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1. Place the CD ROM into the CD ROM drive If the CD ROM is not already mounted mount it by typing eject then place the CD ROM into the CD drive and type mount mnt cdrom To copy the files from your CD to your hard drive type cp lt destination gt where destination is the directory on the hard drive you are copying to For example cp root would copy all the files on the CD ROM to the directory root Perform the following steps to switch directories to the CD ROM drive and then copy the files to the directory on the hard drive Perform these steps in order a To switch to the CD ROM drive type mount mnt cdrom b To see a listing of files on the CD type 1s c To copy the files from your CD to your hard drive type cp lt destination gt where destination is the directory on the hard drive you are copying to For example cp root would copy all the files on the CD ROM to the directory root Change to the directory you just copied the files into then look at the files in the directory Type MegaRAID Configuration Console MCC Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved cd lt destination gt Step 7 Type 1s Step 8 Install the JAR package by typing java jar lt JAR package name gt For example java jar MCCLinux_1 28 7 jar Step 9 Reboot the system so the Java program will take effect Step 10 Go to the Xterminal window or console and type SetPass wit
2. The LSI Logic MegaRAID IDE controller supports two IDE channels and up to four drives It supports the following drive modes PIO 0 4 DMA 0 2 and Ultra DMA 0 5 The RAID levels supported are RAID 0 1 and 10 The highest data transfer rate in UDMA mode 4 is 66 Mbytes s in UDMA mode 5 is 100 Mbytes s and in UDMA mode 6 is 133 Mbytes s This manual describes the MegaRAID IDE ATA 66 MegaRAID IDE 100 ATA 100 and MegaRAID IDE 133 ATA 133 controller This document was prepared for users of the MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 A1 2IDE It is intended to provide an overview of the product and describe the software utilities and operating system installation MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 A1 2 v Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Organization This document has the following chapters e Chapter 1 Overview e Chapter 2 RAID Levels e Chapter 3 Hyper Configuration Utility e Chapter 4 BIOS Configuration Utility e Chapter 5 MegaRAID Configuration Console MCC e Chapter 6 Spy Service e Chapter 7 Operating System Installation e Chapter 8 Troubleshooting Conventions Used in This Manual The following is a list of notational conventions used throughout this manual Notation Example Meaning and Use courier typeface nwk file Names of commands directories file names and on screen text are shown in courier typeface bold typeface fd1sp In a command line
3. lt Esc gt Subsequent message boxes display for confirmation respond to them appropriately Note that when a new array is configured its partition record is invalidated 4 12 BIOS Configuration Utility Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Chapter 5 MegaRAID Configuration Con sole MCC This chapter describes the MegaRAID Configuration Console MCC and contains the these sections e Section 5 1 Features and Architecture page 5 1 e Section 5 2 Installation page 5 4 e Section 5 3 Using the MCC Software Utility page 5 16 MCC is a software utility that can be run using LSI Logic RAID aware custom web server Because of this no third party software is required and the entire code is in JAVA making MCC platform independent 5 1 Features and Architecture You would typically configure and administer the arrays and drives using a configuration utility MCC enables you to connect to a host system and perform the following operations e Get information about the configuration e Track the health of the arrays and physical drives e Track S M A R T self monitoring analysis and reporting technology status of the physical drives to monitor drive performance and reliability e Rebuild an array e Perform a consistency check on an array e Check the error log where all drive failures are reported Note that you need to use the lt Ctrl gt lt M gt BIOS Configuration Utility
4. 3 4 4 4 5 4 5 4 5 4 6 4 6 4 7 4 7 4 7 4 7 4 7 4 8 4 8 4 9 4 9 4 10 4 10 4 10 4 10 4 11 4 11 4 12 5 1 5 2 eel 2 Architecture 5 3 5 4 Installation 5 4 a Installation Steps for Windows Systems 5 5 5 2 2 Installation for Linux Systems 5 6 523 How to Set and Modify the Full Access Password 5 13 5 2 4 Log File Information 5 13 IAA Limiting the Size of Log Files 5 14 5 20 How to Install and Extend snmp Agent 5 14 5 3 Using the MCC Software Utility 5 16 5 3 1 RAID Properties 5 18 5 3 2 Physical Drive 5 19 Chapter 6 Spy Service 6 1 Starting or Stopping Spy Service under Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 6 1 6 2 Uninstalling Spy Service 6 2 6 3 Spy Service Icon 6 3 Chapter 7 Operating System Installation 7 1 Windows NT 4 0 and Windows 2000 2003 Driver Installation 7 1 1 1 1 Updating the Windows NT 4 0 or Windows 2000 Driver 7 2 Z7 1 2 Confirming the Windows NT 4 0 or Windows 2000 Driver In stallation 7 3 Tez DOS Driver Installation 7 3 ha Red Hat Linux Driver Installation on a New System 7 3 7 4 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES 8 0 Installation 7 4 7 4 1 Preparing the Installation Disk s 7 4 74 2 Performing a Fresh Installation 7 6 te SuSE Linux 8 2 Driver Installation 7 7 Tal Preparing the Installation Disk s 7 7 Fad Performing a Fresh Installation 7 9 7 6 Novell NetWare Driver Installation 7 9 7 6 1 Novell NetWare Driver Files Description 7 10 7 6 2 New Novell NetWare System Driver Installation 7 10 7 6 3 Exist
5. 3 2 1 Physical Drive Properties This screen displays the physical drive properties Table 5 7 provides a description of each field To exit this screen click on Config View or Scan Devices Table 5 7 Physical Drive Properties Description Specifies the firmware version of the physical drive Specifies gives the status of the physical drive online or offline Specifies gives the number of errors in the physical drive Status Specifies the S M A R T self monitoring analysis and reporting technology status of the physical drive S M A R T helps monitor and predict the reliability and performance of the hard drive The options for this are Disabled OK or Error Disabled means S M A R T is off and physical drive does not collect statistical data OK means S M A R T is on and no errors found Error status means S M A R T is on and some errors found this is a serious warning that means the drive has to be replaced Using the MCC Software Utility 5 19 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Table 5 7 Field Logical Drive Physical Drive Properties Description Specifies the logical drive information about this physical drive by drive letter or volume Capacity Specifies the capacity of this physical drive Transfer Mode Specifies the type of transfer mode used on this physical drive Part of Array Specifies the part of the array wo which this p
6. 5 16 5 17 5 17 5 18 5 19 5 20 5 20 5 21 5 22 5 22 5 22 5 23 7 10 8 1 XV xvi Contents Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Chapter 1 Overview This manual describes the MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 A1 2 This chapter provides an overview of the CSB6 and contains the following sections e Section 1 1 RAID Description page 1 1 e Section 1 2 RAID Benefits page 1 2 e Section 1 3 Features page 1 2 The MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 A1 2 provides two IDE channels with Ultra ATA 66 MegaRAID IDE Ultra ATA 100 MegaRAID IDE 100 or Ultra ATA 133 MegaRAID IDE 133 capability The MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 A1 2 provides a simple and cost effective way to improve the performance and reliability of your storage subsystems CSB6 offers high transfer rates and fault tolerant data redundancy during high performance applications by using low cost Ultra ATA drives in desktops workstations or low end servers CSB6 supports the following drive modes programmable input output PIO 0 4 direct memory address DMA 0 2 and Ultra DMA 0 5 In addition it supports RAID levels 0 1 and 10 You can use striping RAID 0 to improve performance or mirroring RAID 1 to improve data security RAID 10 provides both RAID 1 disk mirroring and RAID 0 data striping 1 1 RAID Description RAID Redundant Array of Independent D
7. Displays the progress bar for the current activity on the MegaRAID The progress bar displays the time left and percentage complete Possible actions include the following e Rebuild e Consistency check Using the MCC Software Utility 5 17 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Table 5 5 Options on the Main Screen Name Description Log Data Displays activity log information All actions add records to the activity log file The size of this file can be modified by clicking the Advanced button Advanced Allows you to modify the parameters for the RAID system Back Plane Some systems can have built in back plane devices MCC supports several types of back planes See the user manual for your system Close Server Returns you to the list of available servers 1 Note The proper way to exit MCC is to click the Close Server button If you exit any other way there is a two minute window in which you cannot log back in with full access A small browser window runs in the background as soon as you log on to the RAID Server It constantly refreshes the view so you have the most current information 5 3 1 RAID Properties To view the RAID properties click the button next to the RAID controller After you click the button the RAID ID displays in the right frame and the link to the RAID Properties page displays below the ID Click on the word Properties The Property Description screen
8. a RAID 1 array drive size is shown by individual drive For a drive designated as SPARE POOL drive size shows the total drive capacity 4 12 6 Build Array The Build Array option is valid only for RAID 1 Mirror and RAID 10 arrays It is used to rebuild the array using a drive from the SPARE POOL When Build Array starts it prompts the user to select the target drive It does this because both drives can be still online After you select the target drive the rebuild starts Note A drive rebuild can take a long time depending on the size of the drive A two Gbyte UDMA 5 drive takes two minutes to rebuild when DMA mode is enabled 4 13 Delete Array F5 Press the lt F5 gt key to delete a currently configured array Use arrow keys to highlight the array you want to delete and then press lt F5 gt Caution Use this option with caution When you delete an array you lose the array configuration and the data saved in the array BIOS Configuration Utility Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 4 14 Restore Old Configuration F6 Press the lt F6 gt key to restore the configuration that existed before you entered the MegaRAID IDE setup utility 4 15 Edit Options F7 Press the lt F7 gt key to set the options to enable disable Drive Write Cache Boot Sector Virus Protection and DMA transfers To select an option move the cursor to the desired option and press the spacebar This puts a check by t
9. data from one drive to the other to make them identical This option is valid only for arrays set for reliability mode RAID 1 mirrored arrays Delete Activity Log Files when it reaches maximum Allowed Size This deletes the activity log file if it reaches the maximum allowable size as set in the box below this item If checked the activity log file is overwritten when it reaches the maximum size If not checked the file stops updating when it reaches the maximum size and is not updated anymore Activity Log File Size Use this box to select the maximum size for the activity log file Enable S M A R T on Physical Drive 5 24 If this option is checked it enables S M A R T monitoring of all physical drives S M A R T Poll Interval This setting allows you to set the time interval that S M A R T status is checked 1 Note S M A R T stands for self monitoring analysis and reporting technology This feature is built into the hard drive that checks for potential problems that can crash the hard drive Not all hard drives have this feature To exit this page click on Config View or Scan Devices Backplane This screen displays the backplane information of the RAID array Different backplanes can have different features This application shows the following e Current temperature inside the backplane e Frror log e Fan speed To exit this page click Config View or Scan Devices Close Server
10. drive to RAID 1 adding the new drive in a rebuild state Resetting this flag configures the new drives as spares Set No Pause on Prompt flag BIOS does not pause on any messages if this flag is set R Resets specified flags if no flags are specified all flags are reset W Switches ON Write Cache flag Default option If 0000 is not specified then the default option is R L lt Drive ID gt Displays the configuration sector of the specified drive lt Drive ID gt 1 Note In the lt Drive ID gt the final two characters of a four character code identify the channel ID and device ID They indicate whether the channel is primary or secondary and the device ID master or slave For the channel ID 0 indicates primary and 1 indicates secondary For the device ID 0 indicates master and 1 indicates slave The possible code combinations are 0x00 The final two digits are 00 meaning the channel ID is primary and the device ID is master 0x01 The final two digits are 01 meaning the channel ID is primary and the device ID is slave 0x10 The final two digits are 10 meaning the channel ID is secondary and the device ID is master 0x11 The final two digits are 11 meaning the channel ID is secondary and the device ID is slave E o lt Drive ID gt Erases the configuration error log sector of specified drive lt Drive ID gt The
