Adaptec Storage Manager User Manual
Adaptec
Storage Manager
User’s Guide
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Contents
1 About This Guide
Terminology Used in this Guide...................................................15
2 Introduction to Adaptec Storage Manager
About Adaptec Storage Manager..................................................17
About the Adaptec Storage Manager Agent.................................17
System Requirements....................................................................18
Growing Your Storage Space with Adaptec Storage Manager....19
A Simple Storage Space ..........................................................19
An Advanced Storage Space...................................................19
Continuing to Grow Your Storage Space..............................20
Adding Enhanced Features ...........................................................21
Unlocking the Enhanced Features.........................................22
Getting Started Checklist...............................................................23
3 Step 1: Installing Adaptec Storage Manager
Installing on Windows..................................................................25
Before You Begin....................................................................25
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager......................................25
Completing a Silent Installation (Advanced)........................26
Installing on Linux.........................................................................28
Before You Begin....................................................................28
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager......................................28
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Installing on NetWare...................................................................29
Before You Begin....................................................................29
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager......................................29
4 Step 2: Starting Adaptec Storage Manager
Starting Adaptec Storage Manager on Windows.........................31
Starting Adaptec Storage Manager on Linux...............................32
Starting Adaptec Storage Manager on NetWare..........................32
Starting the Adaptec Storage Manager Agent Only.....................33
Starting the Agent on Windows.............................................33
Starting the Agent on Linux...................................................34
Starting the Agent on NetWare..............................................34
Understanding Permission Levels ................................................35
Administrator Level................................................................35
User Level................................................................................36
Guest Level..............................................................................36
Configuring NetWare User Authentication..........................37
Logging Out of Adaptec Storage Manager...................................38
Logging Back In ......................................................................38
5 Step 3: Exploring Adaptec Storage Manager
Navigating the Main Window.......................................................40
Using Enterprise View...................................................................40
Using Physical Devices View.........................................................41
Using Logical Devices View ..........................................................42
Revealing More Disk Drive Information .....................................43
Checking System Status.................................................................45
Working in Adaptec Storage Manager.........................................46
About the Actions Menu........................................................46
Getting Help...................................................................................46
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6 Step 4: Building Your Storage Space
Selecting a Configuration Method................................................48
Express Configuration: Building the Easy Way...........................48
Partitioning and Formatting Your Logical Drives................50
Next Steps................................................................................51
Custom Configuration (Advanced)..............................................51
Including More Systems in Your Storage Space ...................55
Building a RAID Volume..............................................................56
RAID Controller Support..............................................................59
Managing Your Storage Space......................................................59
7 Step 5: Customizing Adaptec Storage Manager
Logging In to Remote Systems......................................................61
Creating Display Groups...............................................................63
Setting Preferences and Changing Views.....................................65
Sorting Systems in the Enterprise View.................................65
Setting the Standard Unit of Measure...................................66
Changing the Main Window Appearance.............................66
Customizing the Adaptec Storage Manager Agent......................67
Broadcasting Event Alerts from a System..............................67
Changing a System’s Audible Alarm Settings........................67
Changing a System’s Event Log Setting.................................69
Changing a System’s Agent Base Port Number ....................69
8 Running Adaptec Storage Manager from the CD
When to Choose Bootable-CD Mode..........................................71
Bootable-CD Mode Limitations............................................71
Getting Started in Bootable-CD Mode.........................................71
Running Adaptec Storage Manager from the CD........................72
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9 Managing Logical Drives and Hot Spares
Understanding Logical Drives ......................................................74
Creating Logical Drives.................................................................75
Setting the Size of a Logical Drive..........................................75
Including Different-sized Disk Drives in a Logical Drive.....76
Creating a Logical Drive Using Available Space....................77
Fine-tuning Logical Drives............................................................78
Changing the Write Cache Setting.........................................79
Changing the Stripe Size.........................................................79
Changing the Read Cache Setting..........................................80
Changing the Initialize Method.............................................80
Changing the Initialize Priority..............................................81
Verifying Logical Drives................................................................81
Verifying and Fixing a Logical Drive.....................................82
Verifying a Logical Drive (Without Fix) ...............................83
Enabling/Disabling Background Consistency Check ...........84
Increasing the Capacity of a Logical Drive...................................84
Extending a Partition on a Logical Drive ..............................87
Changing the RAID Level of a Logical Drive...............................87
Deleting a Logical Drive................................................................89
Working with Hot Spares..............................................................90
Hot Spare Limitations............................................................90
Dedicated Spare or Global Spare?..........................................90
Designating a Global Hot Spare.............................................91
Assigning a Dedicated Hot Spare...........................................92
What Do the Hot Spare Icons Mean?....................................93
Removing a Hot Spare............................................................93
10 Protecting Your Data
Creating a Snapshot.......................................................................96
Snapshot Limitations..............................................................96
Creating a Snapshot with Backup..........................................97
Creating a Snapshot Without Backup...................................97
