Accusys RAID Controller ACS-77100 - Manual (Page 2)

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User’s Manual
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Trademarks..............................................................................................................3
About This document................................................................................................4
Symbols used in this document..................................................................................4
troduction to the ACS-77100 .....................................................................................5
1.1. Overview...........................................................................................................5
1.2. System Structure ...............................................................................................5
1.3. Understanding RAID Levels.................................................................................6
1.3.1. RAID 0 (striping) ......................................................................................6
1.3.2. RAID 10 (striping and mirroring) ................................................................7
1.3.3. RAID 5 (striping with parity) and RAID 5+hot spare ....................................8
RAID Solution ..................................................................................................9
2.1. Hardware Requirement:......................................................................................9
2.2. LCD Panel Operations....................................................................................... 10
et up the RAID solution............................................................................................ 11
3.1. Setting the RAID Level ..................................................................................... 11
3.1.1 RAID Level configurations ........................................................................ 12
Creating an Array............................................................................................. 13
3.2.1 Enable/Disable Over 2TB capacity ............................................................. 13
3.2.2 Creating an Array .................................................................................... 13
Setting the Time and Date by LCD..................................................................... 14
3.4. Connecting ACS-77100 to the Host computer ..................................................... 15
3.5. Formatting and Partitioning the ACS-77100 ........................................................ 15
3.5.1. Windows Users....................................................................................... 15
3.5.2. Formatting drive over 2TB capacity on Windows Vista................................ 17
ement............................................................................................................. 18
4.1. LCD displayed Messages ................................................................................... 18
4.1.1. Booting Messages................................................................................... 18
4.1.2. Set over 2TB Capacity Messages .............................................................. 18
4.1.3. Initialization Messages ............................................................................ 19
4.1.4. System Ready Messages.......................................................................... 19
4.1.5. Rebuild Messages ................................................................................... 20
4.1.6. Error Messages....................................................................................... 20
StorConn GUI introduction ................................................................................ 21
4.2.1. RAID status monitoring window...................................................................... 22
pdate Firmware....................................................................................................... 23