11. for a keystroke if an error occurs while executing HyperCFG Z E D Enables disables S M A R T feature The default is ENABLE S M A R T monitors hard drives for drive failures Getstatus N Displays the rebuilding status of the logical drives in an adapter if any of its physical drives is in a rebuilding state N is the adapter number 1 2 3 4 3 4 Configuration File This file is used for configuring the RAID array The configuration file is not case sensitive and ignores white spaces and tabs The configuration file contains three logical blocks in the specified order 1 RAID INFO 2 LOGICAL DRIVE INFO 3 PHYSICAL DRIVE INFO 3 5 RAID Information This logical block starts with the keyword TOTAL LOGICAL ARRAYS This block must be organized as follows TOTAL LOGICAL ARRAYS lt Number of Arrays gt TOTAL PHYSICAL DRIVES lt Number of Physical Drives gt OPTIONS lt WRITE_CACHE VIRUS_PROTECTION DMA_ENABLED gt The valid choices for the OPTIONS field are as follows 3 6 Hyper Configuration Utility Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved e WRITE CACHE e VIRUS PROTECTION e DMA ENABLED 6699 A prefix to the option value sets the option and a resets the option 3 6 Logical Array Information This logical block starts with the keyword LOGICAL_ARRAY This block must be organized as follows LOGICAL ARRAY lt Array Number gt R
12. keys to make the selection Continue the installation then reboot the system Perform the following steps specified by IBM for Blade Server Press lt Ctrl gt lt Alt gt lt F2 gt At the command prompt type sbin modprobe mousedev echo sbin modprobe mousedev gt gt etc init d boot local c Step 9 Press lt Alt gt lt F7 gt Complete the installation steps 7 5 SuSE Linux 8 2 Driver Installation Perform the following procedures to install the Megaide driver for SuSE 8 2 Linux on the IBM Laurel CSB6 system e Obtaining the driver image file e Creating the installation disks under Windows or Linux operating systems e Performing a fresh installation 7 5 1 Preparing the Installation Disk s To prepare the installation disks you must obtain the necessary driver image files then create installation disk s 7 5 1 1 Obtaining the Driver Image File The Megaide driver is offered in the form of a driver update disk The required file is dud lt driver version gt img which is the MegaRAID IDEal software RAID stack driver update disk You can obtain the the latest driver files from the LSI Logic FTP site at ftp www megaraid lsilogic com SuSE Linux 8 2 Driver Installation 7 7 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 7 5 1 2 Creating the Installation Disks You need a Microsoft Windows or UNIX based operating system and blank floppy diskettes to create the installation
13. keywords are shown in bold non italic typeface Enter them exactly as shown italics module In command lines and names italics indicate user variables Italicized text must be replaced with appropriate user specified items Enter items of the type called for using lower case italic underscore full_pathname When an underscore appears in an italicized string enter a user supplied item of the type called for with no spaces Initial Capital letters Undo Names of menu commands options check buttons text but Edit tons options buttons text boxes list boxes etc are shown in Apply text with Initial Capital lettering to avoid misreading These ele ments may appear on your screen in all lower case version You may but need not select one item enclosed within brack ets Do not enter the brackets option In command formats elements preceding ellipses may be repeated any number of times Do not enter the ellipses In menu items if an ellipsis appears an item clicking that item brings up a dialog box vi Preface Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Notation Example Meaning and Use vertical dots Vertical dots indicate that a portion of a program or listing has been omitted from the text semicolon and other Use as shown in the text punctuation MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID Problem Report Form Customer Information MegaRAID IDEal Software CS
14. of the page s Please complete the information below so that we may contact you directly for clarification or additional information Name Date Telephone Fax Title Department Mail Stop Company Name Street City State Zip Customer Feedback Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved
15. offers high bandwidth By breaking up a large file into smaller blocks MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID can use multiple IDE channels and drives to read or write the file faster RAID 0 involves no parity calculations to complicate the write operation This makes RAID 0 ideal for applications that require high bandwidth but do not require fault tolerance Uses Provides high data throughput especially for large files Any environment that does not require fault tolerance Strong Points Provides increased data throughput for large files No capacity loss penalty for parity Weak Points Does not provide fault tolerance All data lost if any drive fails Drives One to four MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 A1 2 2 1 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Figure 2 1 RAID 0 Array Segment 1 Segment 2 Segment 3 Segment 4 Segment 5 Segment 6 Segment 7 Segment 8 2 2 RAID1 RAID 1 Figure 2 2 duplicates all data from one drive to a second drive RAID 1 provides complete data redundancy but at the cost of doubling the required data storage capacity Uses Small databases or any other environment that requires fault tolerance but small capacity Strong Points Provides complete data redundancy RAID 1 is ideal for any application that requires fault tolerance and minimal capacity Weak Points Requires twice as many hard drives Performance is impaired during drive rebuilds Drives Two Figur
16. or deselect the drives to be part of the array Press lt Enter gt when you are done If you select mirror mode as the array type you must select two drives to be in the array This pop up window appears only when configuring RAID 0 Stripe and RAID 1 Mirror arrays A RAID 10 array contains drives in each stripe of the array and only two drives are allowed in each stripe The maximum number of stripes is limited to four 4 12 3 Stripe Size The stripe size field applies to stripe mode arrays only By default an array is set up with 64 Kbyte stripes Edit this field to change the default stripe size The options for the size of the stripes are listed in the table below STRIPE 32 KB 64 KB 128 KB 256 KB 512 KB 1024 KB 2048 KB 4096 KB Note You cannot change the stripe size of an array that is already configured Create Array F4 4 9 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 4 12 4 Bootable This determines which of the configured arrays should be used for booting the system when MegaRAID IDE is selected as the boot device The options are Yes or No BOOT OPTION YES NO You can select the boot device from the system BIOS setup Only one array is allowed to be bootable in a system 4 12 5 Drive Size This field cannot be edited It displays the size of the array For a RAIDO stripe array the drive size is the total of all the drives selected one or more drives For
17. recommended e Operating system independent Client side e Client side works on all major Internet browsers e RAID Server works on the following servers Whistler Windows NT Windows 2000 and Linux e Support for IDE MegaRAID e RAID configuration management e Standard RAID operation management e Alerts and notification management e Co exists with and enhances existing management environment such as Power Console Plus e Dynamic screen updates MegaRAID Configuration Console MCC Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 5 1 2 5 1 2 1 5 1 2 2 5 1 2 3 5 1 2 4 e Remote adapter disk firmware installation e Ability to run both in Network and in Standalone modes e Support for all the latest MegaRAID products e Depends on hardware See the hardware user manual for more information Architecture MegaRAID Console Server This server holds databases for all registered RAID servers and responds to Internet browser requests MegaRAID Console server runs WEBRAID and REGSERV programs Registration Server REGSERV The Registration Server contains a database of all computers that have registered as users of the RAID Server Before any computer running RAID Server can use the MCC it must be registered in the Registration Server This application runs on Red Hat Linux Windows NT and Windows 2000 Registering the Host Machine in MegaRAID Console Server In order to manage several Mega
18. spares to an existing configuration Step 1 Save the current configuration to a file using the L lt Drive ID gt filename option Step 2 Connect the new drives Step 3 Create new configuration with the command filename The new drives are configured as SPARE drives Note When you configure an odd number of drives you can auto configure one drive with the A m option 3 9 Return Code The HYPERCFG utility returns a 16 bit code on an exit to the operating system This code should be interpreted as follows Bits 7 0 Data Type returned Bits 15 8 z Data When Data Type 0 bits 15 8 contain the total number of arrays configured When Data Type 1 bits 15 8 contain the error code depending on the last operation 3 8 Hyper Configuration Utility Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 3 10 Return Codes on Error Condition Table 3 2 lists the return codes that display when there are errors and provides the descriptions of those errors Table 3 2 Return Codes on Error Conditions Serial Return Number Code Description 1 0 No error 2 2 Reserved 3 3 Reserved 4 4 Reserved 5 5 Reserved 6 6 Array not formed due to inadequate drives 7 7 Reserved 8 8 Reserved 9 9 Reserved 10 10 Hard disk s not found 11 11 RAID controller timed out on read write 12 12 Reserved 13 13 Reserved 14 14 Error openin
19. the Setup window screen displays hints on available options The Help section also provides a list of keys that you can use to perform tasks such as auto configuring creating or deleting an array 4 8 Switch Windows TAB The lt TAB gt key is used to switch the control back and forth between the Array Information and the Physical Drive Information windows 4 9 Auto Configure Stripe F1 Press the lt F1 gt key to auto configure a stripe array When you do this MegaRAID IDE automatically creates a stripe based array based on the available physical drives attached The stripe size is set for the optimum level 64 Kbytes 4 10 Auto Configure Mirror F2 Press the lt F2 gt key to run auto configuration When you do this MegaRAID IDE automatically creates arrays based on the available physical drives A minimum of two free physical drives are required for mirroring 4 11 Auto Configure RAID 10 F3 Press the lt F3 gt key to auto configure the drives for a RAID 10 array A minimum of four free physical drives are required for the RAID 10 auto configuration Switch Windows TAB 4 7 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Note All previous settings are lost when running Auto Configuration for Striping Mirroring or RAID 10 4 12 Create Array F4 Press the lt F4 gt key to create a disk array When you create an array a default array template is created You must edit the array properties t
20. then displays Table 5 6 provides a description of each field To exit this screen click Config View or Scan Devices Table 5 6 RAID Properties Model Specifies the model number Driver Version Specifies the driver version ROM Version Specifies the ROM version Revision Specifies the revision Interrupt Specifies the interrupt Bus Master Base Specifies the Bus Master Base Address Address PCI Bus ID Specifies the PCI Bus ID Device ID Specifies the Device ID 5 18 MegaRAID Configuration Console MCC Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Table 5 6 RAID Properties Cont Field Description Primary Channel Specifies the Primary Channel Base Address Base Address Primary Channel Specifies the Primary Channel Control Address Control Address Secondary Channel Specifies the Secondary Channel Base Address Base Address Secondary Channel Specifies the Secondary Channel Control Address Control Address 5 3 2 Physical Drive To view the Physical Drive Properties and Error Status click the button next to physical drive you want to view After you click the button the Physical Drive ID displays in the right frame The links to the RAID Properties and Error Status page are listed as shown below Click on the link Properties to display the Physical Drive Properties Click the Error Status to display the Physical Drives Error Status 5
21. 1l 4 0 02 bin PATH SHOME bin Step 16 Save the file and exit a Ifusing PICO press lt Ctrl gt lt X gt to save the file When prompted to save the file with changes click Yes then press lt Enter gt to save as bash_ profile b Ifusing VI type the following to save the file wq Step 17 Close the terminal window and reboot Step 18 During reboot log on to Linux The Java installation is complete 5 2 2 2 Installing MCC in Red Hat Linux and SuSE Linux Systems Perform the following steps to install MCC in Red Hat Linux 8 0 9 0 2 1 AS and 2 1 ES SuSE Linux 8 0 and 8 2 and later versions Note Linux is case sensitive so type all commands exactly as shown You must install Java Run time Environment JRE before you install the MCC for Linux systems The MCC installation for Linux systems installs only in the Xterminal screen and does not execute properly in full screen shell CTRL ALT F1 Make sure you install the from the GUI Xterminal screen only Installation 5 9 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Note To install in Red Hat Linux 2 1 AS you must boot from a floppy Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 diskette instead of the CD The boot floppy image is in the images file on the first CD of the install pack Copy the file boot img to the floppy and boot from it Enter linux dd and follow the on screen installation steps to complete the installation
