Adaptec 5805Z User Guide - Page 8

Contents ● 8 Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System Before You Begin 53 Creating a Driver Disk 53 Installing on Windows 54 Installing on Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP 54 Installing with Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista 54 Installing on Red Hat or SUSE Linux 54 Installing on OpenServer 55 Installing on UnixWare 55 Installing on Solaris 55 Installing on VMware 56 Installing on FreeBSD 56 Managing Your Storage Space About Adaptec Storage Manager 58 Installing Adaptec Storage Manager 58 About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility 58 About the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility 59 About the Adaptec Flash Utility 59 Which Utility Should I Use 59 Solving Problems Troubleshooting Checklist 61 Monitoring Disk Drives Status 61 Silencing the Alarm 61 Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure 62 Failed Disk Drive Protected by a Hot Spare 62 Failed Disk Drive Not Protected by a Hot Spare 62 Failure in Multiple Arrays Simultaneously 62 Disk Drive Failure in a RAID 0 Array 63 Multiple Failures in the Same Array 63 Resetting the Controller 63 Introduction to SAS Terminology Used in This Chapter 66 What is SAS?...66 How Do SAS Devices Communicate 67 What's a Phy? ...67 What's a SAS Port 68 What's a SAS Address 68 What's a SAS Connector 68 What do SAS Cables Look Like 68 How are Disk Drives Identified in SAS 69 What are the SAS Connection Options 69 Direct-attach Connections 69 Backplane Connections 69