down one link and data returned on another in a sep...

Chapter 6: Creating a Bootable Array ● 29 Setting the Boot Controller Note: If your system won't contain more than one bootable controllers, skip this section. Adaptec HostRAID controller supports bootable disk drives and arrays. The default setting of the HostRAID controller and system Setup allows...

Chapter 6: Creating a Bootable Array ● 30 Creating an Array with Adaptec Storage Manager This section describes how to use the Adaptec Storage Manager configuration wizard to build a RAID 0, 1, or 10 array. Note: You will need the HostRAID Installation CD to complete this task. To create a RAID 0, 1...

Chapter 6: Creating a Bootable Array ● 31 7 Review the information that is displayed. Note: Adaptec Storage Manager uses the term logical drives when referring to arrays (see page 11 ). In the following figure, Adaptec Storage Manager has used two equal-sized disk drives to automatically create one ...

Chapter 7: Installing the Driver and an Operating System ● 33 Before You Begin ● Install and connect your HostRAID controller and internal disk drives (see page 23 ). ● Create a bootable array (see page 28 ). ● Create a driver disk (see next section). Creating a Driver Disk Before you install your d...

Chapter 7: Installing the Driver and an Operating System ● 34 4 Insert the driver disk, then wait until you are prompted to install a driver. 5 Press S to specify that the driver is on a floppy disk, then press Enter . The computer reads the disk. 6 When the Adaptec SAS driver is found, press Enter ...

Chapter 7: Installing the Driver and an Operating System ● 35 Installing with NetWare You will need your NetWare Installation CD to complete this task. To install the driver when installing NetWare: 1 Restart your computer, then install NetWare. (For instructions, refer to your NetWare documentation...

Chapter 7: Installing the Driver and an Operating System ● 36 Installing with SCO OpenServer You will need the SCO OpenServer CD to complete this task. To install the driver when installing OpenServer: 1 Insert the OpenServer Installation CD. 2 Restart your computer. 3 Follow the on-screen instructi...

Chapter 8: Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System ● 39 4 Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the driver installation. 5 Remove the driver disk and restart your computer. 6 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page 41 . Installing on Red Hat or SuSE Linux To install t...

Chapter 9: Managing Your Storage Space ● 42 About Adaptec Storage Manager Adaptec Storage Manager is a full-featured software application that helps you build a storage space for your online data, using HostRAID controllers and disk drives. With Adaptec Storage Manager, you can group disk drives int...

Chapter 9: Managing Your Storage Space ● 43 About the ARC Utility The Adaptec RAID Configuration (ARC) utility is a BIOS-based utility that you can use to create and manage controllers, disk drives and other devices, and arrays. The ARC utility comprises these tools: ● Array Configuration Utility (A...

Chapter 10: Understanding Adaptec Storage Manager ● 45 Features You can use Adaptec Storage Manager to: ● Create, verify, modify, and delete arrays ● Add and remove hot spares ● View the RAID configuration ● View information about managed systems and subsystems such as arrays, logical drives, hot-sp...

Chapter 10: Understanding Adaptec Storage Manager ● 46 Physical Devices View This view displays information about the drives, enclosures, and other physical devices attached to the controller. The devices are organized numerically. The display for each channel or port includes information on maximum...

Chapter 10: Understanding Adaptec Storage Manager ● 47 Collapsed and Expanded Views You can display a collapsed or expanded view of the system configuration. Initially, Storage Manager displays a collapsed textual view of the configuration information in both the Logical devices and Physical devices...

Chapter 10: Understanding Adaptec Storage Manager ● 48 Component Views When you click a physical or logical device in the device views, the related components are highlighted in the other view. ● When you click a logical device in the Logical devices view, the physical drives that make up the logica...

11 Solving Problems In this chapter... Troubleshooting Checklist ..................................................................................................... 50 Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure ................................................................................... 50 This c...