22. AID MODE lt STRIPE MIRROR RAID10 gt STRIPE SIZE lt STRIPE SIZE gt TOTAL STRIPES lt Number of Stripes gt TOTAL PHYSICAL DRIVES lt Number of Physical Drives in Array gt 3 7 Physical Drive Information This logical block starts with the keyword PHYSICAL DRIVE This block must be organized as follows PHYSICAL DRIVE lt Drive Number gt DRIVE ID lt Drive ID gt DRIVE SIZE lt Drive Size gt The logical blocks can be separated by blank lines There can be any number of blank lines The lines within the logical block must be consecutive Blank lines are not allowed within the logical block There are as many PHYSICAL DRIVE INFO blocks as the number of drives participating in the array All the PHYSICAL DRIVE INFO blocks for a logical array must follow the LOGICAL ARRAY INFO block before the start of next LOGICAL ARRAY INFO block SPARE ARRAY information cannot be included in the configuration file Drives other than those specified in the configuration file are configured as SPARE DRIVES To force configuration of a SPARE DRIVE do not include Logical Array Information 3 7 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved that drive in the configuration file That drive will be automatically configured as SPARE Any other lines that do not contain keywords are regarded as comments 3 8 Configuring Spare Drives You cannot use the command line to configure a spare drive Perform the following steps to add
23. B6 A1 2 8 1 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Troubleshooting Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Customer Feedback We would appreciate your feedback on this document Please copy the following page add your comments and fax it to us at the number shown If appropriate please also fax copies of any marked up pages from this document Important Please include your name phone number fax number and com pany address so that we may contact you directly for clarification or additional information Thank you for your help in improving the quality of our documents MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 A1 2 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Reader s Comments Fax your comments to LSI Logic Corporation Technical Publications M S E 198 Fax 408 433 4333 Please tell us how you rate this document MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 41 2 User s Guide Place a check mark in the appropriate blank for each category Excellent Good Average Fair Poor Completeness of information Clarity of information Ease of finding information Technical content Usefulness of examples and illustrations Overall manual What could we do to improve this document If you found errors in this document please specify the error and page number If appropriate please fax a marked up copy
24. B6 RAID Information Name Today s Date Company Date of Purchase Address Invoice Number City State Serial Number Country Number of Channels Email address Cache Memory Phone Firmware Version Fax BIOS Version System Information Motherboard BIOS manufacturer Operating System BIOS Date Op Sys Version Video Adapter MegaRAID IDEal Software CSB6 RAID Driver Ver CPU Type Speed Network Card System Memory Other disk controllers installed Other adapter cards installed Description of problem Steps necessary to re create problem 1 2 3 Preface vii Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID Configuration MegaRAID Primary Master MegaRAID Primary Slave MegaRAID Secondary Master MegaRAID Secondary Slave RAID Mode Stripe Size Array 0 Configuration Array 1 Configuration viii Preface Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Contents Chapter 1 Overview Cl RAID Description 1 2 RAID Benefits l2 Improved I O 1 22 Increased Reliability L3 Features 155 1 IDE Channels Lae BIOS Features 13 3 Driver Features 1 3 4 Manageability Disk Console Chapter 2 RAID Levels 2 1 RAID 0 2 2 RAID1 2 3 RAID 10 Chapter 3 Hyper Configuration Utility 3 1 General Description 3 2 Installing Hy
25. MegaRAID IDE card Perform the following steps Step 1 Turn on the computer and press lt CTRL gt lt M gt to start the MegaRAID IDE Setup Utility while the computer starts up Step 2 Create an array by using F4 Option Step 3 Change the array type to Mirror Step 4 Now include the existing drive and the new drive to this array You can identify the existing drive and the new drive by where they are connected Step 5 Start the rebuilding process by pressing lt Enter gt The setup prompts you for the target drive name Step 6 Select the newly connected drive as the target drive by pressing lt Space Bar gt then lt Enter gt The rebuilding process then starts If there are any errors during the building of the array you are prompted with a message box You can choose to ignore the error and proceed or stop the rebuilding process Note To make the rebuilding process faster enable DMA Read Write using the lt F7 gt key BIOS Configuration Utility Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 4 7 Using the MegaRAID IDE Setup Utility 4 7 1 Setup Window The Setup window Figure 4 1 has three sections e Array information e Physical drive information e Help information Only the Array Information window and Physical Drives Information window are active The Array Information window can be edited the Physical Drives Information window cannot To access this screen press lt Ctrl
26. RAID controllers in different machines on the network the MegaRAID Console Server maintains an internal database of all MegaRAID locations Each MegaRAID controller must register with the MegaRAID Console Server database The MegaRAID Console Server internet protocol IP address is located in the following files Windows Winbootdir System32 Drivers Etc Regserv dat Linux Etc host Note If MCC is running in Stand alone mode localhost must be added to the file mentioned above Web Server This application runs on MegaRAID Console Server and responds to Internet browser requests The browser connects directly to LSI Logic specialized RAID aware Web Server that has the Java Bean built in By default installation sets the Web Server port number to 3570 Features and Architecture 3 3 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Note LSI Logic Web Server can co exist with any other Web Server that you might currently have in your machine LSI Logic Web Server can be configured to listen to any port you choose helping to avoid any potential conflict This solution does not need any third party software and is totally platform independent 5 1 2 5 RAID Server This is the system that has MegaRAID controllers and their monitoring applications such as RaidServ RaidServ called RAID SERV in Windows NT Service Manager is a communication layer between MegaRAID Monitoring Console and the IDE software utili
27. RPM package Step 9 In the directory in which the RMP package was created type rpm ivh lt RPM filename gt for example rpm ivh j2re 1 4 0_02 fcs linux i586 rpm Step 10 Open bash profile or etc profile to add Java to the path Step 11 Select either PICO or VI as your text editor Step 12 To edit the bash_ profile or etc profile using PICO type the following for Red Hat Linux cd root or the following for SuSe Linux cd etc then type the following for bash profile pico bash profile or the following for etc profile pico etc profile Step 13 To edit the bash_ profile or etc profile using VI type the following for Red Hat Linux cd root or the following for SuSe Linux cd etc then type the following for bash profile vi bash_ profile or the following for etc profile vi etc profile The following displays on the screen for bash profile regardless of the text editor you use bash profile Get the aliases and functions if f bashre then MegaRAID Configuration Console MCC Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved bashre fi User specific environment and startup programs PATH SPATH SHOME bin BASH _ENV HOME bashrc USERNAME root export USERNAME BASH ENV PATH Step 14 Move the cursor to the line that starts with PATH Step 15 After PATH type usr java j2re1 4 0_02 bin This changes PATH PATH SHOME bin to PATH usr java j2re
28. Step 8 Press lt Enter gt Step 9 Return to the Driver Summary screen and Continue the Novell NetWare installation Existing Novell NetWare System Driver Installation Follow these steps to add the NetWare driver to an existing installation Step 1 For NetWare 5 1 and higher type the following at the root prompt nwconfig Step 2 Press lt Enter gt Step 3 The Configuration Options screen displays Step 4 Select Drive Options and press lt Enter gt A window displays Step 5 Select Configure Disk and Storage Device Options and press lt Enter gt Step 6 Select one of the following options that display in the window Discover and load an additional driver Select an additional driver Step 7 If you select Discover and load an additional driver the system discovers the extra unit and prompts you to select a driver from the list Step 8 Press lt Insert gt to insert the driver This completes the procedure If you choose Select an additional driver the Select a Driver screen displays Step 1 Press lt Insert gt Step 2 Read and follow the instructions that appear Step 3 Insert a floppy disk into the floppy drive and press lt Enter gt Novell NetWare Driver Installation 7 11 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 7 12 Step 4 The system finds the driver and installs it Operating System Installation Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Ch
29. Table 5 2 lists the MCC features and the conditions necessary to use them Table 5 2 MCC Features and Requirements Feature Requirement MegaRAID The TCP stack must be running for the Web Server to function There is no requirement Web Server for installing Web Server Web Server is installed in the opt LSI directory There are no RPMs required The jar files and directories are simply copied to the opt LSTI directory MegaRAID The TCP stack must be running for the Registration Server to function There is no Registration Server requirement for installing Registration Server It is installed in usr sbin RegSvr x y Z 1386 rpm IDE RAID IDE RAID can be installed only if the megaraid driver is detected by the system as loaded The system checks whether the directory proc megaraid exists and is readable RAID Server RAID Server can be installed only if the megaraid driver is detected by the system as loaded RSLinux x y z i386 rpm Spy th x y z i386 rpm Simple network management protocol SNMP SNMP can be installed only if the megaraid driver is detected by the system as loaded Spy rh x y z 1386 rpm exsnmp x y z 1386 rpm 1 Note See Section 5 2 6 How to Install and Extend snmp Agent page 5 14 for fur ther detail on this feature 5 6 MegaRAID Configuration Console MCC Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 5 2 2 1 Installing JRE in Red Hat Linux and SuSE Lin
30. To exit this RAID server click Close Server in the left frame MegaRAID Configuration Console MCC Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Chapter 6 Spy Service This chapter describes the Spy Service program and contains the following sections e Section 6 1 Starting or Stopping Spy Service under Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 page 6 1 e Section 6 2 Uninstalling Spy Service page 6 2 e Section 6 3 Spy Service Icon page 6 3 The Spy Service program looks for errors failed drives and status changes It can mark drives as failed after the error threshold is reached and start automatic rebuilds It runs in the background of the MegaRAID IDE Console When operating under Windows Spy enables the self monitoring analysis and reporting technology S M A R T on all of the hard drives at startup and polls for any status changes in the drives every 60 minutes S M A R T monitors hard drives for drive failures 6 1 Starting or Stopping Spy Service under Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 You can use the Control Panel to access the option to start or stop Spy Service Perform the following steps to start or stop Spy Service Step 1 Click on Start gt Settings gt Control Panel The screen shown in Figure 6 1 displays MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 A1 2 6 1 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Figure 6 1 Control Panel Screen Control P
31. USER S GUIDE MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 A1 2 September 2003 LSIPeee DB15 000291 02 Document DB15 000291 02 September 2003 This document describes release 01 of LSI Logic Corporation s MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 A1 2 and will remain the official reference source for all revisions releases of this product until rescinded by an update LSI Logic Corporation reserves the right to make changes to any products herein at any time without notice LSI Logic does not assume any responsibility or liability arising out of the application or use of any product described herein except as expressly agreed to in writing by LSI Logic nor does the purchase or use of a product from LSI Logic convey a license under any patent rights copyrights trademark rights or any other of the intellectual property rights of LSI Logic or third parties Limited Warranty LSI Logic provides this publication as is without warranty of any kind either expressed or implied including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a specific purpose Some states do not allow disclaimer of express or implied warranties or the limitation or exclusion of liability for indirect special exemplary incidental or consequential damages in certain transactions therefore this statement may not apply to you Also you may have other rights which vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction L
