User Guide

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction ............................................................ 1-1
Chapter 2 Features................................................................... 2-1
Chapter 3 Functional Description........................................... 3-1
3.1 RAID Management ........................................................... 3-1
3.2 Drive Failure Management ............................................... 3-5
3.3 Disk Array Parameters.................................................... 3-11
3.4 Cache Parameters.......................................................... 3-13
3.5 Drive-Side SCSI Parameters .......................................... 3-15
3.6 Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion .................................. 3-20
Chapter 4 Hardware Installation.............................................. 4-1
4.1 The Main Board................................................................ 4-1
4.2 Installing DRAM SIMM..................................................... 4-2
4.3 Basic Operational Set-Up ................................................. 4-3
4.4 Configuration Examples and Termination Settings............ 4-4
Chapter 5 Quick Setup............................................................. 5-1
5.1 Using the BIOS RAID Manager......................................... 5-1
Chapter 6 Configuring RAID.................................................... 6-1
6.1 Starting to Build a RAID System Drive.............................. 6-1
6.2 How Does the RAID Controller Work? .............................. 6-4
Chapter 7 BIOS Configuration Utility...................................... 7-1
7.1 Configuration.................................................................... 7-1
7.2 Color/Monochrome ........................................................... 7-5
Chapter 8 Text RAID Manager User Interface......................... 8-1
8.1 The Main Menu................................................................. 8-1
8.2 Viewing and Editing Logical Drives................................. 8-10
8.3 Viewing and Editing SCSI ID Map................................... 8-27
8.4 Viewing and Editing SCSI Drives.................................... 8-32
8.5 Viewing and Editing SCSI Channels ............................... 8-37
8.6 Viewing and Editing Configuration Parameters ............... 8-62
8.7 System Functions........................................................... 8-79
8.8 Viewing System Information ........................................... 8-86
Chapter 9 Remote Administration........................................... 9-1
9.1 GUI RAID Manager Using SNMP Service......................... 9-1
Appendix A Driver Installation ................................................A-1
1 MS-DOS
®
ASPI Drivers Installation.........................................A-1
2 NetWare
®
Driver Installation ...................................................A-3
2.1 Installing NetWare 3.1x ....................................................A-3
2.2 Installing NetWare 4.0x/4.1/4.11.......................................A-5
3 Windows NT
®
3.1/3.51 Driver Installation..............................A-11
3.1 Installing Driver During Windows NT 3.1/3.51 InstallationA-12
3.2 Installing Driver in Existing Windows NT 3.1/3.51 SystemA-13
3.3 Updating Windows NT 3.1/3.51 Device Driver ................A-14
3.4 Installing the Driver During Windows NT 4.0 Installation A-15