SOFTWARE RAID ON MOTHER BOARD ROMB USER MANUAL Version 1.
Software ROMB User Manual Copyright © 2010 Promise Technology, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Copyright by Promise Technology, Inc. (Promise Technology). No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without the expressed, written permission of Promise Technology. Trademarks Promise and the Promise logo are registered in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. All other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Contents Chapter 1: Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 About This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Product Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Feature Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 WebPAM Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Software ROMB User Manual Chapter 4: RAID Management Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Using the BIOS Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Navigating the Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Viewing Drive Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26 Viewing Logical Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 JBOD Disks . . . . . . . . . . .
Contents Chapter 5: WebPAM, cont. Managing Logical Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70 Viewing All Logical Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70 Creating a Logical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70 Creating a JBOD Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74 Deleting a Logical Drive or JBOD Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78 Viewing Logical Drive Information . . . . . .
Software ROMB User Manual Chapter 6: Technology, cont. Other Logical Drive Features, cont. Read Cache Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108 Write Cache Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108 Logical Drive Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108 Chapter 7: Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111 Frequently Asked Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chapter 1: Introduction • About This Manual, below • Product Overview (page 2) • Feature Support (page 2) • WebPAM Software (page 3) • Operating System Support (page 3) • Browser Support (page 3) • Virtualization Support (page 3) Thank you for purchasing Promise Technology’s Software RAID On Mother Board (ROMB) system. About This Manual This User Manual describes how to setup, use and maintain your RAID system with the Software ROMB solution.
Software ROMB User Manual Product Overview Promise designed the Software ROMB as cost-effective, high performance RAID solution that increases PC and Server performance by reducing the CPU utilization rate. The Software ROMB supports the following RAID levels: • Stripe (RAID 0) – Identical drives can read and write data in parallel to increase performance. • Mirror (RAID 1) – Mirror increases read performance through load balancing and elevator sorting while creating a complete backup of your files.
Chapter 1: Introduction WebPAM Software The Web-based Promise Array Management (WebPAM) RAID management software offers local management and monitoring of your logical drives. The browser-based GUI provides email notification of all major events or alarms, memory cache management, logging for Windows servers, logical drive maintenance, rebuild, and access to all related components (server, controller, data channels, physical drives, and backplane).
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Chapter 2: Installation • Installing WebPAM (page 5) Installing WebPAM WebPAM RAID management software is an integral part of the Software RAID On Mother Board (ROMB) system. Before you proceed with installation, take a moment to verify that your operating system and browser support WebPAM.
Software ROMB User Manual Installation Windows Follow these steps to install WebPAM on your Windows-based PC or Server. 1. Boot up the PC/server and launch Windows. If the computer is already running, exit all programs. 2. Insert the software CD into your CD-ROM drive. 3. Double-click the Install CD's icon to open it. 4. Double-click the Installer icon to launch it (right). The first WebPAM installation dialog box appears. Go to “WebPAM Installation for Windows and Linux, continued” on page 7.
Chapter 2: Installation WebPAM Installation for Windows and Linux, continued The following screens are from a Windows installation. The Linux screens look different but they have the same choices and options. 5. When the Introduction screen appears, click the Next button 6. When the License Agreement appears, click the “I accept the terms of the license agreement” option. Then click the Next button.
Software ROMB User Manual 7. When the Choose Install Folder screen appears, make your selection of a folder for the WebPAM applications you are installing. The default folder is C:\Program Files\Promise\WebPAM\. If you want a different folder, type its location or click the Browse button and select a new location. If you change your mind and want the default location, click the Back button, then the Next button.
Chapter 2: Installation 8. When the SSL Security Options screen appears (above), you can check External Security. An explanation follows. External SSL Security – Applies security to all connections involving the Internet or outside your company firewall. Security options are invisible to authorized users. Promise Technology provides a default certificate for the server as well as for internal data communication.
Software ROMB User Manual 9. When the Select Options screen appears, you have the option of choosing Local Monitoring Only. • If you check this option, you can only log into WebPAM from the Host PC. You cannot log into WebPAM over a network. • If you do not check this option, you can log into WebPAM from the Host PC or over a network. To continue, click the Next button.
Chapter 2: Installation 10. When the Ready to Install screen appears, click the Install button. 11. When the Install Complete screen appears, the installation process is finished.
Software ROMB User Manual Important Registration of WebPAM provides useful information that helps Promise Technologies to offer better products and support. Please take a few minutes to register. Thanks! This completes WebPAM installation. Go to “Chapter 3: Installing Drivers” on page 13 and install the appropriate driver for your system. After driver installation, see “Chapter 5: WebPAM” on page 47 for a full description of the software.
Chapter 3: Installing Drivers • • • • • • • • ROMB Driver Diskette for Windows (page 14) USB Memory Stick for Windows (page 14) ROMB Driver Medium for Linux (page 15) Windows Server 2008 • New OS Installation (page 16) • Existing System (page 17) • Confirming Driver Installation (page 17) Windows Server 2003 • New OS Installation (page 18) • Existing System (page 19) • Confirming Driver Installation (page 19) Windows Home Server • New OS Installation (page 20) • Existing System (page 20) • Confirming D
Software ROMB User Manual ROMB Driver Diskette for Windows If you have a Windows PC and plan to install the ROMB driver from a diskette, follow this procedure. This procedure requires one write-enabled blank 3.5-inch diskette. 1. 2. Place your blank diskette in the appropriate drive. Insert the Promise CD into your CD-ROM drive. The display screen should open automatically. If the display screen does not open, click MyComputer > CD Drive D: and double-click the Launch.exe icon. 3.
Chapter 3: Installing Drivers ROMB Driver Medium for Linux Choose a medium that your PC supports: a blank diskette, a writable CD, or a USB memory stick. To prepare a driver diskette, CD, or USB stick for Linux: 1. Go to the Promise website and locate the driver package for your system. http://www.promise.com/support/support_eng.asp 2. Manually copy the driver .tgz file to your PC’s hard drive. 3. Open a terminal window and untar the driver file. Below is an example: tar zxvf SLES-11-X86_64.tgz 4.
Software ROMB User Manual Windows Server 2008 The ROMBSTOR.zip file contains the drivers for Windows Server 2008. New OS Installation The following details the installation of the ROMB driver while installing Windows Server 2008. 1. Start the installation: Boot from the CD-ROM. 2. When the “Where do you want to install Windows?” dialog box appears, click Load Driver. 3. Insert the ROMB driver diskette into drive A: or attach a USB memory stick with the ROMB driver to the USB port. 4.