Deleting a Snapshot................................................................97
Enabling Copyback........................................................................98
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11 Monitoring Your Storage Space
Monitoring Options....................................................................100
Checking Activity in Your Storage Space...................................101
Viewing the Full List of Events.............................................101
Clearing the Event Log.........................................................102
What Do the Status Icons Mean?................................................102
Using Event Notifications to Monitor Status.............................103
Setting up Event Notifications.............................................103
Managing the Event Notification List..................................107
Monitoring and Managing the Notification Log................109
Disabling Event Notifications..............................................111
Setting Up Email Notifications............................................111
Managing the Email List.......................................................115
Monitoring and Managing the Email Log...........................116
Changing the Email Notification Manager Settings...........118
Disabling Email Notifications..............................................119
Broadcasting Event Alerts to Users.............................................120
Silencing and Testing the Audible Alarm...................................121
Testing the Alarm .................................................................121
Silencing the Alarm...............................................................122
Disabling a Controller’s Alarm............................................122
Viewing Component Properties.................................................122
12 Managing Tasks
Scheduling a Task........................................................................124
Opening the Task Manager.........................................................126
Monitoring Tasks ........................................................................127
Monitoring Upcoming Tasks in the Task List ....................127
Checking Past Tasks and Events in the Event Log..............127
Modifying a Task.........................................................................129
What if a task misses its start time?......................................130
Deleting a Task.............................................................................130
Disabling the Task Manager........................................................131
Re-enabling the Task Manager ............................................131
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13 Managing Remote Systems
Introduction.................................................................................133
Removing a Remote System........................................................133
14 Working with Display Groups
Adding a System to a Display Group..........................................135
Viewing Display Group Status....................................................136
Removing a System from a Display Group................................136
Moving a System from One Display Group to Another............137
Renaming a Display Group.........................................................137
Deleting a Display Group............................................................138
15 Managing Controllers and Disk Drives
Rescanning a Controller..............................................................140
Registering New Controllers.......................................................140
Viewing Controller Properties....................................................141
Saving Your Controller Configuration.......................................141
Updating Controller BIOS and Firmware..................................142
Before You Begin..................................................................142
Updating the Controller BIOS and Firmware.....................142
Setting a Disk Drive to ‘Failed’....................................................144
Replacing Disk Drives in a Logical Drive...................................145
16 Solving Problems
Identifying a Failed or Failing Component................................147
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure........................................147
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare........................148
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare.................149
Failure in Multiple Logical Drives Simultaneously.............149
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Logical Drive.....................149
Multiple Failures in the Same Logical Drive.......................150
Removing a Failed Disk Drive’s Icon...................................150
Rebuilding Logical Drives...........................................................151
Solving Notification Problems....................................................151
Creating an Archive File..............................................................152
Troubleshooting Adaptec Storage Manager...............................152
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A Configuring SNMP Support
Configuring SNMP Support on Windows.................................154
Configuring SNMP Support on Linux.......................................155
Configuring SNMP Support on NetWare..................................155
B Quick Answers to Common Questions...
How do I...?..................................................................................157
Set up my storage space?.......................................................157
Open the Configuration wizard?..........................................157
Turn off the alarm?...............................................................157
Add a new user to Adaptec Storage Manager?....................157
Add a remote system?...........................................................157
Prevent a user from changing my storage space?................157
Check disk drive or logical drive status?..............................157
Access a feature with a padlock icon beside it?....................157
Log out of Adaptec Storage Manager?.................................157
Schedule a task?.....................................................................158
Find the Task Manager?........................................................158
Find the Notification Manager?...........................................158
Find the Email Notification Manager? ................................158
What’s the difference between...?................................................159
Adaptec Storage Manager and the agent?............................159
Event notifications, email notifications, and event alerts? .159
C Buttons and Icons At-a-Glance
Icons in the Physical Devices View.............................................161
Icons in the Logical Devices View...............................................161
Buttons in the Physical/Logical Devices Views..........................162
Buttons on the Main Window Tool Bar.....................................162
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D Understanding RAID
Understanding Drive Segments..................................................164
RAID 0 (Non-RAID Logical Drives)..........................................164
RAID 1 Logical Drives.................................................................165
RAID 1 Enhanced Logical Drives ...............................................166
RAID 10 Logical Drives...............................................................167
RAID 5 Logical Drives.................................................................168
RAID 5EE Logical Drives............................................................169
RAID 50 Logical Drives...............................................................170
RAID 6 Logical Drives.................................................................171
RAID 60 Logical Drives...............................................................172
Selecting the Best RAID Level.....................................................173
Glossary
Index
About This Guide
This User’s Guide explains how to install and use Adaptec® Storage
Manager to build a storage space and manage y our stor ed data, whether
you have a single RAID controller installed in a server or a complex
Storage Area Network (SAN) with multiple RAID controllers and
servers.
