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1. C PC Connector You can also connect the I C interface to a proprietary SATA backplane enclosure This can reduce the number of activity LED and or fault LED cables The I C interface can also cascade to an other SATA backplane enclosure for the additional channel status display Figure 2 26 Activity Fault LED I C connector connected between SATA RAID Controller amp SATA HDD Cage backplane eee SS N FaultLED HDDLED o Ld o o d o dh Connector Connector nre DM Connector Figure 2 27 Activity Fault LED C connector connected between SATA RAID Controller amp 4 SATA HDD backplane ote Ci Design has supported this feature in its 4 port 12 6336 05A SATA II backplane HARDWARE INSTALLATION The following is the IC signal name description for LCD amp Fault Ac tivity LED Tein T eii PIN eene Ts eo roan serons a Fautvacvy cok L7 reuse pas 8 ed odie o D SGPIO Connector The preferred I O connector for server backplanes is the Min SAS 4i internal serial attachment connector This connector has eight signal pins to support four SATA drives and six pins for the SGPIO Serial General Purpose Input Output side band signals The SGPIO bus is used for efficient LED management and for sens ing drive Locate status See SFF 8485 for the specification of the SGPIO bus The number of drives supported can be increased by a factor of four b
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3. Answer Yes in most cases Even though the hardware microarchitecture for each company s processor is different the operating system and software ported to one processor will likely run on the other processor due to the close similarity of the instruction set architec tures However Intel processors support additional features like the SSE3 instructions and Hyper Threading Technology which are not supported on non Intel platforms As such we believe devel opers will achieve maximum performance and stability by design ing specifically for Intel architectures and by taking advantage of Intel s breadth of software tools and enabling services Q12 How will Intel EM64T work and what software is there to take advantage of 64 bit extensions Answer Platforms with Intel EM64T AMD64 can be run in three basic ways note a 64 bit capable BIOS is required for all three scenari OS 1 32 bit O S and 32 bit applications Legacy Mode No software changes are required however the user gets no benefit from Intel EM64T or AMD64 2 64 bit O S and 32 bit applications Compatibility Mode This usage requires all 64 bit device drivers In this mode the O S will see the 64 bit extensions but the 32 bit application will not Existing 32 bit applications do not need to be recompiled and may or may not benefit from the 64 bit extensions The application will likely need to be recertified by the vendor to run on the new 64 bit extended
4. PassThrough Disk Inform Pass Through Disk Created Created PassThrough Disk Inform Pass Through Disk Modified Modified PassThrough Disk Inform Pass Through Disk Deleted Deleted B Volume Event CO tever Meaning Action Start Initialize Volume initialization has started ooo Start Rebuilding Volume rebuilding has started boo Start Migrating Volume migration has started Fs Start Checking Volume parity checking has started Ps 114 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION Volume Degraded Replace HDD Failed Volume Urgent Failed Volume revived Revived C RaidSet Event O RaidSet Urgent Raidset degraded Replace HDD Degraded D Hardware Event Event tevel_ meaning DRAM 1 Bit ECC DRAM 1 Bit ECC Check DRAM error DRAM Fatal Error Urgent DRAM fatal error Check the DRAM module encountered and replace with new one if required Raid Powered On Raid Power On ote It depends on models not every model will encounter all events WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 Web Browser based Configuration Before using the McRAID firmware based browser utility do the ini tial setup and installation of this product If you need to boot up the operating system from a RAID volume set you must first create a RAID volume by using McBIOS RAID Storage Manager Please refer to section 3 3 Using Quick Volume Raid Setup Configuration for information on creating this initial v
5. The following steps are required to create the Driver diskettes C C 99 DRIVER INSTALLATION 1 The computer system BIOS must be set to boot up from the CD ROM 2 Insert the SATA Controller Driver CD disc into the CD ROM drive 3 The system will boot up from CD ROM Drive to create the driv er diskettes select the SATA RAID controller Driver Diskette Make Utility and a screen with several choices will be displayed 4 Move the highlight bar to the Create Driver Disk entry and press Enter 5 The screen queries the SATA RAID controller support driver database and displays a list of available drivers Move the highlight bar to the correct driver entry and press Enter to select 6 The next screen will show Please insert a formatted dis kette into drive A Press any key to continue Insert the formatted diskette in drive A and press any key to continue 7 The window will display the driver building message Now is writing to Cylinder as it copies the image file from the CD ROM to Driver Diskette 8 The Write Complete message will display when the driver diskette ready The driver diskette is now made Proceed to the following instruc tion for installation procedures 4 2 Driver Installation for Windows The SATA RAID controller can be used with Microsoft Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Windows 2003 64 bit for AMD Opteron is also supported The SATA RAID controllers su
6. OFF Choose this option ON the failed LED light will flash red light if no HDD installed Raid System Function Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priority Maximum SATA Mode HDD Read Aead Cache STagger Power on HDD SMART Status Poll Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 5 10 HDD SMART Status Polling An external RAID enclosure has the hardware monitor in the dedicated backplane that can report HDD temperature status to the controller However PCI cards do not use backplanes if the drives are internal to the main server chassis The type of enclosure cannot report the HDD temperature to the controller For this reason HDD SMART Status Polling was added to enable scanning of the HDD temperature function in the version 1 36 date 2005 05 19 and later It is necessary to enable HDD SMART Status Polling function before SMART information is accessible This function is disabled by default The following screen shot shows how to change the BIOS setting to enable the Polling function Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Tasy HDD SMART Status Polling Maximum SATA 5 HDD Read Ahea Denen Stagger Power o Enabled HDD SMART Status rong Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select
7. SNMP Installation n The installation of the SNMP manager is accomplished in several phases e Starting the Firmware embedded SNMP community configura tion e Installing the SNMP Extension Agent on the server e Installing the SNMP Manager software on the client e Placing a copy of the management information base MIB in a directory which is accessible to the management application e Compiling the MIB description file with the management appli cation EE 154 APPENDIX Starting the SNMP function setting Boma Fre r Suas itii Areca Technology Corporation LIE LLLI Cheer i mtd e Community Name Community name acts as a password to screen accesses to the SNMP agent of a particular network device Type in the community names of the SNMP agent Before access is granted to a request station this station must incorporate a valid community name into its request otherwise the SNMP agent will deny access to the system Most network devices use public as default of their community names This value is case sensitive SNMP Extension Agent Installation for Windows You must have administrative level permission to install SATA RAID software This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID hardware and Windows are both installed and operational in your system To enable the SNMP agent for Windows configure Windows for TCP IP and SNMP services The ARECA SNMP Extension Agent file is A
8. ARC 7 1110 1120 1210 1220 global LED connection HDD LED for Computer Case connector EE Fault LED connector ja Global Activity LED Indicator LCD I2C Fault LED HDDLED Module Connector Connector Connector Cathode Side HER Figure 2 17 ARC 1130 1160 1230 1260 global LED connection for Computer Case De OMN 43 HARDWARE INSTALLATION Global Activity LED Indicator Cathode Side Figure 2 18 ARC 1170 global LED connection for Computer Case LCD I2C Module Connector poonam BER HDD LED connector Cats da Side Fault LED connector Cathode Side Figure 2 19 ARC 1280 global LED connection for Computer Case LCD 2C Module Connector Global Fault Activity Cache write pending LED Connector Cathode Side L uu HI Figure 2 20 ARC 1230ML Faut LED Connector 1260ML 1280ML global LED connection for Computer an iu d FP e HDD LEO Connector Cathode Side 44 HARDWARE INSTALLATION B Individual LED indicator connector Connect the cables for the drive activity LEDs and fault LEDs be tween the backplane of the cage and the respective connector on the SATA RAID controller The following describes the fault activ ity LED Disk Activity When the activity LED is illu minated there is I O activity on that disk drive When the LED is dark there is no activ ity on that disk drive Fault LED When t
9. De lete Pass Through link After you complete the selection mark the checkbox for Con firm The Operation and click the Submit button to complete the delete action 6 7 4 Identify Selected Drive Poet lane anani dial Areca Technology orporation Di teense fme meer Setert The IDE Bevis For becat anew wer BaD Ba Cement q anas To prevent removal of the wrong drive the selected disk LED will light so as to physically locate the intended disk when Identify Selected Drive is selected To identify the selected drive from the drives pool click Identify Selected Drive The Select The IDE Device For Identification screen appears mark the checkbox for the IDE device from the drive pool and select the Flash method After completing the se lection click on the Submit button to identify selected drive WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 8 System Controls 6 8 1 System Config To set the raid system function move the cursor to the main menu and click the Raid System Function link The Raid System Function menu will show all items then select the desired func tion e System Beeper Setting The Alert Beeper function item is used to Disabled or Enable the SATA RAID controller alarm tone generator e Background Task Priority The Raid Rebuild Priority is a relative indication of how much time the controller devotes to a rebuild operation The SATA RAID controller allows the user to choose the rebuild priority ult
10. Hewlett Packard s Open View The SNMP Extension Agent can be used to augment the PCI RAID controller if you are already running an SNMP management application at your site SNMP Definition SNMP an IP based protocol has a set of commands for getting the status of target devices The SNMP management platform is called the SNMP manager and the managed devices have the SNMP agent loaded Management data is organized in a hierarchical data structure called the management Information Base MIB These MIBs are defined and sanctioned by various industry associa tions The objective is for all vendors to create products in compli ance with these MIBs so that inter vendor interoperability can be achieved If a vendor wishes to include additional device informa tion that is not specified in a standard MIB then that is usually done through MIB extensions 153 APPENDIX MIB Compilation and Definition File creation Before the manager application accesses the RAID controller it is necessary to integrate the MIB into the management application s database of events and status indicator codes This process is known as compiling the MIB into the application This process is highly vendor specific and should be well covered in the User s Guide of your SNMP application Ensure the compilation process successfully integrates the contents of the ARECARAID MIB file into the traps database Event Configuration Performance 2 SNMP Agent
11. Therefore all the characteristics for a traditional RAID 1E apply to a RAID 1E when the latter has an even number of disks Areca RAID 1E offers a little more flexibility in choosing the number of disks that can be used to constitute an array The number can be even or odd Logical Disk Array Management AO A1 BO 81 CO ian iw iag papas m Iho 1 7 4 RAID 3 RAID 3 provides disk striping and complete data redundancy though a dedicated parity drive RAID 3 breaks up data into smaller blocks calculates parity by performing an exclusive or on the blocks and then writes the blocks to all but one drive in se 27 INTRODUCTION the array The parity data created during the exclusive or is then written to the last drive in the array If a single drive fails data is still available by computing the exclusive or of the contents cor responding strips of the surviving member disk RAID 3 is best for applications that require very fast data transfer rates or long data blocks jae al 1 Az BO B1 82 83 CO Ci c2 CR Logical Disk Ee Management RAID3 Bit Interleaved Parity 2 S Parity Physical Disk Disk 1 pisk 2 Disk 3 Disk 4 Disk 5 1 7 5 RAID 5 RAID 5 is sometimes called striping with parity at byte level In RAID 5 the parity information is written to all of the drives in the controllers rather than being concentrated on a dedicated parity disk If one drive in the syste
12. View System Events En d panne Clear Event Buffer LE modified by selecting Hardware Monitor Change Password System infi ti NET 4 ystem information in the Raid System Function section 3 2 McBIOS Configuration manager The McBIOS configuration utility is firmware based and is used to configure raid sets and volume sets Because the utility resides in the SATA RAID controller firmware operation is independent of any operating systems on your computer This utility can be used to e Create raid sets e Expand raid sets E A AX 2 OOOO 54 BIOS CONFIGURATION e Add physical drives e Define volume sets e Modify volume sets e Modify RAID level stripe size e Define pass through disk drives e Modify system functions and e Designate drives as hot spares 3 3 Configuring Raid Sets and Volume Sets You can configure RAID sets and volume sets with McBIOS RAID manager automatically using Quick Volume Raid Setup or manually using Raid Set Volume Set Function Each configuration method re quires a different level of user input The general flow of operations for RAID Set and Volume Set configuration is Designate hot spares pass through drives optional Choose a configuration method Define Volume Sets using the space available in the RAID Set Initialize the Volume Sets and use Volume Sets as logical drives in the host OS 3 4 Designating Drives as Hot Sp
13. You can download updated versions of compiled and tested drivers for Red Hat or SuSE Linux from the ARECA web site at http www areca com tw Included in these downloads is the Linux driver source which can be used to compile the updated version driver for RedHat SuSE and other versions of Linux Please refer to the readme txt file on the included ARECA CD ROM or website to make driver diskette and to install driver to the system 4 4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD This chapter describes how to install the SATA RAID controller driver to FreeBSD Before installing the SATA RAID driver to Free BSD complete following actions 1 Install and configure the controller and hard disk drives accord ing to the instructions in Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 2 Start the system and then press Tab F6 to enter the McBIOS RAID Manager configuration utility Use the BIOS configuration 106 DRIVER INSTALLATION utility to create the raid set and volume set For details see Chap ter 3 McBIOS RAID Manager The supplied CD ROM that came with the SATA RAID control ler includes compiled and tested drivers for FreeBSD 4 x 4 2 and onwards and 5 x 5 2 and onwards To check if a more current version driver is available please see the ARECA web site at http www areca com tw Please refer to the readme txt file on the SATA RAID controller software CD ROM or website to make driver diskette and to install driver to the
14. 0 65mm and pitch size is 2 54mm e Starting the Arcflash Utility Arcflash utility provides an on line table of contents providing brief descriptions of the help sub commands You can use the arcflash to get detail information about the command Typical output looks as below D 1 39 gt arcflash Raid Controller Flash Utility M1 22 2005 3 17 Command Usage ARCFLASH s FileName gt save binary ARCFLASH s FileName cn gt n 1 2 3 save binary for controllert0 1 2 3 ARCFLASH p FileName gt write binary ARCFLASH p FileName cn gt n 1 2 3 write binary to controllert0 1 2 3 Flash Procedure Power off system and remove power cable Take Raid controller out Set a Close Cap on the J3 J7 2x5 Connector Plug Raid controller back to M B Reconnect power cable and boot up from DOS Flash Controller After flash procedure compeleted then power off system Remove power cable then take Raid controller out and remove the close cap Plug Raid controller back to M B connect power cable and power on your system ONADUMBRWNEH Ko 149 APPENDIX Appendix B Battery Backup Module ARC 1620 BAT The SATA RAID controller operates using cache memory The bat tery Backup Module is an add on module that provides power to the PCI SATA RAID controller cache memory in the event of a power failure The Battery Backup Module monitors the write back cache on the SATA RAID contro
15. 5 and 6 The table below provides a summary of RAID levels Features and Performance RAID Description Min Data Data I O Request Level Drives Reliability Transfer Rates Rate Also known as stripping No data Very High Very High for Data distributed across multiple drives in Protection Both Reads and Writes the array There is no data protection 1 Also known as mirroring Lower Reads are Reads are twice as fast All data replicated on N separated disks than RAID higher as a single disk N is almost always 2 6 than a This is a high availability solution but due Higher single disk Write are similar to a to the 100 duplication it is also a costly than single disk solution Half of drive capacity in array RAID 3 5 Writes devoted to mirroring similar to a single disk INTRODUCTION Also known Block Interleaved Parity Data and parity information is subdivided and distributed across all disks Parity must be the equal to the smallest disk capacity in the array Parity information normally stored on a dedicated parity disk Also known Bit Interleaved Parity Data and parity information is subdivided and distributed across all disks Parity data consumes the capacity of 1 disk drive Parity information normally stored on a dedicated parity disk Also known Block Interleaved Distributed Parity Data and parity information is subdivided and distributed across all disk Parity data consumes the capacity of 2 disk
16. ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 5 4 JBOD RAID Function JBOD is an acronym for just a Bunch Of Disks It represents a volume set that is created by the concatenation of partitions on the disk The operating system can see all disks when the JBOD option is selected It is necessary to delete any RAID set s on any disk s if switching from a RAID to a JBOD con figuration 87 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 5 5 Background Task Priority Mal _ Raid kaid Rebuild Priority Mute UitraLow 5 AE Low 20 Medium 50 High 80 Maximum SATA Mode HDD Read Ahead Cache Stagger Power on Empty HDD slot LED HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation The Background Task Priority is a relative indication of how much time the controller devotes to a rebuild operation The SATA RAID controller allows the user to choose the rebuild prior ity ultralow low normal high to balance volume set access and rebuild tasks appropriately 3 7 5 6 Maximum SATA Mode Raid System Function d Maximum SATA Mode SATA150 SATA150 NCQ SATA300 j SATA300 NCQ HDD Read Ahead Cache Stagger Power on Empty HDD slot LED HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation The Controller can support up to SATA II which runs up to 300MB s twice as fast as SATA150 NCQ is a command proto c
17. For specific OS versions see http www areca com tw for more information 161 APPENDIX Q8 Will ARECA submit the Linux code to kernel org Answer Yes ARECA Serial ATA II RAID the lastest driver has been integrated directly into the Linux kernel 2 6 17 rc3 mm1 and later allowing future versions of Linux operating systems to support Areca s entire fam ily PCI X and PCI Express series of high performance SATA I RAID controllers Q9 What is the warranty period Answer Like all ARECA External RAID controllers the PCI X or PCI Express SATA RAID controller is backed by a 3 year warranty Q10 Which O S Operating System will support X86 64 bit processors Answer The following O S vendors have announced product support for AMD64 and Intel EM64T Contact each vendor for more details The following is our currently supported OS and version for 64 bit pro cessor We will support others shortly after other versions release Microsoft Production support will be available in e Windows XP Professional x64 Edition e Windows Server 2003 64 Bit Edition Red Hat Production support will be available in e Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 update 2 SuSE Production support will be available in e SLES9 FreeBSD Production support will be available in e FreeBSD 5 3 162 APPENDIX Q11 Is it possible to write software that will run on Intel s processors with Intel EM64T and AMD s 64 bit capable processors
18. FreeBSD e Novell Netware 6 5 e Solaris 10 X86 X86 64 e SCO Unixware 7 X X e Mac OS 10 X no bootable For latest supported OS listing visit http www areca com tw PEEEEXE H 13 INTRODUCTION 1110 1120 1130 1160 1170 DIMM DIMM DIMM 1110ML 1120ML 1130ML 1160ML 1210 AA 1230 1260 14 INTRODUCTION 1230ML 1260ML 1280ML 1280 RAID processor IOP341 Host Bus Type PCI Express X8 1 3 RAID Concept 1 3 1 RAID Set A RAID Set is a group of disks connected to a RAID controller A RAID Set contains one or more Volume Sets The RAID Set itself does not define the RAID level 0 1 1E 3 5 6 etc the RAID level is defined within each Volume Set So Volume Sets are con tained within RAID Sets and the RAID Level is defined within the Volume Set If physical disks of different capacities are grouped together in a RAID Set then the capacity of the smallest disk will become the effective capacity of all the disks in the RAID Set 1 3 2 Volume Set Each Volume Set is seen by the host system as a single logical device in other words a single large virtual hard disk A Volume Set will use a specific RAID level which will require one or more physical disks depending on the RAID level used RAID level refers to the level of performance and data protection of a Volume Set The capacity of a Volume Set can consume all or a portion of the availab
19. The available stripe sizes for the current volume set are then displayed Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select the current volume set stripe size and press the Enter key to confirm This parameter specifies the size of the stripes written to each disk in a RAID 0 1 5 or 6 Volume Set You can set the stripe size to 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB 32 KB 64 KB or 128 KB A larger stripe size provides better read performance especially when the computer preforms mostly sequential reads However if the computer preforms random read requests more often choose a smaller stripe size When you are finished defining the volume set press the Enter key to confirm the Quick Volume And Raid Set Setup function Foreground Fast Completion Press Enter key to define fast initialization or Selected the Background Instant Available In the background Ini tialization the initialization proceeds as a background task the volume set is fully accessible for system reads and writes The operating system can instantly access to the newly created arrays without requiring a reboot and waiting the initialization complete In Fast Initialization the initialization proceeds must be completed before the volume set ready for system accesses Initialize the volume set you have just configured If you need to add additional volume set using main menu Create Vol ume Set function 3 6 Using RAID Set Volume Set Function Method In Raid Set Function you can use
20. Type Battery Backup duration Hours 126MB DDR Low Power 18mA Operation 1 Battery conditioning is automatic There are no manual pro cedures for battery conditioning or preconditioning to be per formed by the user 2 In order to make sure of all the capacity is available for your battery cells allow the battery cell to be fully charged when installed for the first time The first time charge of a battery cell takes about 24 hours to complete Changing the Battery Backup Module At some point the LI ION battery will no longer accept a charge properly LI ION battery life expectancy is anywhere from ap proximately 1 to 5 years 1 Shutdown the operating system properly Make sure that cache memory has been flushed 2 Disconnect the battery backup module cable from J2 on the SATA RAID card 3 Disconnect the battery pack cable from JP2 on the Battery Backup Module 4 Install a new battery pack and connect the new battery pack to JP2 5 Connect the Battery Backup Module to J2 on the SATA card 6 Disable the write back function from the BIOS or Utility APPENDIX Appendix C SNMP Operation amp Definition Overview The McRAID manager includes a firmware embedded Simple Net work Management Protocol SNMP agent and SNMP Extension Agent for the PCI SATA RAID controller An SNMP based manage ment application also known as an SNMP manager can monitor the disk array An example of An SNMP management application is
