Supero AOC-USASLP-S8i, AOC-USASLP-S8iR User Manual

DESIGNED IN USA

Rev. 1.0d

AOC-USASLP-S8i

AOC-USASLP-S8iR

USER'S GUIDE

SUPER

®

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Manual Revision 1.0d

Release Date: August 20, 2008

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Overview .............................................................................................................v

Product Features .................................................................................................v

Operating Systems Supported ............................................................................v

Manual Images ...................................................................................................vi

Chapter 1 Safety Guidelines

1-1 ESD Safety Guidelines ........................................................................................ 1-1

1-2 General Safety Guidelines ................................................................................... 1-1

1-3 An Important Note to Users ................................................................................. 1-2

Chapter 2 LED Indicators and Connectors

2-1 Front Connectors and Jumpers ........................................................................... 2-1

2-2 Front Connector and Pin Denitions .................................................................... 2-2

2-3 Front Jumper Locations and Pin Denitions ........................................................ 2-3

Explanation of Jumpers .................................................................................. 2-3

Jumper Settings .............................................................................................. 2-3

LED Indicators ................................................................................................. 2-4

RAID Minimum Drive Requirements ............................................................... 2-4

Chapter 3 Boot Controller and Bootable Array

3-1 Boot Controller Setup .......................................................................................... 3-1

3-2 Creating an Array ................................................................................................. 3-1

Creating an Array with the ACU ...................................................................... 3-2

Creating an Array with Adaptec Storage Manager ......................................... 3-3

3-3 Making Your Array Bootable ................................................................................ 3-4

Chapter 4 Installing the Driver and an Operating System

4-1 Overview .............................................................................................................. 4-1

4-2 Creating a Driver Disk.......................................................................................... 4-1

4-3 Installing with Windows ........................................................................................ 4-2

4-4 Installing with Red Hat Linux ............................................................................... 4-2

4-5 Installing with SUSE Linux ................................................................................... 4-3

Chapter 5 Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System

5-1 Overview .............................................................................................................. 5-1

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5-2 Creating a Driver Disk.......................................................................................... 5-1

5-3 Installing on Windows .......................................................................................... 5-2

5-4 Installing on Linux (Red Hat and SUSE) ............................................................. 5-2

Chapter 6 Managing Your Storage Space

6-1 About Adaptec Storage Manager ......................................................................... 6-1

Installing Adaptec Storage Manager ............................................................... 6-2

6-2 The Adaptec RAID Controller Conguration Utility .............................................. 6-2

6-3 About the Adaptec RAID Conguration Utility ..................................................... 6-2

6-4 The Adaptec Flash Utility ..................................................................................... 6-3

6-5 Choosing a Utility .................................................................................................6-3

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Introduction

Overview

This manual is written for system integrators, PC technicians and knowledgeable

PC users who intend to integrate SuperMicro's USASLP-S8i Add on Card to their

system.

Product Features

The AOC-USASLP-S8i offers the following features:

UIO Form Factor.•

Two Internal "ipass" cable ports.•

Support for RAID 0, 1, and 10.•

The AOC-USASLP-S8iR offers the following features:

UIO Form Factor.•

Two Internal "ipass" cable ports.•

Support for RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, and 50.•

Preinstalled iButton provides RAID 5, 6 and 50 support.•

Operating Systems Supported

The AOC-USASLP-S8i and AOC-USASLP-S8iR support the following Operating

Systems (OS):

Windows 2000/Windows XP/Windows 2003/Windows 2008/Windows Vista•

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/SUSE Linux•

Each operating systems must include the latest downloads and hot xes and at

least 256 MB of free hard drive space.

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Manual Images

All images and layouts shown in this user's guide are based upon the latest PCB

Revision available at the time of publishing. The card you have received may or

may not look exactly the same as the graphics shown in this manual.

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Contacting SuperMicro

Headquarters

Address: Super Micro Computer, Inc.

980 Rock Ave.

San Jose, CA 95131 U.S.A.

Tel: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

Email: [e-mail] (General Information)

[e-mail] (Technical Support)

Web Site: www.supermicro.com

Europe

Address: Super Micro Computer B.V.

Het Sterrenbeeld 28, 5215 ML

's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

Tel: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

Email: [e-mail] (General Information)

[e-mail] (Technical Support)

[e-mail] (Customer Support)

Asia-Pacic

Address: Super Micro Computer, Inc.

4F, No. 232-1, Liancheng Rd.

Chung-Ho 235, Taipei County

Taiwan, R.O.C.

Tel: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

Web Site: www.supermicro.com.tw

Technical Support:

Email: [e-mail]

Tel: [phone], ext.132 or 139

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Chapter 1

Safety Guidelines

To avoid personal injury and property damage, carefully follow all the safety steps

listed below when accessing your system or handling the components.

1-1 ESD Safety Guidelines

Electric Static Discharge (ESD) can damage electronic com ponents. To prevent dam-

age to your system, it is important to handle it very carefully. The following measures

are generally sufcient to protect your equipment from ESD.

Use a grounded wrist strap designed to prevent static discharge.•

Touch a grounded metal object before removing a component from the antistatic •

bag.

Handle the add-on card by its edges only; do not touch its components, periph-•

eral chips, memory modules or gold contacts.

When handling chips or modules, avoid touching their pins.•

Put the card and peripherals back into their antistatic bags when not in use.•

1-2 General Safety Guidelines

Always disconnect power cables before installing or removing any components •

from the computer.

Disconnect the power cable before installing or removing any cables from the •

system.

Make sure that the add-on card is securely and properly installed on the moth-•

erboard to prevent damage to the system due to power shortage.