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Adaptec ATA II 1220SA User Manual

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Contents

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Understanding Adaptec Storage Manager

Features.............................................................................................................. 40
Overview............................................................................................................ 40

Physical Devices View................................................................................. 41
Logical Devices View .................................................................................. 41

Changing How Drives are Displayed ............................................................... 41
Collapsed and Expanded Views ....................................................................... 42
Component Views............................................................................................. 43

Solving Problems

Troubleshooting Checklist ............................................................................... 45
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure ............................................................. 45

Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare .............................................. 45
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare ....................................... 46
Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously................................................ 46
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array........................................................ 46
Multiple Failures in the Same Array .......................................................... 46

Understanding RAID

RAID Technology Overview............................................................................. 48

Understanding Drive Segments ................................................................. 48
Stripe-unit Size............................................................................................ 48
Selecting a RAID Level and Tuning Performance..................................... 48

RAID 0 (Non-RAID Arrays) ............................................................................ 49
RAID 1 Arrays ................................................................................................... 50
RAID 10 Arrays ................................................................................................. 50

Using the ARC Utility

Introduction to the ARC Utility....................................................................... 52
Running the ARC Utility .................................................................................. 52
Creating and Managing Arrays ........................................................................ 52

Creating a New Array ................................................................................. 52
Managing Arrays......................................................................................... 54
Adding/Deleting Hotspares........................................................................ 56
Managing Bootable Arrays and Devices .................................................... 56
Configuring Disk Drives............................................................................. 56
ATAPI Support ........................................................................................... 57

Using SATASelect .............................................................................................. 57

SATASelect Options .................................................................................... 58

Formatting and Verifying Disk Drives............................................................. 59

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