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Hardware Installation and User’s Guide

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Getting Started

Getting Started

1

Intended Audience

This documentation is intended for users who are experienced in configuring computer

systems with new add-in cards or have had previous experience with Intel

®

Integrated

RAID (IIR) Controllers.

Read and adhere to all warnings, cautions, and notices in this guide and the other

documents in the user documentation set supplied with this product.

1.1

Using the User Documentation Set

User documentation for this product is provided in four separate documents:

Installation Quick Start Poster

The

Installation Quick Start Poster

, or

Quick Start Poster,

provides a high level view of

installing and configuring a RAID controller. Refer to the accompanying

Software Guide

for more detailed information.


The


, or

Hardware Guide

, covers instructions for

installing an IIR controller and provides a guide to its features and specifications. For a

particular IIR controller, its hardware guide documents compatible RAID adapters,

supported operating systems, standard features and optional features.

Software Installation and User’s Guide

The

Software Installation and User’s Guide

, or

Software Guide

, contains:

•

Quick installation of the IIR controller software on a newly created bootable host drive

with commonly used operating systems.

•

Detailed instructions covering more complex software installation scenarios for all

supported operating systems.

•

Instructions for using the RAID Software Suite, the drivers, tools and utilities of the IIR

controller.

The first part of the software guide provides an overview of RAID technology and its

features. Next, the guide documents various installation procedures for an IIR controller

and the RAID Software Suite, depending on the chosen OS configuration. The software

guide then includes descriptions of the utilities, Storage Console (StorCon) and Storage

Console Plus (StorCon+), to facilitate the configuration of the RAID subsystem. Finally,

the guide provides details of all product features supported by the software and firmware

For further information refer to the Optional Features section of the appropriate hardware

guide since not all features are applicable to all IIR controllers.

Section	Page
Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SRCU42L	1
Getting Started 1	5
1.1 Using the User Documentation Set	5
1.1.1 Document Formats	6
1.2 About This Guide	6
1.3 Customer Support Contact Information	6
1.4 Regulatory and Certification Information	7
1.4.1 Product Regulatory Compliance	7
1.4.2 Product Safety Compliance	7
1.4.3 Product EMC Compliance	7
1.4.4 Product Regulatory Compliance Markings	8
1.4.5 Electromagnetic Compatibility Notices	8
1.4.5.1 FCC Verification Statement (USA)	8
1.4.5.2 ICES-003 (Canada)	9
1.4.5.3 CE Declaration of Conformity (Europe)	9
1.4.5.4 BSMI (Taiwan)	10
1.4.5.5 RRL (Korea)	10
1.5 Warnings and Cautions	11
Hardware Installation 2	13
2.1 Installation Procedures	13
2.1.1 Computer System Hardware Requirements	13
Figure 21. IIR Controller Component Layout	14
2.1.2 Installing the IIR Controller	14
Figure 22. Installing the IIR Controller into a Computer System	15
2.1.3 Changing Jumper Settings	15
Figure 23. Jumper Locations and Pin Numbers	16
Table 21. Controller Jumper Settings	17
2.2 Diagnostic Features	17
2.2.1 LED Indicators	18
Figure 24. LED Labels and Colors	18
Table 22. LED Descriptions	18
2.2.2 Audible Alarm	18
2.2.2.1 Silencing the Audible Alarm in StorCon	18
2.2.2.2 Silencing the Audible Alarm in StorCon+	19
2.2.3 Beep Sequences During System Boot	19
Table 23. Beep Sequences	19
2.3 SCSI Termination	19
Hardware Specifications and Features 3	21
3.1 IIR Controller Hardware Features	21
3.1.1 Key Features	21
Table 31. Hardware Architecture	21
Table 32. Environmental Specifications	22
3.2 Operating System Support	23
3.3 Supported SCSI Technology	23
3.3.1 Supported Hard Drive Technology	23
Table 33. Supported SCSI Device Standards	24
3.3.2 Support for Non-Hard-Disk-Drive SCSI Devices (Non-Direct- Access Devices)	25
3.4 Array Roaming Compatibility	25
3.5 Optional Features	26
3.5.1 PCI Hot Plug	26
3.5.2 Configurable Disk Drive SCSI Parameters	26
Table 34. Configurable Disk Drive SCSI Parameters	26
3.5.3 Configurable I/O Controller SCSI Parameters	27
Table 35. Configurable I/O Controller SCSI Parameters	27
3.6 RAID Controller Drive Limitations (Host, Array, Logical, and Physical)	27
Table 36. RAID Controller Drive Maximum Limitations	28
Flash Memory Programming A	29
A.1 Firmware Update Procedure via XROM StorCon	29
A.2 Firmware Recovery Procedure via Flash Recovery Utility (FRU)	30

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