Dell Streak 5 Manuals

Table of Contents

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    Table of Contents
  • 11

    CAUTION: Safety Instructions
  • 11

    SAFETY: General
  • 11

    SAFETY: When Working Inside Your System
  • 12

    Protecting against Electrostatic Discharge
  • 12

    SAFETY: Battery Disposal

• 13

  1 Overview

  • 13

    Scope of the User's Guide
  • 13

    PERC 5 Controller Descriptions
  • 14

    PCI Architecture
  • 14

    Operating System Support
  • 14

    RAID Description
    • 14

      Summary of RAID Levels
  • 15

    RAID Terminology
    • 15

      Disk Striping
    • 15

      Disk Mirroring
    • 16

      Parity

• 17

  2 PERC 5 Features

  • 17

    PERC 5 Controller Features
    • 18

      Compatibility with Virtual Disks Created On Existing PERC 5 Controllers
    • 19

      SMART Technology
    • 19

      Background Initialization
    • 19

      LED Operation
    • 20

      Disk Roaming
    • 20

      Disk Migration
    • 20

      Alarm Alert in Case of Physical Disk Failures
  • 21

    Battery Management
    • 21

      Introduction to Write Cache Policy
    • 21

      Write-Back Versus Write-Through
    • 21

      How Firmware Manages Cache
    • 22

      Conditions Under Which Write-Back Is Employed
    • 22

      Conditions Under Which Write-Through Is Employed
    • 22

      Conditions Under Which Forced Write-Back with No Battery Is Employed
  • 23

    RAID Configuration Information
  • 23

    Fault Tolerance Features
    • 24

      Physical Disk Hot Swapping
  • 24

    Patrol Read
    • 24

      Patrol Read Behavior
    • 25

      Configuration
    • 25

      Patrol Read Modes
    • 25

      Behavior Details
    • 25

      Blocked Operations

• 27

  3 Hardware Installation and Configuration

  • 27

    Installing the PERC 5/E Adapter
  • 29

    Installing the Transportable Battery Backup Unit (TBBU) for PERC 5/E
  • 30

    Installing the DIMM On a PERC 5/E Adapter
  • 32

    Transferring a TBBU Between Controllers
    • 32

      Removing the PERC 5/E Adapter
  • 33

    Removing the DIMM and Battery From a PERC 5/E Adapter
    • 35

      Installing the PERC 5/I Adapter
  • 37

    Removing the PERC 5/I Adapter
  • 39

    Removing the DIMM From a PERC 5/I Card
  • 40

    Disconnecting the BBU From a PERC 5/I Adapter or a PERC 5/I

• 41

  4 Driver Installation

  • 41

    Creating a Driver Diskette
  • 42

    Installing the Driver During a Microsoft Operating System Installation
  • 42

    Installing a Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2000, or XP Driver for a New RAID Controller
  • 43

    Updating an Existing Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, or Windows Vista Driver
  • 44

    Installing Windows Vista for a New RAID Controller
  • 45

    Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Driver
    • 45

      Creating a Driver Diskette
    • 46

      Installing the Driver
    • 46

      Installing the Driver Using an Update RPM
  • 47

    Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (Version 9 or 10) Driver
    • 47

      Installing the Driver Using an Update RPM
    • 48

      Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Using the Driver Update Diskette

• 51

  5 RAID Configuration and Management

  • 51

    Dell Openmanage Storage Management
  • 51

    SAS RAID Storage Manager
  • 51

    BIOS Configuration Utility
  • 52

    Entering the BIOS Configuration Utility
    • 52

      Starting the BIOS Configuration Utility
  • 52

    Exiting the Configuration Utility
  • 52

    Menu Navigation Controls
  • 54

    RAID Configuration Functions
  • 55

    BIOS Configuration Utility Menu Options
    • 56

      Virtual Disk Management (VD Mgmt)
    • 58

      Physical Disk Management (PD Mgmt)
    • 59

      Physical Disk Actions
    • 59

      Controller Management (Ctrl Mgmt)
    • 59

      Controller Management Disk Actions
    • 60

      Foreign Configuration View
  • 60

    Setting Up Virtual Disks
    • 62

      Creating Virtual Disks
    • 63

      Initializing Virtual Disks
    • 64

      Importing or Clearing Foreign Configurations Using the VD Mgmt Menu
    • 64

      Importing or Clearing Foreign Configurations Using the Foreign Configuration View Screen
    • 66

      Setting LED Blinking
    • 66

      Managing Dedicated Hot Spares
    • 67

      Creating Global Hot Spares
    • 67

      Removing Global or Dedicated Hot Spares
    • 68

      Enabling the Alarm to Alert in Case of Physical Disk Failures
    • 68

      Checking Data Consistency
    • 69

      Stopping Background Initialization
    • 69

      Performing a Manual Rebuild of an Individual Physical Disk
    • 69

      Deleting Virtual Disks
    • 70

      Deleting Disk Groups
    • 70

      Upgrading Firmware
    • 70

      Enabling Boot Support
    • 71

      Enabling BIOS Stop On Error
    • 71

      Restoring Factory Default Settings

• 73

  6 Troubleshooting

  • 73

    Virtual Disks Degraded
  • 73

    Memory Errors
  • 74

    General Problems
  • 74

    Physical Disk Related Issues
  • 75

    Physical Disk Failures and Rebuilds
  • 76

    SMART Error
  • 77

    PERC 5 Post Error Messages
  • 80

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System Errors
  • 81

    LED Behavior Patterns
  • 81

    Audible Alarm Warnings

• 83

  7 Appendix: Regulatory Notices

  • 83

    Regulatory Notices
  • 84

    FCC Notices (U.S. Only)
    • 84

      FCC, Class a
    • 84

      FCC, Class B
  • 85

    Industry Canada (Canada Only)
    • 85

      Industry Canada, Class a
    • 85

      Industry Canada, Class B
  • 86

    CE Notice (European Union)
  • 94

    MIC Notice (Republic of Korea Only)
  • 95

    VCCI (Japan Only)
  • 96

    CNCA (China Only)
    • 96

      CNCA, Class a
  • 97

    Información NOM (Únicamente Para México)
  • 97

    Corporate Contact Details (Taiwan Only)

• 101

  Glossary

• 111

  Index