Adaptec 1420SA - Serial ATA II RAID Controller User manual

QUICK INSTALLATION GUIDE

ADAPTEC SERIAL ATA II RAID 1420SA

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In this Guide...

About This Guide 2

Kit Contents 2

Overview of the Installation Process 3

About the Documentation 4

Booting from the CD with No Operating System 4

Using the Adaptec CD Autorun in Windows 4

Storage Management Software Overview 5

The Adaptec 1420SA Controller 5

Installing the Controller and Drives 6

Checking Your Controller and Devices 7

Creating a RAID Array 8

Creating the Driver Disk 9

Installing the Driver in a New Windows System 10

Installing the Driver in an Existing Windows System 11

Installing Red Hat or SuSE Linux 11

Installing or Updating the Driver in an Existing Linux System 12

Installing the Netware Driver in a New NetWare System 13

Installing or Updating Device Drivers After Installing NetWare 14

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Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA Quick Installation Guide

About This Guide

This Guide provides basic information for you to install the

Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA controller in your computer.

It also provides the information necessary for you to get a fresh

operating system running with a bootable RAID 0 or 1 array, or to

install your drivers in an existing operating system. For more

information, refer to the Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA

Installation and User’s Guide on the installation CD.

Kit Contents

Your Adaptec controller kit includes:

■Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA controller

■Installation CD

■Low-profile bracket and full-size bracket (attached to

controller)

■Four Serial ATA interface cables

■Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 1420SA Quick Install Guide (this guide)

■Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 1420SA Installation and User’s Guide

(pdf file on CD)

Operating System Compatibility

The following operating systems are supported:

■Microsoft®Windows®

– Windows 2000—Advanced Server

– Windows 2003 Server—Enterprise

– Windows XP Professional

■Red Hat Linux

– Advanced Server 2.1 x86, 32-bit

– Enterprise Server 3.0 x86, 32-bit, and QU4 x86-AMD 64 bit

– Enterprise Server 3.0, Athlon processor

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Overview of the Installation Process

■SuSE Linux

– Professional 9.1 x86, 32-bit and 64-bit

– Enterprise Server 9.0 x86, 32-bit and 64-bit

– United Linux 1.0, 32-bit

■Novell NetWare 6.5

Overview of the Installation Process

The section provides an overview of the process of installing,

setting-up, and configuring the controller:

Read and understand this entire document.

2Install and configure the controller and disk drives according to

the instructions in Installing the Controller and Drives on page 6.

3How you install the driver depends on the needs of your

system:

In a new system...

aBuild the array.

bInstall the controller driver at the beginning of the operating

system installation.

In an existing system...

aInstall the controller driver.

bBuild the array.

Note: Visit www.adaptec.com for the most recent driver

downloads when they are available.

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Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA Quick Installation Guide

About the Documentation

Documentation for your Adaptec RAID controller includes:

■Quick Installation Guide (this book)

■Readme file—Text file located in the root folder of the

installation CD. Contains technical information about device

compatibility, operating system support, and drivers.

■Installation and User’s Guide—PDF file on the installation CD.

Contains detailed procedures for installing the controller and

software, and creating, configuring, and managing arrays.

■Online Help—Adaptec Storage Manager provides Help for

creating and managing RAIDs, including embedded displays.

Booting from the CD with No Operating

System

The Adaptec CD is bootable, which means you can use it to start a

computer that has no operating system and set up an array

(provided your computer is set up to recognize bootable CDs).

Note:

Verify that your computer supports bootable CDs by

entering system Setup and checking the settings.

Insert the Adaptec installation CD into a computer with no

operating system to boot from the CD, and follow the options. For

more information on how to create an array, see Creating a RAID

Array on page 8.

Using the Adaptec CD Autorun in

Windows

To use the Autorun executable, autorun.exe, start Windows and

insert the Adaptec installation CD. Your computer automatically

reads the CD if it is set up to do so.