32. YPERCFG is a command line utility for MegaRAID software This chapter details the product features in these sections Section 3 1 General Description page 3 1 Section 3 2 Installing HyperCFG page 3 2 Section 3 3 Using HyperCFG page 3 3 Section 3 4 Configuration File page 3 6 Section 3 5 RAID Information page 3 6 Section 3 6 Logical Array Information page 3 7 Section 3 7 Physical Drive Information page 3 7 Section 3 8 Configuring Spare Drives page 3 8 Section 3 9 Return Code page 3 8 Section 3 10 Return Codes on Error Condition page 3 9 General Description HYPERCFG is a command line utility for IDE RAID The main features supported in this utility are e automatic configuration of RAID for RAID 0 1 and 10 e special RAID 0 configuration support e display of RAID configuration information e ability to save RAID configuration information to file e ability to configure RAID from file e ability to set reset specified global RAID flags Write Cache Virus Protection and DMA MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 A1 2 3 1 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved e display of RAID BIOS version e ability to read and display specified sector from drive e ability to dump specified sector to BIN file e ability to dump BIN file to specified sector e ability to add error code information e ability to dump ID command pac
33. agent Then stop and start the agent using etc re d init d snmpd c etc snmp spysnmpd conf b You can test the agent using snmpwalk localhostpublic iso org dod internet private enterprises 3582 1 Installation 5 15 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 5 3 Using the MCC Software Utility This section describes the MCC software utility You can use the software utilities that come with MCC to perform the following actions Get information about the configuration Track the health of the arrays and physical drives Track S M A R T status of the physical drives Rebuild an array Perform a consistency check on array Check error log where all drive failures are reported To log onto the RAID Server enter the Internet address in the Internet browser The MCC screen displays Click the server name to select the RAID Server you want to configure Continue the log on procedure by selecting View Only or Full Access Table 5 3 describes the access options Table 5 3 Access Options Option Description View Only Allows you to only view the RAID configuration It does not allow you to perform rebuilds or check consistency Full Access This allows you to view configure and manage the RAID configuration This option requires you to supply the Full Access Password 5 16 MegaRAID Configuration Console MCC Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights res
34. alid for stripe and RAID 10 configurations only e Whether the system is bootable from one of the configured arrays e Build Array function which is valid for mirror and RAID 10 arrays This option is used to build one drive from another Note The minimum stripe size allowed for RAID 10 configuration is 64 Kbytes Physical Drive Information This section displays all the physical drives connected to the IDE channels and their properties The lt Up Arrow gt and lt Down Arrow gt are used to navigate the Physical Drive Information window The menus are as follows e Channel ID Primary or Secondary e Connection ID Master or Slave e Disk array that the physical drive is a part of e Model number e Size in Mbytes of each drive e The status of each drive online failed or rebuilding Note Information listed in the Physical Drive Information window cannot be edited Only the lt TAB gt lt Up Arrow gt and lt Down Arrow gt keys work when the control is in the Physical Drive Information window Physical Drive Options In the top right corner of the Physical Drive Information are the physical drive options The available options are as follows BIOS Configuration Utility Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved e Enable disable write cache e Boot sector virus protection e DMA transfers Note These options apply to all drives attached to MegaRAID IDE 4 7 5 Help section The Help section of
35. anel T Add Remove Add Remove Administrative Advertised Advertised Automatic Hardware Programs Tools Programs Program Updates Control Panel Use the settings in Control Panel to Ba Si A za personalize your computer Date Time Display Folder Options Fonts Game Internet Keyboard Select an item to view its Controllers Options description s P oe Windows Update aL 2 fo 4 Windows 2000 Support Mail Mouse Networkand Phone and Power Options Printers Regional Dial up Co Modem Options a2aod vwe Remote Scanners and Scheduled Sounds and Symantec System Systems Control Cameras Tasks Multimedia LiveUpdate Management 9 Users and Passwords Step 2 Click on Administrative Tools gt Services icon gt Spy Ser A dialog window displays with the start and stop options Step 3 Click on the Start or Stop button This starts or stops the Spy Service program depending on your selection Note You can right click on the Spy Service icon and select Stop Spy to stop the Spy program The Spy icon displays on the right side of the taskbar See Section 6 3 Spy Service Icon for more information about the icon 6 2 Uninstalling Spy Service Perform the following steps to uninstall Spy Service 6 2 Spy Service Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Step 1 Stop the Spy Service program See Section 6 1 Starting or Stoppin
36. apter 8 Troubleshooting Table 8 1 describes the problems you might encounter along with suggested solutions Table 8 1 Problems and Suggested Solutions Suggested Solution Drives are not detected Make sure the jumpers drive IDs are set correctly The system does not detect the drives if two drives have the same ID OR Make sure the Ultra ATA 100 or ATA 133 cables are used Mak that th I t ly The system hangs when MegaRAID IDEal e ake sure that the cable ends are connected properly Software CSB6 RAID adapter ROM scans the IDE channels properly e Change cables Make sure that the power cables to the drives are connected e If everything fails change the drive s BIOS reports that a mirrored array is in Make sure all physical drives are properly connected and are degraded mode powered on Reconnect replace or rebuild any drive that has failed One of the hard drives in a mirrored array Replace the drive with another drive that has the same capacity has failed If this message displays while booting There are no active partitions Run FDISK to set the active partition NO ROM BASIC SYSTEM HALTED Operating system does not boot Check the system BIOS configuration for PCI interrupt assignments Make sure some Interrupts are assigned for PCI Make sure that you have properly selected the Boot Device in the system BIOS setup CMOS Setup MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CS
37. ation in Windows 2000 support for PIO modes 0 4 DMA modes 0 2 and Ultra DMA modes 0 5 1 3 4 Manageability Disk Console The manageability disk console features include e configuration information display e online mirror rebuilding Features 1 3 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 1 4 e online consistency checks e error logging and notification e control panel property sheet and Microsoft Management Console MCC plug in e desktop management interface DMI agent e simple network management protocol SNMP agent e support for power management features Overview Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 2 1 RAID 0 Chapter 2 RAID Levels There are six official RAID levels RAID 0 through RAID 5 MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 A1 2 supports RAID levels 0 1 and 10 These RAID levels are discussed in the following sections e Section 2 1 RAID 0 page 2 1 e Section 2 2 RAID 1 page 2 2 e Section 2 3 RAID 10 page 2 3 RAID 0 Figure 2 1 provides disk striping across all configured drives in the RAID subsystem RAID 0 does not provide any data redundancy but does offer the best performance of any RAID level RAID 0 breaks up data into smaller blocks and then writes a block to each drive in the array The size of each block is determined by the stripe size parameter which is set during the creation of the RAID set RAID 0
38. con the Array ID displays in the right frame The links to the Array Properties Check Consistency and Rebuild display as shown on the screen Click the word Properties to view the Array Properties The Array operations are described in the following information Note Due to high resource usage during Rebuild and Consistency Check operations in the Windows operating system only one action per RAID Server is allowed in Windows Check Consistency and Rebuild menu items appear only for the appropriate array see the subsection entitled Array Check Consistency and the subsection entitled Array Rebuild Device Progress Array Check Consistency Click Check Consistency to check the correctness of the redundant data in an array You can choose to make the data on both drives identical This function can be performed only on RAID1 and RAID10 arrays After you click Check Consistency the options in Table 5 10 display in the right frame Table 5 10 Check Consistency Options Description Check All Partitions Check this option to perform the consistency check on all valid partitions logical drives Option is valid only for Windows Raid Servers Abort Check Consistency When the Check Consistency begins the words Checking Consistency flash next to the array that is being checked You can abort the Check Consistency by clicking Abort Check Consistency in the right frame You can view the progress of the Check Consis
39. disks The following sections contain the procedures for creating the disks under Windows or a UNIX based system Using a Windows Operating System Under Windows you can use the rawrite floppy image writer utility to create disk images from image files The image writer can be downloaded from the Internet Perform the following steps to build installation diskettes Step 1 Copy the driver update disk image dud lt driver version gt img and the file rawrite exe to a directory Confirm that the files are in the selected directory Step 2 After you confirm the files you might need to change the filename of the driver update disk to a smaller name with less than eight characters Step 3 Copy dud lt driver version gt img dud img Step 4 Type the following command to create the two installation diskettes RAWRITE then press lt Enter gt You are prompted to enter the name of the boot image file Step 5 Type dud img You are prompted for the target drive diskette Step 6 Insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive and type A then press lt Enter gt Step 7 After the command prompt returns and the floppy disk drive LED goes out remove the diskette Step 8 Label the diskette SUSE 82 dud lt driver version gt Using a Linux Operating System Under Linux you can use a driver diskette utility to create disk images from image files Perform the following steps create the driver update disk Operating System I
40. e 2 2 RAID 1 Array Segment 1 Segment Duplicated Segment 2 Segment 2 Duplicated Segment 3 Segment 3 Duplicated Segment 4 Segment 4 Duplicated 2 2 RAID Levels Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 2 3 RAID 10 RAID 10 Figure 2 3 provides both RAID 0 data striping and RAID 1 disk mirroring It requires two sets of RAID 1 drives total of four drives In RAID 10 data is striped across the two arrays and duplicated from one drive to the second drive in each RAID 1 array Uses Small databases or any other environment that requires fault tolerance and high data throughput especially for large files Strong Points Provides complete data redundancy RAID 10 is ideal for any application that requires fault tolerance and increased data throughput Weak Points Requires a minimum of four hard drives Performance is impaired during drive rebuilds Drives Four Figure 2 3 RAID 10 Array Segment 1 Segment 1 Duplicate Segment 2 Segment 2 Duplicate Segment 3 Segment 3 Duplicate Segment 4 Segment 4 Duplicate Segment 5 Segment 5 Duplicate Segment 6 Segment 6 Duplicate Segment 7 Segment 7 Duplicate Segment 8 Segment 8 Duplicate T ka T ji RAID 1 RAID 1 m RAID 10 RAID 0 RAID 10 2 3 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved RAID Levels Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 3 1 Chapter 3 Hyper Configuration Utility H
41. erved Table 5 4 displays the contents of MCC main screen It is broken up into five frames Table 5 4 Main Screen Contents Frame Description Top The top frame displays the following information e Server ID that you are logged on to e Mode you are logged on in e Type of RAID you are using Left This frame lists the following options described in Table 5 5 e Scan Devices e Configuration View e Device Progress e Log Data e Advanced e Back Plane e Close Server Middle Upper This frame displays the Physical Disk Drive View Middle Lower This frame displays the Logical Disk Drive View Right This frame displays the type of actions you can perform It also displays extended options and links when certain links are selected Table 5 5 describes the options in the left frame You can click the options to perform actions or display the related screens Table 5 5 Options on the Main Screen Name Description Scan Devices Rescans the system for new hard drives After you click this button the driver rescans all PCI devices You will notice a significant decrease in system performance for a few seconds Config View Displays the RAID configuration media errors and status of the drives and arrays It also allows you to start activity on a particular array e Logical View displays information about the arrays e Physical View displays all hard drives attached Device Progress