Chapter 3: Installing Drivers Existing System After installing the ROMB software and rebooting your system, Windows Server 2008 setup will show a “Found New Hardware” dialog box. 1. Choose the Locate and install driver software option and click the Next button. The “Found New Hardware – RAID Controller” dialog box displays the message: “Allow Windows to search online for driver software for your RAID Controller?” 2. Choose the Don’t search online option.
Software ROMB User Manual Windows Server 2003 The ROMBMINI.zip file contains the drivers for Windows Server 2003. New OS Installation The following details the installation of the ROMB driver while installing Windows Server 2003. 1. Start the installation: • • 2. Floppy Install: Boot the computer with the Windows Server 2003 installation diskettes. CD-ROM Install: Boot from the CD-ROM. Press F6 after the message “Press F6 if you need to install third party SCSI or RAID driver” appears.
Chapter 3: Installing Drivers Existing System After installing the ROMB software and rebooting your system, Windows Server 2003 setup will show a “Found New Hardware” dialog box. Under Windows 2003, “RAID Controller” will be displayed. 1. Insert the ROMB driver diskette into the A:\ drive. 2. Choose Install the software automatically and press the Enter key. 3. Choose Promise ROMB Controller from the list that appears on screen, and then press the Enter key. 4.
Software ROMB User Manual Windows Home Server The ROMBMINI.zip file contains the drivers for Windows Home Server. New OS Installation The following details the installation of the ROMB driver while installing Windows Home Server. 1. Start the installation by booting from the CD-ROM. 2. In the “Hard drive capable of hosting Windows Home Server was not found. Would you like to load additional storage drivers?” dialog box, click the Yes button. 3. Insert the ROMB driver diskette into drive A:.
Chapter 3: Installing Drivers Red Hat Linux Enterprise New OS Installation 1. Start the RedHat Linux Installation by booting from the install CD. At the “Welcome to Red Hat Linux...” installation screen, a prompt labeled boot: will appear at the bottom of the screen. 2. Type linux dd acpi=off and press Enter. 3. When the Installer asks, “Do you have a driver disk?” click Yes. 4. At the “Insert your driver disk and press OK to continue,” insert the driver diskette into the floppy drive and click OK.
Software ROMB User Manual SuSE Linux Enterprise Server New OS Installation 1. Start the SuSE Linux Installation by booting from the install CD. 2. As the system boots, press F5 for the Driver Disk. 3. Move the cursor to the Installation – in boot option, type 4. "brokenmodules=ahci apic=bigsmp acpi=off" and then press Enter. When the installer displays, “Please insert the Driver Update floppy/ CDROM,” insert the ROMB driver disk, then press Enter. 5.
Chapter 4: RAID Management Utility • Using the BIOS Screen (below) • Navigating the Main Menu (page 25) • Viewing Drive Assignments (page 26) • Viewing Logical Drives (page 28) • Creating Logical Drives (page 30) • Two Logical Drives (page 33) • Deleting a Logical Drive or JBOD Disk (page 40) • Viewing the Controller Configuration (page 43) • Responding to Logical Drive Problems (page 44) Using the BIOS Screen The BIOS screen is a built-in component of the Software RAID On Mother Board (RO
Software ROMB User Manual Status – Shows the logical drive’s condition: Functional – The logical drive is fully operational, and no problems are present. Critical – The logical drive is operational, but has lost its fault tolerance. For RAID 1, 5, or 10, the logical drive contains a failed drive. You must identify and replace the failed physical (disk) drive. Offline – The logical drive is no longer operational and the RAID Management Utility cannot rebuild it.
Chapter 4: RAID Management Utility Navigating the Main Menu When the BIOS displays on your computer screen, press Ctrl-F to enter the RAID Management Utility and display the Main Menu. The Main Menu has four options: • Press 1 to view physical drive assignments • Press 2 to create a logical drive or view information about an existing logical drive. • Press 3 to delete a logical drive. • Press 4 to view controller configuration. • Press Esc (Escape) to exit the menu.
Software ROMB User Manual Viewing Drive Assignments From the Main Menu screen, press 1 to see the View Drive Assignments screen. The View Drive Assignments screen reports physical (disk) drive assignments and provides the following information: Port – Shows the Port ID number to which each physical drive is attached. Drive Model – Identifies the manufacturer, model, and model number (if applicable) of the physical drive.
Chapter 4: RAID Management Utility Extent – Refers to the all or part of the physical drive’s capacity allocated to a logical drive. If you create two logical drives using the same set of physical drives, each physical drive will display two Extents.
Software ROMB User Manual Viewing Logical Drives From the Main Menu screen, press 2 to see the Logical Drive View Menu. The Logical Drive View Menu provides the following information: LD No – Logical drive number. Assigned in when the logical drive is created. RAID Mode – RAID level of the logical drive. Drv – Number of physical drives in the logical drive. Capacity (GB) – Reflects the capacity in GB (Gigabytes) of the logical drive.
Chapter 4: RAID Management Utility Migrating – The logical drive is in the process of changing RAID levels and/ or adding one or more physical drives. Synchronizing – The logical drive is in the process of checking and correcting data and parity. Rebuilding – The logical drive is in the process of repairing itself by reconstructing the data on a failed or removed physical drive. Initializing – A new logical drive is synchronizing its physical drives and creating redundant data or parity data.
Software ROMB User Manual Creating Logical Drives One Logical Drive The following action creates one logical drive on a set of physical drives. You can also create two logical drives on the same set of physical drives. See “Two Logical Drives” on page 33. To create one logical drive: 1. From the Main Menu screen, press 2 to display the LD View Menu. 2. Press Ctrl-C to access the Define LD Menu. 3. Choose the RAID Level you want.
Chapter 4: RAID Management Utility 5. 6. Press the arrow keys to move to the next option. Option choices depend on the RAID Level you selected. • Stripe Block Size – Set to 128 KB. 64 KB is optional. Applies to RAID 0, 5, and 10; but not to JBOD, SPAN, or RAID 1. See page 106. • Initialization – Full initializes the entire logical drive for RAID 1, 5, and 10. Fast erases the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the physical drives. None leaves the physical drives untouched. Fast is recommended. See page 106.
