Adaptec 2420SA User Guide - Page 8

Contents ● 8 Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System Before You Begin 50 Creating a Driver Disk 50 Installing on Windows 51 Installing on Red Hat or SUSE Linux 51 Installing on NetWare 51 Installing on OpenServer 52 Installing on Solaris 52 Installing on UnixWare 53 Installing on VMWare 53 Installing on FreeBSD 53 Managing Your Storage Space About Adaptec Storage Manager 56 Installing Adaptec Storage Manager 56 About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility 56 About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility 57 About the Adaptec Flash Utility 57 Which Utility Should I Use 57 Solving Problems Troubleshooting Checklist 59 Silencing the Alarm 59 Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure 59 Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare 60 Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare 60 Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously 60 Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array 60 Multiple Failures in the Same Array 61 Resetting the Controller 61 Introduction to Serial Attached SCSI Terminology Used in This Chapter 63 What is SAS?...63 How Do SAS Devices Communicate 64 What's a Phy? ...64 What's a SAS Port 65 What's a SAS Address 65 What's a SAS Connector 65 What do SAS Cables Look Like 65 How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS 66 What are the SAS Connection Options 66 Direct-attach Connections 66 Backplane Connections 66 SAS Expander Connections 67 How is SAS Different from Parallel SCSI 68