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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.
Special Messages
This manual uses the following icons to call your attention to specific
instructions or explanations.
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
More Information about This Product
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.
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Visit ASUS global website and acquire all kinds of information about
ASUS hardware and software products.
2. Other Documents
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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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1.1
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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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.
New
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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 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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5. Select two hard disks as and set them as Array1, and the rest Array
2. At least two hard disks are needed for setting up RAID 1, and the
number of disks must be even.
6. 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 configuration)
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7. You could now see information of all RAID settings. When you have
finished the setting for Array 1 and Array 2, please click Next to
continue.
8. Set Array 1 as RAID 1, and set the
Size box with the RAID 1 size value within the circled area; then click
Accept and Next to apply.
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9. You could then see the information of RAID settings in the Configuration
Preview window. The two arrays form a RAID 10, with the Array 2 being
the continuance of the Array 1.
10. Click Yes to save the settings, or to click No to cancel the configuration.
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11. Click Yes to initialize the new array of Logical Drives.
12. 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 device could
become the first boot device.
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1.6 Array Rebuild
1. When one of the hard disks within the array is removed and substituted
with new disk, the array could automatically start the rebuilding
process. You could check the information of the rebuilding progress
in the MegaRAID WebBIOS configuration window. If you would like
to check the rebuilding speed, please click on the Rebuild Progress
button.
2. The rebuilding progress is displayed in the left side window. If
necessary, you could select Abort and then click Go to cancel the
rebuilding process.
Caution: Do not launch unnecessary abortion to the array
rebuilding process, nor to cut the power supply during
the rebuilding process, in case the existing data being
destroyed.
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1.7 Migration Setup
1. If new hard disks are to be installed onto the SCSI backplane, please
select Scan Devices to discover the disk first. Then you will find the
ready disk in the Physical Drives window. Click on Logical Drives to
set up Migration.
2. There are two available options for Migration setup:
I. RAID Migration only: to make the Array 1 to do the “RAID Migration”
automatically.
II. RAID Migration (with addition): to make the Array 1 and the new hard
disk to do the “RAID Migration”. In this option, you could change the
existing RAID to any RAID type you want to setup. Click “Go” to apply
the settings.
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1.8 Hotspare Setup
1. Select a ready physical drive and set it as Hotspare.
Note: The disks already set as a part of RAID (Online) could
not be selected.
2. Select Make Hotspare and click Go to set this hard disk as Hotspare.
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3. If it is to stop the Hotspare function, select Offline and click Go to
cancel.
4. The hard disk assigned as Hotspare will be highlighted in pink characters,
which means the Hotspare setting is completed.
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1.9 Clear Arrays
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 setup.
2. Select Clear Configuration tab, and then click Next.
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3. You could find no Logical Drivers in the right side window, which means
the disk arrays have already been cleared. Click Accept to continue.
4. Click Yes and save the configuration.
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5. In the right side windows, all the storage devices are listed in the
Physical Drives window, while the Logical Drives window is blank.
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System Setup
This chapter will guide you throught
the relevant settings after entering
the operation systems.
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2.1 Install Drives for Operation Systems
The SCSI RAID device installed in this server works in compliance with
operating system such as Microsoft® Server 2003, RedHat Linux®, and
SuSE Linux®. Next, we are to get on with the drive installation procedures
for these respective OS.
2.1.1 Microsoft® Windows®
Insert the support CD with the label reading LSI MegaRAID SCSI 3200/320-1 320 & ASUS AZ CRB into your optical drive and open the Driver
folder. There are, in this folder, drivers for all operating systems for
creating a installation floppy disk. For example, if it is to make a drive disk
for Windows® OS, please open Driver\Windows, where you could see
several different folders for different Windows® OS. If it is to create a driver
disk for Windows 2000®, please click open the folder named Windows
2000, then insert a blank disk into your floopy drive, then click MakeDisk.exe to make the disk. If your OS is Windows 2003®, after selecting the
folder, you are to make one more selection between win2003 32bit and
win2003 64bit.
You could also get access ASUS global website to download the
driver. Unzip the file in Windows® OS and run the *.exe file, the driver
would automatically write into the floopy disk. If the unzipped files are not
*.exe file, please copy these files directly into a blank disk.
1. As soon as the screen for Windows® installation prompts, press
immediately F6.
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2. When a screen as follows prompts out, press S to install driver for the
operation system.
3. Insert the drive disk previously prepared into the floppy drive, and press
Enter.
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4. For Windows 2000®, please select LSI MAGARAID Product for
Windows 2000 Driver; For Windows 2003®, please select LSI
MEGARAID Products for Windows 2003 (x86).
5. For Windows 2003 Server®, when driver program is selected, a
following window would prompt out, displayig the detected preset driver
of Windows 2003 Server®. Press S and select to install from the floopy
disk.
Then please follow the instructions of Windows® and complete the
installation. DO NOT take out the floopy disk until the first time system
restart is completed.
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2.1.2 RedHat Linux®
You could get access ASUS global website to download the *.zip driver.
Unzip the file in Windows® OS and run the *.exe file, the driver would
automatically write into the floopy disk. If the unzipped files are not *.exe
file, please copy these files directly into a blank disk.
1. Insert the Linux® installation CD into your optical drive and start the
system. Then input linux dd when the following screen appears, and
press Enter.
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2. Then you could see the reading action in the following screen.
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3. Insert the drive disk into the floopy drive, and follow the instruction to
proceed with the installation. Press Yes, and then press Enter.
4. Select fd0 to install from floopy drive. Select OK and press Enter.
If a USB floopy drive is deployed, please select sda to install
from the floopy disk.
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5. The operating system now is reading from the drive disk in the floopy
drive.
6. When the installation is completed, please select No and press Enter to
enter the Linux® OS; if more drivers are to be installed, please select
Yes and press Enter, then repeat the step 3-4 to proceed with the
installation.