Software ROMB User Manual The LD name prompt appears. 8. Press Ctrl-Y to open a name field. If you press any key other than Ctrl-Y, a default name is used and the process goes to the next step. 9. Type a name for the logical drive and press Enter. If you leave the field blank and press Enter, a default name is used. If you chose Fast or Full Initialization in step 5, the Fast Init warning appears. 10. Press Ctrl-Y to accept Initialization.
Chapter 4: RAID Management Utility 12. Press Esc to exit to the Main Menu. Press Esc again to exit the Utility. 13. Press Y to restart your computer. You have successfully created a new RAID logical drive. You must be partition and format your new logical drive before you can use it. Two Logical Drives The following action creates two logical drives on the same set of physical drives. You can also create one logical drive on a set of physical drives. See “Creating Logical Drives” on page 30.
Software ROMB User Manual 3. 4. Choose the RAID Level you want. In the Define LD Menu section, press the Spacebar to toggle through logical drive types: • RAID 0 (Stripe) • RAID 1 (Mirror) • RAID 5 (Distributed Parity) • RAID 10 (Stripe/Mirror) • JBOD (Single Drive) • SPAN (Concatenated Drives) Press the down arrow key to move to the next option. Option choices depend on the RAID Level you selected. • Stripe Block Size – Set to 128 KB. 64 KB is optional.
Chapter 4: RAID Management Utility • 5. Write Policy – WriteThrough (safer) or WriteBack (faster). See page 108 Press the down arrow key to move to Disk Assignments. Press the spacebar to toggle between N and Y for each available drive. Y means this physical drive will be assigned to the logical drive. Assign the appropriate number of physical drives to your logical drive. 6. Press Ctrl-Y to save your logical drive configuration. The LD name prompt appears. 7. Press Ctrl-Y to open a name field.
Software ROMB User Manual Refer to the total available capacity under Capacity (GB) in the top right corner of the Define LD Menu. The remaining capacity is applied to the second logical drive created using the same disk drives. 11. Type a number value for the Gigabytes of capacity for your first logical drive and press Enter. Your first logical drive appears in the LD View Menu. Logical Drive 2 To create the second logical drive: 1. Press Ctrl-C to access the Define LD Menu. 2.
Chapter 4: RAID Management Utility 3. 4. Press the down arrow key to move to the next option. Option choices depend on the RAID Level you selected. • Stripe Block Size – Set to 128 KB. 64 KB is optional. Applies to RAID 0, 5, and 10; but not to JBOD, SPAN, or RAID 1. See page 106. • Initialization – Full initializes the entire logical drive for RAID 1, 5, and 10. Fast erases the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the physical drives. None leaves the physical drives untouched. Fast is recommended.
Software ROMB User Manual The LD name prompt appears. 6. Press Ctrl-Y to open a name field. If you press any key other than Ctrl-Y, a default name is used and the process goes to the next step. 7. Type a name for the logical drive and press Enter. If you leave the field blank and press Enter, a default name is used. If you chose Fast or Full Initialization in step 3, the Fast Init warning appears. 8. Press Ctrl-Y to accept Initialization.
Chapter 4: RAID Management Utility The LD View Menu displays your second logical drive. 9. Press Esc to exit to the Main Menu. Press Esc again to exit the Utility. 10. Press Y to restart your computer. You have successfully created a new RAID logical drives. You must be partition and format your logical drives before you can use them.
Software ROMB User Manual Deleting a Logical Drive or JBOD Disk Caution Deleting a logical drive results in the loss of all data saved on the logical drive. Back up any important data before you delete your logical drive. Logical Drives To delete a logical drive: 1. From the Main Menu screen, press 3 to display the Delete LD Menu. 2. Highlight the logical drive you want to delete and press the Del key or the Alt-D keys. 3. Press Ctrl-Y to confirm deletion of the logical drive.
Chapter 4: RAID Management Utility 4. Press Esc to return to the Main Menu. JBOD Disks Caution Deleting a JBOD disk results in the loss of all data saved on the JBOD disk. Back up any important data before you delete the JBOD disk. To delete a JBOD disk: 1. From the Main Menu screen, press 3 to display the Delete LD Menu. 2. Press the Ctrl-V keys to display JBOD Disk View. 3. Highlight the JBOD disk you want to delete and press the Del key or the Alt-D keys. 4.
Software ROMB User Manual The JBOD disk disappears from JBOD Disk View. 5. Press Esc twice to return to the Main Menu.
Chapter 4: RAID Management Utility Viewing the Controller Configuration From the Main Menu screen, press 4 to display the Controller Configuration Options screen. The information about your Software ROMB might be helpful for troubleshooting purposes: • System IRQ used by the Software ROMB • Base addressed used by the Software ROMB Press Esc to return to the Main Menu.
Software ROMB User Manual Responding to Logical Drive Problems When you boot your system, the BIOS screen informs you if there is a critical or offline logical drive. • RAID 1, 5, or 10 logical drives go Critical when one physical drive fails. • RAID 0 and SPAN logical drives go Offline when a physical drive fails. Failed JBOD disks do not appear in the BIOS screen.
Chapter 4: RAID Management Utility For RAID 1, 5, and 10 logical drives: • If the logical drive was not rebuilt, rebuilding begins automatically when you boot your PC. • If the logical drive is already rebuilt, the new physical drive shows Free or unassigned when you boot your PC. For RAID 0 and SPAN logical drives, rebuilding is not available because these configurations have no redundancy. You can create a new logical drive but you must restore your data from a backup source.
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Chapter 5: WebPAM • Logging into WebPAM (page 47) • Logging out of WebPAM (page 49) • Managing Users (page 50) • Viewing Host Management (page 57) • Making Utility Configuration Settings (page 58) • Managing the Controller (page 59) • Managing Physical Drives (page 64) • Managing Logical Drives (page 70) • Managing Spare Drives (page 94) WebPAM is a browser-based RAID management application and a key component of the Software RAID On Mother Board (ROMB) solution.
Software ROMB User Manual Secure connection: • WebPAM uses a secure HTTP connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .https:// • Enter the Host PC’s IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . 127.0.0.1 or localhost • Enter the Port number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :8443 • Add to launch WebPAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . /promise Together, your entry looks like this: https://127.0.0.
