Mylex AcceleRAID 250 manuals

Mylex AcceleRAID 250 Technical Information (250 pages)

Brand: Mylex | Category: PC/workstation barebones | Size: 2.35 MB |

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Table of contents

RAID EzAssist™ v2.00

1

Configuration Utility

1

User Reference Guide

1

Greetings

4

Contents

7

Where to Go Now

10

First Time?

11

❑ Get Started

12

First-Time Configuration

13

Manual No. 775029 1-5

13

Manual No. 775029 1-7

15

■ Fault Tolerance?

19

■ Spare Drive?

20

■ Optimization Priority

21

■ Logical Drive Count

23

■ Capacity Usage

24

Manual No. 775029 1-17

25

Manual No. 775029 1-19

27

Manual No. 775029 1-23

31

■ Define Logical Drives

32

Manual No. 775029 1-25

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Manual No. 775029 1-27

35

Manual No. 775029 1-29

37

❑ Power On Your System

39

❑ Start RAID EzAssist

39

Manual No. 775029 1-33

41

Manual No. 775029 2-3

45

Manual No. 775029 2-9

51

❑ Fault Tolerance?

53

❑ Spare Drive?

54

❑ Optimization Priority

55

❑ Logical Drive Count

56

❑ Capacity Usage

57

Manual No. 775029 2-17

59

Manual No. 775029 2-19

61

Manual No. 775029 2-25

67

Manual No. 775029 2-27

69

❑ Select an Array to Expand

73

Manual No. 775029 2-33

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Manual No. 775029 2-35

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Manual No. 775029 2-37

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Manual No. 775029 2-39

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Manual No. 775029 2-43

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Manual No. 775029 2-45

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❑ Assign Spare Drives

89

Manual No. 775029 2-49

91

Manual No. 775029 2-51

93

Manual No. 775029 2-53

95

When to Use Spanning

96

Spanning Requirements

97

Spanning Limitations

98

Manual No. 775029 2-57

99

Figure 2-58. Enable Spanning?

100

❑ Build Disk Arrays

101

 Caution

102

Drive Configuration

103

Manual No. 775029 2-61

103

❑ Define Logical Drives

104

Manual No. 775029 2-63

105

Manual No. 775029 2-65

107

How Do I Exit RAID EzAssist?

109

Controller Configuration

111

Information?

113

Controller?

115

 WARNING

117

Setting

118

❑ Enter the Properties Menu

120

❑ View/Modify Bus Speed

121

Manual No. 775029 3-15

125

Monitoring and

127

Maintenance Activities

127

Manual No. 775029 4-3

129

Manual No. 775029 4-5

131

Comprise the Array?

132

Manual No. 775029 4-7

133

Manual No. 775029 4-9

135

Write Cache Settings?

137

❑ Select a Logical Drive

139

Figure 4-17. Bad Data Table

140

Comprise the Logical Drive?

141

Logical Drive?

143

❑ Run a Consistency Check

145

Manual No. 775029 4-21

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Manual No. 775029 4-25

151

Logical Drive

155

Manual No. 775029 4-31

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❑ Delete the Logical Drive

158

Configuration screen

161

Cache Settings?

162

Manual No. 775029 4-37

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❑ Select a Physical Device

164

Manual No. 775029 4-39

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Grown, then press Enter

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Manual No. 775029 4-43

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Manual No. 775029 4-45

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(Unused) Status

172

Manual No. 775029 4-47

173

Physical Drive?

177

❑ Format the Physical Drive

183

Manual No. 775029 4-61

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Manual No. 775029 4-63

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Manual No. 775029 4-65

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Manual No. 775029 4-67

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❑ Select a Controller

194

❑ Rescan the Controller

194

Manual No. 775029 4-69

195

Advanced Options

197

Figure 5-1. Advanced Options

198

EzAssist Utility?

199

Figure 5-5. Flash Code Update

200

Manual No. 775029 5-5

201

Manual No. 775029 5-7

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Manual No. 775029 5-11

207

☞ Label the diskette

208

❑ Clear the Configuration

210

Clustering?

211

Manual No. 775029 5-19

215

Glossary

217

Manual No. 775029 G-3

219

Manual No. 775029 G-5

221

Disk Array

223

Disk Drive

223

Disk Failure Detection

223

Disk Media Error Management

223

Disk System

224

Drive Groups (or Drive Packs)

224

Drive Traveling

224

Manual No. 775029 G-9

225

Fibre Channel

227

File Server

227

Flash ROM

227

Manual No. 775029 G-13

229

Manual No. 775029 G-15

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Manual No. 775029 G-17

233

Manual No. 775029 G-19

235

RAID Controller

237

RAID Levels

237

Read Ahead Cache

238

RAID (Level) Migration

238

Manual No. 775029 G-23

239

Rotated XOR Redundancy

240

RS 422/423

240

SCSI Adapters

241

SCSI Drive

241

SCSI Drive States

241

Segment Size

242

Manual No. 775029 G-27

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Manual No. 775029 G-29

245

Manual No. 775029 G-31

247

Wide SCSI

248

Write Through Cache

248

Write-Back Cache

248

CORPORATE OFFICE

250

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