21. XXXX refers to the model name Normally Areca strongly recommends customer uses the McRAID manager to upgrade the firmware ARCXXXROM BIN doesn t include in the shipped CD and Areca s web site It is for customer s emergency recover purpose only e Hardware Setup To ensure proper communications between the RAID adapter and the DOS arcflash utility program Short the Mode O Flash jumper cap in the manufacture port to enter the upgrading entire flash ROM function Please be sure of removing the cap after you completed the flash ROM image This way let the Adapter work in the normal mode Backup Battery Connector 4 8 SATA ports LCD I2C Module Connector l i T 3 l Gl E G j HDDLED connector Fault LED connector Mode 0 Flash Jumper e Mode O Flash Jumper function Short Causes cpu core to be held in rest mode 0 Arcflash utility can upgrade the entire Flash ROM image Open This is the normal default board operation E n 148 APPENDIX The jumper name for each adapter to upgrade entire flash ROM im age as following ARC 1110 1120 1210 1220 1170 for 4 8 24 ports J3 ARC 1130 ML 1160 ML 1230 1260 for 12 16 ports J7 ARC 1230ML 1260ML 1280ML 1280 for 12 16 24 ports J2 Note The Mode O Flash jumper is a 2x5 connector without housing located on the left of card near bracket The header size is
22. a power LED for the HDD installed identify user can set this option to OFF Choose this option ON the failed LED light will flash red light if no HDD installed Gm Fonction RR Areca l echnology Corporation QC et Pusctier x iN obe Set Fur tnn em Configurations j qual Drives Qucm ates e HDD SMART Status Polling An external RAID enclosure has the hardware monitor in the dedicated backplane that can report HDD temperature status to the controller However PCI cards do not use backplanes if the drives are internal to the main server chassis The type of enclosure cannot report the HDD temperature to the controller For this reason HDD SMART Status Polling was added to enable scanning of the HDD temperature function in the version 1 36 date 2005 05 19 and later It is necessary to enable HDD SMART Status Polling function before SMART information is accessible This function is disabled by default The following screen shot shows how to change the BIOS setting to enable the Polling function 135 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION rok Peete pg a Pont s d Areca Technology Corporation oe toma C rmn e e Disk Write Cache Mode A user can set the Disk Write Cache Mode to Auto Enabled or Disabled idees t Sd lt e Disk Capacity Truncation Mode ARECA RAID controllers use drive truncation so that drives from differing vendors are more likely to be able to be used as spares for e
23. and another volume set using other disks 3 7 3 1 Create Volume Set 1 Volume sets of different RAID levels may coexist on the same raid set 2 Up to 16 volume sets in a raid set can be created by the SATA RAID controller 3 The maximum addressable size of a single volume set is not limited to 2 TB as with other cards that support only 32 bit mode To create a volume set follow the following steps 1 Select the Volume Set Function from the Main menu 2 Choose the Create Volume Set from Volume Set Functions dialog box screen Raid Set 00 Raid Set 01 ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 The Create Volume From Raid Set dialog box appears This screen displays the existing arranged raid sets Select the raid set number and press the Enter key The Volume Creation dia logue is displayed in the screen 4 A window with a summary of the current volume set s set tings The Volume Creation option allows user to select the Volume name capacity RAID level strip size Disk Info Cache mode and tag queuing The user can modify the default val ues in this screen the modification procedures are in section 3 5 3 3 I 70 BIOS CONFIGURATION Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level m5 Capacity 160 1GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID 210 SCSI LUN z0 Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled 5 After completing the modification of the
24. and configure the raid controller by providing the correct password The password is used to protect the internal RAID controller from unauthorized entry The controller will prompt for the password only when entering the Main menu from the initial screen The RAID controller will automatically return to the initial screen when it does not receive any command in twenty seconds 3 7 1 Quick Volume RAID Setup Quick Volume RAID Setup is the fastest way to prepare a RAID Set and Volume Set It requires only a few keystrokes to com plete Although disk drives of different capacity may be used in the RAID Set it will use the capacity of the smallest disk drive as the capacity of all disk drives in the RAID Set The Quick Vol ume RAID Setup option creates a RAID set with the following properties 1 All of the physical drives are contained in one RAID set 2 The RAID level hot spare capacity and stripe size options are selected during the configuration process 3 When a single volume set is created it can consume all or a portion of the available disk capacity in this RAID set 4 If you need to add an additional volume set use the main menu Create Volume Set function The total number of physical drives in a specific RAID Set deter mine the RAID levels that can be implemented within the RAID Set Select Quick Maius iain Setup from the main menu Raid Set Function Volume Set Functi Physical Drives Raid System Func R
25. complete Follow the steps below to create arrays using the RAID Set Volume Set method 1 Choose Quick Volume Raid Setup from the main menu The available RAID levels with hot spare for the current volume set drive are displayed 2 It is recommend that you drives of the same capacity in a specific array If you use drives with different capacities in an array all drives in the raid set will be set to the capacity of the smallest drive in the raid set The numbers of physical drives in a specific array determines which RAID levels that can be implemented in the array RAID 0 requires 1 or more physical drives RAID 1 requires at least 2 physical drives RAID 1 Spare requires at least 3 physical drives RAID 1 0 requires at least 4 physical drives RAID 3 requires at least 3 physical drives RAID 5 requires at least 3 physical drives RAID 3 Spare requires at least 4 physical drives RAID 5 Spare requires at least 4 physical drives RAID 6 requires at least 4 physical drives RAID 6 Spare requires at least 5 physical drives Highlight the desired RAID level for the volume set and press the Enter key to confirm CREER IO ORAON CONFIGURATION The capacity for the current volume set is entered after highlighting the desired RAID level and pressing the Enter key The capacity for the current volume set is displayed Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to set the capacity of the volume set and press the Enter key to confirm
26. configuration option Launch your firmware embedded TCP IP amp Web Browser based RAID manager by entering http IP Address in the web browser ote You can find controller Ethernet port IP address in System In formation 6 2 SATA RAID controller McRAID Storage Manager The McRAID Storage Manager current configuration screen displays the current configuration of your SATA RAID controller It displays the Raid Set List Volume Set List and Physical Disk List The raid set information volume set information and drive information can also be viewed by clicking on the RaidSet Hierarchy screen The current configuration can also be viewed by clicking on RaidSet Hierarchy in the menu Aw Terr m clie dias FLA Areca Technology Corporation Mond St ewe z Ti eim et mtn Whe sie ad Drass Wadd on IE Dasi adams iof i am v emee Shae Capes fovent Ole aae IDE Chem l 119 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION To display raid set information move the mouse cursor to the desired raid set number then click it The raid set Information will display To display volume set information move the mouse cur sor to the desired Volume Set number then click it The volume set Information will display To display drive information move the mouse cursor to the desired physical drive number then click it The drive Information will display 6 3 Main Menu The Main Menu shows all available functions accessible by clicking on t
27. cove eene are een n RR o e PP 124 6 5 6 Delete Hot Spare eseseseseeseeeneen nennen menn nnn 124 6 5 7 Rescue Raid Set ce te Pea a ae EX EXE 124 6 6 Volume Set Functions eeessessseeeeeen mmm 125 6 6 1 Create Volume Set ccssesseeeseeseeen emen 125 e Volume Name seesseeseeeee nnne sean rna reae nennen 126 v Raid EeVel 525 n venen e neve ix t ex RAT PEE RE 126 Capacity s esie Eno vedi dae dead Rer Rae yos ds enki redes n ES 126 e Greater Two TB Volume Support een 126 e Initialization Mode ssssseeseeee nmm nnne nnn 127 e Strip SIZei ise e RES 127 Cache Mode ere rene eei rm EK ke axi 127 e SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI Lun eeenn nme nn 127 T g QUEUING stiches etes tee aE al p RR EY ni aeies p rk EXE rre eR RES 127 6 6 2 Delete Volume Set cssssee Henn nn 128 6 6 3 Modify Volume Set ssssssssseeseeeeeenen emen 128 6 6 3 1 Volume Set Migration lessen 128 6 6 4 Check Volume Set sssssssseeeeen nennen nn 129 6 6 5 Stop VolumeSet Check eesseeeen mnn 130 6 7 Physical Drive scores csevia ee eset eov sev euer Cute EET Te E Eih 130 6 7 1 Create Pass Through Disk esee 130 6 7 2 Modify Pass Through Disk eseeeeseeeneeenee 131 6 7 3 Delete Pass Through Disk eese 132 6 8 System Conttols iu iaecevee i ede eerte cer ar IOE arg 133 6 8 1 Sy
28. display the following message on the monitor during the start up sequence after the system bios startup screen but before the operating system boots ARC 1xxx RAID Ctrl DRAM 128 MB Channels 8 BIOS V1 00 Date 2004 5 13 F W V1 31 Date 2004 5 31 I O Port F3000000h IRQ 11 BIOS ROM mapped at D000 0h p No BIOS disk Found RAID Controller BIOS not installed pp Press lt Tab F6 gt to enter SETUP menu 9 second s left lt ESC to Skip gt The McBIOS configuration manager message remains on your screen for about nine seconds giving you time to start the config ure menu by pressing Tab or F6 If you do not wish to enter con figuration menu press lt ESC gt to skip configuration immediately When activated the McBIOS window appears showing a selection dialog box listing the SATA RAID controllers that are installed in the system The legend at the bottom of the screen shows you what keys are enabled for the windows ees 53 BIOS CONFIGURATION Select An Adapter To Configure 3 14 0 O DD200000h IRQ 9 Use the Up and Down arrow keys to select the adapter you want to configure While the desired adapter is highlighted press the Enter key to enter the Main Menu of the McBIOS Configuration Utility Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup Th e manu fa ctu re Volume Set Function default password is i cen set to 0000 this Raid System Function POR re te oe ae password can be Ethernet Configuration
29. drive RAID 6 provides the highest reliability Sim ilar to RAID 5 but does two different parity computations RAID 6 offers fault tolerance greater that RAID 1 or RAID 5 Parity data consumes the capacity of 2 disk drives Lower han RAID 6 Higher han RAID 3 5 Lower han RAID 1 1E 6 Higher han a single drive Lower han RAID 1 1E 6 Higher han a single drive highest reliability Transfer rates more similar to RAID 1 than RAID 0 Reads are similar to RAID 0 Writes are slower than a single disk Reads are similar to RAID 0 Writes are slower than a single disk Reads are similar to RAID 0 Writes are slower than a single disk Reads are twice as fast as a single disk Writes are similar to a single disk Reads are close to be ing twice as fast as a single disk Writes are similar to a single disk Reads are similar to RAID 0 Writes are slower than a single disk Reads are similar to RAID 0 Writes are slower than a single disk HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2 Hardware Installation This section describes the procedures for installing the ARC 11xx 12xx series controllers 2 1 Before Your begin Installation Thanks for purchasing the SATA RAID Controller as your RAID data storage and management system This user guide gives simple step by step instructions for installing and configuring the SATA RAID Controller To ensure personal safety an
30. growth e Instant availability and background initialization e Automatic drive insertion removal detection and rebuilding e Greater than 2TB per volume set for 64 bit LBA Es 12 INTRODUCTION e Redundant flash image for adapter availability e Support S M A R T NCQ and OOB Staggered Spin up Capable drives Monitors Notification e System status indication through LED LCD connector HDD activity fault connector and alarm buzzer e SMTP support for email notification e SNMP agent supports for remote SNMP Manager e I2C Enclosure Management Ready IOP 331 332 333 e I2C amp SGPIO Enclosure Management Ready 81341 RAID Management e Field upgradeable firmware in flash ROM e Ethernet port support on 12 16 24 port In Band Manager e Hot key boot up McBIOS RAID manager via BIOS e Support controller s API library allowing customer to write cus tom AP e Support Command Line Interface CLI e Browser based management utility via ArcHttp Proxy Server e Single Admin Portal SAP monitor utility e Disk Stress Test DST utility for production in Windows Out of Band Manager e Firmware embedded Browser based RAID manager SMTP manager SNMP agent and Telnet function via Ethernet port for 12 16 24 port Adapter e Support controller s API library for customer to write its own AP for 12 16 24 port Adapter e Push Button and LCD display panel Operating System e Windows 2000 XP Server 2003 e Red Hat Linux e SuSE Linux e
31. maximum volume size is the default initial setting Enter the appropriate volume size to fit your application e Greater Two TB Volume Support If volume capacity will exceed 2TB controller will show the Greater 2 TB volume Support sub menu Greater Two TB Volume Support No 64bit LBA and For Windows For more details please download PDF file from ftp ftp areca com tw RaidCards Documents Manual Spec Over2TB 050721 zip 126 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION e Initialization Mode Press Enter key to define fast initialization or Selected the Back ground Instant Available When background Initialization the initialization proceeds as a background task the volume set is fully accessible for system reads and writes The operating system can instantly access to the newly created arrays without requiring a reboot and waiting the initialization complete when Fast Initialization the initialization proceeds must be completed before the volume set ready for system accesses e Strip Size This parameter sets the size of the stripe written to each disk in a RAID O 1 1E 5 or 6 logical drive You can set the stripe size to 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB 32 KB 64 KB or 128 KB A larger stripe size produces better read performance espe cially if your computer does mostly sequential reads However if you are sure that your computer does random reads more often select a smaller stripe size Note RAID level 3 can t modify strip size
32. server SD NetWare Unixware Solaris and Mac SAP Monitor Single Admin portal to Windows 2000 XP 2003 scan for multiple RAID units in the net work Via ArcHttp Proxy Server SNMP Manager Console Integration Windows 2000 XP 2003 Linux FreeBSD Storage Manager See Chapter 6 See Chapter 2 See Chapter 3 See Chapter 4 See Chapter 5 Create Bootable RAID Volume Install OS Install gt using McBIOS Val tag sd ArcHttp Proxy RAID Manager eur Server SNMP Management Install SAP Console Monitor Integration See Appendix C See Utility McRAID Storage Manager Before launching the Firmware embedded web server McRAID Storage manager you need first to install the ArcHttp Proxy Server on your server system If you need additional information about installation and start up of this function see the McRAID Storage Manager section in Chapter 6 SNMP Manager Console Integration e Out of Band Using Ethernet port 12 16 24 port Adapter Before launching the Firmware embedded SNMP agent in the 51 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 52 sever you need first to enable the Fireware embedded SNMP agent function and install the SNMP extension agent software on your server system If you need additional information about installation and start up this function see the section 6 9 4 SNMP Configuration 12 16 24 port e In Band Using PCI X PCIe Bus 4 8 12 16 24 port Adapter Before launching the SNMP agent in the sever you ne
33. subsystem controller redistributes the original vol ume set over the original and newly added disks using the same fault tolerance configuration The unused capacity on the expand raid set can then be used to create an additional vol ume sets with a different fault tolerance setting if user need to change 18 INTRODUCTION 1 3 3 4 Online RAID Level and Stripe Size Migration For those who wish to later upgrade to any RAID capabilities a system with Areca online RAID level stripe size migration allows a simplified upgrade to any supported RAID level without having to reinstall the operating system ARC 11xx 12xx can migrate both the RAID level and stripe size of an existing volume set while the server is online and the volume set is in use Online RAID level stripe size migration can prove helpful during performance tuning activities as well as when additional physical disks are added to the SATA RAID controller For example in a system using two drives in RAID level 1 it is possible to add a single drive and add capacity and retain fault tolerance Normally expanding a RAID level 1 ar ray would require the addition of two disks A third disk can be added to the existing RAID logical drive and the array can then be migrated from RAID level 1 to 5 The result would be parity fault tolerance and double the available capacity without tak ing the system down A forth disk could be added to migrate to RAID level 6 It is only
34. the controller This can result in failure and loss of system data Step 8 Power up the System Thoroughly check the installation reinstall the computer cover and reconnect the power cord cables Turn on the power switch at the rear of the computer if equipped and then press the power button at the front of the host computer Step 9 Configure volume set The adapter configures RAID functionality through the McBIOS RAID manager Please reference Chapter 3 McBIOS RAID Man ager for the detail regarding configuration The RAID controller can also be configured through the McRAID storage manager soft ware utility after ArcHttp proxy server is installed For this option please reference Chapter 6 Web Browser Based Configuration Step 10 Install the controller driver For a new system 49 HARDWARE INSTALLATION e Driver installation usually takes places as part of operating system installation Please reference the Chapter 4 Diver Installation for the detail installation procedure In an existing system e Install the controller driver into the existing operating system Please reference the Chapter 4 Driver Installation for the detailed installation procedure Note Look for newest release versions of drivers for Linux and Free BSD e See the Driver Library at http www areca com tw Step 11 Install ArcHttp proxy Server The SATA RAID controller firmware has embedded the web browser RAID m
35. the manufacturer and the author All inquiries should be addressed to ARECA Technology Corp FCC STATEMENT This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against interfer ence in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in ac cordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation Contents 1 Introduction ives deanna isses ness aREESRRAERRRRARAREEEIREREMERR RN EEREEE 10 Dl OVerviQW ci ciuis Ret A aN ener PUE Ene SPI E e REN TE Reinders 10 1 2 Features eei xy dx Rec o XVODU E Gn i EY ads 12 13 RAID Concept iie ee ss evebdoee eeu ret etrdie cuis eoe hd SETAA 15 1 3 1 RAID Set iiio sten e er ce tere eri Ex De EV Ya nein 15 1 3 2 Volume Set o secessit retire Fa exa tdv eR SR acuit us 15 1 3 3 Ease of Use Features icici onus tener e n ER exa 16 1 3 3 1 Instant Availability Background Initialization 16 1 3 39 2 Array ROAMING eere e rh t x pau eR pere EIE E 16 1 3 3 3 Online Capacity Expansion een 17 1 3 3 4 Online RAID Level and Stripe Size Migration 19 1 3 3 5 Online Volume Expansion eeeenn nnn 19 1 4 High avail
36. to the SATA card as well as the card itself must be assigned a unique SCSI ID number A SCSI channel can connect up to 15 devices It is necessar to assign a SCSI ID to each device from a list of available SCSI IDs 75 BIOS CONFIGURATION e SCSI LUN Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level 2 Capacity 160 1GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel SCSI ID Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Each SCSI ID can support up to 8 LUNs Most SCSI controllers treat each LUN as if it were a SCSI disk e Cache Mode Volume Set Function Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level 5 Capacity 160 1GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID 10 SCSI LUN 0 Cache Mode Write Back ag Queuing nabled ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw User can set the cache mode to either Write Through Cache or Write Back Cache BIOS CONFIGURATION e Tag Queuing Volume Set Function a i Volume Creation Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level HE Capacity 160 1GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID z9 System informd SCSI LUN 0 Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled This option when enabled can enhance overall system perfor mance under multi tasking operating systems The Command Tag Drive Channel function controls the SCSI command tag q
37. volume set press the Esc key to confirm it An Initialization screen is presented e Select Foreground Faster Completion for Faster Initializa tion of the selected volume set e Select Background Instant Available for Normal Initializa tion of the selected volume set Malina Cnt HAN Volume Name ETE Raid Level Initialization Mode Capacity l Foreground Faster Completion Stripe Size Background Instant Available SCSI Channel SCSI ID 210 SCSI LUN z0 Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled 6 Repeat steps 3 to 5 to create additional volume sets 7 The initialization percentage of volume set will be displayed at the button line 7A BIOS CONFIGURATION e Volume Name Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level PE Capacity 160 1GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID SCSI LUN Cache Mode Tag Queuing Enabled The default volume name will always appear as Volume Set You can rename the volume set providing it does not exceed the 15 characters limit e Raid Level Volume Set Function al Create n EAEE Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level 25 Capacity n Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID B 0 1 SCSI LUN zW Cache Mode Tag Queuing Set the RAID level for the Volume Set Highlight Raid Level and press Enter The available RAID levels for the current Volume Set are dis played Select a RAID level and press the Enter key to confirm 72
38. 11 5 6 1 2 For Linux FreeBSD isch se io sod ed et aai vds Pagan 112 5 6 2 Start up Mail Configuration for RemoteAdministration 112 e SMTP Server Configuration ccceeeeee ee eee eens eee eeeeeeeeees 113 e Mail Address Configurations cceceeeeeeeeeee eee eeeeeeeeees 113 e Event Notification Configurations ceeeeeeeeeeeee eee ees 113 A Device Event susce tac ev eas alae Cae EFON bee eee 114 B Volume EVEN cceccecceeceeee eee scenes nennen nean nean aene 114 Cy RaidSet Event een e ed x aise tives Rar eR EVER 115 D Hardware EVvent s i ise iet rer vta Rees etieadetes 115 6 Web Browser based Configuration 116 6 1 Start up McRAID Storage Manager eee 116 e Another method to start up McRAID Storage Manager from Windows Local Administration ccceceeceeeeeeee eee eeeeeaeeaneenes 117 6 1 1 Through Ethernet port Out of Band s 118 6 2 SATA RAID controller McRAID Storage Manager 119 6 3 Main Men issue Rte RAP ERRARAERRSR REFA ORE AARRE TRARA 120 6 4 QUICK FUNCTION sce EET 120 6 5 RaidSet Functions seniem oaie aE a a EEE nnn 121 6 5 1 Create Raid Setani erre oae xe E mo 121 6 5 2 Delete Raid Set sssssseseeeseee nennen nnn 122 6 5 3 Expand Raid Sets 5 cr e Ra RET ER de ETE 123 6 5 4 Activate Incomplete Raid Set cseeeeeeeeeee 123 6 5 5 Create Hot Spare ts nei
39. 16 24 port RAID controllers provide RAID 6 functionality to meet these demanding requirements The 4 8 12 16 24 port controllers also provide RAID levels O 1 1E 3 5 and JBOD configurations Its high data availability and protection is derived from the following capabilities Online RAID Capacity Expansion Array Roaming Online RAID Level Stripe Size Migration Dynamic Volume Set Expansion Global Online Spare Automatic Drive Failure Detection Automatic Failed Drive Rebuilding Disk Hot Swap Online Background Rebuilding and Instant Availability Background Initialization During the controller firmware flash upgrade process it is possible that an error results in corruption of the controller firmware This could result in the de vice becoming non functional However with our Redundant Flash image feature the controller will revert back to the last known version of firmware and continue operating This reduces the risk of system failure due to firmware crashes Easy RAID Management The SATA RAID controller utilizes built in firmware with an embed ded terminal emulation that can access via hot key at BIOS boot up screen This pre boot manager utility can be used to simplify the setup and management of the RAID controller The controller firmware also contains a HTTP browser based program that can be OEE 11 INTRODUCTION accessed through the ArcHttp Proxy Server function in Windows Linux and FreeBSD environments This Web brow