Chapter 5: WebPAM Figure 4. The WebPAM login screen Logging out of WebPAM There are two ways to log out of WebPAM: • Close your browser window • Click Logout on the WebPAM banner (below) After logging out, you must enter your user name and password to log in again. Clicking Logout brings you back to the Login Screen.
Software ROMB User Manual Managing Users • Adding a User (below) • Setting Event Notification (page 51) • Making User Settings (page 54) • Changing a User’s Access Rights (page 55) • Deleting a User (page 56) Adding a User Only the Administrator can add users. To add a user: 1. Under Administrative Tools in Tree View, click the User Management icon. 2. Click the Create tab. 3. Type a User ID into the User ID field. The User ID is the User’s login name. 4.
Chapter 5: WebPAM 7. If you plan to set up Event Notification, type the user’s email address in the Email field. 8. Under Host User Rights, check the boxes to select rights for this user. Right 9.
Software ROMB User Manual The image above was shortened to fit into the available space. 4. Check the boxes of the notification events that you want to have reported to you via email and popup messages. To select events by their severity, check one of the four Select Events boxes at the top of the window. See the table on the next page. 5. Click the Submit button. Event Notification Severity Levels Error Events Disk Setdown Disk NON ECC Error Disk S.M.A.R.T.
Chapter 5: WebPAM Warning Events Disk Unplugged Disk Timeout Task Error Disk Media Patrol Aborted with Error Bad Block Remapped Disk Pre Fail Warning Events, continued Array Critical Array Degrade Synchronization Requested Redundancy Check Rejected PCI Parity Error Single Bit Memory Error Information Events Information Events, continued Redundancy Check Completed Redundancy Check Paused Redundancy Check Resumed Redundancy Check Aborted Redundancy Check Progress Rebuild Started Rebuild Completed Rebuild
Software ROMB User Manual Making User Settings Users can make their own settings or the Administrator make them. To make user settings: 1. Under Administrative Tools in Tree View, click the User Management icon. 2. Click the User ID link for the user whose settings you want to set. 3. Click the Settings tab. 4. Type the appropriate values in their respective fields.
Chapter 5: WebPAM 5. Click the Submit button. Important Windows Server 2008 does not support Messenger Service. To receive messages on those platforms, you must install a thirdparty tool. Changing a User’s Access Rights Only the Administrator can change a user’s access rights. To change a user’s access rights: 1. Under Administrative Tools in Tree View, click the User Management icon. 2. Click the User ID link for the user whose access rights will change. 3. Click the Settings tab.
Software ROMB User Manual 4. Under Host User Rights, check the boxes to assign rights for this user.
Chapter 5: WebPAM Viewing Host Management This function provides information only. There are no user settings. To access Host Management: 1. Under Administrative Tools in Tree View, click the Host Management icon. 2. Under Host List, click the IP Address link to the host you want to see. The Host IP address is always 127.0.0.1. If you log in over a network, the actual IP address of the PC or server with the Software ROMB is shown. The Information tab displays with information about the Host PC.
Software ROMB User Manual Making Utility Configuration Settings To make utility configuration settings: 1. Under Administrative Tools in Tree View, click the Utility Configuration icon. 2. Enter the Sender’s address in the Email Sender field. Be sure the sender has an account in your email system. See your IT administrator. 3. Enter your Email Server name and port number in the Email Server field. 4.
Chapter 5: WebPAM Managing the Controller • Viewing Controller Information (below) • Making Controller Settings (page 59) • Viewing Scheduled Actions (page 61) • Deleting a Scheduled Action (page 61) • Locking the Controller (page 62) Viewing Controller Information The term Controller refers to the device that controls your RAID. To access the controller, click the Controller icon in Tree View. The Information tab displays with information about the controller.
Software ROMB User Manual The controller settings display. Click the Settings tab to access controller settings. • Rates – Allocates system resources between the background process: Rebuild, Media Patrol, Initialization, Migration/Expansion and Synchronization; and the data read/write activity. A High setting assigns most of the system resources to background processes. The process will finished sooner but read/write requests are handled slower.
Chapter 5: WebPAM enabled, the controller polls the physical drives for SMART information and reports it to you. • S.M.A.R.T. Check Polling Interval – The RAID controller periodically polls the physical drives for SMART information and displays it in WebPAM. Choose an interval from the dropdown menu. 120 seconds is the default. Viewing Scheduled Actions To view scheduled actions: 1. Click the Controller 2. Click the Schedule tab. icon in Tree View.
Software ROMB User Manual 4. Click the Delete button. 5. In the Confirmation box, click the OK button. Alternative method to delete a scheduled process: 1. Go to its function tab under the Physical Drive icon. 2. Under Schedule, click the Disable option. icon or Logical Drive Locking the Controller The Lock tab displays lock status and enables you to lock or unlock a subsystem controller.
Chapter 5: WebPAM To release the lock before the scheduled time, click the Unlock button. Restoring Default Settings The Restore tab enables you to restore all of the controller’s settings to their default values. Use this function for diagnosis and to clear any erroneous user settings. To restore the default controller settings: 1. Click the Controller icon in Tree View. 2. Click the Restore tab in Management View. 3. Click the Restore button.
Software ROMB User Manual Managing Physical Drives • Viewing Physical Drives (below) • Viewing Physical Drive Information (page 65) • Making Physical Drive Settings (page 66) • Running Media Patrol (page 66) • Checking the Bad Sector Log (page 68) Viewing Physical Drives From this window, you can view information about all of the physical drives attached to the motherboard, including their port numbers, capacity, status, and assignments.
Chapter 5: WebPAM Viewing Physical Drive Information To view information about a physical drive: 1. Click the Physical Drive View 2. Click the Physical Drive icon in Tree View. icon. The information tab displays the following information: • Drive Model – The physical (disk) drive manufacturer’s model name or number. • Serial Number – The serial number of this physical drive. • Firmware Version – Version of the firmware on this physical drive.
Software ROMB User Manual • S.M.A.R.T. Status – SMART, an acronym for Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology, is a feature of the physical drive’s software. When this feature is supported, the drive will pass SMART information to the RAID controller when it polls the physical drives. • Write Cache Status – Indicates whether the physical drive’s write cache is Enabled or Disabled. You can change this status under the Settings tab (see below).
