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Hardware Requirements:
American Megatrends StorTrends ITX 1100i/3100i
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Installation Steps:
StorTrends ITX 3100i (Broadcom Controller)
1.
Backup your old data, perform a system reboot and enter the Broadcom BIOS
Utility (CTRL+R)
2.
Delete all previous RAID arrays and initialize all physical disks
3.
Check the version number of the BIOS.
If the version is not RC-200-XXX, then you need to update it to
the supported version (2.0).
Please get the supported version from
http://www.broadcom.com/products/raid_2.0.1_driver_download.php
Download the file firmware_v2.0.1.zip.
Reboot system and go back inside Broadcom BIOS Utility
4.
Select Controller Options menu item and select Toggle Board ID to off
is on)
5.
Automatic reboot of system is followed.
6.
Again, go inside Broadcom BIOS Utility and create a RAID 50 of size 3.4GB
using *all* available disks in the system. For maximum safety and performance
choose Distributed Spare and Read-only cache for this array
7.
Connect an external USB CD-ROM device to the box and boot the system with
the StorTrends ITX 2.6 CD, and it will prompt you through installation.
NOTES: Make sure that the boot sequence is set to the USB CD-ROM device first.
Not all USB CD-ROM devices may be supported by the BIOS.
For an updated list of supported CD-ROM devices, contact AMI.
StorTrends ITX 1100i (Marvell SATA Controller)
1.
Boot the system with the StorTrends ITX 2.6 CD using the internal CD
drive, and it will prompt you through installation.
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StorTrends ITX Software Version 2.6
Copyright (c) 2002-2006 American Megatrends, Inc.
Please visit
www.ami.com
regarding the release version you are using.
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- Page 1 Copyright (c) 2002-2006 American Megatrends, Inc. Please visit regarding the release version you are using. =============================================================================== Hardware Requirements: American Megatrends StorTrends ITX 1100i/3100i ******************************************************************************* Installation Steps: StorTrends ITX 3100i (Broadcom Controller) Backup your old data, perform a system reboot and enter the Broadcom BIOS...
- Page 2 Release Notes for StorTrends ITX 2.6 - Build 2.6.0006 ====================================================================== Build Date: MMM DD, 2007 Build Version No: 2.6.0006 ========================== Features Supported ------------------ Advanced Storage stack supporting the following features a. Thin/Exact Provisioning b. Provision tracking c. High speed Read-Only and Writable snapshots d.
- Page 3 Supports a maximum of 128 targets per box (including 2 system-generated targets: mtarget and smatarget) Supports 32 LUNs per Target. Supports ISCSI Error recovery level 0 and 1 Supports fine tuning of ISCSI parameters from UI ISCSI traffic can be enabled or disabled on a per NIC basis Supports CHAP based iSCSI authentication ISCSI Authentication based on iSCSI Initiator WWN/FQDN ISCSI Authentication based on local StorTrends iTX username and password...
- Page 4 recommended that you use static addresses for all servers to minimize the risk of connectivity problems. May lose a network interface if NICs are connected at different speeds and one NIC gets updated as static/dhcp. setting. Initiator 1. The TimeOutValue in Windows Registry under Disk subsystem needs to be increased to 150 seconds or more, to avoid Delayed Write failures when using iSCSI.
- Page 5 The solution is to create another RAID array with the free space and add it to the container. 9. On StorTrends 1100i platform, OS RAID Auto rebuild is supported only in Hot Swap mode. A kernel panic may occur while creating and deleting LD recursively using bcadm command.
- Page 6 Miscellaneous 1. The total number of NAS shares is limited to 10000. 2. UID range for local user is from 1001 to 100000. 3. UID range for local group is from 1001 to 100000. 4. NDMP backup is not supported in this release. 5.
- Page 7 show the pre-expanded size. 6750 – Sev3 - QLogic 4010c on Suse Linux: get a connection error when trying to access iSCSI space. 6753 – Sev3 – Incorrect output when adding ADS user to LOCAL group. 6754 – Sev3 - iSWAT: iSCSI Conformance test keeps failing. 7089 –...