Areca ARC-1200 User manual
ARC-1200
( 2-Port PCIe
x
1 to SATA RAID Controller )
SATA RAID Cards
USER Manual
Version: 1.1
Issue Date: January, 2008
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FCC STATEMENT
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for
a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These
limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against interfer-
ence in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and
can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in ac-
cordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio
communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will
not occur in a particular installation.
Contents
1. Introduction ................................................................ 8
1.1 Overview .........................................................................8
1.2 Features ........................................................................ 10
2. Hardware Installation ............................................... 12
2.1 Before Your begin Installation ........................................... 12
2.2 Board Layout .................................................................. 13
2.3 Installation ..................................................................... 15
3. McBIOS RAID Manager .............................................. 24
3.1 Starting the McBIOS RAID Manager ................................... 24
3.2 McBIOS RAID manager .................................................... 25
3.3 Conguring Raid Sets and Volume Sets .............................. 26
3.4 Using Quick Volume /Raid Setup Conguration .................... 26
3.5 Using RAID Set/Volume Set Function Method ...................... 27
3.6 Main Menu .................................................................... 28
3.6.1 Quick Volume/RAID Setup ........................................... 29
3.6.2 Raid Set Function ....................................................... 32
3.6.2.1 Create Raid Set .................................................... 32
3.6.2.2 Delete Raid Set ..................................................... 33
3.6.2.3 Expand Raid Set .................................................... 33
• Migrating ...................................................................... 33
3.6.2.4 Activate Incomplete Raid Set ................................... 34
3.6.2.5 Create Hot Spare ................................................... 34
3.6.2.6 Delete Hot Spare ................................................... 34
3.6.2.7 Raid Set Information .............................................. 34
3.6.3 Volume Set Function ................................................... 35
3.6.3.1 Create Volume Set ................................................. 35
• Volume Name ................................................................ 37
• Raid Level ..................................................................... 37
• Capacity ....................................................................... 37
• Stripe Size .................................................................... 38
• SCSI Channel ................................................................ 38
• SCSI ID ........................................................................ 38
• SCSI LUN ...................................................................... 38
• Cache Mode .................................................................. 38
• Tag Queuing .................................................................. 38
3.6.3.2 Delete Volume Set ................................................. 38
3.6.3.3 Modify Volume Set ................................................. 39
• Volume Growth .............................................................. 39
