Adaptec 2820SA User Guide - Page 8

Contents ● 8 Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System Before You Begin 48 Creating a Driver Disk 48 Installing on Windows 49 Installing on Red Hat or SuSE Linux 49 Installing on NetWare 49 Installing on OpenServer 50 Installing on UnixWare 50 Installing on Solaris 51 Installing on FreeBSD 51 Managing Your Storage Space About Adaptec Storage Manager 53 Installing Adaptec Storage Manager 53 About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility 53 About the Adaptec RAID Controller Utility 54 About the Adaptec Flash Utility 54 Which Utility Should I Use 54 Solving Problems Troubleshooting Checklist 56 Silencing the Alarm 56 Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure 56 Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare 57 Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare 57 Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously 57 Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array 57 Multiple Failures in the Same Array 58 Resetting the Controller 58 Introduction to Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Terminology Used in This Chapter 60 What is SAS?...60 How Do SAS Devices Communicate 61 What's a Phy? ...61 What's a SAS Port 62 What's a SAS Address 62 What's a SAS Connector 62 What do SAS Cables Look Like 63 How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS 63 What are the SAS Connection Options 63 Direct-attach Connections 63 Backplane Connections 64 SAS Expander Connections 64 How is SAS Different from Parallel SCSI 65