Installing The Hostraid Controller; And Disk Drives - Adaptec 58300 - SAS Storage Controller 300 MBps Installation And User Manual

Installing the HostRAID Controller
and Disk Drives
Before You Begin............................................................................................... 25
Installing the HostRAID Controller................................................................. 25
Connecting Disk Drives to HostRAID Controllers......................................... 26
Connecting Directly to the HostRAID Controller.................................... 26
Connecting to a System Backplane ............................................................ 27
Installing the Controller to a SAS Expander ............................................. 28
Next Steps .......................................................................................................... 28
Creating a Bootable Array
Setting the Boot Controller .............................................................................. 30
Creating an Array.............................................................................................. 30
Creating an Array with the ACU...................................................................... 30
Creating an Array with Adaptec Storage Manager.......................................... 31
Making Your Array Bootable ........................................................................... 32
Installing the Driver and
an Operating System
Before You Begin............................................................................................... 34
Creating a Driver Disk ...................................................................................... 34
Installing with Windows................................................................................... 34
Installing with Red Hat Linux .......................................................................... 35
Installing with SuSE Linux ............................................................................... 35
Installing with NetWare.................................................................................... 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
Managing Your Storage Space
About Adaptec Storage Manager ..................................................................... 41
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager ................................................................ 41
About the HRCONF Command Line Utility .................................................. 41
About the ARC Utility ...................................................................................... 42
About the AFU .................................................................................................. 42
Which Utility Should I Use? ............................................................................. 42
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