40. 6 9 2 System Information To view the SATA RAID controller s information move the mouse cursor to the main menu and click on the System Information link The SATA RAID controller Information screen appears Use this feature to view the SATA RAID controller s information The controller name firmware version serial number main pro cessor CPU data Instruction cache size and system memory size speed appear in this screen r E reca Technology Corporation X sic ene ate WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 9 3 Hardware Monitor To view the RAID controller s hardware monitor information move the mouse cursor to the main menu and click the Hardware Moni tor link The Hardware Information screen appears The Hardware Monitor Information provides the temperature and fan speed I O Processor fan of the PCI SATA RAID controller eoi T G0adbs fari Gi Areca Technolog Corporation O e i t e bm 145 APPENDIX Appendix A Upgrading Flash ROM Update Process Since the PCI SATA Il RAID controller features flash firmware it is not necessary to change the hardware flash chip in order to up grade the RAID firmware The user can simply re program the old firmware through the In Band PCI X PCIe bus or Out of Band Enth ernet port McRAID Storage manager New releases of the firmware are available in the form of a DOS file on the shipped CD or Areca s web site The files available at the FTP site for eac
41. 73 21 SMART Reallocation Count 200 140 SMART Seek Error Rate 200 51 SMART Spinup Retries 100 51 SMART Calibration Retries 100 51 BIOS CONFIGURATION When you choose this option the physical disks connected to the SATA RAID controller are listed Move the cursor to the de sired drive and press Enter to view drive information 3 7 4 2 Create Pass Through Disk iea Pass Through Disk Assia Es RS Create Pass Through Cache Mode i Write Back Hardware BETeRe MWe Enabled System infq ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw A Pass Through Disk is not controlled by the SATA RAID control ler firmware and thus cannot be a part of a Volume Set The disk is available directly to the operating system as an individual disk It is typically used on a system where the operating sys tem is on a disk not controlled by the SATA RAID controller firm ware The SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI LUN Cache Mode and Tag Queuing must be specified to create a pass through disk 3 7 4 3 Modify a Pass Through Disk Use this option to modify Pass Through Disk Attributes To select and modify a Pass Through Disk from the pool of Pass Through Disks move the cursor bar to the Physical Drive Function menu and select the Modify Pass Through Drive option and then press the Enter key The Physical Drive Function menu will show all Raid Pass Through Drive number options Move the curso
42. ATION LCD I2C Module Connector 4 SATA ports Multi Lance Connector 4 SATA ports Multi Lance Backup Battery Connector HDD LED Connector Connector Figure 2 9 ARC 1230ML 1260ML 1280ML 12 16 24 port PCI Ex press SATA RAID Controller Tools Required An ESD grounding strap or mat is required Also required are stan dard hand tools to open your system s case System Requirement The controller can be installed in a universal PCI slot and requires a motherboard that ARC 11xx series required one of the following e Complies with the PCI Revision 2 3 32 64 bit 33 66MHz 3 3V e Complies with the PCI X 32 64 bit 66 100 133 MHz 3 3V ARC 12xx series requires e Complies with the PCI Express X8 The SATA RAID controller may be connected to up to 4 8 12 16 or 24 SATA II hard drives using the supplied cables Optional cables are required to connect any drive activity LEDs and fault LEDs on the enclosure to the PCI SATA RAID controller Installation Tools The following items may be needed to assist with installing the Efim J ect 36 HARDWARE INSTALLATION SATA RAID adapter into an available PCI expansion slot e Small screwdriver e Host system hardware manuals and manuals for the disk or enclosure being installed Personal Safety Information To ensure personal safety as well as the safety of the equipment e Alway
43. BIOS CONFIGURATION e Capacity Selected Capacity Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level i Capacity 160 1GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID ERO SCSI LUN 0 Cache Mode Write Back LEKENE Enabled The maximum available volume size is the default value for the first setting Enter the appropriate volume size to fit your ap plication The capacity value can be increased or decreased by the UP and DOWN arrow keys The capacity of each volume set must be less than or equal to the total capacity of the raid set on which it resides If volume capacity will exceed 2TB controller will show the Greater 2 TB volume Support sub menu Greater Two TB Volume Support Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function n Use 64bit LBA Volume Set Funct z Total 4 Drivq z Physical Dives BREL Raid System Fund Raid O Ethernet Configur Raid 1 0 View System Eve Clear Event Buffe Hardware Monito System informatid Raid 3 Spare Raid 5 Spare 73 BIOS CONFIGURATION 74 e No It keeps the volume size with max 2TB limitation e LBA 64 This option use 16 bytes CDB instead of 10 bytes The maximum volume capacity up to 512TB This option works on different OS which supports 16 bytes CDB such as Windows 2003 with SP1 Linux kernel 2 6 x or latter e For Windows It change the sector size from default 512 Bytes to 4k Byetes the maximum volume capacity up to 16TB This option works u
44. Cache Mode The SATA RAID controller supports Write Through Cache and Write Back Cache e SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI Lun SCSI Channel The SATA RAID controller function is simulated as a SCSI RAID controller The host bus is represented as a SCSI channel Choose the SCSI Channel SCSI ID Each SCSI device attached to the SCSI card as well as the card itself must be assigned a unique SCSI ID number A SCSI channel can connect up to 15 devices The SATA RAID controller is a large SCSI device Assign an ID from a list of SCSI IDs SCSI LUN Each SCSI ID can support up to 8 LUNs Most SCSI controllers treat each LUN like a SCSI disk Tag Queuing The Enabled option is useful for enhancing overall system performance under multi tasking operating systems The Com mand Tag Drive Channel function controls the SCSI com mand tag queuing support for each drive channel This func et 127 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION tion should normally remain enabled Disable this function only when using older SCSI drives that do not support command tag queuing 6 6 2 Delete Volume Set To delete a Volume from raid set move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the Delete Volume Set link The Select The Raid Set To Delete screen will show all raid set numbers Click a raid set number and the Confirm The Operation check box and then click the Submit button to show all volume set items in the selected raid set Click a volume
45. Copyright c 2004 Areca Inc All Rights Reserved Areca HTTP proxy server V1 6 for Areca RAID controllers Controller s list Controller 1 PCI Listen to port 81 Mail Cfg Assistant Listen to port 83 HGRGERGGR HG HG SGH EEEE EEE EEEE EE EE EE Press CTRL C to exit program HGRGERGGR EEE EEEE EEE EEEE EEEE EE EEEE 3 See the next chapter detailing the McRAID Storage Manager to customize your RAID volume set 110 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION Because our management need Java support so user may need rade to Version 1 6 or later 5 3 For FreeBSD You must have administrative level permissions to install SATA RAID software This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID hardware and FreeBSD are installed and operational in your system The following details the FreeBSD installation procedure of the SATA RAID controller software 1 Insert the RAID subsystem CD in the CD ROM drive 2 Copy lt CD ROM gt PACKAGES FreeBSD http directory to local The next following step is the same with Linux Please see section 5 2 For Linux 5 4 For Solaris 10 X86 Please refer to the readme txt file on the software CD ROM or website http www areca com tw 5 5 For Mac OS 10 X Please refer to the readme txt file on the software CD ROM or website http www areca com tw 5 6 Email Notification The installation of Archttp management will automatically assign one other port to set
46. ED CONFIGURATION The Enter Network Password dialog screen appears type the User Name and Password The RAID subsystem controller de fault User Name is admin and the Password is 0000 After entering the user name and password press Enter to access the McRAID Storage Manager ios imm Pa 6 T E els ME SILA VA tti in Tes m P Pom ae emi oe Ae se M 6 1 1 Through Ethernet port Out of Band Areca now offers an alternative means of communication for the PCI X PCIe RAID Adapter McRAID Web Browser based RAID Management program User can access the built in configuration without needing system starting up running the ArcHttp proxy The Web Browser based RAID Management program is an HTML based application which utilizes the browser installed on your remote system To ensure proper communications between the PCI X PCIe RAID Adapter and Web browser based RAID management Please con nect the RAID adapter Ethernet LAN port to any LAN switch port 118 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION The controller has embedded the TCP IP amp Web Browser based RAID manager in the firmware User can remote manage the RAID adapter without adding any user specific software platform independent via standard web browsers directly connected to the 10 100 Ethernet RJ45 LAN port To configure External RAID subsystem on a remote machine you need to know its IP Address The IP address will default show in BIOS configuration of Ethernet
47. ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 5 11 Controller Fan Detection Included in the product box is a field replaceable passive heatsink to be used only if there is enough airflow to adequately cool the passive heat sink The Controller Fan Detection function is available in the version 1 36 date 2005 05 19 and later for preventing the Buzzer warning When using the passive heatsink disable the Controller Fan Detection function through this BIOS setting The following screen shot shows how to change the BIOS setting to disable the beeper function This function is not available in the Web Browser setting ic Med 91 BIOS CONFIGURATION Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Maximum SA HDD Read Ah Disabled Stagger Powe Empty HDD sl B HDD SMART Status Polling Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation 3 7 5 12 Disk Write Cache Mode User can set the Disk Write Cache Mode to Auto Enabled or Disabled Enabled increases speed Disabled increases reliabil ity Raid System Function Maximum SATA Mode HDD Read Ahead Cache Stagger Power on Empty HDD slot LED HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation 3 7 5 13 Capacity Truncation ARECA RAID controllers use drive truncation so that drives from different vendor
48. Hardware Installa tion Chapter to install the controller and connect the disk drives or enclosure 2 Start the system and then press Tab F6 to enter the Mc BIOS based configuration utility Use the configuration utility to create the raid set and volume set For details see Chapter 3 McBIOS RAID Manager Once a volume set is created and configured continue with installation of the driver 3 Re Boot Windows and the OS will recognize the SATA RAID Controller and launche the Found New Hardware Wizard ese 103 DRIVER INSTALLATION which guides you in installing the SATA RAID driver 4 The Upgrade Device Driver Wizard will pop up and provide a choice of how to proceed Choose Display a list of known drivers for this device so that you can choose a specific driver and click on Next 5 When the next screen queries the user about utilizing the cur rently installed driver click on the Have Disk button 6 When the Install From Disk dialog appears insert the SATA RAID controller driver diskette or the shipping CD ROM and type in or browse to the correct path for the Copy manu facturer s files from dialog box 7 After specifying the driver location the previous dialog box will appear showing the selected driver to be installed Click the Next button 8 The Digital Signature Not Found screen will appear Click on Yes to continue the installation 9 Windows automatically copies the appropriate driver fil
49. ION 3 7 6 3 Ethernet Address A MAC address stands for Media Access Control address and is unique to every single ethernet device On an Ethernet LAN it s the same as your Ethernet address When you re connected to a local network from the RAID controller Ethernet port a corre spondence table relates your IP address to the RAID controller s physical MAC address on the LAN Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Physical i Ethernet Configuration Raid Sys DHCP Function Enable US Local IP Address 192 168 001 100 MGE EthemetAddress 00 04 D9 7F FF FF Clear Evd Hardware Monitor System information 3 7 7 View System Events To view the SATA RAID controller s information move the cur sor bar to the main menu and select the View Events link then press the Enter key The SATA RAID controller s events screen appear Quick Volume Raid Setup Time Device Event Type ElapseTime Errors 2004 1 1 12 00 00 H W Monitor Raid Powered On 2004 1 1 12 00 00 H W Monitor Raid Powered On 2004 1 1 12 00 00 H W Monitor Raid Powered On BIOS CONFIGURATION Choose this option to view the system events information Timer Device Event type Elapsed Time and Errors The RAID system does not have a real time clock The Time information is the rela tive time from the SATA RAID controller powered on 3 7 8 Clear Events Buffer Use this feature to clear the entire events buffer 3 7 9 Hardware Mo
50. Layout eres oe ET Re e d cR XXE PE ORE TRE even EINER 32 2 3 Installatiob 55 ce ies REN CIO Ir TESTI 37 3 McBIOS RAID Manager ouo ar oue nnus uua u unn Eua rE uus 53 3 1 Starting the McBIOS RAID Manager esee 53 3 2 McBIOS Configuration Manager ssssssssrsrrsrrrrrsererrrseerrrses 54 3 3 Configuring Raid Sets and Volume Sets ssessess 55 3 4 Designating Drives as Hot Spares eseseeeennne 55 3 5 Using Quick Volume Raid Setup Configuration 56 3 6 Using RAID Set Volume Set Function Method 57 33 7 Main Menu ise ien vx tute Du RE PENA ES YES DX EA S 59 3 7 1 Quick Volume RAID Setup eeeeeeem mmn 60 3 7 2 Raid Set FUNCtON 2 orici ete ge rera edie HT e Ev RR RE 63 3 7 2 1 Create Raid Set sesssesseeeseen nennen 64 3 7 2 2 Delete Raid Set ssesseeseeeneen nennen 65 3 7 2 3 Expand Raid Set niyii icirenn ienien nennen nnns 65 ulTe z Ide M 66 3 7 2 4 Activate Incomplete Raid Set eeeeeeeeses 67 3 7 2 5 Create Hot Spare seeren perisse reesi sa vta x Ee Y PAR X s 68 3 7 2 6 Delete Hot Spare cessseseeseeeneen menm nnn 68 3 7 2 7 Raid Set Information eeeeesseeeeenen nnn 69 3 7 3 Volume Set Function esesseseeeen enne 69 3 7 3 1 Create Volume Set seeseeeeeeneeen enne 70 Volume Name eene nae e XXXV RE EN e
51. O S 3 64 bit O S and 64 bit applications 64 bit Mode This usage requires 64 bit device drivers It also requires applications to be modified for 64 bit operation and then recompiled and vali dated e For more FAQs please visit knowledgebase of Areca website at http faq areca com tw modules smartfaq NEEE PESE 163 APPENDIX Appendix E Technical Support Areca Technical Support provides several options for Areca users to access information and updates We encourage you to use one of our electric services which provide product information updates for the most efficient service and support If you decide to contact us please have the information such as Product model and serial number BIOS and driver version and a description of the problem at http www areca com tw support index question htm All technical support questions will receive a response from our support team 164 GLOSSARY Glossary 2TB The 32 bit file systems have a maximum limitation of 2 TB per volume set 64 bit versions remove this limitation so if you are building large warehouses you should consider 64 bit versions Array An array is a logical disk comprised of multiple physical hard disks The number of hard disks in an array is dictated by the type of the array and the number of spares that may be assigned to it Arrays are also sometimes referred to
52. OR Eea RENE 160 General Troubleshooting Tips ssssssssssrrsssrrrrrsrrrnnrnrnrrresrrnrns 160 Appendix E prisonia ipanaa aiian isro FREU EUEEREFENWE 164 Technical Support esses enne mene nnn nnn 164 GlOSSar y iiiiiaastesiaxssunsERRFar VRaEE a nEaERERAFERREEKR EERWEFRRERRERENREREUE 165 PAN DEAE 165 PANTY sete SO ie Fh eS ae a era ME I D o e DE MAIL USE UE 165 ny EE 165 A to ReassigHi SectOE inr dies he x XR x Eee ER REY xk 165 Battery Backup Module sesseeeeeen mmm 166 oce TEE E 166 Cache s pesci eise eer riens extre ccs vive soa Fe d Re us 166 CONSISTENCY Checle ue onc cre e e se t b sean e e t uen 166 DriVeliss iesus a IRR DEA PRI RR sea Bet pide ae ete ceg seals dagen Salas ae 166 Hot Spare son ei oo ae ees ANT 167 Hardware RAID versus Software RAID eene 167 Hot SWap tei c eee dr ente xxi be wk oc atic ER EE 167 NVRAMLE EEEE esie pe EXE RrKEAEENPEDRMMAGRE ERR MSRP UE FE rA EN RENE 167 luc p 167 PCI EXDFeSS 325 eto ero vex rea e errat E RT d IRR 167 PTH Xe oat Outed dde atte tne wa qd dr Ptx Onn dy ride wees 168 RAID3 52 nes sietee ane nge e up don RIT eR XII XD RR ERR NEP ER EERER anes 168 Rebuild eer ea eee ae Es OPEN I E 168 SATA Serial ATA uideo rite eren ce te xe ain nates 168 SMART eaan n oec edem br D ste ad eget see dec ded ee de ee 169 SNMP zoo nate eRRr n N E A D RR AR Y KFRNARULETEA SR ERR eens 169 Volume Seti cios ctor vue eedem dete utate visa a eee 169
53. PCI slots are supported by the SATA RAID controllers Answer For all PCI X SATA RAID controllers install card in a 64 bit 133MHz PCI X for the best performance It also can be used in 64 bit 66 MHz slots 32 bit 66MHz PCI slots as well as 32 bit 33MHz slots All PCI X SATA RAID controllers can not work with 5V PCI slot PCI Express SATA RAID controllers require an x8 or x16 slots The card can function in x4 or x1 signal slots if those slots are open at the end to accept larger x8 cards but performance will be reduced in these slower slots Check the Areca FAQ website for motherboard a compatibility list Q5 What is the difference between RAID 6 and RAID 5 Answer RAID 6 allows two drives to fail simultaneously without downtime or data loss However RAID 5 only allows one drive to fail RAID 6 thus provides a much higher level of fault tolerance than RAID 5 It is a perfect solution when data is mission critical Due to this higher level of protection users can set up larger RAID volumes spanning up to 56 physical drives With the ARECA RAID 6 engine RAID 6 and RAID 5 have similar performance in the SATA RAID controller Q6 What products support RAID 6 Answer RAID 6 is available on controller models with the RAID 6 engine installed Q7 What operating systems are supported Answer The SATA RAID controllers support Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Windows XP Windows 2000 Red Hat Linux SuSE Linux and FreeBSD
54. RATION 4 An Edit The Raid Set Name dialog box appears Enter 1 to 15 alphanumeric characters to define a unique identifier for the RAID Set The default RAID Set name will always appear as Raid Set E Va in Mey pm Raid Set Function eA OA ARROTAOANADAS Edit The Raid Set Name 3 7 2 2 Delete Raid Set To completely erase and reconfigure a raid set you must first delete it and re create the raid set To delete a raid set select the raid set number that user want to delete in the Select Raid Set to Delete screen The Delete Raid Set dialog box appears then press Yes key to delete it Warning data on RAID set will be lost if this option is used am iVif Yat ES NILUM i Create Raid Set Delete Paid Cat Select Raid Set To Delete e o BERLINE DELE No 3 7 2 3 Expand Raid Set Instead of deleting a raid set and recreating it with additional 65 BIOS CONFIGURATION Select Drives For Raid Set Expansion l Ch05 80 0688 1350 RECTE Ch08 80 0GBST380 No ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw disk drives the Expand Raid Set function allows the users to add disk drives to the raid set that have already been created To expand a raid set Select the Expand Raid Set option If there is an available disk then the Select SATA Drives For Raid Set Expansion screen ap pears Select the target Raid Set by clicking on the appropriate radio button Se
55. RCSNMP DLL Screen captures in this section are taken from a Windows XP instal lation If you are running another version of Windows your screens may look different but the ARECA SNMP Extension Agent installa tion is essentially the same 1 Insert the RAID subsystem CD in the CD ROM drive 2 Run the setup exe file that resides at CD ROM packagesV EEE 155 APPENDIX windows http setup exe on the CD ROM If SNMP service was not installed please install SNMP service first 3 Click on the Setup file then the Welcome screen appears 4 Click the Setup file and then the install the program screen appears Follow the on screen prompts to complete ARECA SNMP Extension Agent installation 156 APPENDIX 5 A Progress bar appears that measures the progress of the ARECA SNMP Extension Agent setup When this screen complete you have completed the ARECA SNMP Extension Agent setup 6 After a successful installation the Setup Complete dialog box of the installation program is displayed Click the Finish button to complete the installation Starting SNMP Trap Notification Configruations To start SNMP Trap Notification Configruations There have two methods First double click on the Areca Raid Controller Second you may also use the Taskbar Start programs Areca Technology Corp ArcSnmpConf menus shown below 157 APPENDIX SNMP community Configurations Please refer to page 149 of c
56. RE INSTALLATION 4 SATA ports Multi Lance Connector LCD I2C Module Connector Figure 2 3 ARC 1110ML 1120ML 4 8 port PCI X SATA RAID Con troller 2 6 SATA ports LCD I2C Sonitaatar Fault LED HDDLED Module Connector X Connector Connector mu LT mu tuna ie p 10 SATA ports Backup Battery Connector Connector Ethernet LAN Port Figure 2 4 ARC 1130 1160 12 16 port PCI X SATA RAID Control ler 33 HARDWARE INSTALLATION Battery Fault LED HDDLED Module X Multi Lance Backup tep izc 4 SATA ports Connector Connector Connector connector connector Ethernet LAN Port Figure 2 5 ARC 1130ML 1160ML 12 16 port PCI X SATA RAID Controller 2 6 SATA ports l ie Connector FaultLED HDDLED Module Connector Connector Connector e IN LT HU E C sr fein TIT USES TTS TM 10 SATA ports Backup Battery Connector Connector Ethernet LAN Port Figure 2 6 ARC 1230 1260 12 16 port PCI EXpress SATA RAID Controller 34 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 14 SATA ports Connector HDD LED Connector Mint LUT LTT ui UI Wit Hu te te E be bent LULA MULA LLL TIT 10 SATA ports Backup Battery Connector Connector Ethernet LAN Port Figure 2 7 ARC 1170 24 port PCI X SATA RAID Controller Backup Battery Connector LCD 12 Module 24 SATA ports Connector bad we Ethernet LAN Port Figure 2 8 ARC 1280 24 port PCI Express SATA RAID Controller 35 HARDWARE INSTALL
57. SATA RAID Cards ARC 1110 1120 1130 1160 1170 4 8 12 16 24 port PCI X SATA RAID Adapter ARC 1110ML 1120ML 1130ML 1160ML 4 8 port Infinband connector and 12 16 port Multi lane connector PCI X SATA RAID Adapter ARC 1210 1220 1230 1260 1280 4 8 12 16 24 port PCI Express SATA RAID Adapter ARC 1230ML 1260ML 1280ML 12 16 24 port PCI Express SATA RAID Adapter USER Manual Version 3 2 Issue Date August 2006 Microsoft WHQL Windows Hardware Compatibility Test ARECA is committed to submitting products to the Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Labs WHQL which is required for participation in the Windows Logo Program Successful passage of the WHQL tests results in both the Designed for Windows logo for qualifying ARECA PCI X and PCI Express SATA RAID controllers and a listing on the Microsoft Hard ware Compatibility List HCL Copyright and Trademarks The information of the products in this manual is subject to change without prior notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of the vendor who assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors that may appear in this manual All brands and trademarks are the properties of their respective owners This manual contains materials protected under International Copyright Conventions All rights reserved No part of this manual may be reproduced in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying without the written permission of
58. Writ back APPEL 169 XOR Engine INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction This section presents a brief overview of the SATA RAID Series con troller cards ARC 1110 1110ML 1120 1120ML 1130 1130ML 1160 1160ML 1170 4 8 12 16 24 port PCI X SATA RAID Controllers and ARC 1210 1220 1230 1230 1230ML 1260 1260ML 1280 1280ML 4 8 12 16 24 port PCI Express SATA RAID Controllers 1 1 Overview The ARC 11xx and ARC 12xx Series of high performance Serial ATA RAID controllers support a maximum of 4 8 12 16 or 24 SATA II peripheral devices depending on model on a single controller card The ARC 11xx Series are for the PCI X bus and the ARC 12xx Series are for the PCI Express bus When properly configured these SATA controllers can provide non stop service with a high degree of fault tolerance through the use Of RAID technology and can also provide advanced array management features The 4 and 8 port SATA RAID controllers are low profile PCI cards ideal for 1U and 2U rack mount systems These cards utilize the same RAID kernel that has been field proven in existing external RAID controller products allowing Areca to quickly bring stable and reliable RAID controllers to the market Unparalleled Performance Areca RAID controllers provide reliable data protection for desk tops workstations and servers These cards set the standard with enhancements that include a high performance Intel I O Proces sor a new DDR333 memory architecture and
59. X Redraw 3 7 2 Raid Set Function Manual Configuration gives complete control of the RAID Set set ting but it will take longer to configure than Quick Volume Raid Setup configuration Select Raid Set Function to manually con figure the raid set for the first time or delete existing RAID Sets and reconfigure the RAID Set C Oe U 63 BIOS CONFIGURATION Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information 3 7 2 1 Create Raid Set To define a RAID Set follow the procedure below 1 Select Raid Set Function from the main menu 2 Select Create Raid Set from the Raid Set Function dialog box 3 A Select SATA Drive For Raid Set window is displayed showing the SATA drives connected to the current controller Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select specific physical drives Press the Enter key to associate the selected physical drive with the current RAID Set Repeat this step the user can add as many disk drives as are available to a single RAID Set When finished selecting SATA drives For Raid Set press the Esc key A Create Raid Set confirmation screen appears select the Yes option to confirm it Maj n Mer CIBUM Raid Set Function Ch05 80 0GBST380013AS Ch08 80 0GBST380013AS Harea System information BIOS CONFIGU
