User`s guide

Contents ● 9
Installing with SuSE Linux............................................................53
Installing with NetWare................................................................54
8 Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
Before You Begin...........................................................................57
Creating a Driver Disk...................................................................57
Installing on Windows..................................................................58
Installing on Red Hat or SuSE Linux............................................58
Installing on NetWare...................................................................59
9 Managing Your Storage Space
About Adaptec Storage Manager..................................................61
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager......................................61
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility.......62
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Utility................................62
About the Adaptec Flash Utility....................................................63
Which Utility Should I Use?..........................................................63
10 Solving Problems
Troubleshooting Checklist............................................................65
Silencing the Alarm .......................................................................66
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure..........................................66
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare..........................66
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare...................67
Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously............................67
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array....................................67
Multiple Failures in the Same Array......................................68
Resetting the Controller................................................................68
A Introduction to Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Terminology Used in This Chapter..............................................71
What is SAS? ..................................................................................71
How Do SAS Devices Communicate?..........................................72
What’s a Phy?.................................................................................72
What’s a SAS Port? ........................................................................73
What’s a SAS Address? ..................................................................73
What’s a SAS Connector?..............................................................74