Chapter 5: WebPAM Unlike Synchronization and Redundancy Check (see page 86), Media Patrol is concerned with the condition of the media itself, not the data recorded on the media. If Media Patrol encounters a suspect sector, it will attempt to regenerate the data and write to the suspect sector. If the write operation is successful, Media Patrol continues checking other sectors.
Software ROMB User Manual 4. 5. Click the Enable option. Click the by Day, by Week or by Month option. From the dropdown menus, select a start time and a day of the Week or Month, if applicable. Start time is based on a 24-hour clock. 6. Click the Schedule button. Cancelling a Schedule To cancel the scheduled Media Patrol operation: 1. Click the Physical Drive View icon in Tree View. 2. Click the Physical Drive 3. Click the Media Patrol tab in Management View. icon. 4.
Chapter 5: WebPAM If any bad sectors are found, they are listed here. WebPAM informs you by popup and email messages when a bad sector error is logged. See page 51. After 10 bad sectors have been discovered on a physical drive, WebPAM issues a warning to replace the drive. After 30 bad sectors have been discovered: • On fault-tolerant (RAID 1, 5, and 10) logical drives, the RAID controller will set down the physical drive (take it offline) and the logical drive will go critical.
Software ROMB User Manual Managing Logical Drives • Viewing All Logical Drives (below) • Creating a Logical Drive (page 70) • Creating a JBOD Disk (page 74) • Deleting a Logical Drive or JBOD Disk (page 78) • Viewing Logical Drive Information (page 78) • Making Logical Drive Settings (page 79) • Migrating a Logical Drive (page 80) • Rebuilding a Logical Drive (page 82) • Synchronizing a Logical Drive (page 86) • Viewing Logical Drive Initialization (page 89) • Activating a Logical Driv
Chapter 5: WebPAM 3. Click the option button beside the RAID level you want for your logical drive. WebPAM displays the RAID levels you can use with the available physical drives. See “Choosing a RAID Level” on page 104 for more information. Click the Next button to continue. The Select Drive Group screen appears. 4. 5. In the Select Drive Group screen, click the option button for one of the following: • Free Drives – Select all Free (unassigned) physical drives.
Software ROMB User Manual 6. If you want to create a logical drive with unused capacity, enter the assigned (used) capacity in the Logical Drive Size field. To use the maximum capacity, check the Use Maximum Capacity box. 7. Click the physical drives to select them. Available drives have a black frame. Selected drives have a red frame. 8. Click the Next button. The Assign a Name screen appears. 9. Enter a name for the logical drive in the field provided and click the Next button.
Chapter 5: WebPAM 10. Make the following settings as required: • Choose 64 KB or 128 KB from the Stripe Block Size dropdown menu. See page 106. • Choose No Cache, Read Cache or Read Ahead from the Read Cache dropdown menu. See page 108. • Choose Write Through or Write Back from the Write Cache dropdown menu. See page 108. • Choose Gigabyte Boundary or None from the Gigabyte Boundary dropdown menu. See page 107.
Software ROMB User Manual Before you can use your new logical drive, you must partition and format the logical drive using your PC’s operating system. Creating a JBOD Disk With Software ROMB, a JBOD disk is one or more physical drives that function independently. There is no concatenation among multiple JBOD disks. If you attach a physical drive that was initialized using Windows disk management, that drive will be automatically recognized as a JBOD by the RAID controller and WebPAM.
Chapter 5: WebPAM 3. Click the option button beside JBOD, then click the Next button. The Select Drive Group screen appears. 4. Click the Next button to continue. The Select Drives screen appears.
Software ROMB User Manual 5. Click the physical drives to select them. Available drives have a black frame. Selected drives have a red frame. 6. Click the Next button. The Assign a Name screen appears. 7. Click the Next button to continue. The Final Settings screen appears.
Chapter 5: WebPAM 8. Click the Finish button. If there are physical drives available, the Select RAID Level screen appears again, where you can create an additional logical drive. Click the Logical Drive Icon to see the information about your new JBOD. Before you can use your new JBOD, you must partition and format the logical drive using your PC’s operating system.
Software ROMB User Manual Deleting a Logical Drive or JBOD Disk Warning When you delete a logical drive or JBOD disk, you delete all data on the logical drive or JBOD disk. Be sure to backup any important data before you delete! To delete a logical drive or JBOD: 1. Click the Logical Drive View icon. 2. Select the Delete tab. 3. Check the box to the left of the logical drive you want to delete. 4. Click the Submit button. 5. In the Confirmation box, click the OK button. 6.
Chapter 5: WebPAM From this screen, you can click the links to access the Settings, Migration, Rebuild, Synchronization, Initialization and Activation features. The features that apply to this logical drive have blue tabs. Features that do not apply have grayed tabs. Making Logical Drive Settings To make logical drive settings: 1. Click the Logical Drive View 2. Click the Logical Drive 3. Click the Settings tab in Management View. 4. Make changes as needed: 5. icon in Tree View.
Software ROMB User Manual Migrating a Logical Drive To migrate a logical drive is to: • Change its RAID level • Add one or more physical drives • Both of the above actions To migrate a logical drive, its operational status must be Functional. The migration takes place on the logical drive without disturbing the existing data. While the logical drive is migrating, you can access the data as before.
Chapter 5: WebPAM 4. Click the free physical drive to select it. Available drives have a black frame. Selected drives have a red frame. 5. Click the Start Now button. 6. Click the OK button in the confirmation box. You can monitor Migration progress on the Logical Drive Migration tab. Click the respective buttons to pause and resume the Migration. Scheduled Scheduling allows you to perform the Migration at a time when there is less demand on the RAID system. To schedule a Migration: 1.
Software ROMB User Manual 4. Click the free physical drive to select it. Available drives have a black frame. Selected drives have a red frame. 5. 6. Click the Enable option. From the dropdown menus, select a start time. Start time is based on a 24-hour clock. 7. Click the Start At field to display a popup calendar. 8. Click the start date in the calendar or enter a date manually. 9. Click the Schedule button. Cancelling a Schedule To cancel the scheduled Migration: 1.