60. X Redraw DRIVER INSTALLATION 4 Driver Installation This chapter describes how to install the SATA RAID controller driver to your operating system The installation procedures use the following terminology Installing operating system on the SATA Volume If you have a new drive configuration without an operating system and want to install operating system on a disk drive managed by the SATA RAID Controller The driver installation is a part of the operat ing system installation Installing SATA RAID controller into an existing operating system The computer has an existing operating system installed and the SATA RAID controller is being installed as a secondary controller Have all required system hardware and software components on hand before proceeding with the setup and installation Materials required e Microsoft Windows 2000 XP 2003 or Linux or FreeBSD installation CD ROM e SATA RAID Controller Diver CD ROM e SATA RAID controller 4 1 Creating the Driver Diskettes The CD ROM disc shipped with the SATA RAID controller is a self booting CD In order to created driver diskettes for Windows Linux and FreeBSD installation drivers your system is required to support booting from the CD ROM If you do not have the CD ROM disc with the package contact your local dealer or you can also download the latest version drivers for Windows 2000 XP 2003 Linux and freeBSD from the ARECA web site at http www areca com tw
61. a Pe a Ore d Tien Ihs omm Cente ads 6 8 3 Alert by Mail Configuration 12 16 24 port To configure the raid controller e mail function move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the System Controls link The System Controls menu will show all items Move the cursor bar to the Alert By Mail Config item then select the desired function This function can only be set via web based configuration The firmware contains a SMTP manager monitoring all system events Single or multiple user notifications to be sent via Plain English e mails with no software required Please refer to page 104 of SMTP Sever Configuration Mail Address Configuration and Event Notification Configuration WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION ODubiburtus d reca Technology orporation LE te ctae m 6 8 4 SNMP Configuration 12 16 24 port To configure the raid controller SNMP function click on the Sys tem Controls link The System Controls menu will show available items Select the SNMP Configuration item This function can only set via web based configuration The firmware SNMP Agent Manager monitors all system events and the SNMP function becomes functional with no Agent soft ware required owi r e Giftn i ud Areca Technology Corporation ii Lr iiem 139 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 140 e SNMP Trap Configurations Enter the SNMP Trap IP Address e SNMP System Configurations About community pl
62. a degraded mode it is advisable to rebuild the array and return it to its original configuration in terms of the number and state of working disks to ensure against operation in degraded mode SATA Serial ATA The evolution of the ATA IDE interface that changes the physical architecture from parallel to serial and from master slave to point to point Unlike parallel ATA interfaces that connect two drives one configured as master the other as slave each Serial ATA drive is con nected to its own interface At initial introduction Serial ATA SATA increases the transfer rate to 150 MB sec 1 5Gb s and SATA2 to 300 MB sec 168 GLOSSARY SMART This technology provides users with advanced warning of Disk Drive failures thus enabling the Operating System to warn Users of potential failure S M A R T was included in EIDE drives with the ATA 3 and later specification SNMP Since it was developed in 1988 the Simple Network Management Protocol has become the de facto standard for inter network manage ment Because it is a simple solution requiring little code to imple ment vendors can easily build SNMP agents into their products SNMP is extensible allowing vendors to easily add network management functions to their existing products SNMP also separates the man agement architecture from the architecture of the hardware devices which broadens the base of multi vendor support Volume Set A volume set is a concaten
63. a high performance PCI bus interconnection SATA RAID 8 12 16 24 port controllers with the Areca RAID 6 engine built in can offer extreme availability RAID 6 functionality This engine can concurrently computes two parity blocks with performance very similar to RAID 5 The control lers by default support 256MB of ECC DDR333 SDRAM memory The 12 16 24 port controllers support one DDR333 SODIMM socket that allows for upgrading up to 1GB of memory The 12 16 24 port controllers support one DDR2 533 DIMM socket that allows for upgrading up to 2GB of memory The controllers use Marvell 10 INTRODUCTION 4 8 channel SATA PCI X controller chips which can simultaneously communicate with the host system and read or write data on mul tiple drives Unsurpassed Data Availability As storage capacity requirements continue to rapidly increase us ers require greater levels of disk drive fault tolerance which can be implemented without doubling the investment in disk drives RAID 1 mirroring provides high fault tolerance However half of the drive capacity of the array is lost to mirroring making it too costly for most users to implement on large volume sets due to dobuling the number of drives required Users want the protection of RAID 1 or better with an implementation cost comparable to RAID 5 RAID 6 can offer fault tolerance greater than RAID 1 or RAID 5 but only consumes the capacity of 2 disk drives for distributed parity data The 8 12
64. ability 2 et ley tacs Re ikea eta te eile ree le eens 20 1 4 1 Global Hot Spares sssssssssssessenssnrerrsrnsennensensorrnerrennan 20 1 4 2 Hot Swap Disk Drive Support eese 21 1 4 3 Auto Declare Hot Spare cesses 21 1 4 4 Auto Rebuilding tcc rere n erences 21 1 4 5 Adjustable Rebuild Priority cccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 22 1 5 High Reliability sic reete rece xy ere rok e RE REX Ret RERO 23 1 5 1 Hard Drive Failure Prediction eeeeeeennnne 23 1 5 2 Auto REassign Sector ree end ipaa n cede Enn 23 1 5 3 Consistency Check eessseeseeenen enne 24 1 6 Data Protection ives svo e Ee ev ere e YE IER IUS 24 1 6 TL BATTERY BACKUP 2 22 rename ra rt oauan anA eI EET EDERA 24 1 6 2 RECOVERY ROM csissssseeeneneen nemen nnne nnn nnn 25 1 7 Understanding RAID sesessssse meme 25 1 7 RAID O wise es eave uie exe kr XR ex EE DAW EAR EBAY VENE eu 25 1 7 2 RAID 5 rire ertet A beta idens engi IS RE ETE EEa E ER degen cs 26 1 7 3 RAID 1E irri Eye np cop e Tr nea YER ceed 27 1 72 4 RAID Borena sav vein aa ites ex tu tv Tui ere Fa Au exa eng SR a kw ov eee us 27 1 7 5 RAID 5 live e ene e xr Y Y e Y FX er YR ERE RN EE ANARE UE 28 1 7 6 RAID O iiie peser iier A TA dee Fs Oni CORR RP RET ENS ate Pr ORAS 29 2 Hardware Installation esee 31 2 1 Before Your begin Installation esee 31 2 2 Board
65. ach other Drive truncation slightly decreases the usable capacity of a drive that is used in redundant units The controller provides three truncation modes in the system configuration Multiples Of 10G Multiples Of 1G and No Truncation Multiples Of 10G If you have 120 GB drives from different vendors chances are that the capacity varies slightly For exam ETTER X Re 136 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION ple one drive might be 123 5 GB and the other 120 GB Areca drive Truncation mode Multiples Of 10G uses the same capac ity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other Multiples Of 1G If you have 123 GB drives from different ven dors chances are that the capacity varies slightly For example one drive might be 123 5 GB and the other 123 4 GB Areca drive Truncation mode Multiples Of 1G uses the same capacity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other No Truncation It does not truncate the capacity o 7 2 bet m Raitt 3 J Areca Technology Corporation Oi ateme ioe tee Oe 9 d Ens mmm Chrona meris Ld 6 8 2 Ethernet Configuration 12 16 24 port Use this feature to set the controller Ethernet port configuration A customer doesn t need to create a reserved space on the arrays before the Ethernet port and HTTP servic
66. adapters allow the user to select the rebuild priority to balance volume access and rebuild tasks appropriately The Background Task Priority is a relative indication of how much time the controller devotes to a background opera tion such as rebuilding or migrating The RAID subsystem allows user to choose the task priority Ultra Low 5 Low 20 Medium 50 High 80 to balance volume set access and background tasks appropriately For high array performance specify an Ultra Low value Like volume ini tialization after a volume rebuilds it does not require a system reboot ErE 22 INTRODUCTION 1 5 High Reliability 1 5 1 Hard Drive Failure Prediction In an effort to help users avoid data loss disk manufacturers are now incorporating logic into their drives that acts as an early warning system for pending drive problems This system is called SMART The disk integrated controller works with multiple sensors to monitor various aspects of the drive s performance determines from this information if the drive is behaving normally or not and makes available status information to RAID controller firmware that probes the drive and look at it S M A R T can often predict a problem before failure occurs Areca controllers will recognize a S M A R T error code and notify the administer of an impending hard drive failure 1 5 2 Auto Reassign Sector Under normal operation even initially de
67. aid 0 Ethernet Configurd Raid 1 0 Raid 1 0 Spare Raid 3 Raid 5 System informatio Raid 3 Spare Raid 5 Spare Raid 6 ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw BIOS CONFIGURATION all possible RAID level will be displayed on the screen If volume capacity will exceed 2TB controller will show the Greater 2 TB volume Support sub menu Greater Two TB Volume Support Quick Volume Raid Setup l No Raid Set Function Use 64bit LBA Volume Set Functi Total 4 Drive Physical Drives Bu Raid System Func Raid 0 Ethernet Configurd Raid 1 0 View System Eve Raid 1 0 Spare Clear Event Buffer Raid 3 Hardware Monitor Raid 5 System informatio Raid 3 Spare Raid 5 Spare ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw e No It keeps the volume size with max 2TB limitation e LBA 64 This option use 16 bytes CDB instead of 10 bytes The maximum volume capacity up to 512TB This option works on different OS which supports 16 bytes CDB such as Windows 2003 with SP1 Linux kernel 2 6 x or latter For Windows It change the sector size from default 512 Bytes to 4k Bytes the maximum volume capacity up to 16TB This option works under Windows platform only And it CAN NOT be converted to Dynamic Disk because 4k sector size is not a standard format For more details please download PDF file from ftp ftp areca com tw Ra
68. anager ArcHttp Proxy driver will enable it The Browser based RAID manager provides all of the creation management and monitor SATA RAID controller status Please reference the Chapter 5 for the detail ArcHtt proxy server installation For SNMP agent function please reference Appendix C Step 12 Determining the Boot sequences The SATA RAID controller is a bootable controller If your system already contains a bootable device with an installed operating sys tem you can set up your system to boot a second operating sys tem from the new controller To add a second bootable controller you may need to enter Setup and change the device boot sequence so that the SATA RAID controller heads the list If the system BIOS Setup does not allow this change your system may not be con figurable to allow the SATA RAID controller to act as a second boot device Summary of the installation The flow chart below describes the installation procedures for SATA 50 HARDWARE INSTALLATION RAID controller These procedures included hardware installa tion the creation and configuration of a RAID volume through the McBIOS OS installation and installation of SATA RAID controller software The software components configure and monitor the SATA RAID controller via ArcHttp Proxy Server Configuration Utility Operating System supported McBIOS RAID Manager OS Independent McRAID Storage Manager Windows 2000 XP 2003 Linux FreeB Via Archttp proxy
69. ares Create RAID sets using the available physical drives Any unused disk drive that is not part of a RAID Set can be des ignated as a Hot Spare The Quick Volume Raid Setup configura tion will add the spare disk drive and automatically display the appropriate raid level from which the user can select For the Raid Set Function configuration option the user can use the Create Hot Spare option to define the hot spare disk drive When a Hot Spare disk drive is being created using the Create Hot Spare option in the Raid Set Function all unused physical devices connected to the current controller appear Choose the target disk by selecting the appropriate check box Press the Enter key to select a disk drive and press Yes in the Create Hot Spare to designate it as a hot spare __ 55 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 5 Using Quick Volume Raid Setup Con figuration Quick Volume Raid Setup Configuration collects all available drives and includes them in a RAID Set The RAID Set you create is associated with exactly one Volume Set You will only be able to modify the default RAID level the stripe size and the capacity of the new Volume Set Designating drives as Hot Spares is also possible in the raid level selection option The Volume Set default settings will be Parameter Setting SCSI Channel SCSI ID SCSI LUN 0 0 0 Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Yes The default setting values can be changed after configuration is
70. ares with ARC 11xx 12xx The Create Hot Spare option gives you the ability to define a r uros N 20 INTRODUCTION global hot spare disk drive To effectively use the global hot spare feature you must always maintain at least one drive that is marked as a global spare Important The hot spare must have at least the same capacity as the drive it replaces 1 4 2 Hot Swap Disk Drive Support The SATA RAID controller includes a protection circuit that sup ports the replacement of SATA hard disk drives without having to shut down or reboot the system A removable hard drive tray can deliver hot swappable fault tolerant RAID solutions at prices much less than the cost of conventional SCSI hard disk SATA RAID controllers This feature provides advanced fault tolerant RAID protection and online drive replacement 1 4 3 Auto Declare Hot Spare If a disk drive is brought online into a system operating in de graded mode ARC 11xx 12xx RAID adapters will automatically declare the new disk as a spare and begin rebuilding the degrad ed volume The Auto Declare Hot Spare function requires that the smallest drive contained within the volume set in which the failure occurred In the normal status the newly installed drive will be reconfigured an online free disk But the newly installed drive is automatically assigned as a hot spare if any hot spare disk was used to rebuild and withou
71. as containers Furthermore whether an array can be built using part of the space on a disk as opposed to being forced to use the whole disk depends upon the implementation Arrays are typically used to provide data redundancy and or enhanced I O performance ATA Acronym for AT Bus Attachment a standard interface to IDE hard disks Western Digital s IDE disk interface was standardized by ANSI to form the ATA specification using a 16 bit ISA bus Auto Reassign Sector SATA drives perform automatic defect re assignment for both read and write errors Writes are always completed if a location to be writ ten is found to be defective the drive will automatically relocate that write command to a new location and map out the defective location If there is a recoverable read error the correct data will be transferred to the host and that location will be tested by the drive to be certain the location is not defective if it is found to have a defect it will be automatically relocated to a new location and the defective location mapped out In the event of an unrecoverable read error the error will be reported to the host and the location flagged as potentially defec tive A subsequent write to that location will initiate a sector test and relocation should that location have a defect 165 GLOSSARY Battery Backup Module Many modern RAID controllers are armed with a battery backup Mod ule BBM While an UPS protects most s
72. ation of storage elements that may be RAID arrays JBODs or simply areas of disks that are not part of RAID ar rays Write back When a cache is operating in write back mode data written into the cache is not immediately written out to its destination in second ary storage unless the heuristics governing the flushing of dirty data demands otherwise This methodology can improve the efficiency of write operations under favorable circumstances However its use can potentially lead to incoherences in a system that is not protected from power fluctuations or other failures Write through When a cache is operating in write through mode data written into the cache is also written to the destination secondary storage devices Essentially write completion does not occur until the data is written to secondary storage Thus the contents of the cache and the secondary storage are always consistent The advantage is that the possibility ee 169 GLOSSARY of data corruption is greatly reduced The disadvantage is that write through operations are more time consuming XOR Engine All RAID arrays with the exception of RAID 0 RAID 1 and RAID 1E require parity to be calculated and written to the array in conjunction with data Typically the parity is a simple XOR on the bytes compris ing a stripe This is a computationally intensive operation that many modern RAID controllers perform using a dedicated ASIC instead of calculating them i
73. ay events into four levels de pending on their severity These include level 1 Urgent level 2 serious level 3 Warning and level 4 Information The level 4 covers notificational events such as initialization of the con troller and initiation of the rebuilding process Level 2 covers notification events which once have happen Level 3 includes events which require the issuance of warning messages Level 1 is the highest level and covers events the need immediate attention and action from the administrator The following lists sample events for each level 113 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION A Device Event Event tevel_ meaning ho Reading Error Warning HDD reading error Keep Watching HDD status maybe it is caused by noise or HDD unstable Writing Error Warning HDD writing error Keep Watching HDD status maybe it is caused by noise or HDD unstable ATA Ecc Error Warning HDD ECC error Keep Watching HDD status maybe it is caused by noise or HDD unstable Change ATA Warning HDD change ATA Check HDD connection Mode mode Time Out Error Warning HDD Time out Keep Watching HDD status maybe it is caused by noise or HDD unstable Device Failed HDD failure Replace HDD PCI Parity Error Serious PCI Parity error If only happen once it maybe caused by noise If always happen please check power supply or contact to us Device Urgent HDD SMART failure Replace HDD Failed SMART
74. ays appear as Raid Set Click the Confirm The Operation check box and click on the Submit button on the screen the raid set will start to initialize 6 5 2 Delete Raid Set To delete a raid set click on the Deleted Raid Set link The Se lect The RAID SET To Delete screen is displayed showing all existing raid sets in the current controller Click the raid set num ber you which to delete in the select column on the delete screen Click the Confirm The Operation check box and click on the Submit button in the screen to delete it yet fw em n ii Areca Technology Corporation Batin d m rer Drei The Haat Set Te Poirt WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 5 3 Expand Raid Set Use this option to expand a raid set when a disk is added to your system This function becomes active when at least one drive is available tow P mn Areca Technology Corporation namn rme dtii DA Rai m RAM sgesmeten cn i Pond Sero t mter Deer d met pee Meas DV tees et Fm tees fremd beers LI at Teen To expand a raid set click on the Expand Raid Set link Select the target raid set to be expanded Click the available disk and the Confirm The Operation check box and then click on the Submit button on the screen to add disks to the raid set 6 5 4 Activate Incomplete Raid Set If one of the disk drives is removed in power off state the raid set state will change to Incomplete State If the user wants
75. be Deleted I ChO5 80 0GBST3800 Ch08 80 0GBST380q BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 2 7 Raid Set Information To display Raid Set information move the cursor bar to the de sired Raid Set number then press the Enter key The Raid Set Information will display You can only view information for the Raid Set in this screen EI pc Raid Set Function The Raid Set Information Raid Set Name Raid Set 00 Member Disks 14 Raid State Normal Total Capacity 320 1GB Free Capacity 320 1GB Min Member Disk Size 80 0GB Member Disk Channels 1458 3 7 3 Volume Set Function Main Menu Create Volume Set Delete Volume Set Modify Volume Set Check Volume Set StopVolume Check Display Volume Info A Volume Set is seen by the host system as a single logical de vice it is organized in a RAID level within the controller utiliz ing one or more physical disks RAID level refers to the level of data performance and protection of a Volume Set A Volume Set can consume all of the capacity or a portion of the available disk capacity of a Raid Set Multiple Volume Sets can exist on a Raid Set If multiple Volume Sets reside on a specified Raid Set all De a 69 BIOS CONFIGURATION volume sets will reside on all physical disks in the Raid Set Thus each Volume Set on the Raid Set will have its data spread evenly across all the disks in the Raid Set rather than one volume set using some of the available disks
76. build may not start 166 GLOSSARY Hot Spare An extra physical disk drive in a RAID configuration that a controller can use to automatically rebuild a system drive when another drive fails The hot spare drive must have at least as mush capacity as the largest disk drive in the array or the rebuild will not start Hardware RAID versus Software RAID Beyond the different types of RAID there are two implementation forms hardware based and software based Hardware based RAID is obviously implemented at a physical level whereas software based RAID is done using the operating system It is always optimal to have RAID done at a physical hardware level Hot Swap To pull out a component from a system and plug in a new one while the power is still on and the unit is still operating NVRAM Non Volatile Random Access Memory A memory unit is equipped with a battery so that the data remain even after the main power had been switched off Actually an EEPROM used to store configuration informa tion Parity A technique used to protect a system from data loss due to faults When parity is implemented RAID3 and RAID5 data written is logi cally XOR d together to calculate parity which is stored on the drives along with the data In a system with three drives the data is written to two drives and the calculated parity is stored on a third drive If one drive fails data on the failed drive is reconstructed from other data and
77. ct your local dealer Step 2 Power PC Server Off Turn off computer and remove the AC power cord Remove the system s cover See the computer system documentation for in struction Step 3 Install the PCI RAID Cards To install the SATA RAID adapter remove the mounting screw and existing bracket from the rear panel behind the selected PCI slot Align the gold fingered edge on the card with the selected PCI ex pansion slot Press down gently but firmly to ensure that the card is properly seated in the slot as shown in Figure 2 10 Next screw the bracket into the computer chassis 11xx cards can fit in both PCI 32 bit 3 3V and PCI X slots It can get the best performance installed in a 64 bit 133MHz PCI X slot 12xx cards require a PCI Express 8X slot J SATA Ports SS 64 bit PCI Slots 3 3V 32 bit PCI Stots 3 3 Figure 2 10 Insert PCI RAID Card into a PCI slot 38 HARDWARE INSTALLATION Step 4 Mount the Cages or Drives Remove the front bezel from the computer chassis and install the Cages or SATA Drives in the computer chassis Loading drives to the drive tray if cages are installed Be sure that the power is con nected to either the Cage backplane or the individual drives Figure 2 11 Mount Cages amp Drives Step 5 Connect the SATA cable Model ARC 11XX and ARC 12XX cards have dual layer SATA in ternal connectors If you have not already connected your SATA cables use th
78. d to protect your equipment and data carefully read the information following the package content list before you begin installing Package Contents If your package is missing any of the items listed below contact your local dealer before proceeding with installation disk drives and disk mounting brackets are not included ARC 11xx Series SATA RAID Controller 1 x PCI X SATA RAID Controller in an ESD protective bag 4 8 12 16 24 x SATA interface cables one per port 1 x Installation CD 1 x User Manual ARC 11xxML 12xxML Series SATA RAID Controller e 1 x PCI X SATA RAID Controller in an ESD protective bag e 1 x Installation CD e 1 x User Manual ARC 12xx Series SATA RAID Controller 1 x PCI Express SATA RAID Controller in an ESD protective bag 4 8 12 16 24 x SATA interface cables one per port 1 x Installation CD 1 x User Manual 31 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 2 2 Board Layout Follow the instructions below to install a PCI RAID Card into your PC Server 4 8 SATA ports LCD I2C Module Connector i X d g E HDDLED fa connector Fault LED connector Backup Battery Connector Figure 2 1 ARC 1110 1120 4 8 port PCI X SATA RAID Controller 4 8 SATA ports LCD I2C Module Connector 1 B HDD LED connector Fault LED connector Backup Battery Connector Figure 2 2 ARC 1210 1220 4 8 port PCI Express SATA RAID Con ey troller r 1 32 HARDWA
