RAID Controller PCI Card for the Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x
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1. 9 10 10 11 FIGURE 4 Installing the RAID card in the riser assembly Insert the riser assembly connector into the server board slot while aligning the tabs on the rear retention bracket with the holes in the chassis Firmly press the riser assembly straight down until it is seated in the server board slot Replace the chassis cover if you have no additional work to do inside the chassis For more information on installing the RAID Controller PCI Card refer to Intel documentation packaged with the RAID card in either hard copy format or on the Intel RAID Controller SRCZCR Resource CD Note If removing the RAID card and not inserting another the PCI slot cover must be reinstalled in the open slot at the rear of the chassis to meet FCC emissions requirements RAID Controller PCI Card for the Sun Fire V60x and V65x Servers Release Notes October 20032. A with your left thumb push down on the top cover and slide it back using the heel of your right hand on the blue pad see Figure 1 FIGURE 1 Removing the top cover 4 Set the cover aside and away from the immediate work area Note A non skid surface or a stop behind the chassis may be needed if attempting to remove the top cover on a flat surface Sliding the server chassis on a wooden surface may mar the surface there are no rubber feet on the bottom of the chassis Insert your finger in the plastic loop on the PCI riser assembly that is to the right of the chassis when you are facing the front of the server Note The PCI riser assembly on the right side of the chassis contains a RADIOS enabled PCI card slot The RAID card must be installed in a RAIDIOS enabled PCI card slot RAID Controller PCI Card for the Sun Fire V60x and V65x Servers Release Notes October 2003 FIGURE 2 Removing the PCI riser assemblies 6 Pull straight up and remove the riser assembly from the chassis 7 Open the retainer clip on the riser card retention bracket see Figure 3 FIGURE3 Releasing the riser card retainer clips 8 Install the RAID card in the riser assembly If you have a Sun Fire V65x server install the RAID card in the bottom slot of the riser assembly the slot closest to the server board when the riser assembly is installed RAID Controller PCI Card for the Sun Fire V60x and V65x Servers Release Notes
3. Vendor SEAGATE Model ST373307LSUN72G Rev 0307 Type Direct Access ANSI SCSI revision 03 The Rev value indicates the firmware level for each device on the SCSI chain Checking the Hard Drive Firmware Revision During POST To check the firmware revision during POST power on self test begin the following procedure when prompted during the SCSI initialization phase 1 Press Ctrl A for the SCSI Select Utility 2 Select AIC 7902 B at slot 00 04 07 01 3 Select SCSI Disk Utilities 4 Select each hard drive listed individually A screen displays containing information about the SCSI drive The following is an example of the output you will see SCSI ID 0 SEAGATEST373307LSUN72G Firmware 0307 Capacity 73GB 5 Press the Esc key repeatedly to exit out of the SCSI Select Utility 4 RAID Controller PCI Card for the Sun Fire V60x and V65x Servers Release Notes October 2003 Downloading Firmware To download drive firmware version 0507 or later go to http www sun com servers entry v60x downloads html or http www sun com servers entry v65x downloads html Instructions on downloading and installing the firmware are available on this site System Event Log SEL Issues Events reported by the RAID card controller may not be logged in the System Event Log SEL To ensure that all RAID information or events are passed to the user install the Storcon utility and the SRCD service For installation instructions refe
4. amp Sun microsystems RAID Controller PCI Card for the Sun Fire V60x and V65x Servers Release Notes CAUTION Read this document before installing the RAID Controller PCI Card Failure to use the correct firmware version with the RAID card will result in a high probability of data loss Refer to the Firmware Update section of the document for more information Sun Microsystems Inc www sun com Part No 817 4031 11 October 2003 Revision A Submit comments about this document at http www sun com hwdocs feedback Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems Inc 4150 Network Circle Santa Clara California 95054 U S A All rights reserved Sun Microsystems Inc has intellectual property rights relating to technology that is described in this document In particular and without limitation these intellectual property rights may include one or more of the U S patents listed at http www sun com patents and one or more additional patents or pending patent applications in the U S and in other countries This document and the product to which it pertains are distributed under licenses restricting their use copying distribution and decompilation No part of the product or of this document may be reproduced in any form by any means without prior written authorization of Sun and its licensors if any Third party software including font technology is copyrighted and licensed from Sun suppliers Parts of the product may be derived f
