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Contents
Hardware features ........................................................................................................................ 5
Main components on the board .................................................................................................................. 5
Controller specifications ............................................................................................................................. 5
Overview of the installation procedure ............................................................................................ 7
Installing the controller in an unconfigured server .......................................................................................... 7
Installing the controller in a previously-configured server................................................................................. 7
Installing the controller hardware .................................................................................................... 9
Preparing the server................................................................................................................................... 9
Installing the controller board...................................................................................................................... 9
Connecting storage devices...................................................................................................................... 10
Connecting internal storage ............................................................................................................ 10
Connecting external storage ........................................................................................................... 10
SAS cable part numbers ................................................................................................................. 11
Updating the firmware ................................................................................................................ 12
Methods for updating the firmware............................................................................................................ 12
Configuring an array .................................................................................................................. 13
Utilities available for configuring an array .................................................................................................. 13
Setting the boot controller and controller order............................................................................... 14
Setting a controller as the boot controller.................................................................................................... 14
Setting the controller order ....................................................................................................................... 14
Installing device drivers and Management Agents .......................................................................... 16
Installing device drivers............................................................................................................................ 16
Installing Management Agents .................................................................................................................. 16
Upgrading or replacing controller options ..................................................................................... 17
Replacing or adding a battery .................................................................................................................. 17
Replacing the cache module or controller ................................................................................................... 21
Replacing, moving, or adding hard drives ..................................................................................... 25
Identifying the status of a hard drive .......................................................................................................... 25
Recognizing hard drive failure .................................................................................................................. 26
Effects of a hard drive failure .......................................................................................................... 27
Compromised fault tolerance .......................................................................................................... 27
Recovering from compromised fault tolerance.................................................................................... 27
Replacing hard drives.............................................................................................................................. 28
Factors to consider before replacing hard drives................................................................................28
Automatic data recovery (rebuild).................................................................................................... 29
Upgrading hard drive capacity ....................................................................................................... 31
Moving drives and arrays ........................................................................................................................ 31
Adding drives......................................................................................................................................... 32
Diagnosing array problems.......................................................................................................... 33
Controller board runtime LEDs................................................................................................................... 33