79. de software was downloaded Select the File name and click Open 3 Click Confirm The Operation and press the Submit button 4 The Web Browser begins to download the firmware binary to the controller and start to update the flash ROM 5 After the firmware upgrade is complete a bar indicator will show Firmware Has Been Updated Successfully 6 After the new firmware completes downloading find a chance to restart the controller computer for the new firmware to take effect Upgrading Entire Flash ROM ImageThrough Arcflash DOS Utility Areca now offers an alternative means of communication for the PCI X PCIe RAID Adapter Upgrade the entire Flash ROM image User can upgrade the entire Flash ROM image without needing system starting up running the ArcHttp proxy The Arcflash util ity program is a DOS application which runs in the DOS operating system To ensure proper communications between the PCI X PCIe RAID Adapter and upgrade DOS utility Please make a bootable DOS floppy diskette from other Windows operating system and i I siet 147 APPENDIX boot up the system from this bootable DOS floppy diskette New releases Flash ROM image is available in the form of a DOS file The file available for each model contains the following format in each version ARCXXXROM BIN Flash ROM Image Binary Code where
80. disk failure while initialing If using Fast Initialization the initialization process must be completed before the volume set is ready for system accesses 1 3 3 2 Array Roaming The ARC 11xx 12xx RAID adapters store RAID configuration information on the disk drives The adapters therefor protect E EE E ACA ACE 16 INTRODUCTION the configuration settings in the event of controller failure Array roaming allows the administrators the ability to move a comple tele raid set to another system without losing RAID configuration information or data on that raid set So if a server fails the raid set disk drives can be moved to another server with an identical RAID card and the disks can be inserted in any order 1 3 3 3 Online Capacity Expansion Online Capacity Expansion makes it possible to add one or more physical drives to a volume set without interrupting server op eration eliminating the need to backup and restore after recon figuration of the raid set When disks are added to a raid set unused capacity is added to the end of the raid set Then data on the existing volume sets residing on the newly expanded raid set is redistributed evenly across all the disks A contigu ous block of unused capacity is made available on the raid set The unused capacity can be used to create additional volume sets A disk to be added to a Raid set must be in normal mode not failed free not spare in a raid set or passed th
81. e are working The firm ware embedded Web Browser based RAID manager can access it from any standard internet browser or from any host computer either directly connected or via a LAN or WAN with no software or patches required DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is a protocol that lets network administrators manage centrally and automate the assignment of IP Internet Protocol configurations on a computer network When using the Internet s set of protocols TCP IP in order for a computer system to communicate to another com puter system it needs a unique IP address Without DHCP the IP address must be entered manually at each computer system a uum 2 137 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 138 DHCP lets a network administrator supervise and distribute IP addresses from a central point The purpose of DHCP is to provide the automatic dynamic allocation of IP client configurations for a specific time period called a lease period and to eliminate the work necessary to administer a large IP network To configure the raid controller Ethernet port move the cursor bar to the main menu and click on the System Controls link The Sys tem Controls menu will show all items Move the cursor bar to the EtherNet Config item then press Enter key to select the desired function Ot Pee ee pm iiti Areca Technolog Corporation Fiber O mt
82. e cables included with your kit to connect the control ler to the SATA hard drives The cable connectors are all identical so it does not matter which end you connect to your controller SATA hard drive or cage back plane SATA connector Figure 2 12 SATA Cable EC Note The SATA cable connectors must match your HDD cage For example Channel 1 of RAID Card connects to channel 1 of HDD cage channel 2 of RAID Card connects to channel 2 of HDD cage and follow this rule HARDWARE INSTALLATION Step 5 2 Connect the Multi lance cable Model ARC 11XXML has multi lance internal connectors each of them can support up to four SATA drives These adapters can be installed in a server RAID enclosure with a Multi lance connector SFF 8470 backplane Multi lance cables are not included in the ARC 11XXML package If you have not already connected your Multi lance cables use the cables included with your enclosure to connect your controller to the Multi lance connector backplane The type of cable will depend on what enclosure you have The following diagram shows the pic ture of Multi lane cable Unpack and remove the PCI RAID cards Inspect it carefully If any thing is missing or damaged contact your local dealer Figure 2 13 Multi Lance Cable Step 5 3 Connect the Min SAS 4i to 4 SATA cable Model ARC 1230ML 1260ML 1280ML have Min SAS 4i SFF 8087 internal connectors each of them can support up to four SATA dri
83. e integrity of redundant data For example performing a consistency check of a mirrored drive assures that the data on both drives of the mirrored pair is exactly the same To verify RAID 3 5 or 6 redun dancy a consistency check reads all associated data blocks com putes parity reads parity and verifies that the computed parity matches the read parity Consistency checks are very important because they detect and correct parity errors or bad disk blocks in the drive A consistency check forces every block on a volume to be read and any bad blocks are marked those blocks are not used again This is criti cal and important because a bad disk block can prevent a disk rebuild from completing We strongly recommend that you run consistency checks on a regular basis at least once per week Note that consistency checks degrade performance so you should run them when the system load can tolerate it 1 6 Data Protection 1 6 1 BATTERY BACKUP Areca controllers are armed with a Battery Backup Module BBM While a Uninterruptible Power Supply UPS protects most servers from power fluctuations or failures a BBM provides an additional level of protection In the event of a power failure a BBM supplies power to retain data in the RAID controller s cache thereby per mitting any potentially dirty data in the cache to be flushed out to secondary storage when power is restored The batteries in the BBM are recharged continuously through a t
84. e or download from areca com tw 159 APPENDIX Appendix D General Troubleshooting Tips Most of controller errors are traceable to external factors such as conflicts with other installed cards motherboard incompatibility bad or incorrectly configured drives loose cables improper control ler installation or other installation errors To troubleshoot SATA RAID controller problems try simplifying your hardware configuration by removing some other devices from the system and then adding them back one at a time Look for the latest information on SATA RAID Controllers as well as the newest drivers on the ARECA web site at http www areca com tw The following general guidelines are for some specific er ror conditions Q1 The BIOS Message of the SATA RAID controller never appears on the screen Answer 1 Ensure the controller is inserted correctly into the PCI slot 2 Ensure 3 3 volts are being supplied to the PCI slot 3 Check the cabling between the SATA drives or enclosure the SATA RAID controller Q2 How many SATA RAID controllers can be installed into a computer system Answer Up to 4 RAID controllers in a system are supported Q3 The boot device cannot found Answer Enter the system BIOS setup utility Per manufacture directions and configure it so that the RAID card volume set is once again select ed as the primary boot device or first in the boot device list 160 APPENDIX Q4 What
85. e volume set is ready for system accesses In Fast Initialization initiation is completed more quickly but volume access by the operating system is delayed 11 If space remains in the raid set the next volume set can be configured Repeat steps 8 to 10 to configure another volume set 58 BIOS CONFIGURATION A user can use this method to examine the existing configura tion The modify volume set configuration method provides the same functions as the create volume set configuration method In the volume set function you can use modify volume set to change all volume set parameters except for capacity size 3 7 Main Menu The main menu shows all functions that are available for executing actions which is accomplished by clicking on the appropriate link Main Menu Quick Volume Raid Setup The manufacture bob gee ac default password is Volume Set Function Physical Drives set to 0000 this Raid System Function password can be Ethernet Configuration Verify Pass s m modified by selecting Hardware Monitor Change Password System infi ti g S in the Raid System Function section ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw option Description of physical disk installed BIOS CONFIGURATION This password option allows user to set or clear the raid controller s password protection feature Once the password has been set the user can only monitor
86. ease refer to page 149 of SNMP commu nity name The system Contact Name and Location that will be shown in the outgoing SNMP Trap e SNMP Trap Notification Configurations Please refer to page 107 of Event Notification Configurations 6 8 5 NTP Configuration 12 16 24 port The Network Time Protocol NTP is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem It provides accuracies typically within a millisecond on LANs and up to a few tens of milliseconds on WANs relative to Coordinated Universal E Obi Pts E Areca Technolog Corporation Lo TP Sornos Cnm ee d Ine e a cee fee Lame mga awe ecu Time UTC via a Global Positioning Service GPS receiver for example e NTP Sever Address The most important factor in providing accurate reliable time is the selection of NTP servers to be used in the configuration file Typical NTP configurations utilize multiple redundant servers and diverse network paths in order to achieve high accuracy and re liability Our NTP configuration supports two existing public NTP synchronization subnets WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION e Time Zone Time Zone conveniently runs in the system tray and allows you to easily view the date and time in various locations around the world You can also quickly and easily add your own personal locations to customize Time Zone the way y
87. ect the target Hot Spare disk to delete by clicking on the ap propriate check box Click the Confirm The Operation check box and click the Sub mit button on the screen to delete the hot spares 6 5 7 Rescue Raid Set When the system is powered off in the Raidset update creation period it possibly could disappear due to this abnormal condition P RH JM Jm 124 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION The RESCUE function can recover the missing RaidSet informa tion The RAID controller uses the time as the RaidSet signature The RaidSet may have different time after the RaidSet is recov ered The SIGANT function can regenerate the signature for the RaidSet C E Areca Technology Corporation Rete Fut dii pte T 1 Tey To Hewes Amang HARTNETT r 6 6 Volume Set Functions A volume set is seen by the host system as a single logical device It is organized in a RAID level with one or more physical disks RAID level refers to the level of data performance and protection of a volume set A volume set capacity can consume all or a por tion of the disk capacity available in a raid set Multiple volume sets can exist on a group of disks in a raid set Additional volume sets created in a specified raid set will reside on all the physical disks in the raid set Thus each volume set on the raid set will have its data spread evenly ac
88. ed first to enable the fireware embedded SNMP community configuration and install Areca SNMP extension agent in your server system If you need additional information about installation and start up the function see the SNMP operation amp Installation section in the Appendix C Single Admin Portal SAP Monitor This utility can scan for multiple RAID units on the network and monitor the controller set status It also includes a disk stress test utility to identify marginal spec disks before the RAID unit is put into a production environment For additional information see the Utility manual in the packaged CD ROM or download it from the web site http www areca com tw BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 McBIOS RAID Manager The system mainboard BIOS automatically configures the following SATA RAID controller parameters at power up e I O Port Address e Interrupt channel IRQ e Adapter ROM Base Address Use McBIOS to further configure the SATA RAID adapter to suit your server hardware and operating system 3 1 Starting the McBIOS RAID Manager This section explains how to use the McBIOS Setup Utility to con figure your RAID system The BIOS Setup Utility is designed to be user friendly It is a menu driven program residing in the firm ware which allows you to scroll through various menus and sub menus and select among the predetermined configuration options When starting a system with an SATA RAID controller installed it will
89. ervers from power fluctua tions or failures a BBM provides an additional level of protection In the event of a power failure a BBM supplies power to retain data in the RAID controller s cache thereby permitting any potentially dirty data in the cache to be flushed out to secondary storage when power is restored BIOS Basic Input Output System software is stored on a chip and provides an interface between the operating system and the hardware Usually the BIOS is built into a ROM chip installed on the motherboard so that the BIOS will always available and not affected by disk failure Cache Controller memory used to speed up data transfer to and from a disk Consistency Check In RAID check consistency verifies the correctness of redundant data in an array For example in a system with dedicated parity checking consistency means computing the parity of the data drives and com paring the results to the contents of the dedicated parity drive Driver It is a piece of software that is often executed in kernel mode that controls a hardware device Typically drivers provide an interface by which applications can use the device in a uniform and hardware inde pendent manner Hot Spare An extra physical disk drive in a RAID configuration that controller can use to automatically rebuild a system drive when another drive fails The hot spare drive must have at least as mush capacity as the largest disk drive in the array or the re
90. es 1 or more physical drives RAID 1 requires at least 2 physical drives RAID 1 0 requires at least 4 physical drives RAID 3 requires at least 3 physical drives RAID 5 requires at least 3 physical drives RAID 6 requires at least 4 physical drives 5 After adding the desired physical drives to the current RAID Set press Yes to confirm the Create Raid Set function An Edit The Raid Set Name dialog box appears Enter 1 to 15 alphanu meric characters to define a unique identifier for this new raid set The default raid set name will always appear as Raid Set Press Enter to finish the name editing Press the Enter key when you are finished creating the current RAID Set To continue defining another RAID set repeat step 3 To begin vol ume set configuration go to step 8 Choose the Volume Set Function from the Main menu Select Create Volume Set and press the Enter key Choose a RAID set from the Create Volume From Raid Set window Press the Enter key to confirm the selection 10 Choosing Foreground Fast Completion or Background Instant Avail ability initiation during Background Initialization the initialization proceeds as a background task and the volume set is fully accessible for system reads and writes The operating system can instantly access the newly created arrays without requiring a reboot and waiting for initializa tion complete In Fast Initialization the initialization must be completed before th
91. es and rebuilds its driver database 10 The Found New Hardware Wizard summary screen ap pears click the Finish button 11 The System Settings Change dialog box appears Re move the diskette from the drive and click Yes to restart the computer to load the new drivers 12 See Chapter 5 in this manual for information on customizing your RAID volumes using Storage manager 4 2 3 1 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System When you reboot the system log in as a system administrator The following steps show how to make any new disk arrays or independent disks accessible to Windows 2000 XP 2003 This ees 104 DRIVER INSTALLATION procedure assumes that the SATA RAID controller hardware driver and Windows are installed and operational in your sys tem 1 Partition and format the new arrays or disks using Disk Ad ministrator a Choose Administrative Tools from the Start menu b Choose Computer Management from the Administrative Tools menu c Select Storage d Select Disk Management 2 Follow the on screen prompts to write a signature to the drive 3 Right click on the drive and select Create Volume from the menu 4 Follow the on screen prompts to create a volume set and to assign a disk drive letter 4 2 4 Uninstall controller from Windows 2000 XP 2003 To remove the SATA RAID controller driver from the Windows sys tem follow the instructions below 1 Ensure that you have closed a
92. es both members of a mirrored pair During writes there will be a minor performance penalty when compared to writing to a single disk If one drive fails all data and software applica tions are preserved on the other drive RAID 1 offers extremely high data reliability but at the cost of doubling the required data storage capacity Logical disk Array Management an Block 0 g Physical Disk DO Disk 1 Disk 2 26 INTRODUCTION 1 7 3 RAID 1E RAID 1E is a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1 combing strip ping with disk mirroring RAID Level 10 combines the fast per formance of Level 0 with the data redundancy of Level 1 In this configuration data is distributed across several disk drives similar to Level 0 which are then duplicated to another set of drive for data protection RAID 1E has been traditionally imple mented using an even number of disks some hybrids can use an odd number of disks as well Illustration is an example of a hy brid RAID 1E array comprised of five disks A B C D and E In this configuration each strip is mirrored on an adjacent disk with wrap around In fact this scheme or a slightly modified version of it is often referred to as RAID 1E and was originally proposed by IBM When the number of disks comprising a RAID 1E is even the striping pattern is identical to that of a traditional RAID 1E with each disk being mirrored by exactly one other unique disk
93. et 00 Member Disks 14 Raid State Migrating Total Capacity 160 1GB Free Capacity 144 1GB Min Member Disk Size 40 0GB Member Disk Channels 1234 When one of the disk drives is removed in power off state the raid set state will change to Incomplete State If a user wants to continue to work while the SATA RAID controller is powered on the user can use the Activate Raid Set option to active the raid set After user selects this function the Raid State will change to Degraded Mode TT Md 67 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 2 5 Create Hot Spare Maja Ma Di 4 Raid Set Function os concer 0 em i Ch08 80 0GBST380q Raid Set Information No Harawearemormo System information When you choose the Create Hot Spare option in the Raid Set Function all unused physical devices connected to the current controller will result in the following Select the target disk by clicking on the appropriate check box Press the Enter key to select a disk drive and press Yes in the Create Hot Spare to designate it as a hot spare The create Hot Spare option gives you the ability to define a global hot spare 3 7 2 6 Delete Hot Spare Select the target Hot Spare disk to delete by clicking on the ap propriate check box Press the Enter keys to select a disk drive and press Yes in the Delete Hot Spare window to delete the hot spare Maja Me TE Raid Set Function ate Raid Set Raid Se Select The HotSpare Device To
94. et is created and configured continue with next step to install the operating system 3 Insert the Windows setup CD and reboot the system to begin the Windows installation Note The computer system BIOS must support bootable from CD ROM 101 DRIVER INSTALLATION 4 Press F6 as soon as the Windows screen shows Setup is inspecting your Computer s hardware Configuration A message stating Press F6 to specify thrid party RAID con troller will display during this time This must be done or else the Windows installer will not prompt for the driver for from the SATA RAID controller and the driver diskette will not be recog nized 5 The next screen will show Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage device installed in your system Selected specify additional SCSI adapter by pressing S 6 Window will prompt to place the Manufacturer supplied hardware support disk into floppy drive A Insert the SATA RAID series driver diskette in drive A and press Enter 7 Window will check the floppy select the correct card and CPU type for your hardware from the listing and press Enter to install it 8 After Windows scans the hardware and finds the controller it will display Setup will load support for the following Mass Storage devices Windows 2K XP 2K3 ARC1XXO0 SATA PCI X or PCI Express RAID Controller Press Enter to continue and copy the driver files From this point on sim
95. fect free drive media can develop defects This is a common phenomenon The bit density and rotational speed of disks is increasing every year and so is the potential of problems Usually a drive can internally remap bad sectors without external help using cyclic redundancy check CRC checksums stored at the end of each sector SATA drives perform automatic defect re assignment for both read and write errors Writes are always completed if a location to be written is found to be defective the drive will automatically relocate that write command to a new location and map out the defective location If there is a recoverable read error the cor rect data will be transferred to the host and that location will be tested by the drive to be certain the location is not defective If it is found to have a defect data will be automatically relocated and the defective location is mapped out to prevent future write attempts In the event of an unrecoverable read error the error will be reported to the host and the location flagged as potentially defec tive A subsequent write to that location will initiate a sector test and relocation should that location have a defect Auto Reassign i 23 INTRODUCTION Sector does not affect disk subsystem performance because it runs as a background task Auto Reassign Sector discontinues when the operating system makes a request 1 5 3 Consistency Check A consistency check is a process that verifies th
96. from one RAID level to another when a Volume set strip size changes or when a disk is added to a Raid Set Migration status is displayed in the volume status area of the Volume Set Information screen when moving from one RAID level to another when a Volume set strip size changes or when a disk is added to a Raid Set NEN A Unc e 79 BIOS CONFIGURATION 80 3 7 3 4 Check Volume Set wW ITE MOMO System information ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Use this option to verify the correctness of the redundant data in a volume set For example in a system with a dedicated parity disk drive a volume set check entails computing the parity of the data disk drives and comparing those results to the contents of the dedicated parity disk drive To check Volume Set from Raid Set system function move the cursor bar to the Volume Set Functions menu and select the Check Volume Set item then press the Enter key The Volume Set Functions menu will show all Raid Set number items Move the cursor bar to an Raid Set number item and then press the Enter key to show all Volume Set items Select the Volume Set to be checked from the list and press Enter to select it After completing the selection the con firmation screen appears presse
97. g configura tion Click the Confirm The Operation check box and click on the Sub mit button in the Quick Create screen the raid set and volume set will start to initialize If volume capacity will exceed 2TB controller will show the Greater 2 TB volume Support sub menu Greater Two TB Volume Support No 64bit LBA and For Windows For more details please download PDF file from ftp ftp areca com tw RaidCards Documents Manual Spec Over2TB 050721 zip 6 5 RaidSet Functions Use the Raid Set Function and Volume Set Function if you prefer to customize your system Manual configuration can provide full control of the raid set settings but it will take longer to complete than the Quick Volume Raid Setup configuration Select the Raid Set Function to manually configure the raid set for the first time or delete and reconfigure existing raid sets A raid set is a group of disks containing one or more volume sets 6 5 1 Create Raid Set To create a raid set click on the Delete Raid Set link A Select EC PM E M o Ie 121 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 122 The Drive For RAID Set screen is displayed showing the drive s connected to the current controller Click on the selected physi cal drives within the current raid set Enter 1 to 15 alphanumeric characters to define a unique identifier for a raid set The default raid set name will alw