• Volume Set Migration ...................................................... 40
3.6.3.4 Display Volume Set Info. ........................................ 40
3.6.4 Physical Drives ........................................................... 40
3.6.4.1 View Drive Information .......................................... 41
3.6.4.2 Create Pass-Through Disk ....................................... 41
3.6.4.3 Modify a Pass-Through Disk ..................................... 41
3.6.4.4 Delete Pass-Through Disk ....................................... 41
3.6.4.5 Identify Selected Drive ........................................... 41
3.6.5 Raid System Function ................................................. 42
3.6.5.1 Mute The Alert Beeper ........................................... 42
3.6.5.2 Alert Beeper Setting ............................................... 42
3.6.5.3 Change Password .................................................. 42
3.6.5.4 JBOD/RAID Function .............................................. 43
3.6.5.5 Background Task Priority ........................................ 43
3.6.5.6 Maximum SATA Mode ............................................. 43
3.6.5.7 HDD Read Ahead Cache .......................................... 44
3.6.5.8 Stagger Power On .................................................. 44
3.6.5.9 Spin Down Idle HDD .............................................. 44
3.6.5.10 HDD SMART Status Polling .................................... 44
3.6.5.11 Auto Activate Raid Set ......................................... 45
3.6.5.12 Capacity Truncation .............................................. 45
3.6.6 View System Events ................................................... 45
3.6.7 Clear Events Buffer ..................................................... 46
3.6.8 Hardware Monitor ....................................................... 46
3.6.9 System Information .................................................... 46
4. Driver Installation ..................................................... 47
4.1 Creating the Driver Diskettes ............................................ 47
4.2 Driver Installation for Windows ......................................... 49
4.2.1 New Storage Device Drivers in Windows 2003/XP-64/Vista .
49
4.2.2 Install Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista on a SATA RAID Vol-
ume .................................................................................. 49
4.2.2.1 Installation procedures ........................................... 49
4.2.2.2 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System ..... 51
4.2.3 Installing Controller into an Existing Windows 2000/
XP/2003/Vista Installation ................................................... 51
4.2.4 Uninstall Controller from Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista ... 53
4.3 Driver Installation for Linux .............................................. 54
4.4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD .......................................... 55
4.5 Driver Installation for Solaris 10 ........................................ 55
4.6 Driver Installation for Mac 10.x ......................................... 55
4.7 Driver Installation for UnixWare 7.1.4 ................................ 56
4.8 Driver Installation for NetWare 6.5 .................................... 56
5. ArcHttp Proxy Server Installation ............................. 57
5.1 For Windows................................................................... 58
5.2 For Linux ....................................................................... 59
5.3 For FreeBSD ................................................................... 61
5.4 For Solaris 10 x86 ........................................................... 61
5.5 For Mac OS 10.x ............................................................. 62
5.6 ArcHttp Conguration ...................................................... 62
• SNMP Trap Congurations ............................................... 64
• SNMP System Congurations ........................................... 65
• SNMP Trap Notication Congurations ............................... 65
6. Web Browser-based Conguration ........................... 66
6.1 Start-up McRAID Storage Manager ................................... 66
• Start-up McRAID Storage Manager from Windows Local
Administration .................................................................. 67
• Start-up McRAID Storage Manager from Linux/FreeBSD/So-
laris/Mac Local Administration ............................................ 68
6.2 McRAID Storage Manager ................................................. 68
6.3 Main Menu .................................................................... 69
6.4 Quick Function ................................................................ 69
6.5 Raid Set Functions .......................................................... 70
6.5.1 Create Raid Set ......................................................... 71
6.5.2 Delete Raid Set .......................................................... 71
6.5.3 Expand Raid Set ......................................................... 71
6.5.4 Activate Incomplete Raid Set ....................................... 72
6.5.5 Create Hot Spare ....................................................... 72
6.5.6 Delete Hot Spare ........................................................ 72
6.5.7 Rescue Raid Set ......................................................... 73
6.5.8 Ofine Raid Set .......................................................... 73
6.6 Volume Set Functions ...................................................... 73
6.6.1 Create Volume Set ...................................................... 74
• Volume Name ................................................................ 74
• Raid Level .................................................................... 74
• Capacity ....................................................................... 74
• Greater Two TB Volume Support ....................................... 74
• Initialization Mode .......................................................... 75
• Stripe Size .................................................................... 75
• Cache Mode .................................................................. 75
• SCSI Channel/SCSI ID/SCSI Lun ...................................... 75
• Tag Queuing .................................................................. 76
6.6.2 Delete Volume Set ...................................................... 76
6.6.3 Modify Volume Set ...................................................... 76
6.6.3.1 Volume Growth .................................................... 76
6.6.3.2 Volume Set Migration ............................................. 77
6.7 Physical Drive ................................................................ 77
6.7.1 Create Pass-Through Disk ............................................ 78
6.7.2 Modify Pass-Through Disk ............................................ 78
6.7.3 Delete Pass-Through Disk ............................................ 79
6.7.4 Identify Selected Drive ................................................ 79
6.8 System Controls ............................................................. 79
6.8.1 System Cong ........................................................... 79
• System Beeper Setting ................................................... 80
• Background Task Priority ................................................. 80
• JBOD/RAID Conguration ................................................ 80
• Maximum SATA Mode Supported ...................................... 80
• HDD Read Ahead Cache .................................................. 80
• Stagger Power on .......................................................... 81
• Spin Down Idle HDD ....................................................... 81
• HDD SMART Status Polling............................................... 81
• Disk Write Cache Mode ................................................... 81
• Disk Capacity Truncation Mode ......................................... 81
6.8.2 View Events/Mute Beeper ............................................ 82
6.8.3 Generate Test Event ................................................... 82
6.8.4 Clear Events Buffer ..................................................... 82
6.8.5 Modify Password ........................................................ 82
6.8.6 Update Firmware ....................................................... 83
6.9 Information .................................................................... 83
6.9.1 Raid Set Hierarchy ...................................................... 83
6.9.2 System Information .................................................... 84
6.9.3 Hardware Monitor ....................................................... 84
Appendix A ................................................................... 85
Upgrading Flash ROM Update Process ...................................... 85
Upgrading Firmware Through McRAID Storage Manager ............. 85
Upgrading Firmware Through nash DOS Utility ........................ 87
Appendix B .................................................................... 89
SNMP Operation & Denition .................................................. 89
Appendix C .................................................................... 96
Event Notication Congurations .......................................... 96
A. Device Event ................................................................ 96
B. Volume Event ............................................................... 97
C. RAID Set Event ............................................................ 98
D. Hardware Monitor Event ................................................ 98
Appendix D .................................................................. 100
RAID Concept .................................................................. 100
• RAID Set ...................................................................... 100
• Volume Set ................................................................... 100
Ease of Use Features ......................................................... 101
• Online Array Roaming ................................................... 101
• Online Capacity Expansion ............................................. 101
• Online RAID Level and Stripe Size Migration .................... 103
• Online Volume Expansion .............................................. 103
High availability .................................................................. 104
• Hot-Swap Disk Drive Support .......................................... 104
• Auto Rebuilding ............................................................ 104
• Adjustable Rebuild Priority .............................................. 105
High Reliability ................................................................... 105
• Hard Drive Failure Prediction ........................................... 105
• Auto Reassign Sector...................................................... 105
Data Protection .................................................................. 106
• RECOVERY ROM ............................................................. 106
Appendix D .................................................................. 107
Understanding RAID ........................................................... 107
• RAID 0 ......................................................................... 107
• RAID 1 ......................................................................... 108
• JBOD ............................................................................ 109
• Single Disk (Pass-Through Disk) ....................................... 109
INTRODUCTION
8
1. Introduction
This section presents a brief overview of the 2-port PCIe x1 SATA RAID
Controller.
