Adaptec ICP5045BL User Manual page 7

- If the Adaptec Storage Manager console does not repaint correctly,
select the View->Refresh menu item to repaint the screen.
5.2 Windows - All
- To run Adaptec Storage Manager in a browser, your network's
DNS configuration must have matching forward and reverse
lookups.
- The Java Virtual Machine has a problem with the 256-color
palette. (The Adaptec Storage Manager display may be distorted
or hard to read.) Set the Display Properties Settings to a
color mode with greater than 256 colors.
- If the network connection is disconnected while the Adaptec
Storage Manager agent is running, the agent cannot communicate
with the Adaptec Storage Manager console. As a result, Adaptec
Storage Manager will not report task status in the Event
viewer. Reestablish network commmunication; then, restart the
Adaptec Storage Manager agent and console.
- When you shut down Windows, you might see the message
"unexpected shutdown". Windows displays this message if the
Adaptec Storage Manager
It has no affect on file I/O or other system operations and can
be ignored.
5.3 Windows 2000
- More event notifications are generated than arrays degraded.
For example, in a configuration with four RAID 5s sharing
three drives, one failed drive causes six notifications--one for
each of the arrays affected, plus two extra for the second array.
5.4 Windows for EM64T and AMD-64
- Adapters do not produce an audible alarm on 64-bit Windows
operating systems, including:
° Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
° Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (all versions)
5.5 Linux
- When you delete an array, the operating system can no longer see
the last array. WORKAROUND: To allow Linux to see the last array,
restart your system.
- The controller does not support attached CD drives during OS
installation.
- To remotely manage a Linux system from a Windows system, you must
use the standalone GUI.
- If you cannot connect to a local or remote Adaptec Storage Manager
installed on a Linux system, verify that the TCP/IP hosts file
Agent fails to exit within 3 seconds.