User`s manual

AOC-USAS2-L8i/L8e Add-on Card User’s Manual

viii

Command Line...................................................................................6-13

Parameters.........................................................................................6-13

Program Return Value........................................................................6-13

LOGIR Command .................................................................................6-13

Command Line...................................................................................6-13

Parameters.........................................................................................6-13

Program Return Value........................................................................6-13

Chapter 7 SAS2 BIOS Configuration Utility..........................7-1

7-1 Starting the LSI SAS2 BIOS Configuration Utility ........................7-1

7-2 Creating a RAID 1 Volume...............................................................7-3

7-3 Creating a RAID 1E or RAID 10 Volume.......................................7-8

7-4 Creating a RAID 0 Volume.............................................................7-10

7-5 Expanding an Integrated Mirroring Volume with OCE...............7-12

7-6 Hot Spare Disks...............................................................................7-15

Creating Hot Spare Disks......................................................................7-15

Deleting Hot Spare Disks......................................................................7-17

7-7 Other Configuration Tasks .............................................................7-17

Viewing Volume Properties ...................................................................7-17

Changing Properties .............................................................................7-17

Running a Consistency Check..............................................................7-20

Activating a Volume ..............................................................................7-20

Deleting an Volume...............................................................................7-21

Locating Disk Drives in a Volume .........................................................7-22

Selecting a Boot Disk............................................................................7-23

Changing Boot Support.........................................................................7-23

Chapter 8 MegaRAID Overview and Installation ...............8-1

8-1 Overview.............................................................................................8-1

Creating Storage Configurations.............................................................8-1

8-2 Hardware and Software Requirements..........................................8-2

8-3 Installing for Windows.......................................................................8-2

8-4 Installing for Linux .............................................................................8-3

Linux Error Messages.............................................................................8-4

Chapter 9 MegaRAID Window and Menus ............................9-1

9-1 Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software...........................9-1

9-2 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window...........................................9-2

Physical/Logical View Panel ...................................................................9-3