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Adaptec 1420SA Quick Installation Manual

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  • Page 1 UICK NSTALLATION UIDE ATA II RAID 1420SA DAPTEC ERIAL...
  • Page 2 Copyright ©2005 Adaptec, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written consent of Adaptec, Inc., 691 South Milpitas Blvd., Milpitas, CA 95035.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Kit Contents Overview of the Installation Process About the Documentation Booting from the CD with No Operating System Using the Adaptec CD Autorun in Windows Storage Management Software Overview The Adaptec 1420SA Controller Installing the Controller and Drives Checking Your Controller and Devices...

  • Page 4: About This Guide

    About This Guide This Guide provides basic information for you to install the Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA controller in your computer. It also provides the information necessary for you to get a fresh operating system running with a bootable RAID 0 or 1 array, or to install your drivers in an existing operating system.

  • Page 5: Overview Of The Installation Process

    Build the array. b Install the controller driver at the beginning of the operating system installation. In an existing system... a Install the controller driver. b Build the array. Note: Visit for the most recent driver www.adaptec.com downloads when they are available.

  • Page 6: About The Documentation

    Booting from the CD with No Operating System The Adaptec CD is bootable, which means you can use it to start a computer that has no operating system and set up an array (provided your computer is set up to recognize bootable CDs).

  • Page 7: Storage Management Software Overview

    – Disk Utilities—Used to format and verify drives. For details about any of these storage management tools, refer to the Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA Installation and User’s Guide. The Adaptec 1420SA Controller The Adaptec 1420SA controller is shown as follows. Note the position of the Serial ATA interface connectors necessary for attaching the Serial ATA disk drives.

  • Page 8: Installing The Controller And Drives

    Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA Quick Installation Guide Installing the Controller and Drives Caution: Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) can damage your controller. Handle the controller carefully so that you do not expose it to static charge. Notes: You need at least 2 drives for a RAID 0 or 1.

  • Page 9: Checking Your Controller And Devices

    Checking Your Controller and Devices 4 Install the controller in the PCI or PCI-X slot and secure the controller bracket to the chassis. 5 Install and connect any internal drives using the appropriate cable. 6 Close the computer cabinet and reattach the power cord. Checking Your Controller and Devices To check your controller and devices: 1 Turn on your computer.

  • Page 10: Creating A Raid Array

    The available selections are RAID 0 and RAID 1. Each of these array types requires two drives. (For a description of these array types, see the Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 1420SA Installation and User’s Guide.) Note: Once the array is created and its properties are assigned, you cannot change the array properties using the ACU.

  • Page 11: Creating The Driver Disk

    9 Select between the different creation methods for RAID 0 or RAID 1. (For more details about the creation methods, see the Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 1420SA Installation and User’s Guide.) RAID 0—Select No Init (default), or Migrate RAID 1—Select Build (default), Clear, or Quick Init Caution: Do not interrupt the creation of a RAID 0 using the Migrate option.

  • Page 12: Installing The Driver In A New Windows System

    7 Press S to specify that the driver is on the floppy disk; then, press Enter. Windows searches the disk for a suitable driver. 8 When the Adaptec RAID driver is found, press Enter. Follow the remaining on-screen instructions to complete your installation.

  • Page 13: Installing The Driver In An Existing Windows System

    Installing the Driver in an Existing Windows System Installing the Driver in an Existing Windows System To install the driver in an existing operating system: 1 Install and configure the controller and disk drives as described in Installing the Controller and Drives on page 2 Create a driver disk as shown on page 1-9.

  • Page 14: Installing Or Updating The Driver In An Existing Linux System

    Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA Quick Installation Guide 7 Follow the prompts to set up your preferred environment. 8 If you intend to install other third-party devices, proceed with the installation of those devices. Otherwise, select Done. 9 Continue with the Linux installation according to the Red Hat documentation.

  • Page 15: Installing The Netware Driver In A New Netware System

    Installing the Netware Driver in a New NetWare System 2 Then type: for Red Hat cd /mnt/cdrom for SuSE cd /media/cdrom 3 Type: cd /<directory of rpm files> 4 Type: rpm -ivh <rpmfile> (for a new install, or) rpm -Uvh --force <rpmfile> (for an updated install) for Red Hat umount /mnt/cdrom for SuSE...

  • Page 16: Installing Or Updating Device Drivers After Installing Netware

    Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA Quick Installation Guide 4 On the Device Type screen, select Storage adapters, then press Enter. 5 If the list contains the HostRAID SATA driver ( AAR81XX.HAM select the driver, then press the Delete key to delete it.
  • Page 17 Installing or Updating Device Drivers After Installing NetWare Installing the Device Drivers 1 Start the NetWare hdetect utility program. From the system console, type the following, then press Enter: load hdetect 2 Insert the HostRAID driver disk for Novell NetWare into the floppy disk drive.
  • Page 18 Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA Quick Installation Guide Note: If you want NetWare to load the HostRAID device driver automatically during startup, you must add the appropriate LOAD command to the NetWare startup command file (usually ). The command has the form: C:\NWSERVER\STARTUP.NCF...
  • Page 19 Adaptec, Inc. 691 South Milpitas Boulevard Milpitas, CA 95035 USA ©2005 Adaptec, Inc. All rights reserved. Adaptec and the Adaptec logo are trademarks of Adaptec, Inc. which may be registered in some jurisdictions. Part Number: CDP-00045-01-A, Rev. A JG 03/05...

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