Adaptec RAID 1405 SGL 128 SATA/SAS manual

Installation and User’ s Guide A dapt ec SA T A/SAS 1405, 1045 Co ntroller[...]

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Contents 1 About This Guide What You Need to Know Before You Begin ................................................... 10 Terminology Used in this Guide ...................................................................... 10 How to Find More Information ....................................................................... 10 2 About SATA/SAS Co[...]

Contents ● 7 Checking Your Controller and Devices ........................................................... 23 Setting the Boot Controller .............................................................................. 23 5 Installing the Driver and an Operating System Before You Begin ............................................................[...]

Contents ● 8 Creating the BIOS Kit on Floppy Disks .................................................. 44 Running the AFU .............................................................................................. 45 Running the Menu-Based AFU ............................................................... 45 Running the AFU from the Command Li[...]

1 About This Guide In this chapter ... W hat Y ou Need t o Kno w Befor e Y ou Begin .......................................................................... 10 T erminology Used in this G uide ................................................................... ......................... 10 Ho w to Find M or e Information ..........................[...]

Chapter 1: About This Guide l1 0 What Y ou Need to Kno w Before Y ou Begin Y ou should be familiar with compute r hardwar e, data sto rage, and the characteristics of input/ output (I/O) technology used by y our contro ller . Because SAS is a newer I/O technology , an introduction is pro vided in the Ap p en di x A . T erminology Used in this Guide[...]

2 About SA T A/SAS Controller s In this chapter ... SA T A/SAS Contr oller Featur es .............................................................................................. 12 Abou t the Adapt ec SA T A/SAS 1405 Controller .................................................................... 13 Abou t the Adapt ec SA T A/SAS 1045 Controller .[...]

Chapt er 2: About S A T A/SAS Controlle rs l1 2 SA T A/SAS Controller F eatures ● Supports SAS and SA T A tape drives, autoloaders and libraries. ● Supports S AS and SA T A disk dr ives. ● Supports DVD , Expanders, Disk Enclosures and Backplanes.[...]

Chapt er 2: About S A T A/SAS Controlle rs l1 3 About the Adaptec SA T A/SAS 1405 Controller The A daptec SA T A/SAS 1405 controller is a lo w-pr ofile PCIe c ontroller with these feature s: Form f actor Low-profile Bus compatibility PCIe PCIe bus wid th x4 PCIe bus speed 2.5 Gbps Phys 4 Connecto rs, internal 1 mini-SAS x4 (S FF-808 7) Simple volum[...]

Chapt er 2: About S A T A/SAS Controlle rs l1 4 About the Adaptec SA T A/SAS 1045 Controller The A daptec SA T A/SAS 1045 controller is a lo w-pr ofile PCIe c ontroller with these feature s: Form f actor Low-profile Bus compatibility PCIe PCIe bus wid th x4 PCIe bus speed 2.5 Gbps Phys 4 Connect ors, ext ernal 1 mini-SAS x4 (S FF-8088) Simple volum[...]

3 Package Cont ents and Syst em R equirements In this chapter ... P ackage Co ntents.............................................................................................................. . ..... 16 Syst em R equirements ............................................................................................................ .1 6 This cha[...]

Chapter 3: P ackage Contents and System Re quirements l1 6 Package Cont ents ● Ad aptec SA T A/SAS 1405 or 1045 Contr oller ● Embedded in the contro ller’ s BIOS are these utilities:: ● Configuration Utility - Used t o modify the controlle r and disk dr iv e settings ● Disk Utilities - U sed to format and v erify disk dr iv es ● Ad apte[...]

4 Installing the SA T A/SAS Controller and Disk Drives In this chapter ... Before Y ou Begin ............................................................................................................... ..... 18 Installing the SA T A/SAS Controller........................................... ............................................ 18 Selectin[...]

Chapter 4: Installing the SA T A/SAS Controller and Disk Drives l1 8 Before Y o u Begin ● Read the Safe ty Infor mati on on page 60 . ● Familiarize y ourself with the SA T A/SAS 1405, 1045 controller’ s physical featur es page 12 . ● Ensure that y ou hav e the proper cables for your c ontroller and dev ices page 19 . ● If y ou hav e a low[...]