Chapter 5: WebPAM You can set up a Rebuild to: • Begin immediately (on demand). • Begin at the time and date you specify. See page 84. • Begin automatically when you replace the failed physical drive. See page 85. • Begin automatically using a hot spare drive. See page 85. • Begin automatically using a free drive. See page 86. On Demand To rebuild a logical drive: 1. Click the Logical Drive View icon in Tree View. 2. Click the Logical Drive 3. Click the Rebuild tab in Management View. 4.
Software ROMB User Manual Click the Abort button to stop the Rebuild. After an abort, click the Restart button to start the Rebuild from the beginning (zero percent). Scheduled Scheduling allows you to perform the Rebuild at a time when there is less demand on the RAID system. To schedule a Rebuild: 1. Click the Logical Drive View icon in Tree View. 2. Click the Logical Drive 3. Click the Rebuild tab in Management View. 4. Select the physical drive you want to rebuild.
Chapter 5: WebPAM Cancelling a Schedule To cancel the scheduled Rebuild: 1. Click the Logical Drive View icon in Tree View. 2. Click the Logical Drive 3. Click the Rebuild tab in Management View. 4. Click the Disable option. icon. Automatically After Drive Replacement Automatic rebuilding after you replace the failed drive is possible under the following conditions: • The logical drive is a RAID 1, 5, or 10. See “Creating a Logical Drive” on page 70.
Software ROMB User Manual Automatically using a Free Drive Automatic rebuilding using a free (unassigned) physical drive is possible under the following conditions: • The logical drive is a RAID 1 or a three-drive RAID 5. See “Creating a Logical Drive” on page 70. • There is a free (unassigned) physical drive with adequate capacity. • Automatic Rebuild Status is Enabled. See “Making Controller Settings” on page 59. • Automatic Rebuild Policy is set to Free & Spare.
Chapter 5: WebPAM 4. 5. From the Policy dropdown menu, choose: • Fix if you want Synchronization • Redundancy Check if you do not want to correct inconsistencies Click the Start Now button. You can monitor Synchronization or Redundancy Check progress on the Synchronization tab. Click the respective buttons to pause, resume, or abort the Synchronization or Redundancy Check.
Software ROMB User Manual 4. From the Policy dropdown menu, choose: • Fix if you want Synchronization • Redundancy Check if you do not want to correct inconsistencies 5. Click the Enable option. 6. Click the by Day, by Week or by Month option. 7. From the dropdown menus, select a start time and a day of the Week or Month, if applicable. Start time is based on a 24-hour clock. 8. Click the Schedule button. Cancelling a Schedule To cancel a scheduled Synchronization or Redundancy Check: 1.
Chapter 5: WebPAM Viewing Logical Drive Initialization When logical drive is first created, you can choose one of three methods for initialization: Fast, Full, and None. See page 106 for more information. When you choose Full Initialization, the process takes some time, depending on the size of the physical drives selected for the logical drive. The Initialization tab enables you to view the initialization progress on your logical drive. To view Initialization progress: 1.
Software ROMB User Manual The picture above was shortened to fit on the page. To activate an offline RAID 1 logical drive: 1. Click the Logical Drive View icon in Tree View. 2. Click the Logical Drive 3. Click the Activation tab in Management View. 4. Click the Activation button. icon of the offline logical drive. The logical drive converts to Critical status. You can now rebuild the logical drive. See “Rebuilding a Logical Drive” on page 82.
Chapter 5: WebPAM Responding to a Critical or Offline Logical Drive When a Physical Drive Fails in a RAID 0 or SPAN Logical Drive A non-fault tolerant logical drive—RAID 0 or SPAN—goes offline when a physical (disk) drive is removed or fails. Since the logical drive is not fault tolerant, the data stored in the logical drive is no longer accessible. If one physical drive fails, all of the data on the RAID 0 logical drive is lost. You must replace the failed drive.
Software ROMB User Manual In the example above, amber ! icons appear over the Motherboard, Controller, Logical Drive View, and Logical Drive icons. Click the Logical Drive View Logical Drive or icons to verify the condition of the logical drive. In this example, the Status is Critical and Background activity is Idle. This combination indicates that there is no automatic rebuild, so you must take action to restore the logical drive: 1. Identify the failed physical drive. 2.
Chapter 5: WebPAM Identify the Failed Physical Drive Click the Physical Drive View icon in the WebPAM user interface. Look for a missing physical drive. A drive that used to be present but is suddenly absent is the failed physical drive. No drive on Port 2 In this example, there were four physical drives connected to the motherboard. Notice that there is no drive reported on Port 2. The failed drive is connected to Port 2.
Software ROMB User Manual Managing Spare Drives • Viewing Spare Drives (page 94) • Creating a Spare Drive (page 94) • Deleting a Spare Drive (page 95) A spare drive is a physical drive designated to function as a hot spare drive. A hot spare drive replaces a failed physical drive automatically. See “Making Controller Settings” on page 59 and “Rebuilding a Logical Drive” on page 82 for more information. Viewing Spare Drives Spare Drive View provides a list of all spare drives currently assigned.
Chapter 5: WebPAM Spare Drive Type has only the default Global Spare setting. 3. Click a physical drive to select it. Available drives have a black frame. Selected drives have a red frame. 4. Click the Create button. The Spare Drive is created. Click on the Information tab to see it. Deleting a Spare Drive To delete a spare drive: 1. Click the Spare Drive View icon. 2. Click the Delete tab. 3. Check the box to the left of the spare drive you want to delete. 4. Click the Submit button. 5.
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Chapter 6: Technology • Introduction to RAID, below • Choosing a RAID Level (page 104) • Other Logical Drive Features (page 106) The Software RAID On Mother Board (ROMB) solution offers a wide selection of features for managing your RAID system. This chapter provides an explanation of RAID concepts and how to take advantage of the Software ROMB features. Introduction to RAID RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) allows multiple hard drives to be combined together into a logical drive.
Software ROMB User Manual RAID 0 – Stripe When a logical drive is striped, the read and write blocks of data are interleaved between the sectors of multiple physical drives. Performance is increased, since the workload is balanced between drives or “members” that form the logical drive. Identical drives are recommended for performance as well as data storage efficiency. Figure 1.
Chapter 6: Technology RAID 1 – Mirror When a logical drive is mirrored, identical data is written to a pair of physical drives, while reads are performed in parallel. The reads are performed using elevator seek and load balancing techniques where the workload is distributed in the most efficient manner. Whichever drive is not busy and is positioned closer to the data will be accessed first. With RAID 1, if one physical drive fails or has errors, the other mirrored physical drive continues to function.