42. f data stored on disks RAID systems improve data storage reliability and fault tolerance compared to single drive computers The additional drives make it possible to prevent data loss from a hard drive failure You can reconstruct missing data from the remaining data and parity drives IDE Channels CSB6 supports two IDE channels BIOS Features The BIOS features include e RAID support before operating system loads Overview Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved automatic detection and configuration drive roaming capability ability to handle configuration changes support for Interrupt 13 and Enhanced Disk Drive Specification support for PIO modes 0 4 DMA modes 0 2 and Ultra DMA modes 0 5 0 5 for ATA 100 and ATA 133 support for RAID levels 0 1 and 10 multiple drive rebuilding special handling of error log spare drive and rebuilding support for BIOS boot specification BBS co existence with SCSI CD and ARMD devices 1 3 3 Driver Features The driver features include automatic negotiation of the highest mode of data transfer handling of both RAID and non RAID drives special interface for configuration information configuration changes and manageability optimized disk access support for RAID levels 0 1 and 10 error logging in NT event log and on disks support for online mirror rebuilding support for consistency check for mirrored disks support for Stand by and Hibern
43. g Spy Service under Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 page 6 1 for instructions on stopping Spy Service Step 2 Click on Start gt Control Panel The Control Panel Displays Step 3 Click on Add Remove Programs The list of currently installed programs displays Step 4 Click on the Spy Service program and select Remove 6 3 Spy Service Icon The icon for the Spy Service displays in the bottom right corner of the MegaRAID IDE Console screen in the tray bar The icon is a round figure wearing sunglasses The icon is color coded Green means that there are no problems Yellow means that there is a rebuild in progress or there are media errors and a possible drive failure Red warns of a critical problem that could cause the system to fail Hold the cursor over the icon mouseover and a short text displays that describes the system status Right click on the icon and the following options display Stop monitor media error The program stops searching for media errors Erase error log The program deletes the errors that were recorded on the error log Stop Spy This stops the program and deletes the icon from the taskbar You can start the program again using the instructions in Section 6 1 Starting or Stopping Spy Service under Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 Do the following to place the Spy icon on the Taskbar when operating under Windows 2000 Click on Start gt Programs gt MegaRAID IDE gt MegaRAID IDE S
44. g array information file 15 15 Array information file format incorrect 16 16 Error opening log file 17 17 Reserved 18 18 Array not formed as required drives not found 19 19 Array not formed excess drives found 20 20 Reserved 21 21 Reserved 22 22 Invalid configuration present 23 23 Configuration mismatch in drives 24 24 Error reading file 25 25 Error writing file 26 26 Warning Truncating file as file size gt 512 bytes 27 27 RAID BIOS not found Return Codes on Error Condition Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 3 9 Table 3 2 Return Codes on Error Conditions Serial Return Number Code Description 28 28 Feature not available in IDE drive 29 29 Invalid command line arguments 30 30 31 Reserved Hyper Configuration Utility Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Chapter 4 BIOS Configuration Utility This chapter explains how to configure MegaRAID IDE and arrays assign RAID levels plan the array configuration optimize storage and use the MegaRAID IDE Setup Utility This information is presented in the following sections Section 4 1 Configuring Arrays page 4 2 e Section 4 2 Configuration Strategies page 4 2 e Section 4 3 Assigning RAID Levels page 4 2 e Section 4 4 Selecting a RAID Level page 4 3 e Section 4 5 Configuring RAID Arrays page 4 3 e Section 4 6 Creati
45. gt lt M gt during boot up Figure 4 1 MegaRAID IDE Setup Utility Screen Array Type Stripe 1 DEGRADED Stripe 2 DEGRADED Stripe Size Bootable gt gt Build Array Initialize Array Cntlr Primary Devi Cntlr Primary Devi Cntlr Secondary De 4 7 2 Array Information RAID 0 1 1 amp 3 284 64K Yes PRESS ENTER gt gt PRESS ENTER gt gt Help Press ENTER to view modify Array properties TAB Switch Windows F1 Auto Config RAID 0 Auto Config RAID 1 3 Auto Config RAID 0 1 F4 Create Array FS Delete Array F6 Restore Old Config F Edit Options F10 Save amp Exit ce 0 MAXTOR 6L040L2 REBUILDING cel MAXTOR 6LO60J3 REBUILDING vice 00 MAXTOR 6L040L2 ONLINE This section of the screen displays all the disk arrays configured Use this section to create delete or edit the existing configurations The disk arrays are Using the MegaRAID IDE Setup Utility 4 5 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 4 7 3 4 7 4 displayed as a node in a tree like Windows Explorer When opened each node displays the properties of the array Press the lt Up Arrow gt and lt Down Arrow gt to navigate the properties and then press lt Enter gt to edit your selection e Array configuration type or RAID level stripe mirror RAID10 or spare pool e Drive numbers of the physical drives included in the array e Stripe size 32 Kbytes to 4 Mbytes v
46. h the letters S and P capitalized Step 11 Enter a password This is your MMC full access password This is a case sensitive password as are all passwords and commands in Linux Step 12 Close the Xterminal Window Step 13 Open up Netscape Communicator Note You need to install Netscape for this step Linux does not support Conqueror or Mozilla Step 14 Go to URL http localhost 3570 Your MegaRAID configuration screen displays The installation procedure is complete 5 2 2 3 Uninstalling MCC in Linux Systems Perform the following steps to uninstall MCC in Linux Step 1 Switch to a graphical user interface GUI Access the directory opt LSI uninst Step 2 At the shell prompt type java jar uninstall jar Note MCC installation does not support component updates You can uninstall a feature and reinstall it Installation 5 11 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 5 2 2 4 5 12 Configuring Web Server and RAID Servers There are two ways to run MCC The first is locally where all the components are in a single machine The second is in the network with multiple systems running RAID servers The following description applies to both e The Web server is unaware of the registration server It knows only about RAID servers e RAID servers are unaware of the Web server They know only about the Registration server e Registration server is unaware of both Web serve
47. he following format DD MM YYYY HH MM SS This option expects a valid lt Drive ID gt Default option If o is not specified then the default option is I Miscellaneous Options This attribute is reserved for miscellaneous options P S lt Drive ID gt Switches the drive to specified state The S field can be any of the following S Drive is powered on in Suspend state Default option If S is not specified then the drive is switched on in Active state IV Detects the presence of RAID BIOS and displays the version of BIOS R n Filename B Filename lt Drive ID gt Reads and displays the nth sector If n is not specified then the sector number is 0 B dumps the specified sector to the specified file in BIN format dumps the specified BIN file to the nth sector The default filename is HYPERCFGBIN I lt Drive ID gt Using HyperCFG Displays the information about the specified drive Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Table 3 1 HyperCFG Options and Attributes Cont Options Description M r lt max This option allows the user to set the maximum accessible sectors on the address gt hard drive that supports this feature Mr resets the maximum address to the lt Drive ID gt native maximum address of the hard drive The address is specified in hexidecimal format IX Pauses and waits
48. he option Press lt Enter gt to activate the new option A status box for each item displays in the Physical Drives Information section of the screen The box shows whether the option is on or off The Write Cache displays WC ON or WC OFF the Virus Protection box displays VP ON or VP OFF and the DMA Read Write box displays DMA ON or DMA OFF When you turn the option on the color of the status box changes from red to green The window for the Write Cache Virus Protection and DMA options is shown in Figure 4 2 Restore Old Configuration F6 4 11 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Figure 4 2 Edit Options Screen F7 r rr L eva Boo DINDIK ZINE Array Information Array Type RAID 0 1 Stripe 1 DEGRADED 1 amp 3 Stripe 2 DEGRADED 284 Stripe Size 64K Bootable Yes TAB Switch Windows gt gt Build Array PRESS ENTER gt gt F1 Auto Config RAID 0 Initialize Array PRESS ENTER gt gt F2 Auto Config RAID 1 F3 Auto Config RAID 0 1 F4 Create Array sete Array ore Old Config a Options Drives Information Cntlr Primary Device 8 0 MAXTOR 6L040L2 REBUILDIN Cntlr Primary Device 1 8 MAXTOR 6L060J3 REBUILDIN Cntlr 0 Secondary Device 00 MAXTOR 6L040L2 ONLINE 4 16 Save and Exit F10 When you have completed the array configuration press lt F10 gt to save the configuration and exit If you do not want to save the configuration or any changes that you have made press
49. hysical drive belongs The RAID mode for a striped array RAID 0 is called performance and for a mirrored array RAID 1 is called reliability Connection Specifies the type of IDE connection that is used to connect this drive to the RAID controller primary or secondary master or slave Model Specifies the model number of the physical drive Serial Number 5 3 2 2 5 20 Specifies the serial number of the physical drive Physical Drive Error Status This screen displays the physical drive error status Table 5 8 provides a description of each field Table 5 8 Physical Drive Error Status Time and Date Specifies the time and date the error was logged Error Specifies the error type See Table 5 9 for the error codes Sector Specifies the sector that contains the error Error codes for the physical drives display when you select the Error Log view Table 5 9 provides a list and description of the error codes Table 5 9 Physical Drive Errors Media read error The disk surface is damaged Media write error The disk surface is damaged Media verify error Missing drive type MegaRAID Configuration Console MCC Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 5 3 2 3 Array To display the Array Properties perform a Check Consistency or rebuild the array click the icon in the lower middle frame next to Array After you click the i
50. ility You can achieve both drive performance and availability Select RAID 10 for this configuration You need four drives to configure RAID 10 4 3 Assigning RAID Levels Only one RAID level can be assigned to each array Table 4 1 displays the drives required per RAID level Table 4 1 Physical Drives Required per RAID Level Minimum Number of Physical RAID Level Drives Maximum Number of Physical Drives 4 2 BIOS Configuration Utility Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 4 4 Selecting a RAID Level To ensure the best performance you should select the optimal RAID level when you create a system drive The optimal RAID level for your disk array depends on the following factors e Number of drives in the disk array e Capacity of the drives in the array e Need for data redundancy e Disk performance requirements The factors you need to consider when selecting a RAID level are listed in Table 4 2 Table 4 2 Physical Drives Required per RAID Level Number Fault Level Description and Use Pros Cons of Drives Tolerant 0 Data divided in blocks and High data throughput J No fault tolerance All One to No distributed sequentially pure for large files data lost if any drive fails Four striping Use for non critical data that requires high performance 1 Data duplicated on another 100 percent data More disk space required Two Yes dis
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52. indows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems Insert the CD in your computer and run the Setup EXE program using the following directory CD ROM Drive Letter gt Setup EXE Setup EXE installs the required components listed in Table 5 2 if they are not already installed When the first installation screen displays follow the instructions on the installation screens To install MCC software utilities follow the instructions on the installation screens For local administration of a system install MegaRAID Web Server and MegaRAID Server For remote administration of different machines install MegaRAID Web Server MegaRAID Server and MegaRAID Registration Server MegaRAID Registration Server must be installed on only one machine in the network Click Install to begin the installation Back to review or change any installation settings or Cancel to exit the Wizard This screen displays the progress of the installation Click Finish to complete the installation Installation 5 5 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 5 2 2 Installation for Linux Systems This section describes the installation procedure for Red Hat Linux and SuSE Linux Note You must install Java Run time Environment JRE before you install the MCC for Linux The MCC package for Linux is based on JRE and cannot be launched without it The link to the appropriate download for Java is http java sun com j2se 1 4 download html