Chapter 4: Installing the SA T A/SAS Controller and Disk Drives l1 9 Selecting Disk Drives and Cables Disk Drives The Ad aptec SA T A/S AS contr oller suppor ts both SAS and SA T A disk drives. F or more information about c ompatible disk drives, visit the Ad aptec W eb site at www .adaptec.com/ compatibili ty . Cables Depending on the requir ement[...]

Chapter 4: Installing the SA T A/SAS Controller and Disk Drives l2 0 U se high-quality cables to connect y our controller to y our internal or external dev ice(s).A daptec rec ommends using only A daptec SA T A/SAS cables. For more information or to pur chase cables, visit the Adapt ec W eb site at www .adaptec.com . Connecting Devices t o S A T A/[...]

Chapter 4: Installing the SA T A/SAS Controller and Disk Drives l2 1 2 U se int ernal SAS cables to co nnect the disk drives to the SA T A/SAS contr oller . Note: SAS fan-out cables are also a v ailable with an additional sideband ( SFF-844 8) cabl e that carries SGPIO signals for enclosure management. Th is additional sideband cable is not used wi[...]

Chapter 4: Installing the SA T A/SAS Controller and Disk Drives l2 2 Connecting t o a DVD-R OM In a dir ect -at tac h c onn ecti on, DVD -R OM dri ve s ar e c on nect ed d ir ectl y to a SA S c ontr oll er with SAS cables. The number of direct-attached dev ices is limited to four per SAS connector . Fo r more information, see Dir ect-A ttach Conne [...]

Chapter 4: Installing the SA T A/SAS Controller and Disk Drives l2 3 Checking Y our Controller and Devices Once y ou hav e installed your c ontroller and c onnected y our devices, you can use the A daptec Configuration U tility (A CU) to check your c ontroller and devices, as described belo w : 1 Tu r n o n y o u r c o m p u t e r . 2 W hen the A d[...]

5 Installing the Driver and an Operating Syst em In this chapter ... Before Y ou Begin ............................................................................................................... ..... 25 Creating a Driv er Disk ....... .............................................................................................. .... .. 25 Inst[...]

Chapter 5: Inst alling the Driv er and an Operating System l2 5 Before Y o u Begin ● Install and co nnect your c ontroller and disk drives, (see page 18 ). ● Crea te a driv er disk (see the following section). Creating a Driver Disk Before y ou install the driv er , you must cr eate a drive r disk. Y ou need a floppy disk to co mplete this task[...]

Chapter 5: Inst alling the Driv er and an Operating System l2 6 Installing with Re d Hat Enter prise Linux Y ou wil l need your R ed Hat Installation CD to complete this task. T o install the SA T A/SAS controller dr iver while installi ng Red H at Enter pri se Linux: 1 Inser t t he Red Hat In stal lat ion CD . 2 Res t a r t t he c om p ut e r . 3 [...]

6 Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating Syst em In this chapter ... Before Y ou Begin ............................................................................................................... ..... 28 Creating a Driv er Disk ....... .............................................................................................. .... ..[...]

Chapter 6: Installing the Driver on an Existing Operat ing System l2 8 Before Y o u Begin Before y ou begin, install and connect your c ontroller and disk drives (see page 18 ). Y ou must also create a driv er disk (see next sect ion) before y ou begin installing the controlle r driver . Note: For up-t o-dat e operating system version support, visi[...]

Chapter 6: Installing the Driver on an Existing Operat ing System l2 9 Installing on Windows Vista or Windo ws Ser ver 2008 1 Insert the Windo ws setup CD . 2 Right-cl ick the Comp uter and select Ma na ge . 3 From th e Computer Management , select Device Manager t o open the list. 4 Un d e r Other Devices , select SAS Controller . 5 Righ t-click S[...]

7 Configuring the Controller Utility In this chapter ... U sing the A daptec C onfiguration Utility .............................................................................. 31 Starting Adaptec Configuration U tility ........................................................ ......................... 31 U sing the C ontroller Configuration U til[...]

Chapter 7: Configuring the Contr oller Utility l3 1 Using the Adapt ec Configuration Utility The A daptec Co nfiguration Utility (A CU) allo ws yo u to manage and co nfigure the A daptec SA T A/SAS c ontroller and the respectiv e devices that ar e connect ed to it. W hen the system is det ecting the SA T A/SAS controller , it will display the 16-di[...]

Chapter 7: Configuring the Contr oller Utility l3 2 The Contr oller Configuration menu displa ys the following options: ● Contr oller Pr operties ● Cont rolle r Conf igur at ion ● PHY Configurat ion Viewing the Controller Proper ties U se the arr ow k eys to select Configuration U tility and press <Ent er> to acc ess the Contr oller Pro[...]

