Asus LSISAS1064E Computer Hardware User Manual


 
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Contents
Contents ...................................................................................................... iii
About this guide ......................................................................................... iv
PIKE 1064E specications summary ........................................................ vi
Chapter 1: Product introduction
1.1 Welcome! ...................................................................................... 1-2
1.2 Package contents .........................................................................
1-2
1.3 Card layout ...................................................................................
1-3
1.4 System requirements ...................................................................
1-3
1.5 Card installation ...........................................................................
1-4
Chapter 2: RAID conguration
2.1 Setting up RAID ............................................................................2-2
2.1.1 RAID denitions ..............................................................
2-2
2.1.2 Installing hard disk drives ................................................
2-2
2.2 LSI Corporation MPT Setup Utility .............................................
2-3
2.2.1 Integrated Mirroring volume ............................................
2-3
2.2.2 Integrated Mirroring Enhanced volume ...........................
2-7
2.2.3 Integrated Striping (IS) volume .......................................
2-9
2.2.4 Managing Arrays ............................................................
2-11
2.2.5
Viewing SAS topology ................................................... 2-16
2.2.6 Global Properties ..........................................................
2-17
Chapter 3: Driver installation
3.1 RAID driver installation ............................................................... 3-2
3.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk ............................................
3-2
3.1.2 Windows
®
Server 2003 OS ............................................. 3-4
3.1.3 Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux OS ........................................ 3-9
3.1.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server OS ................................
3-11