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Mylex DAC960PG Installation Guide (106 pages)

Brand: Mylex | Category: Disk arrays | Size: 1.88 MB |

English

Table of contents

PCI RAID Controller

1

Installation Guide

1

DAC960PG

3

PCI to Ultra-SCSI

3

RAID Controller

3

Class B Compliance

5

Declaration of Conformity

6

Community of Europe

7

About This Manual

8

Conventions

9

Contents

11

Installation

12

Start-up Sequences

12

Enclosure Management

13

Introduction

15

Caution

16

Manual No. 771971 1-3

17

Standard Package Contents

18

Key Features

19

Automatic RAID Functions

20

Enhance SCSI Performance

21

Increase System Availability

21

Operating System Support

21

DAC960PG Specifications

22

Functional Description

25

WARNING

26

PCI Bus Interface

27

Ultra-SCSI Bus Interface

28

Manual No. 771971 2-5

29

SCSI Functions

30

Manual No. 771971 2-7

31

Drive Organization

32

Configuration on Disk

33

Device Translation Table

34

Manual No. 771971 2-11

35

RAID Management

36

RAID Techniques and Terms

37

Striping (RAID 0)

38

Manual No. 771971 2-15

39

Striping Terminology

41

Drive Management

42

Write-Only (WOL)

43

Ready (RDY)

43

Critical

44

Off-line

44

Hot-Swap Drive Replacement

45

Disk Failure Detection

45

Disk Media Error Management

45

Checking Disk Consistency

46

Cache Management

47

Before You Begin . .

50

Installation Notes:

51

Format Drive

54

Connectors and Jumpers

55

External LED Connector

56

SCSI Termination

57

Configuring the SCSI Devices

61

SCSI Cabling

62

Cable Lengths

63

Connecting Non-Disk Devices

64

Using a UPS

65

Cache Battery Backup Option

66

Setting BIOS Options

68

Figure 4-1. BIOS options Menu

69

Press the

70

BIOS Enable or Disable

71

CD-ROM Boot Disable or Enable

71

Error Messages

72

Drive Check Error Messages

73

X system drives installed

74

Aborted Installation

75

System Reboot or Power Down

75

Appendix B

79

IBBU Specifications

80

Battery and Charge Circuit

82

Operation

85

Battery Backup Capacity

86

Recycling the Battery

88

Manual No. 771971 B-11

89

Drive Groups (or Drive Packs)

92

Logical Drive States

93

Logical Drives

94

Mirroring

94

Manual No. 771971 Glossary-5

95

Replacement Table

96

Rotated XOR Redundancy

96

SCSI Drive

96

SCSI Drive States

96

Segment Size

97

Standard Disk Drive

98

Stripe Size

99

Stripe Order

99

Stripe Width

100

Striping

100

System Drives

100

Target ID

100

Write Back Cache

101

Write Through Cache

101

Glossary

102

Manual No. 771971 Index-1

103

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