This Guide is written for advanced computer users who want to create a
storage space for their data. Advan ced kno wledge of st orage networks is
not required, but you should be familiar with computer hardware, data
storage, and Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)
technology.
If you are using A daptec Storage Manager as part of a complex storage
system, such as a SAN, you should be familiar with network
administration terminology and tasks, have knowledge of Local Area
Network (LAN) and SAN technology, and be familiar with the input/
output (I/O) technology—such as Fibre Channel (FC) or Serial
Attached SCSI (SAS)—that you are using on your network.
Note: Because this Guide covers multiple Adaptec RAID products,
some of the features and functions described here may not be available
for your controller.
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Terminology Used in this Guide
Because this Guide provides information that can be used to manage
multiple Adaptec RAID products in a variety of configurations from
DAS to SAN, the generic term “storage space” is used to refer to the
controller(s) and disk drives being managed with Adaptec Storage
Manager.
For efficiency, the term “components” or “component” is used when
referring generically to the physical and virtual parts of your storage
space, such as systems, disk drives, controllers, and logical drives.
Many of the terms and concepts referred to in this Guide are known to
computer users by multiple names. In this Guide, this terminology is
used:
● Controller (also known as adapter, HBA, board, or card)
● Disk drive (also known as hard disk, hard drive, or hard disk drive)
● Logical drive (also known as logical device)
Note: For more information, see Understanding RAID on page 163 and
the Glossary on page 174.
Introduction to Adaptec Storage Manager
In this chapter...
About Adaptec Storage Manager......................................................17
About the Adaptec Storage Manager Agent .....................................17
System Requirements.........................................................................18
Growing Your Storage Space with Adaptec Storage Manager.........19
Adding Enhanced Features................................................................21
Getting Started Checklist...................................................................23
This chapter describes Adaptec Storage Manager and the Adaptec
Storage Manager agent, explains the concept of a “storage space” and
provides a checklist of getting-started tasks.
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About Adaptec Storage Manager
Adaptec Storage Manager is a software application that helps you build
a storage space for your online data, using Adaptec RAID controllers
and disk drives.
With Adaptec Storage Manager, you can group disk drives into logical
drives and build in redundancy to protect your data and improv e
system performance.
You can also use Adaptec Storage Manager to monitor and manage all
the controllers and disk drives in your storage space from a single
location.
About the Adaptec Storage Manager Agent
When Adapt ec Storage Ma nager is installed on a co mput er, the Adaptec
Storage Manager agent is also installed automatically. The agent is like a
service that keeps your storage space running. It’ s designed to run in the
background, without user intervention, and its job is to monitor and
manage system health, event notifications, tasks schedules, and other
on-going processes on that system. It sends notices when tasks are
completed successfully, and sounds an alarm when errors or failures
occur on that system.
The agent uses less memory than the full application. If your storage
space includes systems that won’t be connected to monitors (and
therefore won’t require the user interface described in this Guide), you
can choose to run the agent only on those systems instead of the full
application (see page 33). You may want to do this if system resources
are limited, or if you want more system resources available for other
tasks.
You can manage and monitor systems running the agent only by
logging into them as remote systems (see page 61).
You can also customize the agent settings to suit your storage space
requirements (see page 67).
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System Requirements
● PC-compatible computer with Intel Pentium, or equivalent,
processor
● At least 128 MB of RAM
● 20 MB of free drive space
● 16-bit SVGA color monitor with a resolution of at least 800 x 600
● CD drive
● One of these operating systems:
● Microsoft
Professional
● Windows 20 03 Server—Standard, Advanced
● Windows XP—Home Edition, Professional
● Red H at
● SuSE Linux—Personal, Professional, Enterprise
®
Windows® 2000—Server, Advanced Server,
®
Linux—Professional, Enterprise, Advanced Server
Note: For the latest on Adaptec’s support of Linux, or to
download driver sources, visit www.adaptec.com.
