Chapter 10 Raid Operations; Outlining Raid Functions; Configuring Raid Firmware, Driver, And Power Console - Nortel CallPilot User Manual

Chapter 10
RAID operations
In this chapter
"Outlining RAID functions" (page 113)
"Configuring RAID firmware, driver, and power console" (page 113)
"Replacing the LSI1600 card with LSI320-2" (page 114)
"Configuring the RAID controller after a hardware change" (page 116)
"Splitting the RAID drives" (page 119)
"Synchronizing RAID drives" (page 121)

Outlining RAID functions

Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) is a technology that can
combine two or more drives for fault tolerance and continued system
performance. The CallPilot RAID controller is a PCI RAID SCSI card that
provides high-performance disk mirroring. CallPilot uses RAID Level 1.
With Level 1 mirroring, two equal-capacity disk drives mirror one another.
One disk drive serves as the backup copy of the other disk drive. If one disk
drive fails, the other continues to run.
Configuring RAID firmware, driver, and power console
Verifying the RAID configuration
There is a direct relationship between the driver, firmware and Power
Console utility versions used with a RAID card. While mixing driver versions
with firmware is not critical, mixing Power Console Utility with the wrong
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