53. ing Novell NetWare System Driver Installation 7 11 Contents xi Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Chapter 8 Troubleshooting Customer Feedback xii Contents Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Figures 2 1 2 2 23 4 1 4 2 6 1 Contents RAID 0 Array RAID 1 Array RAID 10 Array MegaRAID IDE Setup Utility Screen Edit Options Screen F7 Control Panel Screen Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 2 2 2 2 2 3 4 5 4 12 6 2 xiii xiv Contents Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Tables 3 1 J 4 1 4 2 5 1 Su 5 3 5 4 5 5 5 6 IF 5 8 39 5 10 5 11 5 12 5 13 5 14 Tel 8 1 Contents Copyright HyperCFG Options and Attributes Return Codes on Error Conditions Physical Drives Required per RAID Level Physical Drives Required per RAID Level Items Required for Installation MCC Features and Requirements Access Options Main Screen Contents Options on the Main Screen RAID Properties Physical Drive Properties Physical Drive Error Status Physical Drive Errors Check Consistency Options Check Consistency Progress Field Descriptions Array Rebuild Device Progress Field Descriptions Array Property Field Descriptions Advanced Settings Novell NetWare Driver Files Problems and Suggested Solutions 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 3 3 3 9 4 2 4 3 5 4 5 6
54. isks is an array of multiple independent hard drives that provide high performance and fault tolerance A RAID disk subsystem improves I O input output performance and reliability The RAID array appears to the host computer as a single storage unit or as multiple logical units I O is expedited because several disks can be accessed simultaneously MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 A1 2 1 1 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 3 1 3 1 1 3 2 RAID systems improve data storage reliability and fault tolerance compared to single drive computers Data loss resulting from a hard drive failure can be prevented by reconstructing missing data from the remaining hard drives RAID Benefits RAID has gained popularity because it improves I O performance and increases storage subsystem reliability RAID provides data security through fault tolerance and redundant data storage Improved I O Although hard drive capabilities have improved drastically actual performance has improved only three to four times in the last decade Computing performance has improved over 50 times during the same time period RAID allows you to access several disks simultaneously Increased Reliability The electromechanical components of a disk subsystem operate more slowly require more power and generate more noise and vibration than electronic devices These factors reduce the reliability o
55. k mirroring Use for read redundancy providing Reduces usable disk intensive fault tolerant fault tolerance space to the size of the systems smallest drive Reduced performance during rebuilds 10 Data divided in blocks and 100 percent data Four hard drives required Four Yes distributed sequentially and J redundancy providing each block is duplicated to fault tolerance High another disk data throughput 4 5 Configuring RAID Arrays After you have installed the MegaRAID IDE controller in the system and have attached all physical disk drives perform these actions to prepare a RAID disk array Step 1 Press lt Ctrl gt lt M gt to run the MegaRAID IDE Manager Selecting a RAID Level Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 4 6 Step 2 Create and configure one or more logical drives and select the RAID level write cache policy boot sector virus protection and DMA transfers Step 3 Save the configuration See Section 4 16 Save and Exit F10 page 4 12 for more information Step 4 Initialize the system drives After initialization you can install the operating system Note MegaRAID IDE does not support RAID arrays across different cards under Microsoft Windows 95 98 Millennium and Microsoft Windows NT 2000 Creating a Mirrored Array From an Existing Drive To build a new mirrored array from an existing drive connect the current drive and a new drive to the
56. ket to BIN file e ability to reset MAX address to native max address e self monitoring analysis and reporting technology S M A R T option e option for saving and restoring configuration using BIN files e display of rebuild status of a logical drive if any of its physical drives is in rebuilding state 3 2 Installing HyperCFG Perform the following steps to install HyperCFG Step 1 Copy the HyperCFG executable file from the CD to your hard drive The filename in the various operating systems is e HYPERCFGexe for DOS e hypercfg for Linux e HyperWin exe for Windows NT Step 2 Run the file from the hard drive The HyperCFG utility displays Use the options in Section 3 3 Using HyperCFG page 3 3 to set the RAID configuration and other options 3 2 Hyper Configuration Utility Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 3 3 Using HyperCFG The following is a list of options for the utility e Configuration options e Drive ID e Display options e Miscellaneous options e File name Table 3 1 describes the attributes that you can set for these options Table 3 1 HyperCFG Options and Attributes Description S Silent Operation When this option is set the utility does not prompt the user F File This option redirects the output to the specified file name Name If the file name is not specified then the file name defaults to HYPERCFG DAT Configuration The following options are u
57. mpress it using tar zxvf This creates a directory ucd snmp 4 2 1 MegaRAID Configuration Console MCC Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Step 2 Compile the source and install the standard snmp agent a Go to the directory usr ucd snmp 4 2 1 b Run configuration using configure you may need to press enter 4 5 times c Run make to build the agent d Run make install to install it Note The step2 installs the snmp agent i e snmpd under ust local sbin In Linux you may have another snmp agent i e snmpd under usr sbin with standard distribution Don t confuse it with this Step 3 Extend the snmp agent for Spy support Install the rpm file exsnmp 2 0 9 1386 rpm using rpm i exsnmp 2 0 9 1386 rpm which will do the following a Copy the file MegaRaid so which is a dynamic link library to communicate with spy under lib b Copy a proper snmp configuration file spysnmpd conf under etc snmp The file spysnmpd conf contains an entry dlmod MegaRaid lib MegaRaid so at the very last line You can use this to obtain IDERAID information can through the Spy daemon Step 4 Run the extended snmp agent Note Ifthe snmp agent is already installed in the machine e g in Red Hat Linux you may have it already then step 1 2 is not required a Make sure Spy is running before starting the snmpd
58. new Red Hat Linux 7 3 8 0 9 0 or 2 1 AS ES systems Refer to the release notes that accompanied the driver for information on updating the Red Hat Linux driver on an already existing Red Hat Linux system Perform the following steps to install the driver Note Copy the driver image for Linux from the Universal Driver Suite CD to diskette Step 1 Boot to CD ROM Disk 1 Step 2 Type the following at the prompt DOS Driver Installation 7 3 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 7 4 7 4 1 7 4 1 1 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 linux dd Press lt Enter gt at the boot prompt on the Welcome screen Insert the diskette with the driver image Select Yes If using the SuSE Linux operating system scroll down to select LSI Logic MegaRAID adapter driver otherwise the operating system sees the driver automatically The utility locates and loads the driver for your device Follow the Red Hat Linux installation procedure to complete the installation Reboot the system SuSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES 8 0 Installation Perform the following procedures to install the Megaide driver for SuSE United Linux 1 0 with Service Pack 2a on a IBM Laurel CSB6 system e Obtaining the driver image file e Creating the installation disks under Windows or Linux operating systems e Performing a fresh installation Preparing the Installation Disk s To prepare the i
59. ng a Mirrored Array From an Existing Drive page 4 4 e Section 4 7 Using the MegaRAID IDE Setup Utility page 4 5 e Section 4 8 Switch Windows TAB page 4 7 e Section 4 9 Auto Configure Stripe F1 page 4 7 e Section 4 10 Auto Configure Mirror F2 page 4 7 e Section 4 11 Auto Configure RAID 10 F3 page 4 7 e Section 4 12 Create Array F4 page 4 8 e Section 4 13 Delete Array F5 page 4 10 e Section 4 14 Restore Old Configuration F6 page 4 11 e Section 4 15 Edit Options F7 page 4 11 e Section 4 16 Save and Exit F10 page 4 12 MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 A1 2 4 1 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 4 1 Configuring Arrays Organize the physical disk drives in arrays after the drives are connected to MegaRAID IDE An array can consist of one to four physical disk drives depending on the RAID level 4 2 Configuration Strategies The most important factors in RAID array configuration are drive availability fault tolerance and drive performance e Maximizing Drive Availability You can maximize the drive availability by increasing fault tolerance Use RAID 1 or mirror configuration to attain this objective e Maximizing Drive Performance You can optimize drive performance by using striping Select RAID 0 or striping to configure an array for optimal performance e Performance and Availab
60. nstallation Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Copy the driver update disk image dud lt driver version gt img to a Linux system Insert a fresh floppy diskette in floppy drive Confirm that the files are in the selected directory Create the driver update diskette using the following command dd if dud lt driver version gt img of dev fd0 After the command prompt returns and the floppy disk drive LED goes out remove the diskette Label the fdiskette SUSE 82 dud lt driver version gt 7 5 2 Performing a Fresh Installation Use this method if you want to perform a new installation of the operating system and want to include the drivers Fresh installation uses the driver update disk at the beginning of the installation and the installer updates the system with MegaRAID driver images for the required kernels Perform the following steps to install the MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID Stack during the fresh installation Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Create a RAID array using the MegaRAID IDE BIOS Configuration Utility lt Ctrl gt lt M gt See Chapter 4 BIOS Configuration Utility for information about using the BIOS Configuration Utility to configure RAID arrays Boot your system using the SuSE 82 CD When the first screen displays press lt F3 gt and select the installation menu option with the acpi disabled o
61. nstallation disks you must obtain the necessary driver image files then create the installation disk s Obtaining the Driver Image File The Megaide driver is offered in the form of a driver update disk The required file is dud lt driver version gt img which is the MegaRAID IDEal software RAID stack driver update disk You can obtain the the latest driver files from the LSI Logic FTP site at ftp www megaraid silogic com Operating System Installation Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 7 4 1 2 Creating the Installation Disks You need a Microsoft Windows or UNIX based operating system and blank floppy diskettes to create the installation disks The following sections contain the procedures for creating the disks under Windows or a UNIX based system Using a Windows Operating System Under Windows you can use the rawrite floppy image writer utility to create disk images from image files The image writer can be downloaded from the Internet Perform the following steps to build installation diskettes Step 1 Copy the driver update disk image dud lt driver version gt img and the file rawrite exe to a directory Confirm that the files are in the selected directory Step 2 After you confirm the files you might need to change the filename of the driver update disk to a smaller name with less than eight characters Step 3 Copy dud lt driver version gt img dud img Step 4 Type the f
62. o field can be any of the following C Erases the configuration sector E Erases the error log sector A Erases both configuration and error log sector configuration Configures the RAID from the specified configuration file filename Default filename If the filename is not specified the default filename is HYPERCFG CFG 3 4 Hyper Configuration Utility Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Table 3 1 Options Display Options Description HyperCFG Options and Attributes Cont This option determines how the data displays This option is valid only for I and E options W o Specifies display mode The o field can be either of the following V Display in verbose mode Default option If o is not specified then data displays as a HEX dump Drive ID is specified by C n D cd C n Specifies the card number If n is not specified then it defaults to 0 D ed Specifies the drive letter Possible values are as follows c Channel Number 0 for Primary 1 for Secondary default is 0 d Master Slave 0 for Master 1 for Slave default is 0 T o lt Drive ID gt Reads and updates the time stamp information in configuration The possible values are as follows I Inserts the current time stamp information into the configuration R Reads and displays the time stamp information t