Note:

If your computer

does not

automatically read the CD, you

can prompt it to read the CD by clicking on

autorun.exe

from the

root directory.

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Storage Management Software Overview

Your RAID controller kit includes the following software tools:

■Adaptec Storage Manager—Storage management application

software used to create, configure, and manage arrays.

■Adaptec RAID Configuration (ARC) Utility—Part of the

controller’s built-in BIOS code that contains the following

components:

–Array Configuration Utility (ACU)—Used to create,

configure, and manage arrays.

–SATASelect—Used to verify the hardware configuration of

the controller and drives.

–Disk Utilities—Used to format and verify drives.

For details about any of these storage management tools, refer to

the

Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA Installation and User’s Guide

The Adaptec 1420SA Controller

The Adaptec 1420SA controller is shown as follows. Note the

position of the Serial ATA interface connectors necessary for

attaching the Serial ATA disk drives.

Internal Connectors

Mounting

Bracket

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Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA Quick Installation Guide

Installing the Controller and Drives

Caution:

Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) can damage your

controller. Handle the controller carefully so that you do not

expose it to static charge.

Notes:

■You need at least 2 drives for a RAID 0 or 1.

■All connectors are keyed so that you can insert the cables

in only one direction.

■Do not try to force a cable on to the controller or a drive. If

the connector does not slide on easily, try reversing it.

To install the controller in the system cabinet:

If you have a low-profile computer cabinet, replace the original

full-height bracket with the low-profile bracket supplied in the

controller kit.

2Turn off your computer, unplug the power cord, and open the

system cabinet.

3Remove the cover from an available PCI or PCI-X slot that is 2.2

or higher compliant.

Note: You’ll get better performance if you use a 64-bit slot.

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Checking Your Controller and Devices

4Install the controller in the PCI or PCI-X slot and secure the

controller bracket to the chassis.

5Install and connect any internal drives using the appropriate

cable.

6Close the computer cabinet and reattach the power cord.

Checking Your Controller and Devices

To check your controller and devices:

Turn on your computer.

2When prompted, enter the ARC utility by pressing Ctrl+A.

3If your drives have already been used in another system (even if

not part of an array), select Disk Utilities and format the drive.

Otherwise, skip to the Step 4.

Note: If a drive appears to be missing, power down the

computer and check the connections.

4Select SATASelect to verify the hardware configuration of the

controller and the drives.

Verify that all drives and controllers are shown. If anything

appears to be missing, power down the computer and check the

connections.

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Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA Quick Installation Guide

Creating a RAID Array

To install an operating system on a drive or an array connected to

your controller, read this section. Otherwise, skip to Installing the

Driver in a New Windows System on page 10 or Installing Red Hat or

SuSE Linux on page 11.

Turn on the computer, then press

Ctrl+A

when prompted to enter

the ARC utility. You will use ARC to create the RAID array and

logical drive that you will use to install your operating system.

2From the ARC menu, select Array Configuration Utility

(ACU).

3From the ACU menu, select Create Array.

4Select the drives for the new array and press Insert.

Note: If your drives are shown in gray and cannot be used,

they probably need to be initialized. See the

Adaptec Serial

ATA RAID 1420SA Installation and User’s Guide

for details.

5Press Enter when both drives for the new array are selected.

The Array Properties menu displays.

6In the Array Properties menu, select an array type and press

Enter.

The available selections are RAID 0 and RAID 1. Each of these

array types requires two drives. (For a description of these array

types, see the

Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 1420SA Installation and

User’s Guide

Note: Once the array is created and its properties are

assigned, you cannot change the array properties using

the ACU. Instead, use Adaptec Storage Manager.

7Optional—Type in a label for the array and press Enter.

8RAID 0 only—Select the desired stripe size. Available stripe

sizes are 16, 32, and 64 KB (default).

Note: Adaptec recommends that you do not change the

default.

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