Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Introduction ............................................................ 1-1
Chapter 2
Features................................................................... 2-1
Chapter 3
Functional Description ........................................... 3-1
3.1
RAID Management ........................................................... 3-1
3.2
Drive Failure Management ............................................... 3-5
3.3
Disk Array Parameters.................................................... 3-11
3.4
Cache Parameters.......................................................... 3-13
3.5
Drive-Side SCSI Parameters .......................................... 3-15
3.6
Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion .................................. 3-20
Chapter 4
Hardware Installation.............................................. 4-1
4.1
The Main Board ................................................................ 4-1
4.2
Installing DRAM SIMM..................................................... 4-2
4.3
Basic Operational Set-Up ................................................. 4-3
4.4
Configuration Examples and Termination Settings............ 4-4
Chapter 5
Quick Setup............................................................. 5-1
5.1
Using the BIOS RAID Manager......................................... 5-1
Chapter 6
Configuring RAID.................................................... 6-1
6.1
Starting to Build a RAID System Drive.............................. 6-1
6.2
How Does the RAID Controller Work? .............................. 6-4
Chapter 7
BIOS Configuration Utility...................................... 7-1
7.1
Configuration .................................................................... 7-1
7.2
Color/Monochrome ........................................................... 7-5
Chapter 8
Text RAID Manager User Interface......................... 8-1
8.1
The Main Menu................................................................. 8-1
8.2
Viewing and Editing Logical Drives ................................. 8-10
8.3
Viewing and Editing SCSI ID Map................................... 8-27
8.4
Viewing and Editing SCSI Drives .................................... 8-32
8.5
Viewing and Editing SCSI Channels ............................... 8-37
8.6
Viewing and Editing Configuration Parameters ............... 8-62
8.7
System Functions ........................................................... 8-79
8.8
Viewing System Information ........................................... 8-86
Chapter 9
Remote Administration........................................... 9-1
9.1
GUI RAID Manager Using SNMP Service......................... 9-1
Appendix A
Driver Installation ................................................A-1
1
MS-DOS
® ASPI Drivers Installation.........................................A-1
2
NetWare
® Driver Installation ...................................................A-3
2.1
Installing NetWare 3.1x ....................................................A-3
2.2
Installing NetWare 4.0x/4.1/4.11.......................................A-5
3
Windows NT
® 3.1/3.51 Driver Installation..............................A-11
3.1
Installing Driver During Windows NT 3.1/3.51 InstallationA-12
3.2
Installing Driver in Existing Windows NT 3.1/3.51 SystemA-13
3.3
Updating Windows NT 3.1/3.51 Device Driver ................ A-14
3.4
Installing the Driver During Windows NT 4.0 Installation A-15