63. o complete the array creation Use arrow navigation keys to highlight a property field and press lt Enter gt to edit that property See the following sections for information about setting each property field 4 12 1 Array Type By default an array is created in stripe mode When you select this field a pop up window displays the following options RAID MODE STRIPE MIRROR RAID 10 SPARE POOL Select the intended RAID mode by using the arrow navigation keys and pressing lt Enter gt The SPARE POOL option is not a RAID mode but a way to assign physical drives as hot spares to be used in case of a mirror failure When a mirror configured array experiences a drive failure a spare drive can be used to replace the failed drive and rebuild the array Note To rebuild a drive from the SPARE POOL the size of the physical drive in SPARE POOL must be greater than or equal to the smallest drive in the array 4 8 BIOS Configuration Utility Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 4 12 2 Drive s There is no default setting for this field You must select the drives for the configured array When this field is selected a pop up window displays all the available physical drives with check boxes DRIVE SELECTION BOX Cntlr 0 Primary Master Cntlr 0 Primary Slave Cntlr 0 Secondary Master Cntlr 0 Secondary Slave Use the arrow navigation keys and press the Spacebar to select
64. ollowing command to create two installation diskettes RAWRITE then press lt Enter gt You are prompted to enter the name of the boot image file Step 5 Type dud img You are prompted for the target drive diskette Step 6 Insert a floppy diskette into the floppy disk drive and type A then press lt Enter gt Step 7 After the command prompt returns and the floppy disk drive LED goes out remove the diskette Step 8 Label the diskette SuSE UL10 SP2a dud lt driver version gt Using a Linux Operating System Under Linux you can use a driver diskette utility to create disk images from image files Perform the following steps create the driver update disk SuSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES 8 0 Installation 7 5 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 7 4 2 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Copy the driver update disk image dud lt driver version gt img to a Linux system Insert a fresh floppy diskette in floppy drive Confirm that the files are in the selected directory Create the driver update disk using the following command dd if dud lt driver version gt img of dev fd0o After the command prompt returns and the floppy disk drive LED goes out remove the diskette Label the diskette SUSE UL10 SP2a dud lt driver version gt Performing a Fresh Installation Use this method if you want to perform a new installation of the operating system and want to include
65. ompatibility Report for this product Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved TRADEMARK ACKNOWLEDGMENT LSI Logic the LSI Logic logo design and MegaRAID are trademarks or registered trademarks of LSI Logic Corporation Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds Red Hat is a trademark of Red Hat Inc MS DOS Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation All other brand and product names may be trademarks of their respective companies CD To receive product literature visit us at http www silogic com For a current list of our distributors sales offices and design resource centers view our web page located at http www lsilogic com contacts index html iii Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved iv Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Package Contents Audience Preface You should have received the following e a MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 41 2 User s Guide e software license agreement e CD diskette s with the MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 A1 2 software This book is the primary reference and user s guide for the MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for CSB6 A1 2 The MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 A1 2 provides a cost effective way to achieve higher transfer rates and reliability
66. ontains the CSB6 IDEal RAID and for your operating system displays then click lt OK gt Select it then remove it by clicking the Remove button Click the Add button Select the Have Disk button Insert the diskette into the floppy drive Select drive letter A and click on lt OK gt Select LSI Logic MegaRAID IDE Controller and click OK Operating System Installation Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Step 13 After Windows NT or Windows 2000 copies the driver reset the system 7 1 2 Confirming the Windows NT 4 0 or Windows 2000 Driver Installation Perform the following steps to confirm that the Windows NT 4 0 or the Windows 2000 driver is installed properly Step 1 Click the Windows Start button The Windows menu displays Step 2 Select Settings The Settings menu displays to the right Step 3 Click Control Panel The Control Panel window displays Step 4 Select Adapters Step 5 Select the Drivers tab The controller appears in the list as LSI Logic MegaRAID IDE Controller Step 6 Select the Devices tab One or more entries display as LSI Logic MegaRAID IDE xx under LSI Logic MegaRAID IDE Controller 7 2 DOS Driver Installation For DOS no driver installation is required The ROM BIOS contains the low level driver for MegaRAID that is necessary for MS DOS 7 3 Red Hat Linux Driver Installation on a New System This section describes the installation of the device driver on
67. ows 2000 2003 a prompt displays After the prompt press lt F6 gt MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 A1 2 7 1 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 7 1 1 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 When installation prompts for a key after copying some files press lt S gt to add an IDE adapter In Windows 2000 you are prompted for the driver diskette In Windows NT select the driver from the list that displays Insert the MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 A1 2 driver CD and press lt Enter gt Scroll down the list until the appropriate selection for your system which contains the CSB6 IDEal RAID and for your operating system displays then click lt OK gt Continue with the installation procedure Updating the Windows NT 4 0 or Windows 2000 Driver Perform the following steps to update the Windows NT 4 0 or the Windows 2000 driver or install the Windows NT 4 0 or Windows 2000 driver into an existing system booted from a standard IDE drive Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10 Step 11 Step 12 Click the Windows Start button The Windows menu displays Select Settings The Settings menu displays to the right Click Control Panel The Control Panel window displays Select Adapters Select the Drivers tab Scroll down the list until the appropriate selection for your system which c
68. p 4 Web Server must now be made to point at any of the RAID Servers Perform the following steps to point Web Server to a RAID Server a Open the file opt LSI mcc properties This file contains many NAME VALUE pairs b Locate the name RAID SERVER NAME c Type either the name or IP of a RAID Server d Ifyou are using the name make sure it is resolvable Try pinging the machine using the name If the name is not resolved you can add the name to hosts file etc hosts e If everything is running locally you may type RAID SERVER _NAME localhost Step 5 To start WebServer run opt LSI startup sh How to Set and Modify the Full Access Password The password must be set on every machine that runs RAID Server RSLinux Perform the following steps to set the password for the first time Step 1 Type usr sbin SetPass at the shell prompt The SetPass utility prompts you to enter a new password and confirm it Length of the password must not be more than 40 characters Step 2 Ifa password has already been set you can use SetPass to modify it The password is maintained in the file etc raidpass val Note The password needs to be set every time you uninstall and install MCC Log File Information Log files log messages whose severity value is equal or more than the value set in the file etc rslinux cfg The log files RSMessages log and PollMessages log are created in the directory var log The file u
69. perCFG 3 3 Using HyperCFG 3 4 Configuration File 3 5 RAID Information 3 6 Logical Array Information 3 7 Physical Drive Information 3 8 Configuring Spare Drives MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 A1 2 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 3 1 3 2 1 2 2 2 3 3 1 3 2 3 3 3 6 3 6 3 7 3 7 3 8 3 9 3 10 Chapter 4 BIOS Configuration Utility 4 1 4 2 4 3 4 4 4 5 4 6 4 7 4 8 4 9 4 10 4 11 4 12 4 13 4 14 4 15 4 16 Chapter 5 Return Code Return Codes on Error Condition Configuring Arrays Configuration Strategies Assigning RAID Levels Selecting a RAID Level Configuring RAID Arrays Creating a Mirrored Array From an Existing Drive Using the MegaRAID IDE Setup Utility 4 7 1 Setup Window 4 7 2 Array Information 4 7 3 Physical Drive Information 4 7 4 Physical Drive Options 4 7 5 Help section Switch Windows TAB Auto Configure Stripe F1 Auto Configure Mirror F2 Auto Configure RAID 10 F3 Create Array F4 4 12 1 Array Type 4 12 2 Drive s 4 12 3 Stripe Size 4 12 4 Bootable 4 12 5 Drive Size 4 12 6 Build Array Delete Array F5 Restore Old Configuration F6 Edit Options F7 Save and Exit F10 MegaRAID Configuration Console MCC eal Features and Architecture 5 1 1 Features x Contents Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 3 8 3 9 4 2 4 2 4 2 4 3 4
70. ption Insert the driver update disk when prompted Complete the installation steps 7 6 Novell NetWare Driver Installation The section provides installation instructions for the MegaRAID Novell Netware driver Novell NetWare Driver Installation 7 9 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 7 6 1 Novell NetWare Driver Files Description The MegaRAID Novell NetWare driver and utilities support logical drives configured on the MegaRAID controller This driver supports up to 12 MegaRAID controllers as well as Hot Plug PCI Important The logical drives configured on the host adapter are registered with the operating system as separate logical units Table 7 1 describes the MegaRAID Novell NetWare driver files Table 7 1 Novell NetWare Driver Files Filename MEGA4 XX HAM Description This file is the MegaRAID host adapter module HAM This driver supports the NPA Diagnostics option by using the NWDIAG flag which is specified on the command line when the driver loads The driver is a re entrant module It registers one adapter when you issue the NetWare LOAD command to load the driver MEGA4XxX DDI This file is the device driver installation file It is needed to install the MegaRAID host adapter module driver MEGAMMIO NLM This file is the Media Manager Interface module for the MEGA4 XX HAM driver MEGAMGR NLM This file is the MegaRAID Configuration and Management utility Do no
71. py Spy Service Icon 6 3 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved This places the Spy icon on the Taskbar Note The Spy icon displays on the Taskbar automatically under the Windows Server 2003 operating system Spy Service Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Chapter 7 Operating System Installation This chapter contains the procedures for installing the Windows NT Windows 2000 Red Hat Linux and Novell NetWare operating systems when using the MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 A1 2 The chapter contains the following sections e Section 7 1 Windows NT 4 0 and Windows 2000 2003 Driver Installation page 7 1 e Section 7 2 DOS Driver Installation page 7 3 e Section 7 3 Red Hat Linux Driver Installation on a New System page 7 3 e Section 7 4 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES 8 0 Installation page 7 4 e Section 7 6 Novell NetWare Driver Installation page 7 9 7 1 Windows NT 4 0 and Windows 2000 2003 Driver Installation Perform the following steps to install the Windows NT 4 0 or the Windows 2000 driver onto the RAID configured drives Step 1 Boot the system with the Windows NT or Windows 2000 Boot Installation CD or diskette The following message displays Setup is inspecting your computers hardware configuration Step 2 For Windows NT 4 0 press lt F6 gt immediately when the message displays For Wind
72. r and RAID servers There must be only one Registration Server running in the network It can co exist with either Web Server or any RAID Server Of course in the LOCAL setup all the components run on a same machine Perform the following steps to configure Web Server and RAID Servers Step 1 Registration Server must be running before the RAID Servers are started Start Registration Server by typing the following at the prompt usr sbin RegSvr usr sbin RegSvr stop to stop Step 2 Next make a RAID Server aware of the Registration Server To do this perform the following steps a b Open etc regserv dat Type either the Internet Protocol IP address or the name of the server running the Registration Server If you are using the name instead of the IP address make sure the name is resolvable Try pinging the server using name If the name is not resolved you can add the name to hosts file etc hosts If everything is running locally you can type localhost or 127 0 0 1 in the first line of etc regserv dat The steps above must be done in each machine where RAID Server is running After that is done all RAID Servers can be started Step 3 To start a RAID Server type the following at the prompt user sbin RSLinux MegaRAID Configuration Console MCC Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 5 2 3 5 2 4 Type usr sbin StopServer to stop a RAID Server Ste
