IBM 84903bu User Guide - Page 74

SAS/SATA Configuration Utility menu choices The following choices are on the SAS/SATA Configuration Utility menu: v Array Configuration Utility Select this choice to create, manage, or delete arrays, add or delete a hot-spare drive, or initialize drives. v SerialSelect Utility Note: This choice appears on hot-swap SAS or SATA servers only. It does not appear on a simple-swap SATA server. Select this choice to configure the controller interface definitions or to configure the physical transfer and SAS address of the selected drive. v Disk Utilities Select this choice to format a disk or verify the disk media. For SAS disks, you can also turn on the indicator LED on the disk, set the disk to be bootable, change the write cache settings, or set the connection rate. Select a device from the list and read the instructions on the screen carefully before making a selection. Using the Adaptec HostRAID configuration programs Important: RAID options and HostRAID are not supported on the SCO 6.0 and UnixWare 7.14 operating systems. Use the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility programs and SAS/SATA Configuration Utility (also referred to as IBM ServeRAID-7e) to add RAID level-0 and level-1 functionality to the integrated SATA controller (simple-swap SATA models) and the SAS/SATA controller (hot-swap models). Be sure to use these programs as described in this document. Use these programs to perform the following tasks: v Configure a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) array v View or change the RAID configuration and associated devices When you are using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility programs and SAS/SATA Configuration Utility program to configure and manage arrays, consider the following information: v The SAS/SATA controller with integrated RAID (hot-swap models) and the integrated SATA controller (simple-swap SATA models) with integrated SATA RAID support RAID level-0 and level-1 with the option of having a hot-spare drive. An optional ServeRAID controller provides additional RAID levels. v You cannot use the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD to configure the integrated SATA controller with integrated RAID and the SAS/SATA controller with integrated RAID. v Hard disk drive capacities affect how you create arrays. Drives in an array can have different capacities, but the RAID controller treats them as if they all have the capacity of the smallest hard disk drive. v To help ensure signal quality, do not mix drives with different speeds and data rates. v To update the firmware and BIOS code for an optional ServeRAID controller, you must use the IBM ServeRAID Support CD that comes with the ServeRAID option. 60 xSeries 206m Types 8485 and 8490: User's Guide