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Understanding Adaptec Storage Manager
Features.............................................................................................................. 40
Overview............................................................................................................ 40
Physical Devices View................................................................................. 41
Logical Devices View .................................................................................. 41
Changing How Drives are Displayed ............................................................... 41
Collapsed and Expanded Views ....................................................................... 42
Component Views............................................................................................. 43
Solving Problems
Troubleshooting Checklist ............................................................................... 45
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure ............................................................. 45
Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare.............................................. 45
Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare....................................... 46
Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously................................................ 46
Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array........................................................ 46
Multiple Failures in the Same Array .......................................................... 46
Understanding RAID
RAID Technology Overview............................................................................. 48
Understanding Drive Segments ................................................................. 48
Stripe-unit Size............................................................................................ 48
Selecting a RAID Level and Tuning Performance..................................... 48
RAID 0 (Non-RAID Arrays) ............................................................................ 49
RAID 1 Arrays ...................................................................................................50
RAID 10 Arrays .................................................................................................50
Using the ARC Utility
Introduction to the ARC Utility....................................................................... 52
Running the ARC Utility .................................................................................. 52
Creating and Managing Arrays ........................................................................ 52
Creating a New Array ................................................................................. 52
Managing Arrays......................................................................................... 54
Adding/Deleting Hotspares........................................................................ 56
Managing Bootable Arrays and Devices .................................................... 56
Configuring Disk Drives............................................................................. 56
ATAPI Support ........................................................................................... 57
Using SATASelect .............................................................................................. 57
SATASelect Options.................................................................................... 58
Formatting and Verifying Disk Drives............................................................. 59