5. wos Ca Adobe PostScript RAID Controller PCI Card for the Sun Fire V60x and V65x Servers Release Notes This document provides general information and release notes for the RAID Controller PCI Card for the Sun Fire V60x and V65x servers Sun marketing part number X5132A The following sections are included in this document Technical Support and Service on page 2 Check the Version of Your Kernel on page 2 Hard Drive Firmware Update on page 3 System Event Log SEL Issues on page 5 RAID 1 and RAID 5 Issues on page 5 USB Keyboard Issues on page 6 SCSI Backplane Issues on page 6 RAID Card Installation on page 7 Technical Support and Service The RAID Controller PCI Card for the Sun Fire V60x and V65x servers is supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux The X5132A RAID card is not supported on Solaris x86 Refer to the following Web sites for more information http www sun com servers entry v60x http www sun com servers entry v65x For technical support call the phone numbers listed below according to your location m United States Tel 1 800 USA 4SUN 1 800 872 4786 m UK Tel 44 870 600 3222 m France Tel 33 1 34 03 5080 m Germany Tel 49 1805 20 2241 m Italy Tel 39 02 92595228 Toll Free 800 605228 m Spain Tel 011 3491 767 6000 See the following link for US Europe South America Africa and APAC local country telephone numbers http www sun com se
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8. or the Sun Fire V60x and V65x Servers Release Notes October 2003 4 If the serial number falls between ABWE227xxxxx and ABWE236xxxxx you will want to replace the serial backplane to ensure proper SCSI hot swap operation If you have material affected by this issue contact Sun using your normal warranty process in order to obtain a replacement RAID Card Installation Perform the following steps to install the RAID Controller PCI Card into a Sun Fire V60x or V65x server Caution Back up the data stored on the system s hard drives before beginning the RAID card installation Most RAID levels perform a destructive array build in which all data is lost regardless of the level of the hard drive s firmware During the RAID setup and configuration read all warnings very carefully before making a selection Caution Before removing the cover to work inside the system observe the safety guidelines as stated in Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x Server User Guide 1 Before removing the cover to work inside the system observe the safety guidelines as stated in Sun Fire V60x and Sun Fire V65x Server User Guide 2 Replace the standard bracket that is installed on the PCI card with the lower profile bracket included in the PCI card box By default the PCI card comes with a standard PCI bracket installed RAID Controller PCI Card for the Sun Fire V60x and V65x Servers Release Notes 7 8 3 While pressing the blue latch button
9. ou will encounter problems resulting in a corrupted RAID array Caution The hard drives MUST be attached to the internal UltraSCSI 320 connectors before updating the hard drive firmware The firmware update utility does not support updating the drive firmware when the drives are attached to the RAID card Once the hard drive firmware is updated the drives can be reattached to the RAID card Checking the Hard Drive Firmware Revision To check the firmware version on your Sun Fire V60x or V65x server use one of the following procedures depending on whether or not the operating system is running a Checking Hard Drive Firmware Revision With the Red Hat Operating System Running on page 3 m Checking the Hard Drive Firmware Revision During POST on page 4 Checking Hard Drive Firmware Revision With the Red Hat Operating System Running On systems with a Red Hat Linux operating system installed the hard drive firmware revision can be checked while the operating system is running by checking the proc information RAID Controller PCI Card for the Sun Fire V60x and V65x Servers Release Notes 3 To check the hard drive firmware revision type the following command cat proc scsi scsi The following is an example of the expected output Attached devices Host scsil Channel 00 Id 00 Lun 00 Vendor SEAGATE Model ST373307LSUN72G Rev 0307 Type Direct Access ANSI SCSI revision 03 Host scsil Channel 00 Id 01 Lun 00
