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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Safety Guidelines ..........................................................1-1
1-1 ESD Safety Guidelines.....................................................................1-1
1-2 General Safety Guidelines...............................................................1-1
1-3 An Important Note to Users.............................................................1-1
Chapter 2 Connectors, Jumpers and Indicators...............2-1
2-1 Front Connectors and Pin Definitions............................................2-1
Internal SAS Connectors ........................................................................2-2
Active LED Connector.............................................................................2-2
2-2 LED Indicators ...................................................................................2-2
2-3 RAID Minimum Drive Requirements ..............................................2-3
Chapter 3 RAID Modes, Firmware and Drivers...................3-1
3-1 RAID Modes.......................................................................................3-1
3-2 Getting Firmware Downloads..........................................................3-1
3-3 Downloading RAID Mode Drivers...................................................3-1
3-4 Activating RAID Modes in OPROM BIOS .....................................3-2
Chapter 4 Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring
Enhanced...................................................................................................4-1
4-1 Introduction.........................................................................................4-1
4-2 IM and IME Features........................................................................4-2
4-3 IM/IME Description............................................................................4-2
4-4 Mirrored Volume Features ...............................................................4-4
Resynchronization with Concurrent Host I/O Operation .........................4-5
Hot Swapping..........................................................................................4-5
Hot Spare Disk........................................................................................4-5
Online Capacity Expansion.....................................................................4-5
Media Verification....................................................................................4-6
Disk Write Caching .................................................................................4-6
NVSRAM Usage .....................................................................................4-6
Background Initialization.........................................................................4-6
Consistency Check .................................................................................4-6
Make Data Consistent.............................................................................4-6
4-5 Creating Mirrored Volumes..............................................................4-7
Starting the LSI SAS2 BIOS Configuration Utility ...................................4-7