Chapter 11: Solving Problems ● 50 Troubleshooting Checklist If you encounter difficulties installing or using your HostRAID controller, check these items first: ● With your computer powered off, check the connections to each disk drive, the power supply, the LED connector, and so on. ● Try disconnec...

Chapter 11: Solving Problems ● 51 Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare When an array is not protected by a hot spare, if a disk drive in that array fails, remove and replace the failed disk drive. The controller detects the new disk drive and begins to rebuild the array. If the controller ...

Appendix A: Introduction to SAS ● 53 Terminology Used in This Chapter For convenience, SAS HostRAID controllers are referred to generically in this chapter as SAS cards . HBAs, HostRAID controllers, disk drives, and external disk drive enclosures are referred to as end devices and expanders are refe...

Appendix A: Introduction to SAS ● 54 As shown in the following figure, SAS devices contain ports which contain phys (see next section), and each phy contains one transmitter and one receiver—one transceiver . A phy can belong to one port only. What’s a Phy? Phys are part of the physical communicatio...

Appendix A: Introduction to SAS ● 55 What’s a SAS Address? Each SAS port is identified with a unique SAS address, which is shared by all phys on that port. For example, a SAS disk drive might have two narrow ports. Each port has one unique SAS address. The single phy in each port uses its port’s SAS...

Appendix A: Introduction to SAS ● 56 Direct-attach Connections In a direct-attach connection, SAS or SATA disk drives are connected directly to a SAS card with SAS cables. One disk drive is attached to one SAS connector with one SAS cable (or multiple disk drives are attached to one SAS connector wi...

Appendix A: Introduction to SAS ● 57 The following figure illustrates (in very basic terms) a SAS domain and shows how SAS cards, SAS and SATA disk drives, and expander devices can fit together in a large data storage topology. How is SAS Different from Parallel SCSI? In summary, although SAS and pa...

B Understanding RAID In this chapter... RAID Technology Overview .................................................................................................. 59 RAID 0 (Non-RAID Arrays) .................................................................................................. 60 RAID 1...

Appendix B: Understanding RAID ● 59 RAID Technology Overview RAID is the technology of grouping several physical drives in a computer into an array that you can define as one or more logical drives. Each logical drive appears to the operating system as a single drive. This grouping technique greatly...

Appendix B: Understanding RAID ● 60 When selecting a RAID level for your system, consider the following factors. Physical drive utilization, read performance, and write performance depend on the number of drives in the array. Generally, the more drives in the array, the better the performance. RAID ...

Appendix B: Understanding RAID ● 61 RAID 1 Arrays A RAID 1 array is built from two disk drives, where one disk drive is a mirror of the other (the same data is stored on each disk drive). Compared to independent disk drives, RAID 1 arrays provide improved performance, with twice the read rate and an...

C Using the ARC Utility In this chapter... Introduction to the ARC Utility ............................................................................................ 63 Running the ARC Utility........................................................................................................ 6...

Appendix C: Using the ARC Utility ● 63 Introduction to the ARC Utility The ARC utility comprises these tools: ● The Array Configuration Utility (ACU) —Used to create, configure, and manage arrays, and initialize and rescan disk drives. ● Serial Select Utility —Used to change device and HostRAID cont...

Appendix C: Using the ARC Utility ● 64 To assign properties to the new array: 1 In the Array Properties menu, select an array type, then press Enter . Only the available array types, RAID 0, 1, and 10 are displayed. RAID 0 and 1 requires two to four drives. RAID 10 requires a minimum of four disk dr...

Appendix C: Using the ARC Utility ● 65 ● When migrating from single volume to RAID 0, migrating from a larger drive to a smaller drive is allowed. However, the destination drive must be at least half the capacity of the source drive. ● It is not recommend that you migrate or build an array on Window...

Appendix C: Using the ARC Utility ● 66 Deleting Arrays Caution: Back up the data on an array before you delete it. Otherwise, all data on the array is lost. Deleted arrays cannot be restored. To delete an existing array: 1 From the ACU menu, select Manage Arrays . 2 Select the array you wish to dele...

