Adaptec 5445Z Installation Guide - Page 8

Contents ● 8 Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System Before You Begin 55 Creating a Driver Disk 55 Installing on Windows 56 Installing on Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP 56 Installing with Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista 56 Installing on Red Hat or SUSE Linux 56 Installing on OpenServer 57 Installing on UnixWare 57 Installing on Solaris 57 Installing on VMware 58 Installing on FreeBSD 58 Managing Your Storage Space About Adaptec Storage Manager 60 Installing Adaptec Storage Manager 60 About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility 60 About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility 61 About the Adaptec Flash Utility 61 Which Utility Should I Use 61 Solving Problems Troubleshooting Checklist 63 Monitoring Disk Drives Status 63 Silencing the Alarm 63 Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure 64 Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare 64 Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare 64 Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously 64 Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array 65 Multiple Failures in the Same Array 65 Resetting the Controller 65 Introduction to SAS Terminology Used in This Chapter 68 What is SAS?...68 How Do SAS Devices Communicate 69 What's a Phy? ...69 What's a SAS Port 70 What's a SAS Address 70 What's a SAS Connector 70 What do SAS Cables Look Like 70 How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS 71 What are the SAS Connection Options 71 Direct-attach Connections 71 Backplane Connections 71