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7 Installing the Driver and an Operating System .....................................................................................................39
Before You Begin..........................................................................................................................................39
Creating a Driver Disk...................................................................................................................................39
Creating a Driver Disk for Debian Linux or Ubuntu Linux ...............................................................40
Creating a Driver Disk for VMware ESX 4.1 .....................................................................................40
Installing with Windows ..............................................................................................................................41
Installing with Red Hat Linux 5 or Cent OS 5 ...............................................................................................41
Installing with Red Hat Linux 6, Cent OS 6, or Fedora Linux ........................................................................41
Red Hat Linux 6, Cent OS 6 with Dynamic Kernel Module Support ................................................41
Red Hat Linux 6, Cent OS 6, Fedora Linux without Dynamic Kernel Module Support ....................42
Installing with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server ...............................................................................................43
Installing with Debian Linux.........................................................................................................................43
Installing with Ubuntu Linux........................................................................................................................44
Installing with Solaris...................................................................................................................................45
Installing with FreeBSD ................................................................................................................................46
Installing with VMware ESX 4.1 ...................................................................................................................46
Installing with VMware ESXi 5.0 ..................................................................................................................47
8 Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System .........................................................................................50
Before You Begin..........................................................................................................................................50
Creating a Driver Disk...................................................................................................................................50
Installing on Windows .................................................................................................................................50
Installing on Red Hat, Cent OS, SuSE, or Fedora Linux.................................................................................51
Installing on Debian Linux............................................................................................................................51
Installing on Ubuntu Linux...........................................................................................................................51
Installing on Solaris .....................................................................................................................................52
Installing on FreeBSD ...................................................................................................................................52
Installing on VMware...................................................................................................................................53
9 Managing Your Storage Space..............................................................................................................................54
About maxView Storage Manager...............................................................................................................54
Installing maxView Storage Manager..............................................................................................54
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility............................................................................54
About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility.............................................................................................54
About the Adaptec Flash Utility...................................................................................................................55
Which Utility Should I Use?..........................................................................................................................55
10 Solving Problems ................................................................................................................................................56
Troubleshooting Checklist............................................................................................................................56
Monitoring Disk Drives Status......................................................................................................................56
Silencing the Alarm .....................................................................................................................................56
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure ...........................................................................................................56
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare .....................................................................................57
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare ..............................................................................57
Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously ......................................................................................57
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array ................................................................................................57
Multiple Failures in the Same Array ................................................................................................57
Failed SSD in maxCache Container..................................................................................................58
Resetting the Controller ..............................................................................................................................58
Appendix A Introduction to SAS...............................................................................................................................59
Terminology Used in This Appendix ............................................................................................................59
What is SAS?.................................................................................................................................................59
How Do SAS Devices Communicate?...........................................................................................................59
What's a Phy?...............................................................................................................................................60
What's a SAS Port?.......................................................................................................................................60
What's a SAS Address?.................................................................................................................................60
What's a SAS Connector?.............................................................................................................................61
What do SAS Cables Look Like?....................................................................................................................61
How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS? ........................................................................................................61
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Serial Attached SCSI RAID Controllers Installation and User's Guide
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