Appendix C: Using the ARC Utility ● 68 7 At the prompt, select Yes to exit, then press any key to restart the computer. Any changes you made in Serial Select take effect after the computer restarts. Serial Select Options The following table lists the available and default settings for each Serial Se...

Appendix C: Using the ARC Utility ● 69 Formatting and Verifying Disk Drives You can use the disk utilities to low-level format or verify your disk drives. (New disk drives are low-level formatted at the factory and do not need to be low-level formatted again.) Caution: Before you format a disk drive...

Appendix D: Using the AFU for DOS ● 71 Introduction The AFU is a DOS utility used to update, save, or verify the HostRAID controller’s firmware BIOS. The AFU is easy to use and contains safeguards to prevent you from accidentally damaging the HostRAID controller’s flash contents. Still, you must be ...

Appendix D: Using the AFU for DOS ● 72 To access the AFU: 1 Shut down your operating system and reboot to DOS from a bootable MS-DOS floppy disk or from a DOS partition on a bootable drive. (You can use the drive connected to the HostRAID controller you are updating.) Note: When updating the HostRAI...

Appendix D: Using the AFU for DOS ● 73 SAVE The SAVE command saves the contents of a HostRAID controller’s flash in a UFI file. The name of the UFI file is based on the HostRAID controller type and cannot be changed. Command Syntax The command syntax for the SAVE command is as follows: AFU SAVE [/C&...

Appendix D: Using the AFU for DOS ● 74 UPDATE The UPDATE command updates a HostRAID controller’s flash components from the flash image data in a UFI file. You can use the UPDATE command to update a single HostRAID controller’s flash components or to update multiple HostRAID controllers on your compu...

E Safety Information To ensure your personal safety and the safety of your equipment: ● Keep your work area and the computer clean and clear of debris. ● Before opening the system cabinet, unplug the power cord. Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Caution: ESD can damage electronic components when they ar...

F Technical Specifications In this chapter... Environmental Specifications ................................................................................................ 79 DC Power Requirements...........................................................................................................

Appendix F: Technical Specifications ● 79 Environmental Specifications Note: Forced airflow is recommended, but not required. DC Power Requirements Current Requirements Relative humidity 10% to 90%, noncondensing Altitude up to 3,000 meters Ripple and noise 50 mV peak-to-peak (max) DC Voltage 3.3 V ...

Glossary A activity See task . ACU Array Configuration Utility. An application used to create, configure, and manage arrays from the controller’s BIOS or MS-DOS. array A logical disk created from available space and made up of one or more segments on one or more physical disks. Arrays are typically ...

Glossar y ● 89 build Background initialization of a redundant array. The array is accessible throughout. RAID 1 copies the contents of the primary drive to a secondary drive. See clear . bus See channel . C cache Fast-access memory on the controller that serves as intermediate storage for data that ...

Glossar y ● 90 disk ID Unique disk identifier that consists of the channel number, SATA ID. For example, (channel:ID:LUN) 1:04:0. See channel . drive LED Disk indicator LED that illuminates during read or write operations. E event Notification or alert from the system, indicating that a change has o...

Glossar y ● 92 R RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks (alternative definition Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks). RAID 0 A single-level array consisting of two or more equal-sized segments residing on different disks. RAID 0 distributes data evenly across its respective drives in equal-sized...

Glossar y ● 93 stripe size The amount of data in each section of a striped array. striped array See RAID 0 , RAID 10 . T task An operation that occurs only on the RAID controller, asynchronous to all other operations; for example, initializing a disk or verifying an array. Some tasks can take an ext...

Index A ACU creating arrays 63 Adaptec Flash Utility. See AFU Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility. See HRCONF Adaptec Storage Manager installing 42 AFU 43 Array Configuration Utility. See ACU arrays creating (ACU) 63 non-RAID 60 RAID 1 61 RAID 10 61 B backplane connections 26 , 56 D data striping 59 ...