98. ged system requires all of the following components e A supported Web browser which should already be installed on the system e Install ArcHttp proxy server on the SATA RAID system Refer to Chapter 5 Archttp Proxy Server Installation e Remote and managed systems must have a TCP IP connection Note X For windows if there is no volume set created by the MCBIOS manager Archttp program can not find raid card It will show 0 controllers found From the version 1 71 of the Archttp and the version 1 20 00 13 of the driver users no longer need to have a valid raid volume created in order to managed controller To configure the internal SATA RAID controller You need to know its IP Address 1 Launch your McRAID Storage Manager by entering http Computer IP Address port number in the web browser 2 When connection is established the System Login screen appears The SATA RAID controller default User Name is admin and the Password is 0000 e Another method to start up McRAID Storage Man ager from Windows Local Administration Screen captures in this section are taken from a Windows XP installation If you are running another version of Windows your screens may look different but the ArcHttp proxy server installa tion is essentially the same 1 To start the McRAID Storage Manager for browser based management selecting Controller 01 PCI and then click the Start Button 117 WEB BROWSER BAS
99. h model contain the following files in each version ARCXXXNNN BIN Software Binary Code where XXXX refers to the model name and NNNN refers to the software code type ARCXXXBIOS BIN PCI card BIOS for system board using ARCXXXBOOT BIN RAID controller hardware initialization ARCXXXFIRM BIN RAID kernel program ARCXXXMBRO BIN Master Boot Record for supporting Dual Flash Image in the SATA II RAID controller README TXT contains the history information of the software code change in the main directory Read this file first to make sure you are upgrading to the proper binary file Select the right file for the upgrade Normally user upgrades the ARCXXXBIOS BIN for system M B compatibility and ARCXXXFIRM BIN for RAID function up grades Note Please update all Binary Code BIOS BOOT and FIRM before you reboot system Otherwise a mixed firmware package may hang the controller Upgrading Firmware Through McRAID Storage Manager Get the new version firmware for your SATA RAID controller For example download the bin file from your OEM s web site onto the C drive 146 APPENDIX ToO P em m idi Areca Technology Corporation P tee dme trem arn Upati The kat n Femmes Cn 1 To upgrade the SATA RAID controller firmware move the mouse cursor to Upgrade Firmware link The Upgrade The Raid System Firmware screen appears 2 Click Browse Look in the location to which the Firmware up gra
100. he appropriate link Individual Category Quick Function Create a default configuration which is based on the number of physical disks installed it can modify the volume set Capacity Raid Level and Stripe Size RaidSet Functions Create a customized raid set VolumeSet Functions Create customized volume sets and modify the existed volume sets parameter Physical Drives Create pass through disks and modify the existing pass through drives parameters Also provides the function to identify disk drives blinking LED System Controls Setting the raid system configuration Information Viewing the controller information The Raid Set Hierarchy can be viewed through the RaidSet Hierarchy item 6 4 Quick Function et mm h Cem m Areca Technology Corporation PE ndr dme imm dm tee ftri d futes Quick Cover Fond V cdm Sn Worse t enm ed Tad md m Tnm nm 120 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION Note In Quick Create your volume set is automatically configured based on the number of disks in your system Use the Raid Set Function and Volume Set Function if you prefer to customize your system The number of physical drives in the SATA Raid controller deter mines the RAID levels that can be implemented with the raid set You can create a raid set associated with exactly one volume set The user can change the raid level stripe size and capacity A hot spare option is also created depending upon the existin
101. he fault LED is solid When the Red LED is slow blinking illuminated there is no disk 2 times sec that disk drive has present failed and should be hot swapped immediately When the Blue LED is illuminated and Red LED is fast blinking 10 times sec there is re building activity on that disk drive Cathode Side Anode Side LCD I2C i Module Connector Figure 2 21 ARC E 1110 1120 1210 1220 a 4 Individual LED indica HDD LED tors connector for each palis channel drive Fault LED connector tm Anode Side Z oer ve oteieIeleIbIneceleoece sdb esje s Be Yellow Orange Red Brown wired Figure 2 22 ARC eei e LED pair ne 1130 1160 1230 1260 Individual LED indica Dni Fault LED HDDLED tors connector for each Connector Connector p channel drive Ed 45 HARDWARE INSTALLATION Cathode Side Figure 2 23 ARC 1170 Individual LED indicators connector for each chan nel drive LCD 12C Module Connector moure 2 24 ancioso C SCM EE Individual LED indicators connector for each chan nel drive Fault LED connector Cathodes Side HODLEDconnector Cathode Side LCD I2C Module Connector Global Fault Activity Cache write pending LED Connector Cathode Side Figure 2 25 ARC 1230ML 1260ML 1280ML Individual LED indicators connector for each channel drive HDD LED Connector Cathode Side 46 HARDWARE INSTALLATION
102. ics Schematic Open Collector Low Open Collector Low Cathode Side CTL output ARC 1170 1280 12x0ML The intelligent LED controller outputs a low level pulse to deter mine if status LEDs are attached to pin sets 1 and 2 This allows automatic controller configuration of the LED output If the logical level is different between the fist 2 sets of the HDD LED header LED attached to Set 1 but not Set 2 the controller will assign the first HDD LED header as the global indicator connector Otherwise each LED output will show only individual drive status The SATA RAID controller provides three kinds of LED status con nectors A Global indicator connector which lights when any drive is ac tive B Individual LED indicator connector for each drive channel C PC connector for SATA proprietary backplane enclosure D SGPIO connector for SAS Backplane enclosure The following diagrams and description describes each type of con nector HARDWARE INSTALLATION Note A cable for the global indicator comes with your computer sys tem Cables for the individual drive LEDs may come with a drive cage or you may need to purchase them A Global Indicator Connector If the system will use only a single global activity indicator attach the LED to the first two pins of the connector The following dia grams show the connector and pin locations LCD I2C Module Connector Global Activity LED Indicator Figure 2 16
103. idCards Documents Manual Spec Over2TB 050721 zip 61 BIOS CONFIGURATION A single volume set is created and consumes all or a portion of the disk capacity available in this raid set Define the capacity of volume set in the Available Capacity popup The default value for the volume set which is 100 of the available capacity is displayed in the selected capacity To enter a value less than the available capacity type the new value and press the Enter key to accept this value If the Volume Set uses only part of the RAID Set capacity you can use the Create Volume Set option in the main menu to define additional volume sets Available Capacity 160 1GB Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function l Selected Capacity 160 1GB J Volume Set Functi Total 4 Drives Physical Drives Raid System Func Raid 0 Ethernet Configurd Raid 1 0 View System Ever Raid 1 0 Spare Clear Event Buffer Raid 3 Hardware Monitor Raid 5 System informatio Raid 3 Spare Raid 5 Spare Stripe size This parameter sets the size of the stripe written to each disk in a RAID O 1 5 or 6 logical drive You can set the stripe size to 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB 32 KB 64 KB or 128 KB A larger stripe size produces better read performance especially if your computer does mostly sequential reads However if you Main M Available Capacity 180 168 Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Selected Capacity 160 1GB Volume Set Functi Tota
104. item and then press the Enter key The Ethernet Configuration menu appears on the screen Move the cursor bar to DHCP Function item then press Enter key to show the DHCP setting Select the Disabled or Enabled option to enable or disable the DHCP function If DHCP is disabled it will be necessary to manually enter a static IP address that does not conflict with other de vices on the network 3 7 6 2 Local IP address If you intend to set up your client computers manually no DHCP make sure that the assigned IP address is in the same range as the default router address and that it is unique to your private network However it is highly recommend to use DHCP if that option is available on your network An IP address alloca tion scheme will reduce the time it takes to set up client com puters and eliminate the possibilities of administrative errors and duplicate addresses To manually configure the IP address of the controller move the cursor bar to the Main menu Ethernet Configuration Function item and then press the Enter key The Ethernet Configuration menu appears on the screen Move the cursor bar to Local IP Address item then press the Enter key to show the default address setting in the RAID controller You can then reassign the static IP address of the controller Local IP pare rege 100 ib2 168 001 10 System information ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw BIOS CONFIGURAT
105. l 4 Drives Physical Drives Raid System Func Raid 0 Ethernet Configurd Raid 1 0 Select Sirip Size View System Eve Raid 1 0 Spare Clear Event Buffer Raid 3 Hardware Monitor Raid 5 System informatio Raid 3 Spare Raid 5 Spare BIOS CONFIGURATION are sure that your computer performs random reads more often select a smaller stripe size Press the Yes key in the Create Vol Raid Set dialog box the raid set and volume set will start to initialize it Available Capacity 160 1GB Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Selected Capacity 160 1GB Volume Set Funcfian Physical Drives Total 4 Drives Raid System Fu Raid 0 Create Vol Raid Set a Ethernet Configu i i Reid too View System Evd Bde 1 0 Yes Clear Event Buffa S Hardware Monito ER System informati Raid 5 Raid 3 Spare C Escape L Line Draw X Redraw Select Foreground Faster Completion or Background Instant Available for initialization Main M Available Capacity 160 1GB Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Selected Capacity 160 1GB Volume Set Funct Total 4 Drives Physical Drives i Raid 0 Initialization Mode Ethernet Configur Raid 1 0 View System Eve Raid 1 0 Foreground Faster Completeion Clear Event Buffel Raid 3 Background Instant Available Hardware Monitor Raid 5 System informatio Raid 3 Spare Raid 5 Spare ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw
106. lable to the operating system as an individual disk It is typically used on a system where the operating system is on a disk not controlled by the RAID firm ware The user can also select the cache mode Tagged Command Queuing SCSI channel SCSI ID SCSI LUN for this volume WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION Tow Fo m Orati F uni tiem inti Areca Technology Corporation fom Fee tw Ciara Debes beiet Qe DE Qpe For Fer Through dort rmt ate Jain m ntm we m rop TO 4 Use this option to modify the Pass Through Disk Attribute The user can modify the cache mode Tagged Command Queuing and SCSI channel ID LUN on an existing pass through disk To modify the pass through drive attribute from the pass through drive pool move the mouse cursor bar and click on the Modify Pass Through link The Select The Pass Through Disk For Modi fication screen appears mark the checkbox for the Pass Through Disk from the pass through drive pool and click on the Submit button to select drive When the Enter Pass Through Disk Attribute screen appears modify the drive attribute values as you want After you complete the selection mark the checkbox for Confirm The Operation and click on the Submit button to complete the selection action 131 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 132 6 7 3 Delete Pass Through Disk To delete a pass through drive from the pass through drive pool move the mouse cursor bar to the main menus and click the
107. le disk capacity in a RAID Set Multiple Volume Sets can exist in a Raid Set For the SATA RAID controller a volume set must be created either on an existing RAID Set or on a group of available individual disks disks that are about to become part of a raid set If there are pre existing RAID Sets with available capacity and enough disks 15 INTRODUCTION for the desired RAID level then the volume set can be created in the existing raid set of the user s choice RAID Set 1 3 Individual Disks Free Space Volume 1 RAID 5 Volume 0 10 Disk 0 Disk 1 Disk 2 In the illustration Volume 1 can be assigned a RAID 5 level of operation while Volume 0 might be assigned a RAID 10 level of operation Alterantively the Free Space can be used to create Volume 2 which could then be set to use RAID Level 5 1 3 3 Ease of Use Features 1 3 3 1 Instant Availability Background Initializa tion RAID 0 and RAID 1 volume sets can be used immediately after creation because they do not create parity data However RAID 3 5 and 6 volume sets must be initialized to generate parity information In Normal Initialization the initialization proceeds as a background task and the volume set is fully accessible for system reads and writes The operating system can instantly access the newly created arrays without requiring a reboot and without waiting for initialization to complete Furthermore the RAID volume set is protected against a single
108. lect the target disk by clicking on the appropriate check box Press the Yes key to start expansion of the raid set The new additional capacity can be utilized by one or more volume sets Follow the instruction presented in the Volume Set Function to modify the volume sets operation system specific utilities may be required to expand operating system partitions 1 Once the Expand Raid Set process has started user cannot stop it The process must be completed 2 If a disk drive fails during raid set expansion and a hot spare is available an auto rebuild operation will occur after the raid set expansion completes e Migrating 66 BIOS CONFIGURATION aZ n Mer Rii Raid Set Function The Raid Set Information Raid Set Name Raid Set 00 Member Disks 14 Raid State Migrating Total Capacity 160 1GB Free Capacity 144 1GB Min Member Disk Size 40 0GB Member Disk Channels 1234 Migration occurs when a disk is added to a Raid Set Migration status is displayed in the raid status area of the Raid Set infor mation screen when a disk is being added to a raid set Migrat ing status is also displayed in the associated volume status area of the Volume Set Information when a disk is added to a raid set 3 7 2 4 Activate Incomplete Raid Set The following screen is shows Raid Set Information after one of its disk drive was removed in the power off state Maj n Mer COHEN Raid Set Function Raid Set Name Raid S
109. ll applications and are logged in with administrative rights 2 Open Control Panel and start the Add Remove Program icon and uninstall and software for the SATA RAID controller 3 Go to Control Panel and select System Select the Hardware tab and then click the Device Manager Button In Device Man ager expand the SCSI and RAID Controllers section Right click on the ARECA SATA RAID Adapter and select uninstall 4 Click Yes to confirm removing the SATA RAID driver The prompt to restart the system will then be displayed ees 105 DRIVER INSTALLATION 4 3 Driver Installation for Linux This chapter describes how to install the SATA RAID controller driver to Red Hat Linux and SuSE Linux Before installing the SATA RAID driver to the Linux complete the following actions 1 Install and configure the controller and hard disk drives accord ing to the instructions in Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 2 Start the system and then press Tab F6 to enter the McBIOS RAID manager configuration utility Use the BIOS configuration utility to create the raid set and volume set For details see Chap ter 3 McBIOS RAID Manager If you are using a Linux distribution for which there is not a com piled driver available from ARECA you can copy the source from the SATA software CD or download the source from the ARECA website and compile a new driver Compiled and tested drivers for Red Hat and SuSE Linux are in cluded on the shipped CD
110. ller and provides power to the cache memory if it contains data not yet written to the hard drives when power failure occurs BBM Components rm Battery Connector L i rm s SATA RAID Adapter BBM s Connector THLEHEEHL E b gt EELNE bom BBM Specifications Mechanical e Module Dimension W x H x D 37 3 x 13 x 81 6 mm e BBM Connector 2 6 box header Environmental e Operating Temperature Temperature 459 C to 40 C e Humidity 45 8596 non condensing e Storage Temperature Temperature 40 C to 60 C 150 APPENDIX e Humidity 45 8596 non condensing Electrical e Input Voltage 3 6VDC e On Board Battery Capacity 1000mAH 1 1000mAH Installation 1 Make sure all power to the system is disconnected 2 Connector J1 is available for the optional battery backup module Connect the BBM cable to the 12 pin battery connector on the controller SATA Ports 32 bit PCI Slots 64 bit PCI Slots 3 Integrators may provide pre drilled holes in their cabinet for securing the BBM using its three mounting positions Battery Backup Capacity Battery backup capacity is defined as the maximum duration of a power failure for which data in the cache memory can be maintained by the battery The BBM s backup capacity varied with the memory chips that installed on the SATA RAID control ler MM E EE M 151 APPENDIX 152 Memory
111. m fails the parity information can be used to reconstruct the data from that drive All drives in the array system can be used for seek operations at the same time greatly increasing the performance of the RAID system This relieves the write bottleneck that characterizes RAID 4 and is the primary reason that RAID 5 is more often implemented in RAID arrays JAO BO CO DO A1 B1 C1 isum D2 E2 5j Keg jd uy dco n Aad i ada pd E Array Management E Logical Disk RAID 5 Block Interleaved Ditributed Parity Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 Disk 4 Disk 5 28 INTRODUCTION 1 7 6 RAID 6 RAID 6 provides the highest reliability but is not yet widely used It is similar to RAID 5 but it performs two different parity com putations or the same computation on overlapping subsets of the data RAID 6 can offer fault tolerance greater than RAID 1 or RAID 5 but only consumes the capacity of 2 disk drives for dis tributed parity data RAID 6 is an extension of RAID 5 but uses a second independent distributed parity scheme Data is striped on a block level across a set of drives and then a second set of par ity is calculated and written across all of the drives pe Bo DO LI P D2 2 F2 Bee Logical Disk J Array ana a ent RAID 6 P Q Redundancy ud d 3 3 EE a Duk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 Disk a Disk 5 Disk 6 Summary of RAID Levels The SATA RAID controller supports RAID Levels 0 1 1E 3
112. n firmware on the main embedded processor s core This dedicated ASIC is often referred to as a XOR engine 170 History Version History Revision Page Description 3 1 p35 p36 p44 Revised illustration of ARC p46 1230ML 1260ML 1280ML 1280 3 1 p53 97 Corrected the misspelled words and now all contents without chinese characters 3 1 p82 Fixed screen of View Drive Information 3 1 p61 p73 Added Greater Two TB Volume p120 p126 Support 3 1 pi5 Added introduction of ARC 1230ML 1260ML 1280ML 1280 3 1 p35 p36 p44 Added illustration of ARC p46 1230ML 1260ML 1280ML 1280 3 1 p40 p41 Added two cables of Min SAS 4i to 4 SATA cable and Min SAS 4i to Multi lance cable 3 1 p107 Added description of driver in stallation for Solaris and Mac X 3 1 piii Added description of ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION for Solaris 10 X86 and Mac OS 10 X 3 1 p42 p48 Added description of SGPIO connector 171
113. n the volume into the operating sys tem partition The operating system partition is extended to incorporate the free space so it can be used by the operating system without creating a new operating system partition You can use the Diskpart exe command line utility included with Windows Server 2003 or the Windows 2000 Resource Kit to ex tend an existing partition into free space in the Dynamic disk Third party software vendors have created utilities that can be used to repartition disks without data loss Most of these utilities work offline Partition Magic is one such utility 1 4 High availability 1 4 1 Global Hot Spares A Global Hot Spare is an unused online available drive which is ready for replacing the failure disk The Global Hot Spares is one of the most important features that ARC 11xx 12xx RAID adapt ers provide to deliver a high degree of fault tolerance A global Hot Spare is a spare physical drive that has been marked as a global hot spare and therefore is not a member of any Raid set If a disk drive used in a RAID Volume Set fails then the Global Hot spare will automatically take its place and he data previously lo cated on the failed drive is reconstructed on the Global Hot spare For this feature to work properly the global hot spare must have at least the same capacity as the drive it replaces Global Hot spares only work with RAID level 1 1E 3 5 or 6 volume set You can configure up to three Global hot sp
114. nder Windows platform only And it CAN NOT be converted to Dynamic Disk because 4k sector size is not a standard format For more details please download PDF file from ftp ftp areca com tw RaidCards Documents Manual Spec Over2TB 050721 zip i Volume Creation Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level 2 Capacity 160 1GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID 230 System informa SCSI LUN 0 Cache Mode Write Back RET Ke INI Enabled ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw e Strip Size This parameter sets the size of the segment written to each disk in a RAID O 1 5 or 6 logical drive You can set the stripe size to 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB 32 KB 64 KB or 128 KB BIOS CONFIGURATION e SCSI Channel Main Menu Volume Creation Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level 5 Capacity 160 1GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID ex SCSI LUN BED Cache Mode Write Back RES Kev ure Enabled The SATA RAID controller function simulates a SCSI RAID con troller The host bus represents the SCSI channel Choose the SCSI Channel A Select SCSI Channel dialog box appears se lect the channel number and press the Enter key to confirm it e SCSI ID i Volume Creation Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level 2b Capacity 160 1GB Stripe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled Each device attached
115. ngle Admin portal to Windows 2000 XP 2003 scan for multiple RAID units in the net work Via ArcHttp Proxy Server From version 1 6 and later the HTTP management software Archttp runs as a service or daemon and have it automatically start the proxy for all controllers found This way the controller can be managed re motely without having to sign in the server The HTTP management software Archttp also has integrated the email notification The email notification can be configured in local or remote standard web browser Note If your controller have onboard LAN port you dont need to install ArcHttp proxy Server you can use McRAID Storage Manager directly 108 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 5 1 For Windows You must have administrative level permissions to install SATA RAID software This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID hard ware and Windows are installed and operational in your system Screen captures in this section are taken from a Windows XP instal lation If you are running another version of Windows your instala tion screen may look different but the ArcHttp proxy server instal lation is essentially the same 1 Insert the RAID subsystem CD in the CD ROM drive 2 Run the setup exe file that resides at lt CD ROM gt PACKAGES Windows http setup exe on the CD ROM 3 The screen shows Preparing to install Follow the on screen prompts to complete ArcHttp Proxy Server software installati
116. nitor To view the RAID controller s hardware monitor information move the mouse cursor to the main menu and click the Hardware Monitor link The Hardware Information screen appears The Hardware Monitor Information provides the temperature and fan speed I O Processor fan of the PCI SATA RAID controller Fan Speed RPM 2178 Battery Status Not Installed HDD 1 Temp HDD 2 Temp View System HDD 43 Temp 48 Clear Event HDD 4 Temp HDD 5 Temp HDD 6 Temp 49 HDD 7 Temp HDD 8 Temp ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 10 System Information Choose this option to display Main processor CPU Instruction cache and data cache size firmware version serial number controller model name and the cache memory size To check the system information move the cursor bar to System Information TT eee 97 BIOS CONFIGURATION item then press Enter key All relevant controller information will be displayed Raid Set Fun The System Inform Main Processor 500MHz IOP331 CPU ICache Size 32KB Raid System CPU DCache Size 32KB Write Back System Inforr MEET VENT 128MB 333MHz View System Firmware Version V1 31 2004 5 31 Clear Event BOOT ROM Version V1 34 2004 9 29 Hardware Mo Serial Number 1100 2116 6633 System infor Controller Name ARC 1120 ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw
117. ol in Serial ATA that can only be implemented on native Serial ATA hard drives It allows multiple commands to be outstanding within a drive at the same time Drives that support NCQ have an internal queue where outstanding commands can be dynami EIER ee 88 BIOS CONFIGURATION cally rescheduled or re ordered along with the necessary track ing mechanisms for outstanding and completed portions of the workload The RAID Controller allows the user to choose the SATA Mode SATA150 SATA150 NCQ SATA300 SATA300 NCQ 3 7 5 7 HDD Read Ahead Cache Allow Read Ahead Default Enabled When Enabled the drive s read ahead cache algorithm is used providing maximum performance under most circumstances HDD Read Ahead Cache d Enabled Disable Maxtor Disabled d mui A Mode d Stagger Power on Empty HDD slot LED HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 5 8 Stagger Power On In a PC system with only one or two drives the power can sup ply enough power to spin up both drives simultaneously But in systems with more than two drives the startup current from spinning up the drives all at once can overload the power sup ply causing damage to the power supply disk drives and other system component
118. olume set The McRAID storage manager is firmware based utility which is ac cessible via the browser installed on your operating system The Web Browser based McRAID Storage Manager is a HTML based application which utilizes the browser IE Netscape and Mozilla etc installed on your monitor station It can be accessed through the In Band PCI X PCIe bus or Out of Band ethernet port The In Band method via archttp proxy server to launch the Web Browser based McRAID Storage Manager The firmware em bedded Web Browser based McRAID storage manager allows local or remote to access it from any standard internet browser via a LAN or WAN with no software or patches required The firmware contains SMTP manager monitors all system events and user can select either single or multiple user notifications to be sent via LAN with Plain Eng lish e mails The firmware embedded SNMP agent allows remote to monitor events via LAN with no SNMP agent required e Create raid set e Expand raid set e Define volume set e Add physical drive e Modify volume set e Modify RAID level stripe size e Define pass through disk drives e Modify system function e Update firmware e Designate drives as hot spares 6 1 Start up McRAID Storage Manager With the McRAID Storage Manager you can locally manage a sys tem containing a SATA RAID controller that has Windows or Linux 116 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION and a supported browser A locally mana
119. ommunity name SNMP Trap Notification Configruations The Community Name should be the same as firmware embedded SNMP Community The SNMP Trap Notification Configruations include level 1 serious level 2 error level 3 Warning and level 4 Information The level 4 covers notification events such as initialization of the controller and initiation of the rebuilding process Level 3 includes events which require the issuance of warning messages Level 2 covers notification events which once have happen Level 1 is the highest level and covers events the need immediate attention and action from the administrator Please refer to page 104 of email event Notification Configurations SNMP Extension Agent Installation for Linux You must have administrative level permission to install SATA RAID software This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID EEE eee 158 APPENDIX hardware and Linux are installed and operational in your system For the SNMP Extension Agent Installation for Linux procedure please refer to lt CD ROM gt packages Linux SNMP Readme or download from areca com tw SNMP Extension Agent Installation for FreeBSD You must have administrative level permission to install SATA RAID software This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID hardware and FreeBSD are installed and operational in your system For the SNMP Extension Agent Installation for FreeBSD procedure please refer to lt CD ROM gt packages FreeBSD SNMP Readm
120. on A program bar appears that measures the progress of the ArcHttp setup When this screen complete you have completed the ArcHttp Proxy Server software setup 4 After a successful installation the Setup Complete dialog box is displayed Click the Finish button to complete the installation Las 5 See the next chapter detailing the McRAID storage manager to customize your RAID volume set unm X X M EEE emend 109 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 5 2 For Linux You must have administrative level permissions to install SATA RAID software This procedure assumes that the SATA RAID hard ware and Linux are installed and operational in your system The following details the Linux installation procedure of the SATA RAID controller software 1 Insert the SATA RAID controller CD in the CD ROM drive 2 Copy lt CD ROM gt PACKAGES Linux http directory to local Ex usr local sbin 3 Setting up the archttpsrv conf of ArcHttp configuration For example Http Section Mail Section EvtLevel etc Please refer to main conf We recommend you use remote mail configura tion Usage archttp32 TCP PORT or archttp64 TCP PORT It depends on your OS version Parameters TCP PORT value 1 65535 If TCP PORT assigned Archttp will start from this port Otherwise it will use the setting in archttpsrv conf 4 Runing the ArcHttp file then ArcHttp screen appears
121. oration P ommo T Hn DPI Vaid Sort Meran e Bir Comm di LLL Omi roco Otan tea dtii reca Fechnologs Corporation 1 Click on the Check Volume Set link 2 Click on the volume set from the list that you wish to check Tick on Confirm The Operation and click on the Submit button Use this option to verify the correctness of the redundant data in a volume set For example in a system with dedicated parity vol ume set check means computing the parity of the data disk drives and comparing the results to the contents of the dedicated parity disk drive The checking percentage can also be viewed by click ing on RaidSet Hierarchy in the main menu Ee a kc B Aie 129 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 6 6 5 Stop VolumeSet Check Pow Fano n aiian il Areca Technology Corporation Y ense se fme he Setet Thr lm Bet Te Br Cn Use this option to stop the Check Volume Set function 6 7 Physical Drive Pous rane m IMMNAR MM il Areca Technology Corporation V ense fma hme i out Set Choose this option to select a physical disk from the Main Menu and then perform the operations listed below 130 6 7 1 Create Pass Through Disk To create pass through disk move the mouse cursor to the main menu and click on the Create Pass Through link The relative setting function screen appears A pass through disk is not controlled by the SATA RAID controller firmware it cannot be a part of a volume set The disk is avai
122. ou want e Automatic Daylight Saving Automatic Daylight Saving will normally attempt to automati cally adjust the system clock for daylight saving changes based on the computer time zone This tweak allows you to disable the automatic adjustment 6 8 6 View Events Mute Beeper To view the SATA RAID controller s information click on the Sys tem Information link The SATA Raid controller events Information screen appears Choose this option to view the system events information Timer Device Event type Elapse Time and Errors The RAID system does not have a built in real time clock The Time information is the relative time from the SATA RAID controller power on owt fe T hene m 3 md VWweca Technology Corporation Sommier lam tm TAN Te To Try a Lon 6 8 7 Generate Test Event Use this feature is to generate events for testing purposes EON CX ANM MN NNNM JA NC CNRC MS c meer 141 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION ti pm Giles Parton S d Vreca Technolog Corporation quem Pome seme BP At anes 6 8 8 Clear Events Buffer Use this feature to clear the entire events buffer information ond fm Ct aa uaa 3 id Arcea Technology Corporation IL PT a beers rem mmm i P Cred 6 8 9 Modify Password To set or change the SATA RAID controller password select Raid System Function from the menu and click on the Change Pass word link The Modify System Password screen appears The man
123. parity PCI Express An advanced version of the PCI bus introduced in 2002 Rather than the shared parallel bus structure of PCI PCI Express provides a high r C1 167 GLOSSARY speed switched architecture Each PCI Express link is a serial commu nications channel made up of two differential wire pairs that provide 2 5 Gbits sec in each direction Up to 32 channels may be combined creating a parallel interface of independently controlled serial links PCI X PCI extended an enhanced PCI bus technology is backward compat ible with existing PCI cards PCI and PCI X slots are physically the same PCI cards run in PCI X slots and PCI X cards run in PCI slots at the slower PCI rates First introduced in 1999 PCI X offered increased speed over PCI and has steadily increased to more than 30 times that of the original PCI bus RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks a disk subsystem that is used to increase performance or provide fault tolerance RAID can also be set up to provide both functions at the same time RAID is a set of two or more ordinary hard disks and a specialized disk controller that contains the RAID functionality RAID has been developed initially for servers and stand alone disk storage systems RAID is important espe cially when rebuilding data after a disk failure Rebuild When a RAID array enters into
124. pe Size 64K SCSI Channel 0 SCSI ID 210 System inform SCSI LUN 0 Cache Mode Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled As shown volume information can be modified at this screen Choose this option to display the properties of the selected Vol ume Set all values can be modified except the capacity SSE 78 BIOS CONFIGURATION e Volume Growth Use this option to expand a raid set when a disk is added to the system The additional capacity can be used to enlarge the volume set size or to create another volume set The modify volume set function can support the volume set expansion function To expand the volume set capacity from the raid set system function move the cursor bar to the volume set vol ume capacity item and entry the capacity size Select Confirm The Operation and select on the Submit button to complete the action The volume set start to expand Note When you expand a volume capacity to greater than 2TB Vol ume will used LBA64 mode by default so please make sure of your system support LBA64 Volume Set Name Volume Set 00 Raid Set Name Raid Set 00 Volume Capacity 160 1GB Volume State Migration SCSI CH Id Lun 0 0 0 RAID Level 216 Stripe Size 64K Member Disk 14 Cache Attribute Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor Enter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw e Volume Set Migration Migrating occurs when a volume set is migrating
125. ply follow the Microsoft Windows installation procedure Follow the on screen instruc tions responding as needed to complete the installation 9 After the installation is completed reboot the system to load the new drivers operating system 10 See Chapter 5 in this manual to customize your RAID vol ume sets using Storage manager 4 2 2 2 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System When you reboot the system log in as a system administrator 102 DRIVER INSTALLATION Continue with the following steps to make any additional volume sets or pass through disks accessible to Windows This proce dure assumes that the SATA RAID controller hardware driver and Windows are installed and operational in your system 1 Partition and format the new volume set or disks using Disk Administrator a Choose Administrative Tools from the Start menu b Choose Computer Management from the Administrative Tools menu c Select Storage d Select Disk Management 2 Follow the on screen prompts to write a signature to the drive 3 Right click on the disk drive and select Create Volume from the menu 4 Follow the on screen prompts to create a volume set and to give a disk drive letter 4 2 3 Installing controller into an existing Win dows 2000 XP 2003 Installation In this scenario you are installing the controller in an existing Windows system To install the driver 1 Follow the instructions in Chapter 2 the
126. ported by the SATA RAID controller The SATA RAID controller makes the RAID implementation and the disks physical configuration transparent to the host operat ing stem This means that the host operating system drivers and software utilities are not affected regardless of the RAID level selected Correct installation of the disk array and the control ler requires a proper understanding of RAID technology and the concepts 1 7 1 RAID O RAID O also referred to as striping writes stripes of data across multiple disk drives instead of just one disk drive RAID 0 does not provide any data redundancy but does offer the best high HEEREREC eee 25 INTRODUCTION speed data throughput RAID 0 breaks up data into smaller blocks and then writes a block to each drive in the array Disk strip ing enhances performance because multiple drives are accessed simultaneously the reliability of RAID Level 0 is less because the entire array will fail if any one disk drive fails due to a lack of redundancy AD A1 A2 A3 B0 B1 B2 B3 CO C1 C2 C3 TEXTES Logical Disk Management RAID 0 Striping Block 0 EEL 0 0 1 Block 2 Block 3 1 7 2 RAID 1 RAID 1 is also known as disk mirroring data written to one disk drive is simultaneously written to another disk drive Read per formance may be enhanced if the array controller can in parallel access
127. possible to migrate to a higher RAID level by adding a disk disks in an existing array can t be reconfigured for a higher RAID level without adding a disk Online migration is only permitted to begin If all volume to be migrated are in the normal mode During the migration pro cess the volume sets being migrated are accessed by the host system In addition the volume sets with RAID levels 1 1E 3 5 or 6 are protected against data loss in the event of disk failure s In the case of disk failure the volume set transitions from migrating state to migrating degraded state When the migration is completed the volume set transitions to degraded mode If a global hot spare is present then it further transitions to rebuilding state 1 3 3 5 Online Volume Expansion Performing a volume expansion on the controller is the process of growing only the size of the lastest volume A more flexible option is for the array to concatenate an additional drive into the RAID set and then expand the volumes on the fly This happens ER EAE 19 INTRODUCTION transparently while the volumes are online but at the end of the process the operating system will detect free space at after the existing volume the free space will not automatically be incorporated into the existing operating system partition Windows NetWare and other advanced operating systems sup port volume expansion which enables you to incorporate the additional free space withi
128. pport SCSI Miniport and StorPort Drivers for Windows Server 2003 4 2 1 New Storage Device Drivers in Windows Server 2003 100 DRIVER INSTALLATION The Storport driver is new to Windows Server 2003 Storport im plements a new architecture designed for better performance with RAID systems and in Storage Area Network SAN environments Storport delivers higher I O throughput enhanced manageability and an improved miniport interface Storport better utilizes faster adapters through the use of reduced Delay Procedure Call DPC and improved queue management 4 2 2 Install Windows 2000 XP 2003 on a SATA RAID Volume The following instructions explain how to install the SATA RAID controller Driver For completed details on installing Windows see the Windows User s Manual 4 2 2 1 Installation procedures The following procedures detail installing the SATA RAID control ler driver while installing Windows 2000 XP 2003 Have your bootable Microsoft Windows 2000 XP 2003 CD ROM and follow the required procedure below to install SATA RAID controller 1 Make sure you follow the instructions in Chapter 2 Hard ware Installation to install the controller and connect the disk drives or enclosure 2 Start the system and then press Tab F6 to access the McBI OS RAID manager Use the McBIOS manager to create the RAID set and volume set to which you will install Windows For de tails see Chapter 3 McBIOS RAID manager Once a volume s
129. r bar to the desired item and then press the Enter key to show all Pass Through Disk Attributes Select the parameter from the list to be changed and them press the Enter key to modify it 83 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 4 4 Delete Pass Through Disk Select The Drive Delete Pass Through dl Ch01 80 0GB Pass Hardware Monitor System information J To delete a Pass through drive from the Pass through drive pool move the cursor bar to the Physical Drive Function menu and select the Delete Pass Through Drive item then press the Enter key The Delete Pass Through confirmation screen will appear select Yes to delete it 3 7 4 5 Identify Selected Drive Physical Drive Information Cii Select The Drive tif Ch01 80 0GB RaidSet Member ST380013AS Ch04 80 0GB RaidSet Member ST380013AS Ch05 80 0GB RaidSet Member ST380013AS Ch08 80 0GB Pass Throught ST380013AS System information To prevent removing the wrong drive the selected disk HDD LED Indicator will light for physically locating the selected disk when the Identify Selected Device is selected 84 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 5 Raid System Function To set the raid system function move the cursor bar to the main menu and select the Raid System Function item and then press Enter key The Raid System Function menu will show mul tiple items Move the cursor bar to an item then press Enter key to select the desired function Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Se
130. raLow Low Normal High to balance volume set access and rebuild tasks appropriately For high array performance specify a Low value e JBOD RAID Configuration JBOD is an acronym for Just a Bunch Of Disks It repre sents a volume set that is created by the concatenation of par titions on the disk The OS can see all disks when this option is selected It is necessary to delete a RAID set if the disks in that set are to be convereted to JBOD mode e Maximun SATA Supported The Controller can support up to SATA ll which runs up to 300MB s NCQ is a command protocol in Serial ATA that can only be implemented on native Serial ATA hard drives It al lows multiple commands to be outstanding within a drive at the same time Drives that support NCQ have an internal queue where outstanding commands can be dynamically rescheduled or re ordered along with the necessary tracking mechanisms for outstanding and completed portions of the workload The RAID subsystem allows user to choose the SATA Mode slowest to fastest SATA150 SATA150 NCQ SATA300 SATA300 NCQ e HDD Read Ahead Cache SS ee 133 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 134 Allow Read Ahead Default Enabled When Enabled the drive s read ahead cache algorithm is used providing maximum performance under most circumstances e Stagger Power on In a PC system with only one or two drives the power can supply enough power to spin up both drives simultaneously But in
131. rickle charging process whenever the system power is on The batteries protect data in a failed server for up to three or four days depending on the size of the memory module Under nor mal operating conditions the batteries last for three years before 24 INTRODUCTION replacement is necessary 1 6 2 RECOVERY ROM The RAID subsystem firmware is stored on the controller flash ROM and is executed by the I O processor The firmware can also be updated through the PCI X PCIe bus port or Ethernet port if equipped without the need to replace any hardware chips Dur ing the controller firmware upgrade flash process it is possible for a problem to occur resulting in corruption of the controller firm ware With our Redundant Flash image feature the controller will revert back to the last known version of firmware and continue operating This reduces the risk of system failure due to firmware crash 1 7 Understanding RAID RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks It is an array of multiple independent hard disk drives that provides high performance and fault tolerance The SATA RAID control ler implements several levels of the Berkeley RAID technology An appropriate RAID level is selected when the volume sets are defined or created This decision should be based on the desired disk capacity data availability fault tolerance or redundancy and disk performance The following section discusses the RAID levels sup
132. ross all the disks in the raid set 6 6 1 Create Volume Set 1 Volume sets of different RAID levels may coexist on the same raid set 2 Up to 16 volume sets can be created by the SATA RAID control ler 3 The maximum addressable size of a single volume set is not limited to 2 TB because the controller is capable of 64 bit mode However the operating system itself may not be capable of ad dressing more than 2 TB See the Areaca website for details To create a volume set on a raid set move the cursor bar to the e EEE 125 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION main menu and click on the Create Volume Set link The Select The Raid Set To Create On It screen will show all raid set num bers Click the raid set number that to be used and then click the Submit button The create new volume set option allows users to select the Vol ume name capacity RAID level strip size SCSI ID LUN Cache mode and tag queuing ows Fm mn muasia id Areca Technology Corporation V amer on ne the Knee V saas Umso Om Hand Ser vm e Volume Name The default volume name will always appear as Volume Set i You can rename the volume set providing it does not exceed the 15 characters limit e Raid Level Set the RAID level for the Volume Set Highlight the desired Raid Level and press Enter The available RAID levels for the current Volume Set are displayed Select a RAID level and press Enter to confirm e Capacity The
133. rough to host and must have at least the same capacity as the smallest disk capacity already in the Raid set Capacity expansion is only permitted to proceed if all volumes on the Raid set are in the normal status During the expansion process the volume sets being expanded can be accessed by the host system In addition the volume sets with RAID levels 1 1E 3 5 or 6 are protected against data loss in the event of disk failure s In the case of disk failure the volume set tran sitions from migrating state to migrating degraded state When the expansion is completed the volume set would then transition to degraded mode If a global hot spare is present then it further transitions to the rebuilding state 17 INTRODUCTION The expansion process is illustrated as following figure Before Array Expansion Free Space 40GB Volume 1 40GB D Volume 0 40GB C Disk 0 Disk 1 Disk 2 40 GB 40 GB 40 GB Array A 120GB The RAID subsystem controller redistributes the original volume set over the original and newly added disks using the same fault tolerance configuration The unused capacity on the ex pand raid set can then be used to create an additional volume set with a different fault tolerance setting if required by the user After Array Expansion Adding One Disk Free Space 80GB Volume 1 40GB D 7 F Volume 0 40GB C Disk 0 Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 40 GB 40 GB 40 GB 40 GB Array A 160GB The RAID
134. s This damage can be avoided by allowing the host to stagger the spin up of the drives New SATA drives have support staggered spin up capabilities to boost reliability Staggered spin up is a very useful feature for managing multiple disk drives in a storage subsystem It gives the host the abil ity to spin up the disk drives sequentially or in groups allowing the drives to come ready at the optimum time without straining the system power supply Staggering drive spin up in a multiple drive environment also avoids the extra cost of a power supply designed to meet short term startup power demand as well as steady state conditions R M AO LVELDQLA LOU ALLG ADAAAMaA a kkcCo 89 BIOS CONFIGURATION Areca has supported the fixed value staggered power up func tion in its previous version firmware But from firmware version 1 39 Areca RAID controller has included the option for customer to select the disk drives sequentially stagger power up value The values can be selected from 0 4ms to 6ms per step which powers up one drive Raid System Function Stagger Power On Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation 3 7 5 9 Empty HDD slot HDD From firmware version 1 39 date 04 01 2006 or later the firmware has added the Empty HDD Slot LED option to setup the Failed LED light ON or OFF When each slot has a power LED for the HDD installed identify user can set this option to
135. s Yes to start the check 3 7 3 5 Stop Volume Set Check Use this option to stop all of the Check Volume Set operations BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 3 6 Display Volume Set Info Main Menu Create Volume Set Delete Volume Set Modify Volume Set Check Volume Set StopVolume Check Display Volume Info To display Volume Set information move the cursor bar to the desired Volume Set number and then press the Enter key The Volume Set Information will be shown You can only view the information of this Volume Set in this screen not modify it Volume Set Name Volume Set 00 Raid Set Name Raid Set 00 Volume Capacity 160 1GB Volume State Normal SCSI CH Id Lun 0 0 0 RAID Level BEST Stripe Size 64K Member Disk 14 Cache Attribute Write Back Tag Queuing Enabled 81 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 4 Physical Drives Create Pass Through Disk Modify Pass Through Disk Delete Pass Through Disk Identify Selected Drive Hardware Monitor System information Choose this option from the Main Menu to select a physical disk and perform the operations listed above 3 7 4 1 View Drive Information Model Name ST380013AS Serial Number 5JV944ZF Firmware Rev 2 9 18 Disk Capacity 80 0 GB PIO Mode Mode 4 Current UDMA SATA150 6 Supported UDMA SATA150 6 Device State RaidSet Member Hardware Timeout Count 0 System infd Media Errors EQ SMART Read Error Rate 200 51 SMART Spinup Time 1
