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Acer AcerAltos 3102RS User Manual

Acer AcerAltos 3102RS User Manual (303 pages)

Ultra-SCSI to Ultra-SCSI RAID Controller

Brand: Acer | Category: Controller | Size: 2.72 MB

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
4
Chapter 1 Introduction

19
Chapter 2 Features

21
Chapter 3 Functional Description

25
- RAID Management
  25
  - What Are the RAID Levels
    25
    
    NRAID Disk Spanning
    26
    
    JBOD Single Drive Control
    27
    
    RAID 0 Disk Stripping
    27
    
    RAID 1 Disk Mirroring
    28
    
    RAID (0+1) Disk Striping with Mirroring
    29
    
    RAID 3 Disk Striping with Dedicated Parity Disk
    30
    
    RAID 5 Striping with Interspersed Parity
    31
- Drive Failure Management
  32
  - Global and Local Spare Drive
    32
  - Identifying Drives
    34
  - Automatic Rebuild and Manual Rebuild
    36
    
    Automatic Rebuild
    36
    
    Manual Rebuild
    37
  - Concurrent Rebuild in RAID (0+1)
    38
- Disk Array Parameters
  39
  - Rebuild Priority
    39
  - Verify-After-Write
    39
- Cache Parameters
  41
  - Optimization for Sequential or Random I/O
    41
- Drive-Side SCSI Parameters
  42
  - SCSI Motor Spin-Up
    42
  - SCSI Reset at Power up
    42
  - Disk Access Delay Time
    43
- SAF-TE Enclosure Management
  44
  - What Is SAF-TE
    44
  - How Does SAF-TE Work
    44
- Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion
  45
  - What Is It and How Does It Work
    45
  - Two Modes of Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion
    45
    
    Example: RAID Expansion in Windows NT Server
    48
Chapter 4 Hardware Installation

57
Chapter 5 Quick Setup

85
- Front Panel
  85
- RS-232 Terminal Interface
  87
Chapter 6 Configuring RAID

89
- Starting to Build a RAID System Drive
  89
- How the RAID Controller Works
  91
  - SCSI Channel, SCSI ID and LUN
    91
  - Understanding Step by Step
    92
Chapter 7 General Front Panel Operation

95
- Understanding the Information on the LCD
  95
  - The Initial Screen
    95
  - Logical Drive Status
    96
  - SCSI Drive Status
    97
  - SCSI Channel Status
    98
- Viewing and Editing Logical Drives
  100
  - Creating a Logical Drive
    100
- Viewing Logical Drives and Drive Members
  102
- Deleting a Logical Drive
  102
- Partitioning a Logical Drive
  103
- Deleting a Partition of a Logical Drive
  104
- Assigning a Logical Drive Name
  105
- Rebuilding a Logical Drive
  106
- Viewing and Editing Host Luns
  108
- Viewing and Editing SCSI Drives
  111
  - Scanning New SCSI Drive
    111
  - Viewing Drive Information
    112
  - Adding a Local Spare Drive
    113
  - Adding Global Spare Drive
    114
  - Identifying a Drive
    114
  - Deleting Spare Drive (Global / Local Spare Drive)
    115
  - SCSI Drives Utilities
    116
    
    SCSI Drive Low-Level Format
    116
    
    SCSI Drive Read/Write Test
    117
- Viewing and Editing SCSI Channels
  118
  - Viewing and Redefining a Channel Mode
    118
  - Setting a SCSI Channel's ID / Host Channel
    119
    
    Viewing a SCSI Channel's ID
    119
  - Setting a SCSI Channel's Primary ID / Drive Channel
    121
  - Setting a SCSI Channel's Secondary ID / Drive
    122
    
    Channel
    122
    
    Setting a SCSI Channel's Terminator
    123
    
    Setting the Transfer Speed
    124
    
    Setting the Transfer Width
    125
    
    Maximum Synchronous Transfer Clock
    126
    
    Slot Number
    126
    
    Viewing and Editing a SCSI Target / Drive Channel
    126
    
    Maximum Transfer Width
    127
    
    Parity Check
    127
    
    Disconnecting Support
    128
    
    Maximum Tag Count
    128
    
    Restoring the Default Setting
    129
  - Viewing and Editing Configuration Parameters
    130
    
