ASUS SCSI 320-2, SCSI 320-0, SCSI 320-1 User Manual

LSI MegaRAID User’s Manual

Q2143

August 2005

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Table of Contents

About This Manual .....................................................................ii

Chapter 1: RAID Setup ............................................................1-1

1.1 Change the Speed of SCSI Channel ..........................1-1

1.2 RAID 0 or RAID 1 Setup .............................................1-3

1.3 RAID 5 Setup ..............................................................1-9

1.4 RAID 50 Setup ..........................................................1-15

1.5 RAID 10 Setup ..........................................................1-21

1.6 Rebuild the Arrays .....................................................

1.7 Migration Setup .........................................................1-28

1.8 Hot Spare Setup .......................................................1-29

1.9 Clear RAID ................................................................1-31

Chapter 2 Setup for Operation Systems ......................................

2.1 Install Drives for SCSI RAID ............................................

2.1.1 Microsoft® Windows® .........................................................

2.1.2 Red Hat Linux® ...................................................................

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About This Manual

This manual is designed for users who have already acquired knowledge of peronal computer integration so as to help establish a powerful ASUS server.

Overview

The structure of this manual is listed as follows:

1. Overview : How to use this manual

This chapter will make a description of how to use this manual as well as guide throughout the contents of the following chapters.

2. Chapter 1: RAIDs Setup

With a step-by-step description, this chapter shows the procedures of setting up a RAID on your system at the time when system is powered on and not yet enters the operation system.

3. Chapter 2: Setup for Operation Systems

This chapter will guide you throught the relevant settings after entering the operation systems.

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Warning: Provides messages of high importance, including messages relating to personal safety or system integrity.

Caution: Draws attention so as to prevent possible unappropriate actions which could leads to damages to the system.

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Important: Important tips or things to be paid attention to.

Note: Tips, deﬁnitions, or further explanations

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You could get, via the following two media, information about the ASUS products you are using as well as the upgrade information for both software and hardware.

1. ASUS Website

Visit ASUS global website and acquire all kinds of information about ASUS hardware and software products.

2. Other Documents

Besides the articles listed as the contents of shipping package, there also may have other documents within the package, such as warranty documents provided by your dealer.

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RAID Setup

With step-by-step descriptions, this chapter introducess the procedures of setting up a RAID on your system at the time when system is powered on and not yet enters the operation system.

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Change the Speed of SCSI Channel

1. Press Ctrl + H at the same time and enter the MegaRAID WebBIOS conﬁguration window. Select with your mouse or keyboard the SCSI Channel Properties in the WebBIOS conﬁguration menu.

2. The window will show the current operation speed of the SCSI channels. You could enable one single channel (320-1) or two channels as well. (320-0,320-2)

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3. Click on the arrow of SCSI Capabilities box and open the drop down

menu. The four speed selections are Fast, Ultra, Ultra-II, U160, and U320. Select a suitable speed and click the Submit button to save the new conﬁguration.

4. If it is to disable one of the channels (the disabled channel will not be

accessed to any storage devices), you could set the Termination of this very channel to Disabled and click Submit to apply.

Warning: Do not make unnecessary changes to the settings of Termination. The default setting is Enabled so that there would be no such occasions that the system could not ﬁnd storage devices.

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1.2 RAID 0 or RAID 1 Setup

1. Press at the same time Ctrl + H and enter the MegaRAID WebBIOS conﬁguration window where information about all physical drivers installed is displayed. Click Conﬁguration Wizard to start RAID setup.

2. If this is the ﬁrst time to setup a RAID on your system, please select

New Conﬁguration

and click Next to continue.

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3. If the setting is to meet special requirements, please click on Custom Conﬁguration. You could also let the Conﬁguration Wizard to set up a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Conﬁguration. Press Next to continue.

4. Press and hold on the Ctrl key on your keyboard and select two ready drives with your mouse, then click Accept Array to setup RAID 1.

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The minimum requirements of hard drives for different types of RAID are: RAID 0: at least two disks; RAID 1: at least two disks and the number of disks must be even.

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5. In the right side windows you could view the information of all RAIDs

(arrays). Click Accept Array and Next to continue.