● Novell
®
—NetWare® 6.5
Note: Adaptec Storage Manager can also be used before an
operating system is installed. See page 70 for more information.
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Data
al
Data
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Growing Your Storage Space with Adaptec Storage Manager
As your requirements change, Adaptec St orage Manager grows with
your storage space as you add more controllers, more disk drives, more
logical drives, and more data protection.
A Simple Storage Space
The example below shows the sort of simple storage space that might be
appropriate in a home office or for a small business. This storage space
includes one RAID controller and two disk drives installed in a server.
For data protection, the disk drives have been used to build a RAID 1
logical drive.
daptec Storage Manager
Server
RAID 1
An Advanced Storage Space
The example below shows how you can gro w your storage space t o meet
the expanding requirements of your business. For data protection,
segments of space from each disk drive have been used to build two
RAID 5 logical drives. One logical drive stores all the customer
information and the other logical drive stores the business’ s ac counting,
payroll, and personnel information.
daptec Storage Manager
Server
Customer
RAID 5RAID 5
Intern
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Continuing to Grow Your Storage Space
As your needs change, Adaptec Storage Manager will help you grow
your storage space to include multiple controllers and disk drives in
multiple locations.
The Administrator of the storage space shown in the example belo w can
create and modify logical drives and monitor all the c ontrollers and disk
drives in the storage space from a single workstation.
Server
Department 1
Data
Adaptec Storage Manager
Server
RAID 1
Server
Department 2
Data
RAID 50
RAID 5RAID 5
Customer
Data
Department
Data
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Adding Enhanced Features
As you grow your storage space, you can enhance data protection and
improve performance by upgrading your Adaptec controller with extra
features, then manage these enhanced features with Adaptec Storage
Manager.
Adaptec offers a package of upgrade features that can be activated with
a feature key (sold separately). Purchase a feature key to unlock these
features:
● Copyback (see page 98)
● Snapshots (see page 96)
● RAID 1E (see page 166)
● RAID 5EE (see page 169)
● RAID 6 (see page 171)
● RAID 60 (see page 172)
Locked features—features which are unavailable without a key—
have a padlock icon (shown at right) beside them, as shown in the
examples below. If you select a locked feature, you are reminded that a
key is required to unlock it.
To purchase a feature key, contact your Adaptec Reseller or refer to the
Adaptec Web site at
www.adaptec.com.
To unlock the enhanced features with a feature key, see page 22.
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Unlocking the Enhanced Features
To unlock enhanced features with a feature key:
1 In the Enterprise View, right-click the controller you want, then
click Add feature key.
The Add Feature Key window opens.
2 Enter the feature key, then click OK.
3 Click OK to confirm.
The enhanced features are unlocked and are now ready for use.
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Getting Started Checklist
This Guide provides five special Getting Started chapters to help you
install, start, and begin to use Adaptec Storage Manager.
❏ Step 1: Install Adaptec Storage Manager on ev ery compute r that will
be part of your storage space (see page 24).
❏ Step 2: Start Adaptec Storage Manager—or the Adaptec Storage
Manager agent only—on every computer in your storage space (see
page 30).
❏ Step 3: Explore the features of Adaptec Storage Manager (see page
39).
❏ Step 4: Build your storage space (see page 47).
❏ Step 5: Optional—Customize Adaptec Storage Manager and the
Adaptec Storage Manager agent (see page 60).
5
Getting
Started
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Step 1: Installing Adaptec
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Storage Manager
In this chapter...
Installing on Windows.......................................................................25
Installing on Linux.............................................................................28
Installing on NetWare........................................................................29
Adaptec Storage Manager must be installed on ev ery computer tha t will
be part of your storage space.
To install Adaptec Storage Manager, follow the instructions for your
operating system:
Note: You need administrator or root privileges to install Adaptec
Storage Manager. For details on verifying privileges, refer to your
operating system documentation.
To use Adaptec Storage Manager to configure a RAID controller before
you install your operating system, see R unning Adaptec Storage M anager
from the CD on page 70.
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Installing on Windows
This section describes how to install Adaptec Storage Manager on
computers running W indows. See S ystem R equi rem ents on page 18 for a
list of supported operating systems.
Note: Advanced users —To perform a silent installation, follow the
instructions on page 26.
Before You Begin
If a previous version of Adaptec Storage Manager is installed on your
computer, you must remove it before beginning this installation. To
uninstall Adaptec Storage Manager, use the Add/Remove Programs
option in your Windows Control Panel.
