Adaptec ATA II 1220SA Installation And User Manual

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Contents ● 8Understanding Adaptec Storage ManagerFeatures.............................................................................................................. 40Overview............................................................................................................ 40Physical Devices View................................................................................. 41Logical Devices View .................................................................................. 41Changing How Drives are Displayed ............................................................... 41Collapsed and Expanded Views ....................................................................... 42Component Views............................................................................................. 43Solving ProblemsTroubleshooting Checklist ............................................................................... 45Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure ............................................................. 45Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare.............................................. 45Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare....................................... 46Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously................................................ 46Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array........................................................ 46Multiple Failures in the Same Array .......................................................... 46Understanding RAIDRAID Technology Overview............................................................................. 48Understanding Drive Segments ................................................................. 48Stripe-unit Size............................................................................................ 48Selecting a RAID Level and Tuning Performance..................................... 48RAID 0 (Non-RAID Arrays) ............................................................................ 49RAID 1 Arrays ................................................................................................... 50RAID 10 Arrays ................................................................................................. 50Using the ARC UtilityIntroduction to the ARC Utility....................................................................... 52Running the ARC Utility .................................................................................. 52Creating and Managing Arrays ........................................................................ 52Creating a New Array ................................................................................. 52Managing Arrays......................................................................................... 54Adding/Deleting Hotspares........................................................................ 56Managing Bootable Arrays and Devices .................................................... 56Configuring Disk Drives............................................................................. 56ATAPI Support ........................................................................................... 57Using SATASelect .............................................................................................. 57SATASelect Options .................................................................................... 58Formatting and Verifying Disk Drives............................................................. 59