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Installing the Operating System Drivers continued
Command Line Switches.................................................................................................7-24
Limitations .................................................................................................................... ..7-27
Banyan VINES 6.0 or Later....................................................................................................7-28
Installing the Driver.........................................................................................................7-28
Creating the Peripheral Adapter Support Software Diskettes..........................................7-28
Additional Information....................................................................................................7-28
Installation Procedures ....................................................................................................7-29
Updating the Compaq Insight Manager Agents......................................................................7-29
Appendix A
Electrostatic Discharge
Preventing Electrostatic Damage.............................................................................................A-1
Grounding Methods.................................................................................................................A-2
Appendix B
Specifications
Appendix C
Understanding Drive Arrays
What is a Drive Array?............................................................................................................ C-1
Drive Arrays................................................................................................................... .. C-3
Logical Drives .................................................................................................................. C-4
Drive Array Benefits ............................................................................................................... C-5
Data Protection ................................................................................................................. C-5
Performance Enhancement .................................................................................................... C-10
Distributing Data and Data Striping ............................................................................... C-10
Concurrent I/O Request Servicing.................................................................................. C-11
Optimized Request Management.................................................................................... C-12
Bus Master Data Transfers ............................................................................................. C-12
Adding Storage Capacity....................................................................................................... C-13
Disk Drive Capacity Upgrades ....................................................................................... C-14
Data Reliability...................................................................................................................... C-15
Auto Reliability Monitoring ........................................................................................... C-15
Dynamic Sector Repairing.............................................................................................. C-15
Drive Parameter Tracking .............................................................................................. C-16
Drive Failure Alert Features ........................................................................................... C-16
Interim Data Recovery ................................................................................................... C-16
Automatic Data Recovery .............................................................................................. C-17
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