6. For RAID 0 conﬁguration, set the RAID Level as RAID 0, and input the RAID 0 size value within the circled area into the Select Size box (For example: RAID 0 size= 70004 MB). Then click Accept and Next to continue.

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7. For RAID 1 conﬁguration, set the RAID Level as RAID 1, and input the RAID 1 size value within the circled area into the Select Size box (For example: RAID 1 size= 35002 MB). Then click Accept and Next to continue.

8. The Logical Drives window now displays the status of the conﬁgured

RAID, Click on Accept to continue.

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9. Click Yes to save the setup.

10. Click Yes to initialize the new logical drives.

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11. If no boot device is ever set, please select Set Boot Drive and then select Go to change the settings so that the RAID storage devices could become the ﬁrst boot device.

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1.3 RAID 5 Setup

1. Press at the same time Ctrl + H and enter the MegaRAID WebBIOS

conﬁguration window where information about all physical drivers installed is displayed. Click Conﬁguration Wizard to start the RAID settings.

2. If this is the ﬁrst time to setup a RAID on your system, please select

New Conﬁguration

and click Next to continue.

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3. If the setting is to meet individual requirements, please select Custom Conﬁguration. You could also let the Conﬁguration Wizard set up a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Conﬁguration. Click Next to continue.

4. Hold on the

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Ctrl key on your keyboard and select with your mouse

ﬁve ready drives, then click on Accept Array to setup Array 1. At least three hard disks are needed for establishing RAID 5.

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5. This warning window will prompt out when hard disks of different sizes are deployed in a RAID. If hard disks of identical space are used, this window would not appear. (We recommend using hard disks of a same model for RAID conﬁgurationn)

6. You could see the information of RAID in the Array Deﬁnition window. Click Next to continue the settings.

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7. Set RAID Level as RAID 5 and input the Select Size box with the RAID 5 size value within the circled area.

8. You could see information of all RAID settings in the left side window. Click Accept to continue.

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9. Click Yes to save the conﬁguration, or click No to cancel the settings.

10. Click Yes to initialize the new logical drives.

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11. If no boot device is ever set, please select Set Boot Drive and then

click Go to change the settings so that the RAID storage device could become the ﬁrst boot device.

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1.4 RAID 50 Setup

1. Press at the same time Ctrl + H and enter the MegaRAID WebBIOS

conﬁguration window where information about all physical drivers installed is displayed. Click Conﬁguration Wizard to start the RAID settings.

2. If this is the ﬁrst time to set up a RAID on your system, please select

New Conﬁguration and click Next.

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3. If the setting is to meet individual requirements, please select Custom

Conﬁguration. You could also let the Conﬁguration Wizard to set up a RAID automatically by selecting Auto Conﬁguration. Then press Next to continue.

4. Hold on the

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Ctrl key on your keyboard and select with your mouse

three ready drives, then click on Accept Array to setup RAID 50. Note: a minimum of 6 hard drives is needed for RAID 50.

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5. The three disks are now set as Array 1. Click Accept Array to continue.

6. Then set the rest three hard disks as Array 2 and click Accept Array Press Next to continue.

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7. Select Array 1 and set the RAID Level as RAID5 and Span as Enabled. Then input the RAID 5 size value with spanning in the circled area into the Select Size box. Click Accept to continue.

8. You could now view all the RAID setup information in the Conﬁguration Preview window. The two arrays then form a RAID 50, with the Array 2 being the continuance of RAID 1.

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9. Click Yes to save the conﬁguration.

10. Click Yes to initialize the new logical drives.

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11. If no boot storage device is ever set, please select Set Boot Drive

and then select Go to change the settings so that the RAID storage device could become the ﬁrst boot device.

12. Now you could see information about all physical drives and logical

drives in the home page of WebBIOS.

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1.5 RAID 10 Setup

1. Press Ctrl + H at the same time and enter the MegaRAID WebBIOS

conﬁguration window, where information about all physical drivers installed is displayed. Click Conﬁguration Wizard to start the RAID settings.

2. If this is the ﬁrst time to setup a RAID on your system, click

Conﬁguration and then click Next to continue.

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4. Hold on the Ctrl key of your keyboard and select with your mouse two ready drives, click on Accept Array to set up Array 1 as RAID 0. Repeat this procedure to setup Array 2. At least four hard disks are need to setup RAID 10.

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