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager
1 Insert the Adaptec Storage Manager CD.
The Installation wizard opens automatically. (If it doesn’t open,
browse to the CD in Windows Explorer, then click Autorun.)
2 Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
Do not install SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
unless you have a specific requirement for Adaptec Storage Manager
to work with SNMP gets and traps. (See page 153 for more
information.)
3 Repeat these steps to install Adaptec Storage Manager on every
Windows computer that will be part of your storage space.
4 Continue with Starting Adaptec Storage Manager on Windows on
page 31.
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Completing a Silent Installation (Advanced)
A silent installation uses command line parameters to complete an
installation without messages or user interaction.
To complete a silent installation:
1 Insert the Adaptec Storage Manager CD into your CD drive.
2 Open a command prompt window and change to the CD directory.
3 Install Adaptec Storage Manager using this command line string:
setup.exe /s /v“ /qn <OPTIONS>”
This table describes the command line options. Multiple features
can be separated with commas.
Option Required Values
INSTALLDIR Yes
ADDLOCAL No ■ All—(Default) Installs all features.
REBOOT No
\“path to installation directory\”
The installation path must be enclosed in
escaped quotation marks.
For example:
INSTALLDIR=\“C:\Program Files\Adaptec\
Adaptec Storage Manager\”
■ Manager—Installs Adaptec Storage
Manager.
■ SNMPSupport—Installs SNMP support;
requires Manager feature. (See page 153 for
more information.)
■ ASMReadme—Installs the Readme file and
Start menu shortcut.
■ CLITools—Installs Command Line
Interface tools.
Note: Use commas to separate multiple
features.
■ Force—(Default) Forces a reboot at the
end of the install ation.
■ Suppress—Suppresses a reboot unless files
were in use and could not be overwritten
during installation.
■ ReallySuppress—Suppresses all reboots at
the end of the installation.
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Example command strings:
● Install all default features and default to reboot:
setup.exe /s /v“ /qn INSTALLDIR=\“C:\Program Files\Adaptec\
Adaptec Storage Manager\””
● Install Adaptec Storage Manager, Readme, and SNMP support,
and default to reboot:
setup.exe /s /v“ /qn INSTALLDIR=\”C:\Program Files\Adaptec\
Adaptec Storage Manager\“ADDLOCAL=Manager,
SNMPSupport,ASMReadme”
4 After a minute or two, the silent installation should be complete and
the Adaptec Storage Manager icon should be accessible.
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Installing on Linux
This section describes how to install Adaptec Storage Manager on
computers running Linux. See S ystem R equ iremen ts on page 18 for a list
of supported operating systems.
Adaptec Storage Manage r includes th e Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
Before You Begin
If a previous version of Adaptec Storage Manager is installed on your
computer, you must remove it before beginning this installation. An y
customization files you created with the previous version are saved and
used in the upgrade.
To remove Adaptec Storage Manager, type the
rpm --erase StorMan
command.
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager
1 Insert the Adaptec Storage Manager CD.
2 Mount the Adaptec Storage Manager CD:
Red Hat
SuSE
3 Change to the cdrom directory:
Red Hat
SuSE
4 Extract the RPM package and install it:
rpm --install ./StorMan*.rpm
5 Unmount the Adaptec Storage Manager CD:
Red Hat
SuSE
6 Repeat these steps to install Adaptec Storage Manager on every
Linux computer that will be part of your storage space.
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom/linux/manager
cd /media/cdrom/linux/manager
umount /mnt/cdrom
umount /media/cdrom
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Continue with
Starting Adaptec Storage Manager on Linux
on page 32.
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Installing on NetWare
This section describes how to install Adaptec Storage Manager on
computers running NetWare. See System Requirements on page 18 for a
list of supported operating systems.
Before You Begin
You need the latest Support Pack for your operating system so you can
run the supported Java Virtual Machine (JVM). You need JVM version
1.3 or later. To check your JVM version, load JVM, type
Note: For the latest updates from Novell, visit www.novell.com.
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager
1 Insert the Adaptec Storage Manager CD.
2 From the command prompt, type load cdrom and press Enter.
3 From the command prompt, type:
xx_yy_zz:\netware\manager\install
JAVA -VER SION.
where xx is the product CD, yy is the version number, and zz is the
release number. For example:
adptcd_v2_01
The installation program starts.
4 Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
5 Repeat these steps to install Adaptec Storage Manager on every
NetWare computer that will be part of your storage space.
6 Continue with Starting Adaptec Storage Manager on NetWare on
page 32.
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