10. r to the Intel Integrated RAID Software Software Installation and User s Guide located on the enclosed Intel RAID Controller SRCZCR Resource CD Refer to the following sections in the user guide m Installation of Storcon Monitoring Utility m Remote Monitoring with Intel SRCD Remote Access Service RAID 1 and RAID 5 Issues If you use a RAID Controller PCI Card for Sun Fire V60x and V65x with a RAID 1 or RAID 5 configuration a drive may return bad data even if the drive is returning a good status to the PCI card controller When the RAID controller accesses an array in a RAID 1 or 5 configuration the controller relies on the data integrity of the drive and assumes the drive to be operating correctly when it receives good status from the drive If a drive failure occurs and sends corrupted data along with good status then corrupted data could be returned from the RAID 1 or 5 array In order to verify the integrity of the drive set in the RAID 5 configuration you can use the Periodic Parity Verify option within the StorCon utility Periodic Parity Verify reads the data stripe calculates new parity compares the new parity with the associated written parity strip and then makes a decision on how to handle a RAID Controller PCI Card for the Sun Fire V60x and V65x Servers Release Notes 5 detected error The Periodic Parity Verify option is only available for RAID levels with parity RAID 4 and RAID 5 arrays Refer to the Intel In
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12. rvice contacting solution html Refer to the following Web site for the latest Sun Fire V60x and V65x server documentation http www sun com products n solutions hardware docs Servers Workgroup Servers Sun Fire V60x V65x index html Check the Version of Your Kernel Drivers supporting the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2 4 9 e 12 or later kernel are the only drivers that have been qualified for the Sun Fire V60x and V65x servers The download site provides drivers supporting a number of kernels for your convenience Use care when choosing which drivers to download Note The X5132A RAID card is not supported on Solaris x86 it is only supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2 RAID Controller PCI Card for the Sun Fire V60x and V65x Servers Release Notes October 2003 Hard Drive Firmware Update To ensure proper operation of the RAID Controller PCI Card with the Sun Fire V60x and V65x servers make sure that hard drive firmware version 0507 or later is installed on the Sun Fire V60x or V65x server a For instructions on verifying which firmware version is installed on your server see Checking the Hard Drive Firmware Revision on page 3 m To update your firmware to version 0507 or later see Downloading Firmware on page 5 Caution If you use the RAID Controller PCI Card with the Seagate hard drive models ST336607LSUN36G and ST373307LSUN72G along with drive firmware 0307 there is a high probability that y
13. tegrated RAID Software Software Installation and User s Guide for information on how to use this option Hot swap Capability Hot swapping or hot plugging is the installation or removal of a hard disk drive without quiescing the system s internal SCSI bus Sun Fire V60x and V65x servers have hardware support for hot swapping internal hard disk drives However the feature is not supported in either Solaris 9x or Red Hat Linux 7 3 Hard drives may be removed and replaced when the system is running as long as the system has not jumped to the OS level USB Keyboard Issues You must use a PS 2 keyboard when configuring the RAID Controller PCI Card for the Sun Fire V60x and V65x server A USB keyboard will not work with the RAID configuration program SCSI Backplane Issues If you have a Sun Fire V60x server with a SCSI backplane with serial numbers that begin with ABWE227 through ABWE236 the hot swap capability of the backplane may not work correctly with the RAID Controller PCI Card If you have one of the affected backplanes installed in your system and you replace a hard drive you will need to reboot the system in order for the RAID controller to work properly To determine the SCSI backplane serial number follow these steps 1 Remove the lid from the Sun Fire V60x server 2 Remove the system fan pack 3 Find the backplane serial number label to the left of center on the circuit card 6 RAID Controller PCI Card f
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