73. riptions Table 5 13 Array Property Field Descriptions Field Description Displays the RAID level IDE RAID supports RAID 0 1 and 10 Displays the health of the array The array health status can be one of the following On Line Working within normal parameters Off Line All drives have failed Deteriorated One of the drives has failed Logical Drive Displays the logical drive letters or volume names 5 22 MegaRAID Configuration Console MCC Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Table 5 13 Array Property Field Descriptions Field Description Displays the stripe size A stripe size is the minimal amount of data that can be written to the drive in one write 1 Note RAID level 1 does not have a stripe size parameter Stripe size parameters are avail able for RAID level 0 and RAID level 10 array sets only The stripe size parameter can be set only when the array is created See Chapter 2 RAID Levels for more information Capacity Displays the actual size of the array This size is reported to Operating System Error Threshold This parameter is user defined Users can define the error threshold on each drive For more information on how to set the error threshold see the Advanced menu description Constituent Displays the physical drives joined to an array Physical Drives To exit this page click on Config View or Scan Devices 5 3 2 4 Log Data This
74. screen displays the Log Data screen Use the scroll bar to view the log To exit this page click on Config View or Scan Devices 5 3 2 5 Advanced Settings This screen displays the Advanced Settings of the MCC Table 5 14 provides a description of each field Table 5 14 Advanced Settings Fail Physical Drive if Marks drive as Failed when the error threshold is reached After this drive is marked as Error Threshold Failed it can t be used anymore Drive status can be changed only from the BIOS Reached Configuration Utility lt Ctrl gt lt M gt This option is not set by default Start Rebuilding if MCC begins an automatic rebuild if the array has more than a specified number of Error Threshold errors If so it starts an automatic rebuild Reached This option is valid only for arrays set for reliability mode RAID 1 mirrored arrays Check Array for MCC checks the number of errors in the arrays to see if they need rebuilding Rebuild at Startup Stop Rebuilding if If the maximum number of errors allowed is found in an array during rebuild MCC will Rebuilding Error stop the rebuild Threshold Reached Using the MCC Software Utility 5 23 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Table 5 14 Field Make Contents of Array Drives Identical after Check Consistency error found Advanced Settings Description If MCC finds mismatches between two mirrored RAID 1 arrays it will copy the
75. sed to configure the RAID Oprons A m Automates the RAID configuration The m field can be any of the following S Stripe Size Configures RAID in STRIPE MODE RAID 0 with specified STRIPE SIZE STRIPE SIZE must lie within the range 32 4096 If invalid STRIPE SIZE is specified the utility assumes 64K STRIPE SIZE Default STRIPE SIZE is 64k M Configures RAID in MIRROR MODE RAID 1 R Stripe Size Configures RAID in RAID 10 mode with specified STRIPE SIZE STRIPE SIZE must lie within the range 64 4096 in multiples of 4K When invoked with this option only one drive is configured in RAID 0 mode and the other drive is added as a hot spare This option works only when two drives are present in the system This is invoked with the AS option 2 Enables a 2 MB size reduction for the drive size reported in the IRCD Default option If m is not specified the utility configures RAID in RAID 0 STRIPE mode with 64k STRIPE SIZE Using HyperCFG 3 3 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Table 3 1 HyperCFG Options and Attributes Cont Options Description O oooo Sets resets the RAID global flags Write Cache and Virus Protection The oooo field can be any of the following B Switches ON Virus Protection flag D Switches ON DMA flag M Sets RAID 0 gt RAID 1 promotion flag BIOS configures any new drives by promoting a single RAID 0 with one
76. sr sbin RSLinux ver prints version information Installation 5 13 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 5 2 5 5 2 6 5 14 Limiting the Size of Log Files MCC contains a feature to limit the size of log files Perform the following steps to use this feature Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Open the file etc rslinux cfg This is basically an INF type of file with parameters in the form of NAME VALUE Set the maximum size in bytes that the log file can be using the NAME max log field RAID Server periodically examines the file size and reduces the file to half the maximum size set For example if the maximum size is 2 Mbytes then when the file exceeds 2 Mbytes it is truncated to roughly 1Mbyte in size The default value is 1 Mbyte Use the NAME trim interval field to specify the length of time until the next check of the log size This check is to determine whether the log file needs to be reduced in size The default value is 120 minutes The oldest messages are deleted first How to Install and Extend snmp Agent To install and extend the snmp simple network management protocol agent perform the following steps Step 1 Get the source code of standard snmp and copy it in your machine a Download the file ucd snmp 4 2 1 tar gz from the download section on the site http net snmp sourceforge net b Copy the file under usr directory c Unco
77. t unload this file using the UNLOAD console command MEGAMON NLM This file is the monitor program for NetWare which the MegaRAID Monitor uses to monitor and report events on the adapter The event categories are Severe Warning and Information The notification is broadcast to the supervisor displayed locally on the console or displayed remotely All utilities and ASPI drivers expect the MegaRAID driver to pass the requests to the adapter You must load the HAM driver files first so that it can load the NLM files 7 6 2 New Novell NetWare System Driver Installation Follow the instructions in the Novell NetWare Installation Guide to install NetWare on the server Follow these steps to install Novell NetWare using the MegaRAID controller as a primary adapter Step 1 Boot with the NetWare 5 1 6 0 CD ROM Step 2 Follow the instructions on the screen until you reach the Storage Driver Support screen which you can use to modify drivers Step 3 Select the Storage Adapters option on the Storage Driver Support screen and press lt Enter gt Operating System Installation Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 7 6 3 Step 4 Delete any existing MegaRAID adapter listings Step 5 Press lt Insert gt to add unlisted drivers Step 6 Press lt Insert gt again A path displays Step 7 Insert the driver diskette into the floppy drive and press lt Enter gt The system finds the HAM driver
78. tency by clicking Device Progress in the left frame Check Consistency Device Progress This screen displays the progress of the Check Consistency Table 5 11 provides a description of each field Using the MCC Software Utility 5 21 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Table 5 11 Check Consistency Progress Field Descriptions Field Description Specifies the array number being checked Specifies the type of operation being performed Example Check Consistency Indicates the percentage completed Indicates the estimated time left to complete the task Displays graphical representation of the progress To exit this screen click Config View or Scan Devices Array Rebuild Device Progress The Array Rebuild Device Progress screen displays the Array Rebuild Progress Table 5 12 provides a description of each field Table 5 12 Array Rebuild Device Progress Field Descriptions Array This field gives the array number being rebuilt Operation This field gives the type of operation being performed Example Rebuild Percentage This field gives the percentage complete Time Left This field gives the estimated time left to complete the task Progress This gives a graphical representation of the progress To exit this page click on Config View or Scan Devices Array Properties This screen displays the Array Properties Table 5 13 provides field desc
79. the drivers Fresh installation uses the driver update disk at the beginning of the installation and the installer updates the system with MegaRAID driver images for the required kernels Perform the following steps to install the MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID Stack during the fresh installation Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Create a RAID array using the MegaRAID IDE BIOS Configuration Utility lt Ctrl gt lt M gt See Chapter 4 BIOS Configuration Utility for information about using the BIOS Configuration Utility to configure RAID arrays Boot your system using the SuSE United Linux SP2a CD When the first screen displays press lt Alt gt and type the following at the boot prompt hda noprobe hdb noprobe hdc noprobe hdd noprobe acpi off Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 a b This is to avoid the CSB6 driver loading in Linux kernel Insert the driver update disk when prompted When prompted for installation disk 1 insert the SuSE United Linux CD 1 in the CD drive To make the mouse work perform the following steps At the installation menu press lt Alt gt lt C gt A new menu displays Select the mouse option from the menu that displays Operating System Installation Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Step 7 Step 8 a b A new menu displays Select USB mouse from the menu and press the Accept button to continue with the installation You can use the arrow
80. to configure arrays but you can use the MCC to monitor the configuration and perform rebuilds and other operations MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID for ServerWorks CSB6 A1 2 3 1 Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved 5 1 1 A host system has a suite of software running that is controller and host operating system dependent These are starting from low level and going to high level the firmware the drivers the RAID API and finally the RAID Server Any configuration utility resides above this stack of software MCC is a web enabled solution for RAID array and drive administration A user with just a web browser and Internet connection can connect to a host system using LSI Logic custom RAID aware WebServer or by a WebServer JSP configuration Multiple RAID systems can exist on a LAN The WebServer can be a part of a LAN which routes the user to the desired RAID system though the system can work in a Standalone mode also Note You must install Java Run time Environment JRE before you install the MCC for Linux and Windows The MCC package for Linux is based on JRE and cannot be launched without it The link to the appropriate download for Java is http java sun com j2se 1 4 download html Features The following is a list of the characteristics of MCC e User friendly and Web accessible through an HTML based graphic user interface GUI e Internet browser required Internet Explorer 5 or higher
81. ty and driver RaidServ is required in all IDE RAID configurations For IDE RAIDSERV communicates with the MCC and Spy software utilities to get data about RAID The RAID Server software runs in any server that has at least one MegaRAID controller and is registered with the Registration Server 5 2 Installation This section describes the following e Items required for installation and supported operating systems e Installation procedures for Windows NT 2000 XP and Server 2003 e Installation procedures for Red Hat Linux The system must have the items listed in Table 5 1 Some of the operating systems require that the items be installed before you install the MCC Table 5 1 Items Required for Installation Java Runtime Service Pack Internet Browser Environment JRE Windows NT 4 5 or greater JRE 1 2 or greater Windows 2000 No Not required JRE 1 2 or greater 3 4 MegaRAID Configuration Console MCC Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved Table 5 1 Items Required for Installation Windows XP Java Runtime Service Pack Internet Browser Environment JRE JRE 1 2 or greater Windows Server 2003 JRE 1 2 or greater Red Hat Linux JRE 1 2 or greater MCC supports the following browsers e Internet Explorer 5 x or greater e Netscape 4 0 or greater e Opera 5 2 or greater 5 2 1 Installation Steps for Windows Systems MCC Release 1 x supports only Microsoft W
82. ux Systems Perform the following steps to install JRE in Red Hat Linux 8 0 9 0 2 1 AS and 2 1 ES SuSE 8 0 and 8 2 and later versions Note Linux is case sensitive so type all commands exactly as shown Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Installation Place the CD ROM into the CD ROM drive If the CD ROM is not already mounted mount it by typing eject Then place the CD ROM into the CD drive and type mount mnt cdrom If the CD ROM is already mounted type umount mnt cdrom Then place the CD ROM into the CD drive and type mount mnt cdrom The files on the CD ROM are copied into the following directory created during the installation process usr java javal 4 1_02 for example mkdir java Change to the directory the files were copied into then look at the files in the directory Type cd lt destination gt Type 1s In the directory you should see a file that ends with bin This is the installation package that you want to run To run the installation package which creates an RPM file type lt bin name gt for example j2re 1_4 0 02 linux i586 rpm bin This creates a file with a similar name with an RPM extension For example j2re 1_4 0 02 linux i586 rpm bin creates a file named j2re 1 4 0 02 fcs linux i586 rpm To get a list of files type Copyright 2003 by LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved ls Next you install the

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