Software ROMB User Manual RAID 5 – Block Striping with Distributed Parity RAID 5 organizes block data and parity data across the physical drives. Generally, RAID Level 5 tends to exhibit lower random write performance due to the heavy workload of parity recalculation for each I/O. RAID 5 is generally considered to be the most versatile RAID level. It works well for file, database, application and web servers. Figure 3.
Chapter 6: Technology RAID 10 – Stripe / Mirror Mirror + Stripe combines both of the RAID 1 and RAID 0 logical drive types. RAID 10 can increase performance by reading and writing data in parallel— striping—while protecting data by duplicating it—mirroring. Promise implements RAID 10 by creating a data stripe over one pair of disk drives, then mirroring the stripe over a second pair of disk drives. Some applications refer to this method as RAID 0+1. Figure 4.
Software ROMB User Manual JBOD – Single Drive An alternative to RAID, JBOD capacity is equal to the size of the physical drive itself. JBOD appears in the User Interface as one individual drive. There are no performance or fault-tolerance features. When one disk fails, all data on that disk is lost. The other disks are unaffected. Figure 5. JBOD appears in the User Interface as one individual drive Physical Drive Any number of physical drives can be set to JBOD.
Chapter 6: Technology SPAN – Concatenated Drives An alternative to RAID, Spanning or Concatenating capacity is equal to the cumulative size of the physical drives that are joined together. SPAN appears in the User Interface as one individual drive. There are no performance or fault-tolerance features. When one disk fails, the span or concatenation is broken, possibly complicating data recovery from the other disks. Figure 6. SPAN appears in the User Interface as one individual drive.
Software ROMB User Manual Choosing a RAID Level There are several issues to consider when choosing the RAID Level for your logical drive. The following discussion summarizes some advantages, disadvantages and applications for each choice.
Chapter 6: Technology RAID 5 Advantages Disadvantages High Read data transaction rate Disk failure has a medium impact on throughput Medium Write data transaction rate Good aggregate transfer rate Recommended Applications for RAID 5: • File and Application servers • Intranet servers • Most versatile RAID level WWW, E-mail, and News servers • RAID 10 Advantages Disadvantages Implemented as a mirrored logical drive Very high disk overhead - uses only whose segments are RAID 0 logical 50% of tota
Software ROMB User Manual SPAN Advantages Disadvantages Enables you to access the capacity of multiple physical drives as a single drive Uses full physical drive capacity An alternative to RAID without any RAID advantages Do not be use in mission critical environments Recommended Applications for SPAN: • Any application requiring multiple physical drives but where read/write speed or fault-tolerance are not important • Applications were low-cost operation critical Other Logical Drive Features Strip
Chapter 6: Technology Fast initialization is available in the RAID Management Utility and the WebPAM software. Full Initialization performs two actions. First, it erases the Master Boot Record of the logical drive being created. Second, it synchronizes the physical drives and creates redundant data for RAID 1 and RAID 10 logical drives, or parity data for RAID 5 logical drives.
Software ROMB User Manual Read Cache Setting There are two read cache settings. You make this setting when you create a logical drive or under logical drive settings. • Read Cache – The read cache is enabled. • Read Ahead Cache – Enables the read cache and the read-ahead feature. Read-ahead anticipates the next read and performs it before the request is made. Can increase read performance. • No Cache – The read cache is disabled. Write Cache Setting There are two write cache settings.
Chapter 6: Technology RAID 0 A RAID 0 source logical drive can migrate to the following target logical drives: Target Requirements RAID 0 Add physical drives. RAID 1 2 physical drives only. Only a single-drive RAID 0 can migrate to RAID 1 by adding 1 physical drive. RAID 5 3 physical drives minimum, 6 maximum. RAID 0 must have less than 6 physical drives. RAID 10 4 physical drives minimum. Even number of physical drives. SPAN One drive only.
Software ROMB User Manual RAID 10 A RAID 10 Source logical drive can migrate to the following Target logical drives: Target Requirements RAID 0 None. RAID 5 3 physical drives minimum, 6 maximum. RAID 10 must have less than 6 physical drives. RAID 10 Add physical drives. Even number of physical drives. SPAN A SPAN Source logical drive can migrate to the following Target logical drives: Target SPAN Requirements Add physical drives.
Chapter 7: Support • Frequently Asked Questions • Pre-Installation, below • Drive Issues (page 111) • Operating System-Related Issues (page 114) • Performance Tips (page 115) • Contact Technical Support, page 116 • Limited Warranty, page 119 • Return Product for Repair, page 121 Frequently Asked Questions This section lists frequently asked questions and other issues with Promise Technology’s Software RAID On Mother Board (ROMB) system.
ROMB Software User Manual I already have a logical drive on an older RAID controller. Can I move the physical drives to my new ROMB system? Yes, provided your logical drive was built using SATA physical drives on a Promise controller. All Promise controllers read the physical drives the same way so you can move them from one controller to another.
Chapter 7: Support If a critical status error message appears on the BIOS startup screen for a RAID 1, 5, or 10 logical drive, a physical drive has failed or is not responding. See “Responding to a Critical or Offline Logical Drive” on page 91. Physical drives cannot be formed into a logical drive Physical drives must support SATA and be free of media defects in order to be added to a logical drive. Promise recommends using new identical physical drives for each logical drive.
ROMB Software User Manual Fatal errors or data corruption are constantly reported when reading or writing to the logical drive See “The logical drive constantly goes critical or offline during reboot,” above. Operating System-Related Issues The ROMB driver does not appear in Device Manager The Windows Device Manager may show the ROMB controller under Other Devices or SCSI and RAID Controllers instead of the Hard Disk Controllers. Look under Other Devices to see if it lists a RAID Controller.
Chapter 7: Support Performance Tips Here are some tips that may optimize performance in a RAID 0 striped logical drive. If you are using an audio/video-editing card, we also recommend reviewing your A/V card’s documentation for additional information. Use ROMB array as D: or other non-bootable drive in a striped logical drive. For audio/video editing, keep the original system boot drive on the standard IDE controller as C: drive.
ROMB Software User Manual Contacting Technical Support Promise Technical Support provides several support options for Promise users to access information and updates. We encourage you to use one of our electronic services, which provide product information updates for the most efficient service and support.
