User manual ASUS DA2100

[. . . ] PCI-DA2100 PCI-to-SCSI UltraWide RAID Controller Card PCI-DA2200 PCI-to-SCSI Ultra2/Wide RAID Controller Card User's Manual ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual 1 Copyright Information All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written consent of ASUSTeK Computer Inc. makes no representations or warranties with respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes from time to time in the content hereof without obligation to notify any person of such revisions or changes. [. . . ] 3 SNMP Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 RAID Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 RAID Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Non-RAID Storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 RAID 0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 RAID 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 RAID 1(0+1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 RAID 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 RAID 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 ii About this Guide Congratulations on your decision to use ASUS' GUI RAID Manager disk array management program. This management program allows you to control and monitor disk array systems, either from a local host, or from a remote station connected through a local area network (LAN), telephone line, or the Internet. This guide discusses how to install and use the GUI RAID Manager to manage disk array systems incorporating ASUS' PCI-to-SCSI or SCSI-to-SCSI controllers. In addition to the GUI RAID Manager, you can also use the onboard RS-232 menu interface (SCSI-to-SCSI controllers only) or the text-based RAID Managers available for various operating systems to manage disk array systems incorporating ASUS' disk array controllers. For information about these programs, see the documentation that comes with your hardware. ASUS GUI RAID Manager: About this Guide Overview of the User's Guide Chapter 1, Introduction. Provides information about the GUI RAID Manager, including the system description, feature summary, and feature highlights. Discusses how to install the GUI RAID Manager to your computer. Discussions include the system requirements, setting up the hardware, software installation, and how to update your software through software downloading from ASUS' FTP site. Chapter 3, Basic Operations at Startup. Discusses the basic operations at system startup. These include starting the GUI RAID Manager, connecting and disconnecting from a disk array system, setting up the system security, displaying and hiding the toolbar and status bar, working with various disk array windows, and exiting from the program. Provides information on disk array management, including defining enclosures, setting the controller and channel configurations, scanning in drives, creating and deleting logical drives, assigning spare drives, rebuilding logical drives, creating and deleting logical volumes, defining volume partitions, mapping logical volumes to host LUNs, deleting LUN mappings, displaying the contents of the log file, and monitoring the disk array statistics. Describes how to configure the GUI RAID Manager notification functions for the pager, fax, e-mail, and broadcast. [. . . ] In cases where multiple concurrent I/Os are occurring, these I/Os can be distributed between two disk copies thus reducing total effective data access time. RAID 1(0+1) RAID 1(0+1) combines RAID 0 and RAID 1 -- Mirroring and Disk Striping. RAID (0+1) allows multiple drive failure because of the full redundancy of the hard disk drives. If more than two hard disk drives are chosen for RAID 1, RAID (0+1) will be performed automatically. F IMPORTANT: RAID (0+1) will not appear in the list of RAID levels supported by the controller. If you wish to perform RAID 1, the controller will determine whether to perform RAID 1 or RAID (0+1). [. . . ]