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Series-2-3-5-Controller_Readme_8_2010.txt

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README.TXT

Adaptec ASR-5085/ASR-5405/ASR-5445/ASR-5805/ASR-51245/ASR-51645/ASR-52445 Unified Serial Controllers

Adaptec ASR-5405Z/ASR-5445Z/ASR-5805Z Unified Serial Controllers

Adaptec ASR-5805Q/ASR-5805ZQ Unified Serial Controllers

Adaptec ASR-3405/ASR-3805 Unified Serial Controllers

Adaptec ASR-2045/ASR-2405/ASR-2405Q/ASR-2805 Unified Serial Controllers

NOTE: All Adaptec products are UL listed and for use only with UL listed ITE.

as of August 17, 2010

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Please review this file for important information about issues

and errata that were discovered after completion of the standard

product documentation. In the case of conflict between various

parts of the documentation set, this file contains the most

current information.

NOTE: The latest firmware, BIOS, drivers and documentation can be

downloaded from www.adaptec.com when they become available.

The following information is available in this file:

1. Software and Documentation

1.1 Controller & Utility Software

1.2 Documentation on this CD

2. Installation and Setup

2.1 Installation Instructions

2.2 MaxIQ Cache Software Setup

2.3 Power Management Setup

2.4 Linux Setup

3. General Cautions

4. Known Limitations

4.1 ACU Utility

4.2 AFU Utility

4.3 Creating an Array from the Adaptec Installation CD

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Summary of content (8 pages)

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4.4 Series-2-3-5-Controller_Readme_8_2010.txt Using the Controller with an Adaptec S50 JBOD Enclosure 4.5 UnixWare and OpenServer 4.6 OpenServer 6.0 4.7 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Service Pack 2 4.8 Hot-adding Disk Drives 4.9 SuperMicro Disk Drive Enclosures 4.10 Using the Controller with a Seagate Barracuda 1TB SATA Drive 4.11 Intel SE7525RP2 and SE7320EP2 Motherboards 4.12 Windows Server 2008 64-Bit SCSIport Driver 4.13 Boot Drive Failure after OCE/RLM 4.
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Series-2-3-5-Controller_Readme_8_2010.txt o Windows Server 2008, Enterprise, Standard, Datacenter (32-bit, 64-bit) o Windows Server 2008 R2, Enterprise, Standard, Datacenter (64-bit) o Windows Server 2003, Enterprise, Standard, Datacenter (32-bit, 64-bit) o Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (all versions) - Windows Drivers, 5-Series & 2-Series Controllers Only o Windows Server 2003 R2, Enterprise, Standard, Datacenter (32-bit, 64-bit) - Linux Drivers, All Controllers o Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
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Series-2-3-5-Controller_Readme_8_2010.txt - VMware Drivers, 5-Series & 2-Series Controllers Only o VMware ESX Server 4.0 - Sun Solaris Drivers o Solaris 10 Update 7 1.2 Documentation on this CD - Adaptec Adaptec Adaptec Adaptec Adaptec SAS RAID Controllers Installation and User's Guide SAS RAID Controllers Quick Start Guide Storage Manager User's Guide for Direct Attached Storage RAID Controller Command Line Utility User's Guide SAS RAID Controllers README.
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Series-2-3-5-Controller_Readme_8_2010.txt o If a non-MaxIQ (generic) SSD is connected to the controller on a lower port number than an Adaptec MaxIQ SDD, you cannot use the ACU utility to add the MaxIQ SSD to the MaxIQ pool. You must use Adaptec Storage Manager. NOTE: Adaptec Q-series controllers do not have this limitation.
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Series-2-3-5-Controller_Readme_8_2010.txt OS is SLES10 SP2 with driver version 1.1.5-2458, you must add 'aacraid.wwn=1' to the kernel boot command line. Alternatively, install the latest aacraid driver. 4.8 Hot-adding Disk Drives o If you hot-add multiple disks simultaneously to a large configuration (100 disk drives or more), it may take a great deal of time before those disk drives appear in Adaptec Storage Manager.
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Series-2-3-5-Controller_Readme_8_2010.txt controller with battery back-up, add 'options aacraid cache=6' to the /etc/modprobe.conf.local file. To completely suppress cache synchronization, add 'options aacraid cache=2'. Then, reboot. Note that the smaller value provides no protection in case of a power outage. 4.19 Listing Devices in VMware ESX 4.0 Console After deleting an array with ARCCONF, the VMware ESX 4.0 Console will hang if you list available devices with 'fdisk -l'.
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Series-2-3-5-Controller_Readme_8_2010.txt stripe size. No data is lost, however. Known migrations that result in a FW crash include: o o o o o o 16/32/64/128 drive R0- 256/16 to 16/256 stripe change 16/32/64/128 drive R0- 512/16 to 16/512 stripe change 16/32/64/128 drive R0- 1024/16 to 16/1024 stripe change 16/32 drive R5- 16 to 512/1024 stripe change 16/32 drive R5- 512/1024 to 16 stripe change 16/32 drive R6- 1024/16 to 16/1024 stripe change 4.