Chapter 7: Configuring the Contr oller Utility l3 3 The Controller P roperties display s the following information. ● PCI slot number in which the SA T A/SAS contr oller is connected ● Int errupt (IRQ) channel and I/O P or t address of the select ed contro ller ● Device ID and the Serial Number of the SA T A/SAS controller ● W orldw ide nam[...]

Chapter 7: Configuring the Contr oller Utility l3 4 ● BBS Support - Controller If th e BBS Suppor t is Cont roller , the syst em will boot from the Controller , and set the disk that you wish to boot as Set B ootable . If you want to boo t the system f rom one of the dev ices c onnected, then select the option Device in the BBS Support . ● POST[...]

Chapter 7: Configuring the Contr oller Utility l3 5 Using the Disk Utilities The Disk Utilities allo w y ou to v erify , format, or locate a drive, and set a disk as bootable dev ice. T o access the Disk Utilities Pr ess CTRL + A to acc ess the A daptec Configuration U tility . F rom the Options men u, select Disk Utilities. The disks/dev ices that[...]

Chapter 7: Configuring the Contr oller Utility l3 6 2 Now s e l e c t Ve r i f y D i s k M e d i a and press <Enter>. 3 A confirmation window appears. Click Ye s to verify the disk or No to ca nc el . Locating a Disk 1 Select the disk you want to locat e and press <Enter>. 2 Now s e l e c t In dic ate a LE D and press <Enter>. The[...]

Chapter 7: Configuring the Contr oller Utility l3 7 3 The device that is set as a bootable device is indicated with "+" symbol in the screen. Note: The select ed bootable de vice will be the bo ot de vice when "BBS Support" has been set to "Controller" on the "Contr o ller Configuration " menu. See page 33 If[...]

8 Enclosure Management Suppor t In this chapter ... Connecting Driv e LED Contr ol Cables ................................................................................. 39 Behavioral P atte rn of Dr iv e LED ........................................................................................... 39 This chapter discu sses the Enclosure M anag[...]

Chapter 8: Enclosure Management Support l3 9 Connecting Drive LED Control Cables Drive LED Contr ol Cables helps you to det ect/verify the faulty dr iv es and slots in the Backplane or Enclos ure. U sing an int ernal SA T A fan-out cable, connect the contr oller to the SA T A/SAS of the bac kplance. Ensure t hat the first data c onnector of the fan[...]

Chapter 8: Enclosure Management Support l4 0 ● Locate Disk and Slots - I f you want t o locate an y disk/slot using the contr oller’ s configuration utility , the Indicat e LED option allo ws you t o blink the LED on the particular disk/slots. See U sing the D isk Utilitie s on page 35[...]

9 Solving Problems In this chapter ... T roubleshooting Checklist ............................................................................................... ...... 4 2 This chapter provides b asic troubleshoot ing in formation and solutions for solving your SA T A/ SAS controller problems.[...]

Chapter 9: Solv ing Problem s l4 2 T roubleshooting Checklist If y ou encount er difficulties installing or using the SA T A/SAS controller , check these it ems first: ● W ith your c omputer po wered off, c heck the connections to eac h disk dev ice, the pow er supply , the LED connect or , and so on. ● T r y di sco nn ec ti ng an d re con ne c[...]

10 Using the Adapt ec Flash Utility f or DOS In this chapter ... Introduction ................................................................................................................... ........ 44 Syst em R equirements ............................................................................................................ .4 4 Compatib[...]

Appendix 10: Using t he Adaptec Flash Ut ility for DOS ● 44 Introduction The AFU is a DOS utility , whic h allows y ou to updat e, sav e and v erify the SA T A/SAS con t rol le r ’ s BI OS . System R equirements The following are the requir ements of AFU: ● MS–DOS version 5.0 or later . It cannot run from a DOS co mmand prompt window . ● [...]

Appendix 10: Using t he Adaptec Flash Ut ility for DOS ● 45 Running the AFU The AFU can be ex ecuted in tw o ways: ● R unning the M enu-Based AFU ● R unning the AFU fr om the Command Li ne Running the Menu-Based AFU The easiest way t o run the AFU is to use its GUI. If yo u prefer t o run the AFU from the command line, see R unn ing the AFU f[...]