136. s are more likely to be usable as spares for one another Drive truncation slightly decreases the usable capac ru eH OLLIANQ ESSs MY M 92 BIOS CONFIGURATION ity of a drive that is used in redundant units The controller provides three truncation modes in the system configuration Multiples Of 10G Multiples Of 1G and No Truncation Multiples Of 10G If you have 120 GB drives from different vendors chances are that the capacity varies slightly For exam ple one drive might be 123 5 GB and the other 120 GB Areca drive Truncation mode Multiples Of 10G uses the same capac ity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other Multiples Of 1G If you have 123 GB drives from different ven dors chances are that the capacity varies slightly For example one drive might be 123 5 GB and the other 123 4 GB Areca drive Truncation mode Multiples Of 1G uses the same capacity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other No Truncation It does not truncate the capacity Within the subsystem the SCSI chip acts as a target and 5 SATA ll buses are connected to the drive Mute The Alf Truncate Disk Capacity Alert Beepei Change Pa To Multiples of 10G JBOD RAID To Multiples of 1G Background Disabled Maximum SATA Mode HDD Read Ahead Cache Stagger Power on Empty HDD slot LED HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation ArrowKey Or AZ Move Cursor En
137. s wear a grounding strap or work on an ESD protective mat e Before opening the system cabinet turn off power switches and unplug the power cords Do not reconnect the power cords until you have replaced the covers Warning High voltages may be found inside computer equipment Before installing any of the hardware in this package or removing the protective covers of any computer equipment turn off power switches and disconnect power cords Do not reconnect the power cords until you have replaced the covers Electrostatic Discharge Static electricity can cause serious damage to the electronic com ponents on this SATA RAID adapter To avoid damage caused by electrostatic discharge observe the following precautions e Don t remove the SATA RAID controller from its anti static pack aging until you are ready to install it into a computer case e Handle the SATA RAID Controller by its edges or by the metal mounting brackets at its each end e Before you handle the SATA RAID controller in any way touch a grounded anti static surface such as an unpainted portion of the system chassis for a few seconds to discharge any built up static electricity 2 3 Installation Follow the instructions below to install a PCI RAID Card into your PC Server OOO ees 37 HARDWARE INSTALLATION Step 1 Unpack Unpack and remove the PCI RAID card from the package Inspect it carefully if anything is missing or damaged conta
138. ser based RAID management utility allows both local and remote creation and modification RAID sets volume sets and monitoring of RAID status from standard web browsers 1 2 Features Adapter Architecture e Intel IOP 331 I O processor ARC 11xx series e Intel IOP 332 IOP 333 I O processor ARC 12xx series e Intel 81341 I O processor ARC 12x0ML 1280 e 64 bit 133MHz PCI X Bus compatible e PCI Express X8 compatible e 256MB on board DDR333 SDRAM with ECC protection 4 8 port e One SODIMM Socket with default 256 MB of DDR333 SDRAM with ECC protection upgrade to 1GB 12 16 and 24 port cards SW DIMM Socket with default 256 MB of DDR2 533 SDRAM with ECC protection upgrade to 2GB ARC 12xxML ARC 1280 e An ECC or non ECC SDRAM module using X8 or X16 devices e Support up to 4 8 12 16 24 SATA Il drives e Write through or write back cache support e Multi adapter support for large storage requirements e BIOS boot support for greater fault tolerance e BIOS PnP plug and play and BBS BIOS boot specification support e Supports extreme performance Intel RAID 6 functionality e NVRAM for RAID event amp transaction log e Battery backup module BBM ready Depend on mother board RAID Features RAID level 0 1 1E 3 5 6 R6 engine inside and JBOD e Multiple RAID selection e Array roaming e Online RAID level stripe size migration e Online capacity expansion RAID level migration simultaneously e Online Volume set
139. set number and the Confirm The Operation check box and then click the Submit button to delete the volume set 6 6 3 Modify Volume Set owt P til Areca Technology Corporation Wo ndo mech Vene n Pewee bm Stent The Volume Set Te Debor To modify a volume set from a raid set 1 Click on the Modify Volume Set link 2 Click the volume set check box from the list that you wish to modify Click the Submit button The following screen appears Use this option to modify the volume set configuration To modify volume set attributes from raid set system function move the cursor bar to the volume set attribute menu and click it The modify value screen appears Move the cursor to an attribute item and then click the attribute to modify the value After you complete the modification click the Confirm The Operation check box and click the Submit button to complete the action The user can modify all values except capacity 6 6 3 1 Volume Set Migration Migrating occurs when a volume set is migrating from one RAID SSS Ss 128 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION level to another a volume set strip size changes or when a disk is added to a raid set Migration status is displayed in the vol ume status area of the RaidSet Hierarchy screen when one RAID level to another a Volume set strip size changes or when a disk is added to a raid set 6 6 4 Check Volume Set ows Fem niacin idi Areca Technology Corp
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141. system 4 5 Driver Installation for Solaris Please refer to the readme txt file on the software CD ROM or website http www areca com tw 4 6 Driver Installation for Mac X Please refer to the readme txt file on the software CD ROM or website http www areca com tw 107 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 5 ArcHttp Proxy Server Installation Overview After hardware installation the SATA disk drives connected to the SATA RAID controller must be configured and the volume set units initialized before they are ready to use The user interface for these tasks can be accessed through the built in configuration and administration utility that resides in the controller s firmware It provides complete control and management of the con troller and disk arrays eliminating the need for additional hardware or software In addition a software utility to configure the SATA RAID is provided on the CD ROM delivered with SATA card This CD ROM contains the software utility that can monitor test and support the SATA RAID con troller The software utility and McRAID storage manager can configure and monitor the SATA RAID controller via ArcHttp Proxy Server The following table outlines their functions Configuration Utility Operating System supported McBIOS RAID Manager OS Independent McRAID Storage Manager Windows 2000 XP 2003 Linux FreeBSD Via Archttp proxy server NetWare Unixware Solaris and Mac SAP Monitor Si
142. systems with more than two drives the startup current from spinning up the drives all at once can overload the power supply causing damage to the power supply disk drives and other system components This damage can be avoided by allowing the host to stagger the spin up of the drives New SATA drives have support staggered spin up capabilities to boost reliability Staggered spin up is a very useful feature for managing multiple disk drives in a storage subsystem It gives the host the ability to spin up the disk drives sequentially or in groups allowing the drives to come ready at the optimum time without straining the system power supply Staggering drive spin up in a multiple drive environment also avoids the extra cost of a power supply designed to meet short term startup power demand as well as steady state conditions Areca has supported the fixed value staggered power up function in its previous version firmware But from firmware version 1 39 Areca RAID controller has included the option for customer to select the disk drives sequentially stagger power up value The values can be selected from 0 4ms to 6ms per step which powers up one drive f od eee pm Ot afu Pacto aid Areca Technology Corporation WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION e Empty HDD Slot LED From firmware version 1 39 date 04 01 2006 or later the firm ware has added the Empty HDD Slot LED option to setup the Failed LED light ON or OFF When each slot has
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144. t Beeper iq Alert Beeper Setting Change Password JBOD RAID Function Background Task Priority Maximum SATA Mode HDD Read Ahead Cache Stagger Power on Empty HDD slot LED HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation The manufacture default password is set to 0000 The password option allows user to set or clear the password pro tection feature Once the password has been set the user can monitor and configure the controller only by providing the cor EEE 86 BIOS CONFIGURATION rect password This feature is used to protect the internal RAID system from unauthorized access The controller will check the password only when entering the Main menu from the initial screen The system will automatically go back to the initial screen if it does not receive any command in 20 seconds To set or change the password move the cursor to Raid System Function screen press the Change Password item The Enter New Password screen will appear To disable the password only press Enter in both the Enter New Password and Re Enter New Password column The ex isting password will be cleared No password checking will occur when entering the main menu Mai Raid System Function JBOD RAID Function Maximum SATA Mode HDD Read Ahead Cache STagger Power on Empty HDD slot LED HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation
145. t Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function Ethernet Configuration View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information 3 7 5 1 Mute The Alert Beeper Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Se Mute Alert Beeper JBOD Fu Maximum SATA Mode HDD Read Ahead Cache Stagger Power on Empty HDD slot LED HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation The Mute The Alert Beeper function item is used to control the SATA RAID controller Beeper Select yes and press the Enter key in the dialog box to turn the beeper off temporarily The beeper will still activate on the next event EE A SSS SS UUU U 85 BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 5 2 Alert Beeper Setting Raid System Function Mute The Alert Beeper Alert Beeper Suse Change Pass Alert Beeper Setting JBOD RAID Disabled Background Enabled Maximum SA HDD Read Ahead Cache Stagger Power on Empty HDD slot LED HDD SMART Status Polling Controller Fan Detection Disk Write Cache Mode Capacity Truncation The Alert Beeper function item is used to Disabled or Enable the SATA RAID controller alarm tone generator Select Disabled and press the Enter key in the dialog box to turn the beeper off 3 7 5 3 Change Password Raid System Function id Mute The Aler
146. t new installed drive replaced it In this condition the Auto Declare Hot Spare status will disappeared if the RAID sub system has since powered off on The Hot Swap function can be used to rebuild disk drives in arrays with data redundancy such as RAID level 1 1E 3 5 and 6 21 INTRODUCTION 1 4 4 Auto Rebuilding If a hot spare is available the rebuild starts automatically when a drive fails ARC 11xx 12xx RAID adapters automatically and transparently rebuild failed drives in the background at user de finable rebuild rates If a hot spare is not available the failed disk drive must be re placed with a new disk drive so that the data on the failed drive can be automatically rebuilt and so that fault tolerance can be maintained The ARC 11xx 12xx RAID adapters will automatically restart the system and the rebuild process if the system is shut down or powered off abnormally during a reconstruction procedure condi tion When a disk is Hot Swapped although the system is function ally operational the system may no longer be fault tolerant Fault tolerance will be lost until the removed drive is replaced and the rebuild operation is completed During the automatic rebuild process system activity will contin ue as normal however the system performance and fault toler ance will be affected 1 4 5 Adjustable Rebuild Priority Rebuilding a degraded volume incurs a load on the RAID subsys tem The ARC 11xx 12xx RAID
147. ter Select ESC Escape L Line Draw X Redraw 3 7 6 Ethernet Configuration 12 16 24 port Use this feature to set the controller Ethernet port configuration It is not necessary to create reserved disk space on any hard disk for the Ethernet port and HTTP service to function these func tions are built into the controller firmware 93 BIOS CONFIGURATION Quick Volume Raid Setup Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information 3 7 6 1 DHCP Function DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol allows network ad ministrators centrally manage and automate the assignment of IP Internet Protocol addresses on a computer network When using the TCP IP protocol Internet protocol it is necessary for a computer to have a unique IP address in order to communi cate to other computer systems Without DHCP the IP address must be entered manually at each computer system DHCP lets a network administrator supervise and distribute IP addresses from a central point The purpose of DHCP is to provide the automatic dynamic allocation of IP client configurations for a specific time period called a lease period and to minimize the BIOS CONFIGURATION work necessary to administer a large IP network To manually configure the IP address of the controller move the cursor bar to the Main menu Ethernet Configuration Function
148. the Create Raid Set Function to generate a new RAID Set In Volume Set Function you can use the Create Volume Set function to generate an associated volume set and and configuration parameters If the current controller has unused physical devices connected you can choose the Create Hot Spare option in the Raid Set Func tion to define a global hot spare Select this method to configure new raid sets and volume sets The Raid Set Volume Set Function configuration option allows you to associate volume sets with par tial and full RAID Sets 57 BIOS CONFIGURATION To setup the Hot Spare option choose RAID Set Function from the main menu Select the Create Hot Spare and press the Enter key to define the Hot Spare 2 Choose RAID Set Function from the main menu Select Create RAID Set and press the Enter key 3 The Select a Drive For Raid Set window is displayed showing the SATA drives connected to the SATA RAID controller 4 Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select specific physical drives Press the Enter key to associate the selected physical drive with the cur rent RAID Set It is recommend that you drives of the same capacity in a specific array If you use drives with different capacities in an array all drives in the raid set will be set to the capacity of the smallest drive in the raid set The numbers of physical drives in a specific array determines which RAID levels that can be implemented in the array RAID 0 requir
149. to continue to power on the SATA RAID controller the user can use the Activate Raid Set option to active the raid set After the user completes this function the Raid State will change to Degraded Mode Dow Fm m Areca Technology Corporation Bouton d em Tin idi Lote Kn Seiat The Bond Ser Fo semrate na Hand ort Pm Mores Dv Dh tamer et e em frm aher rem omm Y oar 123 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION To activate the incomplete the raid set click on the Activate Raid Set link A Select The RAID SET To Activate screen is displayed showing all raid sets existing on the current controller Click the raid set number to activate in the select column Click on the Submit button on the screen to activate the raid set that had a disk removed or failed in the power off state The SATA RAID controller will continue to work in degraded mode 6 5 5 Create Hot Spare owt Fem m il Areca Technology Corporation Bodo P nm tee e feles The ED Debes For Het Spare When you choose the Create Hot Spare option in the Raid Set Function all unused physical devices connected to the current controller appear Select the target disk by clicking on the ap propriate check box Click the Confirm The Operation check box and click the Submit button in the screen to create the hot spares The Create Hot Spare option gives you the ability to define a global hot spare 6 5 6 Delete Hot Spare Sel
150. ueuing support for each drive channel This function should normally remain enabled Disable this function only when using older drives that do not support command tag queuing 3 7 3 2 Delete Volume Set To delete Volume set from a Raid Set move the cursor bar to the Volume Set Functions menu and select the Delete Volume Set item then press the Enter key The Volume Set Functions menu will show all Raid Set items Move the cursor bar to a RAID Set number then press the Enter key to show all Volume Sets within that Raid Set Move the cursor to the Volume Set number that is to be deleted and press Enter to delete it y System in BIOS CONFIGURATION 3 7 3 3 Modify Volume Set Volume Set Function 3 Create Volume Set Delete Volume Set Modify Volume Set Check Volume Set StopVolume Check d Display Volume Info Halrervver TOTS System information Use this option to modify Volume Set set configuration To modify Volume Set values from Raid Set system function move the cursor bar to the Volume Set Functions menu and select the Modify Volume Set item then press the Enter key The Volume Set Functions menu will show all Raid Set items Move the cursor bar to a Raid Set number item then press the Enter key to show all Volume Set items Select the Volume Set from the list to be changed press the Enter key to modify it Main Menu Volume Name Volume Set 00 Raid Level 26 Capacity 160 1GB Stri
151. ufacture default password is set to 0000 The pass word option allows user to set or clear the SATA RAID controller s password protection feature Once the password has been set the user can only monitor and configure the SATA RAID controller by providing the correct password The password is used to protect the SATA RAID controller from unauthorized entry The controller will check the password only when entering the Main menu from the initial screen The SATA RAID controller will automatically go back to the initial screen OE 142 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION when it does not receive any command in ten seconds To disable the password leave the fields blank Once the user confirms the operation and clicks the Submit button the existing password will be cleared Then no password checking will occur when entering the main menu from the starting screen Oot Lu m Quite Perdu idt Areca Technology Corporation I Lp ens d Dm erem 6 omm sir Tee On Dla eee 6 8 10 Update Firmware Please reference the appendix A firmware utility ded To m Glad Fasten i i E Meca Fechnologs Corporation bs mae Far rot Drm theres 6 9 Information 6 9 1 RaidSet Hierarchy Use this feature to view the SATA RAID controller current raid set current volume set and physical disk configuration Please reference the this chapter Configuring Raid Sets and Volume Sets 143 WEB BROWSER BASED CONFIGURATION 144
152. up the email notification feature 5 6 1 Start up Mail Configuration for Local Ad ministration 5 6 1 1 For Windows There have two methods to open mail configuration LIT ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION A Select Tools from Toolbar than press Mail Options B Select Mail Cfg Assisant than Click Start button HITTSETEEXTMNENMUERLITTTSEMS i PUT fats te HITE Pary Cotto 1000 auren net ton Purmeg 100g ure Coste Time bog 1209 134027 Formation Sartai TOE 1509 poo oriens man 4 2 Then setting screen appears This section allows users to configure mail server settings bos 0000 m M a Fac owe ty te Wes m Beo Cm e Pm M CTS 5 6 1 2 For Linux FreeBSD You can directory modify archttpsrv conf to configurate Email configuration 5 6 2 Start up Mail Configuration for Remote Administration 112 ARCHTTP PROXY SERVER INSTALLATION 1 Launch the Mail Alert Configuration by entering http Computer IP Address port number in the browser 2 The following screen appears This section allows users to configure mail server settings e SMTP Server Configuration Enter the SMTP server IP address e Mail Address Configurations The sender name and sender email that will be shown in the outgoing mail Enter account and password if the SMTP need and enter the receiver mail address and name Event Notification Configurations The controller classifies disk arr
153. ver Diskettes eessseeeeeene 99 4 2 Driver Installation for Windows cen 100 4 2 1 New Storage Device Drivers in Windows Server 2003 100 4 2 2 Install Windows 2000 XP 2003 on a SATA RAID Volume 101 4 2 2 1 Installation procedures eeeeeenn nn 101 4 2 2 2 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System 102 4 2 3 Installing controller into an existing Windows 2000 XP 2003 tnstallatiOTzxzs tort Era ug ur dra d WE pU ME 103 4 2 3 1 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System 104 4 2 4 Uninstall controller from Windows 2000 XP 2003 105 4 3 Driver Installation for Linux ceeeenne meme menn 106 4 4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD eeeen mme 106 4 5 Driver Installation for Solaris eee nmn 107 4 6 Driver Installation for Mac X meme 107 5 ArcHttp Proxy Server Installation 108 5 1 For WiINdOWS cccccecccceecuccceeeesceueeeeescuueeeusueeeeeeuguuneeauagnens 109 5 2 FOr Linllx isses cides wav en an score XX CRX CER n 110 53 For FreeBSD sese deett ree E tenete dedo to eevee we eee 111 5 4 For Solaris 10 X86 cse or e ER RE ERE E en 111 5 5 For Mac OS 10 X o cisieeseite coe tesa vera sete ger ew aded YER daga raa Erud 111 5 6 Email Notification seesssssssesseeen nmm nns 111 5 6 1 Start up Mail Configuration for Local Administration 111 5 6 1 1 For Windows cceceecceseecee sees nmm A ETEA AAEE 1
154. ves These adapters can be installed in a server RAID enclosure with a standard SATA connector backplane Min SAS 4i to SATA cables are included in the ARC 1230ML 1260ML 1280ML package The following diagram shows the picture of MinSAS 4i to 4 SATA cables Unpack and remove the PCI RAID cards Inspect it carefully If anything is missing or damaged contact your local dealer 40 HARDWARE INSTALLATION se 9 Figure 2 14 Min SAS 4i to 4 SATA M Step 5 4 Connect the Min SAS 4i to Multi lance cable Model ARC 1230ML 1260ML 1280ML have Min SAS 4i internal connectors each of them can support up to four SATA drives These adapters can be installed in a server RAID enclosure with a Multi lance connector SFF 8470 backplane Multi lance cables are not included in the ARC 12XXML package If you have not already connected your Min SAS 4i to Multi lance cables buy the Min SAS 4i to Multi lance cables to fit your enclosure And connect your controller to the Multi lance connector backplane The type of cable will depend on what enclosure you have The following diagram shows the picture of Min SAS 4i to Multi lance cable Unpack and remove the PCI RAID cards Inspect it carefully If anything is missing or damaged contact your local dealer Figure 2 15 Min SAS 4i to Multi lance 41 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 42 Step 6 Install the LED cable optional ARC 1XXX Series Fault Activity Header Intelligent Electron
155. y NY Reds 72 I IIGMBESUT IE 72 Capacity oen RIP ni Eu a Iv G 73 e SUD SIZE owsa asaros aa tetas ev paa teal ka ka Fa wl v Va a FX xad Ri t 74 SCSI Channel en cece cones dave er ceva er Y RENE OPER dx Rex 75 SCSI ID rr ceosessve aeter edge Sor deeet ede A ANRE eben niente Fa E Ai 75 SCS LUNG I 76 Cache Mode iiu aa vere Re EAE aede EEEE 76 TAG QUEUING esis eie nee etu uy heh etr pte ec xU er ees dud aN 77 3 7 3 2 Delete Volume Set cssesseeeseen nennen nens 77 3 7 3 3 Modify Volume Set esseseeeeeen nennen 78 Volume GroWth ioris cu esa tes karen x raa aee xen alex ep 79 e Volume Set Migration cccceeeee eee ee eee eee teeta seen estes eae es 79 3 7 3 4 Check Volume Set ccccccceeceeseeeseeseeseeeseeesesneeaneaes 80 3 7 3 5 Stop Volume Set Check cccececceeeeeeeeeeeeeeenaeeeeeeaeeaes 80 3 7 3 6 Display Volume Set Info ccecceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeaes 81 3 7 4 Physical Drives eeesseeeseeseeen nnne nennen 82 3 7 4 1 View Drive Information eeeeeeeeenn nnn 82 3 7 4 2 Create Pass Through Disk seeseeeeeeeeees 83 3 7 4 3 Modify a Pass Through Disk esses 83 3 7 4 4 Delete Pass Through Disk cceceeeeeeeeeee eee eeeeeeeaes 84 3 7 4 5 Identify Selected Drive ccceccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeeeeeaeeaes 84 3 7 5 Raid System Function esessesseeeeen enne 85
156. y adding similar backplane to maximum of 24 drives 6 backplanes LED Management The backplane may contain LEDs to indicate drive status Light from the LEDs could be transmitted to the out side of the server by using light pipes mounted on the SAS drive tray A small microcontroller on the backplane connected via the SGPIO bus to a ARC 1230ML 1260ML 1280ML SATA RAID con troller could control the LEDs Activity blinking 5 Times Second Fault solid illuminated Drive Locate Circuitry The locate of a drive may be detected by sensing the voltage level of one of the pre charge pins before and Ercc M n 48 HARDWARE INSTALLATION after a drive is installed Fault red blinking 2 Times Second The following signal defines the SGPIO assignments for the Min SAS 4i connector in ARC 1230ML 1260ML 1280ML rin T Description PIN Description SideBandO SClock Clock Signal SideBand1 SLoad Last clock of a bit stream SideBand4 SDataOut Serial data SideBand5 SDataIn Serial data input bit output bit stream stream Step 7 Re check the SATA HDD LED and Fault LED Cable connections Be sure that the proper failed drive channel information is dis played by the Fault and HDD Activity LEDs An improper connec tion will will tell the user to Hot Swap the wrong drive This can result in removing the wrong disk one that is functioning properly from

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