Chapter 7: Support Germany E-mail Support e-Support On-Line Fax Technical Support +49 0 2 31 56 76 48 29 Attn: Technical Support Phone Technical Support +49 0 2 31 56 76 48 10 If you wish to write us for support: Promise Technology Germany Europaplatz 9 44269 Dortmund, Germany E-mail Support e-Support On-Line Fax Support +39 0 6 367 124 00 Attn: Technical Support Phone Support +39 0 6 367 126 26 If you wish to write us for support: Promise Technology Italy Piazza del Popolo 18 00187 Roma, It
ROMB Software User Manual China E-mail Support e-Support On-Line Fax Support +86 10 8857-8015 Attn: Technical Support Phone Support +86 10 8857-8085 or -8095 If you wish to write us for support: Promise Technology China – Beijing Room 1205, Tower C Webok Time Center, No.
Chapter 7: Support Limited Warranty Promise Technology, Inc. (“Promise”) warrants that this product, from the time of the delivery of the product to the original end user: a) all components for a period of three (3) years; b) will conform to Promise’s specifications; c) will be free from defects in material and workmanship under normal use and service.
ROMB Software User Manual back up or otherwise save important data before installing any product and continue to back up your important data regularly. No other document, statement or representation may be relied on to vary the terms of this limited warranty. Promise’s sole responsibility with respect to any product is to do one of the following: a) replace the product with a conforming unit of the same or superior product; b) repair the product.
Chapter 7: Support Return Product For Repair If you suspect a product is not working properly, or if you have any questions about your product, contact our Technical Support Staff through one of our Technical Services, making sure to provide the following information: • Product model and serial number (required) • Return shipping address • Daytime phone number • Description of the problem • Copy of the original purchase invoice The technician will assist you in determining whether the product req
ROMB Software User Manual You are responsible for the cost of insurance and shipment of the product to Promise. Note that damage incurred due to improper transport or packaging is not covered under the Limited Warranty. When repairing returned product(s), Promise may replace defective parts with new or reconditioned parts, or replace the entire unit with a new or reconditioned unit.
Appendix A: Partition and Format In order for your operating system to recognize and work with the physical (disk) drives attached to your ROMB controller card, your logical drive must be partitioned and formatted.
ROMB Software User Manual 3. Click the Next button to start the Wizard. 4. In the following windows, select Disk 1 to Initialize. Do not select any disks to Convert. Click the Finish button to Initialize the logical drive. 5. Right-click the Unallocated portion of Disk 1 and select New Partition... from the popup menu. The New Partition Wizard appears.
Appendix A: Partition and Format 6. Click the Next button to start the wizard. 7. In the following windows, do the following actions. Click Next to move to the next window. 8.
ROMB Software User Manual When formatting is complete, your logical drive will appear as a hard drive in the Disk Management window (above) and the My Computer window (below).
Appendix B: Upgrades • WebPAM Upgrade (page 127) • Software Driver Upgrade (page 128) WebPAM Upgrade Follow this procedure to upgrade the WebPAM software on your PC or server. Step 1: Download the WebPAM File 1. Go to the Promise website http://www.promise.com/support/ support_eng.asp 2. Click Downloads. 3. Click the Select Product popup menu and choose ROMB. 4. Click the Select Category popup menu and choose Utility. 5. Click the GO button. The list of the current WebPAM software displays.
ROMB Software User Manual Software Driver Upgrade Follow this procedure to upgrade the ROMB driver on your PC or server. Step 1: Preparation To perform this procedure, you need one of the following items: • A blank DOS formatted diskette • A USB memory stick • A blank CD Step 2: Download Driver Files 1. Go to the Promise website www.promise.com/support. 2. Click Downloads. 3. Click the Select Product popup menu and choose ROMB. 4. Click the Select Category popup menu and choose Driver. 5.
Appendix B: Upgrades Step 3: Install the Software Drivers Windows Server 2008, Server 2003, and Home Server 1. Insert ROMB Driver diskette, USB stick, or CD. 2. In the Start Menu, go to Settings > Control Panel. Double-click the System icon. click the Hardware tab. click the Device Manager button. 3. At the Device Manager, click the + icon to the left of SCSI and RAID Controllers to expand the list. On Windows Vista click the + icon to the left of Storage controllers to expand the list. 4.
ROMB Software User Manual SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 1. Insert ROMB Driver diskette, USB stick, or CD. 2. Log in as root. 3. Type mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy. 4. Type cd /media/floppy. 5. Type ./install. 6. Type cd. 7. Type umount /media/floppy. 8. Remove the ROMB Driver diskette, USB stick, or CD. 9. Type reboot to restart the system.
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ROMB Software User Manual H L Host Management 57 Host PC display name 57 IP address 57 OS information 57 host user rights 56 Linux driver installation medium install WebPAM 6 Red Hat driver 21 SuSE driver 22 lock controller 62 log into WebPAM 47 log out of WebPAM 49 logical drives activate 89 cache settings 108 create 30, 70 critical 91 delete 40, 78 expansion 80, 108 hot spare drive 107 information 78 migration 80, 108 offline 91 partition and format 123 problems 44 rebuild 83 settings 79 status 24, 28
Index migration cancel schedule 82 delete schedule 61 rate 60 set schedule 81 start 80 view schedule 61 RAID Levels, cont.
ROMB Software User Manual ROMB software drivers on CD 13 returning for repair SMART enable 60 physical drive status 66 polling interval 61 software drivers on CD 13 spare drives add 94 delete 95 view list 94 status Auto Rebuild 60 logical drives 24, 28, 70, 78 physical drive operation 65 physical drive write cache 66 SMART 66 stripe block size options 106 setting 31, 34, 37, 73 support browsers 3, 5 features 2 operating systems 3, 5 virtualization 3 synchronization cancel schedule 88 delete schedule 61 ra
Index upgrades software driver 128 WebPAM software 127 user add to WebPAM 50 delete from WebPAM 56 display name 54 email address 54 host user rights 56 password 54 utility configuration settings 58 WebPAM, cont.
ROMB Software User Manual Windows driver installation medium Home Server driver 20 install WebPAM 6 Server 2003 driver 18 Server 2008 driver 16 write cache options 108 setting 31, 35, 14 136 37, 73
