Contents
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Installing with Solaris
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Installing with VMware
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Installing with FreeBSD
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Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
Before You Begin
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Creating a Driver Disk
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Installing on Windows
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Installing on Windows Server 2003
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Installing with Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows Vista ... 66
Installing on Red Hat, SuSE, or Fedora Linux
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Installing on Debian or Ubuntu Linux
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Installing on OpenServer
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Installing on UnixWare
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Installing on Solaris
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Installing on VMware
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Installing on FreeBSD
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9
Managing Your Storage Space
About Adaptec Storage Manager
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Installing Adaptec Storage Manager
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About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility
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About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
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About the Adaptec Flash Utility
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Which Utility Should I Use?
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Solving Problems
Troubleshooting Checklist
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Monitoring Disk Drives Status
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Silencing the Alarm
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Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure
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Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare
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Failed Disk Drive
Not
Protected by a Hot Spare
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Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously
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Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array
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Multiple Failures in the Same Array
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Failed Drive in MaxIQ Pool
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Resetting the Controller
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A
Introduction to SAS
Terminology Used in This Chapter
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What is SAS?
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How Do SAS Devices Communicate?
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What’s a Phy?
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What’s a SAS Port?
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What’s a SAS Address?
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