LSI MegaRAID SCSI 320-2 RAID Controller Series 518 User Manual download pdf (Page 83)

Installation Steps 6-11

Figure 6.5 Terminating Internal and External Disk Arrays

MegaRAID 320-2

Host Computer

Terminator

ID2

ID0 – Boot Drive

No Termination

ID1 – No Termination

ID 0

ID 1

ID 2

ID 3

ID 4

ID 5

ID 6*

External

SCSI Drives

Note: *Termination enabled from

last SCSI drive

Host Computer

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MegaRAID 1
SCSI 320-2 1
RAID Controller 1
HARDWARE 1
FCC Regulatory Statement 3
Logical Drive Conﬁguration 8
Physical Device Layout 10
Contents 15
Contents xvii 17
Contents xix 19
Chapter 1 21
Overview 21
1.2 NVRAM and Flash ROM 22
1.3 SCSI Connectors 22
1.7 Documentation 23
• MegaRAID Manager 24
• Power Console Plus 24
Chapter 2 25
Introduction to RAID 25
2.1.2 Increased Reliability 26
2.2.1 Host-Based RAID 26
2.3 RAID Overview 27
2.3.3 Consistency Check 28
2.3.4 Fault Tolerance 28
2.3.5 Disk Striping 28
RAID Overview 2-5 29
MegaRAID Controller 29
2.3.6 Disk Mirroring 30
2.3.7 Disk Spanning 31
2.3.8 Parity 32
2.3.9 Hot Spares 32
2.3.10 Hot Swapping 33
2.3.11 Disk Rebuild 33
2.3.12 Logical Drive States 34
2.3.13 SCSI Drive States 34
2.3.14 Disk Array Types 35
2.3.15 Enclosure Management 35
2-12 Introduction to RAID 36
Chapter 3 37
RAID Levels 37
3.2 RAID 0 38
3.3 RAID 1 39
3.4 RAID 5 40
Figure 3.3 RAID 5 Array 41
3.5 RAID 10 42
3.6 RAID 50 43
Figure 3.5 RAID 50 Array 44
Chapter 4 45
Features 45
4-2 Features 46
4.1 SMART Technology 47
4.2 Conﬁguration on Disk 47
4.3 Conﬁguration Features 47
4.5 RAID Management Features 49
4.6 Fault Tolerance Features 50
4.7 Software Utilities 50
4.10 MegaRAID Components 52
4.10.2 Cache Memory 53
4.10.3 MegaRAID BIOS 53
4.10.4 Onboard Speaker 53
4.10.5 Serial Port 53
4.10.6 SCSI Bus 54
4.10.7 SCSI Connectors 54
4.10.8 SCSI Termination 54
4.10.9 SCSI Firmware 54
4.11 RAID Management 55
4.12 Compatibility 56
Chapter 5 57
Conﬁguring Physical Drives 57
Arrays, and Logical Drives 57
5.1.5 Physical Device Layout 62
5.2 Conﬁguring Arrays 65
5.3 Creating Logical Drives 66
5.3.2 Assigning RAID Levels 68
5.4 Conﬁguring Logical Drives 69
Chapter 6 73
Hardware Installation 73
6.2 Installation Steps 74
6.2.1 Step 1: Unpack 75
6.2.2 Step 2: Power Down 75
6-4 Hardware Installation 76
6-6 Hardware Installation 78
6.2.5 Step 5: Set Termination 80
Installation Steps 6-9 81
6-10 Hardware Installation 82
Installation Steps 6-11 83
• Tape drive set to SCSI ID 2 84
Installation Steps 6-13 85
Installation Steps 6-15 87
6-16 Hardware Installation 88
Installation Steps 6-17 89
6-18 Hardware Installation 90
6.2.11 Step 11: Power Up 92
6.3 Summary 93
6-22 Hardware Installation 94
Chapter 7 95
Installing and Conﬁguring 95
Clusters 95
7.2 Beneﬁts of Clusters 96
Advanced Server 97
7.3.2 Network Requirements 98
7.4 Cluster Installation 99
• Set up networks 100
• Set up disks 100
7.4.3 Setting Up Networks 101
Cluster Installation 7-9 103
Cluster Installation 7-13 107
Cluster Installation 7-15 109
Cluster Installation 7-17 111
Cluster Installation 7-19 113
Cluster Installation 7-21 115
Cluster Installation 7-23 117
Cluster Installation 7-25 119
7.4.18 Verifying Installation 120
7.5 Installing SCSI Drives 121
Chapter 8 123
Troubleshooting 123
Firmware Initializing 124
8.2 BIOS Boot Error Messages 125
8.3 Other BIOS Error Messages 127
8.4 Other Potential Problems 127
8-8 Troubleshooting 130
Appendix A 131
SCSI Cables and 131
Connectors 131
SCSI devices is shown below 133
Table A.1 SCSI Cable Vendors 136
Appendix B 141
Audible Warnings 141
B-2 Audible Warnings 142
Appendix C 143
Glossary 143
C-2 Glossary 144
C-4 Glossary 146
C-6 Glossary 148
C-8 Glossary 150
C-10 Glossary 152
IX-2 Index 154
Index IX-3 155
IX-4 Index 156
Customer Feedback 157

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