Installing The Hostraid Controller; And Disk Drives - Adaptec 44300 Installation And User Manual

Installing the HostRAID Controller
and Disk Drives
Before You Begin............................................................................................... 24
Installing the HostRAID Controller................................................................. 24
Connecting Disk Drives to HostRAID Controllers......................................... 25
Connecting Directly to the HostRAID Controller.................................... 25
Connecting to a System Backplane ............................................................ 26
Installing the Controller to a SAS Expander ............................................. 27
Next Steps .......................................................................................................... 27
Creating a Bootable Array
Setting the Boot Controller .............................................................................. 29
Creating an Array.............................................................................................. 29
Creating an Array with the ACU...................................................................... 29
Creating an Array with Adaptec Storage Manager.......................................... 30
Making Your Array Bootable ........................................................................... 31
Installing the Driver and
an Operating System
Before You Begin............................................................................................... 33
Creating a Driver Disk ...................................................................................... 33
Installing with Windows................................................................................... 33
Installing with Red Hat Linux .......................................................................... 34
Installing with SuSE Linux ............................................................................... 34
Installing with NetWare.................................................................................... 35
Installing with SCO OpenServer ...................................................................... 36
Installing the Driver on an
Existing Operating System
Before You Begin............................................................................................... 38
Creating a Driver Disk ...................................................................................... 38
Installing on Windows...................................................................................... 38
Installing on Red Hat or SuSE Linux ............................................................... 39
Installing on NetWare....................................................................................... 39
Installing with SCO OpenServer ...................................................................... 40
Managing Your Storage Space
About Adaptec Storage Manager ..................................................................... 42
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager ................................................................ 42
About the HRCONF Command Line Utility .................................................. 42
About the ARC Utility ...................................................................................... 43
About the AFU .................................................................................................. 43
Which Utility Should I Use? ............................................................................. 43
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