Asus PIKE 2008/IMR - Manual (Page 3)

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Contents
Contents ...................................................................................................... iii
About this guide ......................................................................................... iv
PIKE 2008/IMR specifications summary ................................................... vi
Chapter 1: Product introduction
1.1 Welcome! ...................................................................................... 1-2
1.2 Package contents ......................................................................... 1-2
1.3 Card layout ................................................................................... 1-3
1.4 System requirements ................................................................... 1-3
1.5 Card installation ........................................................................... 1-4
Chapter 2: RAID configuration
2.1 Setting up RAID ............................................................................ 2-2
2.1.1
RAID definitions .............................................................. 2-2
2.1.2 Installing hard disk drives ................................................ 2-3
2.2 LSI WebBIOS Configuration Utility ............................................. 2-4
2.2.1
Starting the WebBIOS CU............................................... 2-5
2.2.2 WebBIOS CU main screen options ................................. 2-6
2.2.3 Creating a Storage Configuration ................................... 2-8
2.2.4 Viewing and Changing Device Properties ..................... 2-22
2.2.5 Viewing System Event Information ............................... 2-29
2.2.6 Managing Configurations .............................................. 2-30
2.3 MegaRAID Storage Manager ..................................................... 2-34
2.3.1
Hardware and Software Requirements ......................... 2-34
2.3.2 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software on
Microsoft Windows OS .................................................. 2-34
2.3.3 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software for
Linux ............................................................................. 2-38
2.3.4 Linux Error Messages ................................................... 2-39
2.3.5 Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software ........... 2-40
2.3.6 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window .......................... 2-42
Chapter 3: Driver installation
3.1 RAID driver installation ............................................................... 3-2
3.1.1
Creating a RAID driver disk ............................................ 3-2
3.1.2 Windows ® Server 2003 OS ............................................. 3-4
3.1.3 Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux OS 5 ..................................... 3-9
3.1.4 SUSE Linux OS 11 .........................................................3-11