Acer AcerAltos 3102RS User Manual

Contents

Table Of Contents
Table Of Contents
Table Of Contents
Table Of Contents
Table Of Contents
Table Of Contents
Table Of Contents
Table Of Contents
Table Of Contents
Table Of Contents
Table Of Contents
Table Of Contents
Table Of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Features
Chapter 3 Functional Description
NRAID Disk Spanning
JBOD Single Drive Control
RAID 1 Disk Mirroring
RAID (0+1) Disk Striping with Mirroring
RAID 3 Disk Striping with Dedicated Parity Disk
RAID 5 Striping with Interspersed Parity
Drive Failure Management
Identifying Drives
Automatic Rebuild and Manual Rebuild
Manual Rebuild
Concurrent Rebuild in RAID (0+1)
Disk Array Parameters
Cache Parameters
Drive-Side SCSI Parameters
Disk Access Delay Time
SAF-TE Enclosure Management
Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion
Example: RAID Expansion in Windows NT Server
Chapter 4 Hardware Installation
Rear View of the Main Board
Top View of the Main Board
Top View of the Daughter Board (AA-9073UWS)
Top View of the Daughter Board (AA-9073U2)
Installing DRAM SIMM
Installing the SCSI Channel Upgrade Daughter Board
Battery Backup
Power Connection
Serial Port Connection and Set-Up
Basic Operational setup
In-band SCSI
How Do You Configure the Acer RAID Manager to Use In-band SCSI
Example: Settings for Windows NT 4.0
Using In-band SCSI in Acer RAID Manager
Chapter 5 Quick Setup
RS-232 Terminal Interface
Chapter 6 Configuring RAID
How the RAID Controller Works
Understanding Step by Step
Chapter 7 General Front Panel Operation
Logical Drive Status
SCSI Drive Status
SCSI Channel Status
Viewing and Editing Logical Drives
Viewing Logical Drives and Drive Members
Partitioning a Logical Drive
Deleting a Partition of a Logical Drive
Assigning a Logical Drive Name
Rebuilding a Logical Drive
Mapping a Logical Drive to a Host LUN
Viewing and Deleting LUN Mappings
Scanning New SCSI Drive
Viewing Drive Information
Adding a Local Spare Drive
Adding Global Spare Drive
Deleting Spare Drive (Global / Local Spare Drive)
SCSI Drives Utilities
SCSI Drive Read/Write Test
Viewing and Redefining a Channel Mode
Setting a SCSI Channel's ID / Host Channel
Setting a SCSI Channel's Primary ID / Drive Channel
Setting a SCSI Channel's Secondary ID / Drive Channel
Setting a SCSI Channel's Terminator
Setting the Transfer Speed
Setting the Transfer Width
Viewing and Editing a SCSI Target / Drive Channel
Maximum Transfer Width
Disconnecting Support
Restoring the Default Setting
Communication Parameters
Optimization for Sequential / Optimization for Random
Maximum Queued I/O Count
SCSI Motor Spin-Up
Tag Command Queuing
SAF-TE Enclosure Monitoring
Idle Drive Failure Detection
Rebuilding Priority
Controller Parameters
Viewing and Editing Peripheral Devices
System Functions
Resetting the Controller
Viewing System Information
Viewing and Editing Event Logs
Chapter 8 RS-232C Terminal Interface
Main Menu
Logical Drive's Status
SCSI Drive's Status
SCSI Channel's Status
Viewing the Current Setting of Each Function
Creating a Logical Drive
Deleting a Logical Drive
Rebuilding Logical Drive
Viewing and Editing Host LUNs
Viewing and Deleting the LUN Mappings
Scanning a New SCSI Drive
Adding a Global Spare Drive
Deleting a Spare Drive (Global / Local Spare Drive)
Redefining a Channel Mode
Viewing and Editing a SCSI ID / Host Channel
Adding a SCSI ID
Setting a Primary Controller's SCSI ID / Drive Channel
Setting a Secondary Controller's SCSI ID / Drive Channel
Setting a Transfer Speed
Setting a Transfer Width
Viewing and Editing SCSI Target / Drive Channel
Slot Number
Parity Check
Maximum Tag Count
Viewing and Editing Configuration Parameters
Caching Parameters
Optimization for Random or Sequential I/O
Host-side SCSI Parameters
SCSI Reset at Power-Up
Rebuild Priority
Verification On Writes
Controller Name
Mute Beeper
Change Password
Changing the Password
Disabling the Password
Chapter 9 Redundant Controller
What are Primary controller and Secondary controller
Quick Start
Example of Redundant Controllers
Cables and Connections
Connecting the Controllers to the Terminal Interface
Connecting the SCSI Cables to the Hard Drives
Setting the Controllers using the Front Panel
Redundant Configuration Using Manual Setting
Starting-up the Redundant Controllers
Assigning Logical Drives to the Secondary Controller
When One of the Controller Fails
Chapter 10 Redundant Host, Multiple Host
Multiple Host
Chapter 11 Remote Administration
Acer RAID Manager Using SNMP Service
Remote Terminal Emulation Using PPP+Telnet
Baud Rate Settings
Enable Terminal Emulation
Data Routing Through PPP, Data Routing Direct to Port
Establish Connection Between the Host Computer and AA-3102RS
Connect Telnet to the Controller's IP from the Client Computer
Remote Terminal Emulation Using Modem
Hardware Connection for AA-3102RS
Configuring the Modem Port
Modem Initialization Command
Sending Default Init command and Custom Init command - "Append to Default
Baud rate, Data Routing and Enable Terminal Emulation
Setting AA-3102RS Using the Front Panel
Modem Operating Modes
Initializing Modem
How do you know the modem is connected
Dial-out to a Terminal or a Pager
Setting Dial-out Function Through the Terminal Emulation
Auto Dial-out on Initialization
Dial-out Retry Count
Dial-out on Event Condition
Setting Dial-out Function Through the Front Panel
Dial-out Timeout
Dial-out Retry Interval
Chapter 12 Fault-Bus
Error Signals Input
Drive Failure Signals Output
Fault-Bus Error Alert
Hardware
Assign a Slot Number to an Empty Canister
Delete the Slot Number
Set Each Fault-bus Error Signal Input as Active-high or Active-low
Test Drive Failure LED for Each Drive Canister
Viewing the Status of Each Fault-bus Error Signal Input
Configuring on the Controller through the RS 232C Terminal Interface
Add Drive Entry
Delete the Slot Number of a SCSI Drive or Empty Drive Entry
Remove Empty Drive Entry
Enable Each Fault-bus Error Signal Input
specifications
view and edit scsi channels

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Chapter 10 Redundant Host, Multiple Host 201Chapter 10 Redundant Host,Multiple HostRedundant HostCH 0CH 1CH 2CH 4CH 5CH 3…..Terminator…..Terminator…..Terminator…..TerminatorHost AHost BUp to 15drivesUp to 15drivesUp to 15drivesUp to 15drivesAdddaughter boardfor more channels…..TerminatorUp to 15drivesRAIDControllerThe AA-3102RS RAID controller can connect and serve redundanthost computers. The figure above is an example of connecting toredundant host computers.The Logical drives can be accessed by two host computers at thesame time. The host redundant management hardware/softwareshould avoid data conflict when more than one host computers areaccessing the same logical drive.

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