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USER’S MANUAL 1
FCC Statement 3
VCCI Statement 3
Limited Product Warranty 4
Release Notes 6
Technical Support 6
Table of Contents 7
SmartRAID V User’s Manual 14
Read This First! 15
About the Documentation 16
Installation Roadmap 17
What’s In the Box? 19
Safety Information 20
Working with Electricity 21
About Your New Controller 23
Product List 25
Product Feature Overview 26
non-parity memory 28
transfer 29
Model Description 31
SM4050-16 16 MB ECC SIMM 31
SM4050-64 64 MB ECC SIMM 31
SmartRAID V Controller LEDs 33
Cache Status LEDs 34
Audible Alarm 35
C HAPTER 3: 37
Installation Overview 38
Configuration 39
Configuring SCSI Termination 40
= Terminated 41
Configuring Device IDs 42
Installation 43
Installing SIMMs 47
Installing DIMMs 49
Installing the Controller 51
Controller IRQ and Address 52
NVRAM Reset 53
Server 1 Server 2 56
Shared Storage 56
Shared SCSI bus* 56
Storage Manager on ROM 57
Overview 58
Keyboard Reference 59
Menu Reference 60
Icon Reference 60
Screen Layout 61
The Left Pane – Tree View 62
Running SMOR 64
O BIOS Settings 65
Controller Information Tab 67
Host Bus: 68
Bus Type 68
Transfer 68
Attached Modules: 68
HBA Configuration Tab 69
Device Information 71
SCSI Capabilities 72
Identification 74
Setting the Configuration 75
Array Operations 76
Creating a Parity Group 78
Deleting an Array 79
Formatting a Drive 80
Managing Controller Firmware 81
Upgrading Firmware 81
Windows NT 4.0 86
Installing a New System 87
Upgrading an Existing System 89
Adding to an Existing System 89
(Microsoft OSM) 90
DEVICE=I2ODDL.SYS 92
DEVICE=DPTCDROM.SYS 92
Installing Windows 95 93
(OEM SR2 – Version 950b) 93
98 Configuration 95
(Upgrade Version) 96
SCO UnixWare 7 99
Novell NetWare 101
NetWare 4.2 – Boot Controller 104
NetWare 5.0 – Boot Controller 106
Red Hat Linux 108
Red Hat Linux 5.2 and 6.0 109
Red Hat Linux 6.1 109
./install 111
./dptmgr 111
Software Installation 112
Storage Manager 113
Introduction 114
System Requirements 114
Running Storage Manager 115
Physical Configuration View 116
Logical Configuration View 118
Logical Device Address 119
Information Windows 122
Battery Backup Configuration 123
Initial Calibration (BB4050) 124
HBA Configuration 125
Flash Configuration 127
Device Information Window 129
Caching Configuration 130
Array Groups 131
Creating an Array Group 134
Naming an Array Group 136
Dynamic Array Expansion 136
Requirements and Restrictions 137
Expanding an Array Group 138
Deleting an Array Group 140
Event Logging 142
Event Notification 143
Pager Event Messaging 145
Broadcasters 146
Installing the Broadcaster 147
Viewing Events 147
Broadcaster for Windows NT 148
Formatting Drives 150
Drive Failures 151
Rebuilding a Degraded Array 152
Hot Spares 153
Background Task Priority 155
I/O Statistics 156
Total Commands 157
SCSI Bus Resets 157
Remote Communication 160
Client Workstations 161
Setting up the Server 163
SCO UNIX 164
Connecting to Remote Systems 165
Making a Manual Connection 166
Using the Phonebook 167
Using a Custom Connection 168
Theory of Operation 169
Intelligent RAID Controllers 170
Intelligent I/O 171
Benefits 171
I O Split Driver Architecture 172
Disk Caching 174
Software and Hardware Caching 175
Elevator Sorting 176
DISK WRITES 177
Predictive Caching Algorithms 178
Pre-Fetch 179
Caching Host Reads 180
Disk Striping 181
Definition of RAID Levels 182
Mirrored Arrays 183
Parallel Array with Parity 184
Dual-Level RAID 186
Creating Data Redundancy 187
Handling I/O Errors 188
Degraded Mode 189
SmartRAID V Architecture 190
Command Processing 191
Command Overlapping 191
Command Queuing 192
Auto Request Sense 192
Byte/Word Alignment 192
Scatter/Gather 192
On-Board Microprocessor 194
SCSI Interface 194
Logical Unit Numbers (LUN) 195
Bridge Controllers 195
Commands and Messages 195
Disconnect/Reconnect 195
Multi-Mode SCSI 197
Wide SCSI 197
SCSI Transfer Rate 197
Cabling Single-Ended SCSI 198
Cabling Ultra2 (LVD) SCSI 200
SCSI Termination 201
Assembly Drawings 205
PM3755U2B 207
PM3754U2 208
RA4050 RAID Accelerator 215
BB4050 Battery Module 216
Troubleshooting 217
PATTERN MEANING 219
7, 6, 5, 2, 1 None 219
7, 6, 5, 3, 1 High 219
7, 6, 5, 3, 2 Mismatch 219
7, 6, 5, 3, 2, 1 Invalid 219
Vector xx is private 220
Specifications 225
DC Power Requirements 226
Environmental Specifications 227
A PPENDIX D: 229
Management Console 231
DPT MIB Information 231
What’s Included 234
Operating System Comments 235
Windows 95/98 235
Operation 237
SNMP Software Overview 237
DPT SNMP Sub-Agent 238
Glossary 241

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