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Installing with OpenServer ............................................................................... 62
Installing with UnixWare ................................................................................. 63
Installing with Solaris........................................................................................ 63
Installing with VMware .................................................................................... 63
Installing with FreeBSD .................................................................................... 64
8 Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
Before You Begin............................................................................................... 67
Creating a Driver Disk ...................................................................................... 67
Installing on Windows...................................................................................... 68
Installing on Windows Server 2003 ........................................................... 68
Installing with Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows Vista ... 68
Installing on Red Hat, SuSE, or Fedora Linux ................................................ 68
Installing on Debian or Ubuntu Linux ............................................................ 69
Installing on OpenServer .................................................................................. 69
Installing on UnixWare .................................................................................... 69
Installing on Solaris........................................................................................... 70
Installing on VMware ....................................................................................... 70
Installing on FreeBSD ....................................................................................... 71
9 Managing Your Storage Space
About Adaptec Storage Manager ..................................................................... 73
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager .......................................................... 73
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility........................... 73
About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility ............................................. 74
About the Adaptec Flash Utility ....................................................................... 74
Which Utility Should I Use? ............................................................................. 74
10 Solving Problems
Troubleshooting Checklist ............................................................................... 76
Monitoring Disk Drives Status......................................................................... 76
Silencing the Alarm........................................................................................... 76
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure ............................................................. 77
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare.............................................. 77
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare....................................... 77
Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously................................................ 77
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array........................................................ 78
Multiple Failures in the Same Array .......................................................... 78
Failed Drive in MaxIQ Pool ....................................................................... 78
Resetting the Controller.................................................................................... 78
A Introduction to SAS
Terminology Used in This Chapter ................................................................. 81
What is SAS?...................................................................................................... 81
How Do SAS Devices Communicate?.............................................................. 82
What's a Phy? .................................................................................................... 82
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