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Asus LSISAS1064E User Manual

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Contents

Contents ...................................................................................................... iii
About this guide ......................................................................................... iv
PIKE 1064E 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 ................................................ 2-2

2.2

LSI Corporation MPT Setup Utility ............................................. 2-3
2.2.1

Integrated Mirroring volume ............................................ 2-3

2.2.2

Integrated Mirroring Enhanced volume ........................... 2-7

2.2.3

Integrated Striping (IS) volume ....................................... 2-9

2.2.4

Managing Arrays ............................................................2-11

2.2.5

Viewing SAS topology ................................................... 2-16

2.2.6

Global Properties .......................................................... 2-17

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

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Server 2003 OS ............................................. 3-4

3.1.3

Red Hat

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Enterprise Linux OS ........................................ 3-9

3.1.4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server OS ................................3-11