1.1 Overview
The ARC-1200 SATA RAID controller is a PCIe x1 bus to SATA Disk
Array host controller. It can provide two SATA ll ports on a single
controller. When properly congured, the SATA RAID controller can
provide a high degree of performance and fault tolerance with data
mirroring for maximum protection. The ARC-1200 is the industry's
most compelling PCIe x1 to SATA ll RAID solution which economi-
cally delivers full-featured true hardware RAID to desktop and
workstations as well as entry-level servers.
Unparalleled Performance
The SATA RAID controller raises the standard to higher perfor-
mance levels with several enhancements including high-perfor-
mance 500MHz storage Processor, a new DDR2 memory architec-
ture (DDR400), 3Gb/s SATA ll ports, and NCQ support in a high
performance PCIe x1 bus interconnection. The ARC-1200 default
supports on-board DDR2-400 SDRAM memory. The test result is
against overall performance compared to other standard SATA con-
troller.
Unsurpassed Data Availability
With Areca entry-level RAID controllers incorporate onboard stor-
age processors to deliver true hardware RAID. Hardware RAID
cards have their own local RAID processor onboard, plus dedicated
onboard cache for full hardware ofoading of RAID-processing
functions. The ability of hardware RAID controllers to rebuild an ar-
ray in the event of a drive failure is superior to what software RAID
controllers offer.
The SATA RAID controller can provide RAID levels 0, 1, Single Disk
or JBOD RAID for maximum conguration exibility. Its high data
availability and protection derives from the following capabilities:
INTRODUCTION
9
Online RAID Capacity Expansion, Array Roaming, Online RAID Level
/ Stripe Size Migration, Global Online Spare, Automatic Drive Fail-
ure Detection, Automatic Failed Drive Rebuilding, Disk Hot-Swap,
Online Background Rebuilding, Instant Availability and Auto Reas-
sign sector.
During the controller rmware upgrade ash process, it is pos-
sible for a problem to occur resulting in corruption of the controller
rmware. With our Redundant Flash image feature the controller
will revert back to the last known version of rmware and continue
operating. This reduces the risk of system failure due to rmware
crash. Areca greater than 2TB support allows for very large vol-
ume set application in 64-bit environment such as data-mining and
managing large databases.
Maximum Interoperability
The ARC-1200 is a half length low prole 2-port SATA ll RAID
controller. It supports broad operating system including Windows
Vista, Windows® Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Red
Hat Linux (Open Source), SuSE Linux (Open Source), FreeBSD
(Open Source), Solaris (Open Source), Mac and more, along with
key system monitoring features such as SMTP and SNMP function.
Easy RAID Management
The BIOS contains an embedded McBIOS RAID manager that can
access via hot key at BIOS boot-up screen. This pre-boot McBIOS
RAID manager can use to simplify the setup and management of
RAID adapter. The adapter rmware also contains and browser-
based McRAID storage manager that can access through the Http
proxy server in Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Mac envi-
ronment. The McBIOS RAID manager allows local and remote to
create and modify RAID set, volume set, and monitor RAID status
from standard web browser. API software components and CLI
also support for the RAID manager. The Single Admin Portal (SAP)
monitor utility can support one application to scan multiple RAID
units in the network. The Disk Stress Test (DST) utility kicks out
disks meeting marginal spec before the RAID unit is actually put
on-line for real business.
INTRODUCTION
10
1.2 Features
Adapter Architecture
• 400MHz storage processor
• PCIe x1 bus
• DDR2 400 SDRAM
• Write-through or write-back cache support
• Support up to 2 SATA ll drives
• Multi-adapter support for large storage requirements
• BIOS boot support for greater fault tolerance
• BIOS PnP (plug and play) and BBS (BIOS boot specication)
support
• NVRAM for RAID conguration & transaction log
• Redundant ash image for adapter availability
• RoHS Compliant
RAID Features
• Support RAID level 0, 1, Single Disk, and JBOD
• Multiple RAID selection
• Online Array roaming
• Online RAID level/stripe size migration
• Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration
simultaneously
• Instant availability
• Automatic drive insertion / removal detection and rebuilding
• Greater than 2TB per volume set (64-bit LBA support)
• SMART disk drive monitoring for reliability
Monitors/Notication
• System status indication through HDD activity/fault connector,
and alarm buzzer
• SMTP support for email notication
• SNMP support for remote Manager
RAID Management
• Field-upgradeable rmware in ash ROM
In-Band Manager
• Web browser-based McRAID storage manager via ArcHttp proxy
server for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Mac
• Hot key “boot-up” McBIOS RAID manager via M/B BIOS
• Support Command Line Interface (CLI)
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