    Caching Parameters
    130
    
    Communication Parameters
    130
    
    Write-Back Cache Enable/Disable
    130
    
    Host-Side SCSI Parameters
    131
    
    Optimization for Sequential / Optimization for Random
    131
    
    Drive-Side SCSI Parameters
    132
    
    Luns Per Host SCSI ID
    132
    
    Maximum Queued I/O Count
    132
    
    SCSI Motor Spin-Up
    133
    
    SCSI Reset at Power-Up
    133
    
    Disk Access Delay Time
    134
    
    Tag Command Queuing
    134
    
    Detection of Drive Hot Swap Followed by Auto Rebuild
    135
    
    SAF-TE Enclosure Monitoring
    135
    
    Idle Drive Failure Detection
    136
    
    Disk Array Parameters
    137
    
    Rebuilding Priority
    137
    
    Verification on Writes
    137
    
    Controller Name
    139
    
    Controller Parameters
    139
  - Viewing and Editing Peripheral Devices
    140
  - System Functions
    141
    
    Changing the Password
    141
    
    Mute Beeper
    141
    
    Resetting the Controller
    142
  - Viewing System Information
    143
  - Viewing and Editing Event Logs
    144
Chapter 8 RS-232C Terminal Interface

145
- Understanding the Information on the Screen
  145
  - The Initial Screen
    145
  - Main Menu
    146
  - Logical Drive's Status
    147
  - SCSI Drive's Status
    148
  - SCSI Channel's Status
    150
  - Viewing the Current Setting of each Function
    152
- Viewing and Editing Logical Drives
  154
  - Creating a Logical Drive
    154
  - Viewing Logical Drives and Drive Members
    157
  - Deleting a Logical Drive
    158
  - Partitioning a Logical Drive
    158
  - Deleting a Partition of a Logical Drive
    159
  - Assigning a Logical Drive Name
    160
  - Rebuilding Logical Drive
    161
- Viewing and Editing Host Luns
  163
  - Mapping a Logical Drive to a Host LUN
    163
  - Viewing and Deleting the LUN Mappings
    166
- Viewing and Editing SCSI Drives
  168
  - Scanning a New SCSI Drive
    168
  - Viewing Drive Information
    169
  - Adding a Local Spare Drive
    170
  - Adding a Global Spare Drive
    171
  - Identifying a Drive
    171
  - Deleting a Spare Drive
    172
    
    Drive)
    172
- Viewing and Editing SCSI Channels
  173
  - Redefining a Channel Mode
    173
  - Viewing and Editing a SCSI ID / Host Channel
    174
    
    Adding a SCSI ID
    175
    
    Deleting a SCSI ID
    175
    
    Channel
    176
    
    Setting a Primary Controller's SCSI ID / Drive Channel
    176
  - Setting a Secondary Controller's SCSI ID / Drive
    178
    
    Channel
    178
  - Setting a SCSI Channel's Terminator
    179
  - Setting a Transfer Speed
    180
  - Setting a Transfer Width
    181
- Viewing and Editing SCSI Target / Drive Channel
  182
  - Slot Number
    183
  - Maximum Synchronize Transfer Clock
    183
  - Maximum Transfer Width
    184
  - Parity Check
    184
  - Disconnecting Support
    185
  - Maximum Tag Count
    185
  - Restoring the Default Setting
    186
- Viewing and Editing Configuration Parameters
  187
  - Communication Parameters
    187
  - Caching Parameters
    188
    
    Write-Back Cache Enable/Disable
    188
    
    Optimization for Random or Sequential I/O
    189
  - Host-Side SCSI Parameters
    190
    
    Maximum Queued I/O Count
    190
  - Luns Per Host SCSI ID
    190
  - Drive-Side SCSI Parameters
    191
    
    SCSI Motor Spin-Up
    191
    
    Disk Access Delay Time
    192
    
    SCSI Reset at Power-Up
    192
    
    Maximum Tag Count
    193
  - Disk Array Parameters
    194
    
    Rebuild Priority
    194
    
    Verification on Writes
    195
  - Controller Parameters
    196
    
    Controller Name
    196
  - System Functions
    197
    
    Mute Beeper
    197
    
    Change Password
    198
    
    Changing the Password
    199
    
    Setting a New Password
    199
    
    Disabling the Password
    200
    
    Reset Controller
    200
  - Viewing System Information
    201
Chapter 9 Redundant Controller

203
Chapter 10 Redundant Host, Multiple Host

219
- Redundant Host
  219
- Multiple Host
  220
Chapter 11 Remote Administration

221
Chapter 12 Fault-Bus

251
Appendix A Front Panel Navigation Map

269
- Specifications
  277
- View and Edit Scsi Channels
  299

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