Appendix 10: Using t he Adaptec Flash Ut ility for DOS ● 46 ● HELP (next section) ● LIST on page 46 ● SA VE on page 46 ● UPD A TE on page 47 ● VERIFY on page 48 ● VERSION on page 48 HELP The HELP command displa ys a summary of AFU funct ions and command switches. Examples The following are the example s of command syntax that will dis[...]

Appendix 10: Using t he Adaptec Flash Ut ility for DOS ● 47 The default value 0 indicates that the re are m ultiple SA T A/SAS contr ollers in the system, and the values can be modified wheneve r needed. ● /C 0 specifies that there is a single SA T A/SAS contr oller ID , fo r example: /C 0 ● /C 0, 2 specifies that there ar e multiple IDs sepa[...]

Appendix 10: Using t he Adaptec Flash Ut ility for DOS ● 48 Adaptec Flash Utility V1.0 (c)Adaptec In c. 1999–2008. Al l Rights Reser ved. Updating Cont roller 0 (ASC-10 45/1405) Reading flash image file (Bui ld 0018) AFU is about to update BIOS o n controller(s ) Adaptec ASC-10 45 ***PLEASE DO NOT REBOOT THE S YSTEM DURING T HE UPDATE*** This m[...]

Appendix 10: Using t he Adaptec Flash Ut ility for DOS ● 49 A:> AFU VERS ION /C 0 Adaptec Flash Utility V1.0 (c)Adaptec In c. 1999–2008. Al l Rights Reser ved. Version Infor mation for Contr oller #0 (ASC- 1045/1405) ROM: Build 00 18 [VALID] Updating Flash Using AFU Command Line This section provides step-b y step instructions to updat e th[...]

A Introduction t o SAS In this chapter ... T erminology Used in This A ppendix ........................................................... ......................... 51 W hat is SAS? .................................................................................................. ................. ........ 51 Ho w do SAS Devices Communicate? ......[...]

Chapter A: Intr oduction to SAS l5 1 T erminology Used in This Appendix For c on ve nience, SA T A/SAS contro llers are re ferred t o generically in this appendix as SAS contr ollers. HBA s, disk drives, and ext ernal disk drive enc losures ar e ref erred to as end dev ices and expanders ar e refe rred to as expander dev ices . SAS de vic es collec[...]

Chapter A: Intr oduction to SAS l5 2 How do S AS Devices Communicat e? SAS devices comm unicate with each other thr ough links. A link is a phy sical connection between tw o ph ys. As sho wn in the following figure, SAS dev ices contain ports which co ntain phys (see next section), and each ph y contains one transmitter and one rec eiv er (one tran[...]

Chapter A: Intr oduction to SAS l5 3 SAS controller port options var y . A SAS controller with four phys c ould be configur ed with one wide port , with two wide ports that comprise two ph ys, or with four narro w ports each containing one ph y . (A w ide port w ith four phys is referred t o as a 4-wi de or 4x port.) What’s a SAS Address? Each SA[...]

Chapter A: Intr oduction to SAS l5 4 In par all el SCS I, XX is the disk dr ive ’ s channel number , YY is the target number , and ZZ is the logical unit number (L UN). What are the SAS Connection Options? Y ou can connect e nd dev ices to each other through direct cable c onnections and through backplane connections. W hen y ou use one or more e[...]

Chapter A: Intr oduction to SAS l5 5 Y ou can use only one fanout expander in an y single SAS domain (a topology of SAS—and possibly SA T A—end dev ices and expander devices). A single SAS domain can ther efore comprise up to 16,384 SAS ports (and therefor e up to 16,384 SAS addr esses). The following figure illustrates (in v er y ba sic terms)[...]

Chapter A: Intr oduction to SAS l5 6 Req uires bus termination Requires no bus t ermination Standard SCSI connecto rs SAS connectors (see pag e 19 ) Parallel SCS I Serial Attached SC SI[...]

B SAS Contr oller LED and I2C and SGPIO Connect or R ef erence In this appendix... Ad aptec 1045 LED Connector Specification......................................................................... 58 Ad aptec 1405 LED and I2C and SGPIO Connector Specification ...................................... 58 SFF-8087 I2C Connect or J7 ....................[...]

Chapter B: SAS Controller LED and I2C and SGPIO Connect or Reference l5 8 Adapte c 1045 LED Connect or Specif ication ● A daptec 1045 A ctivit y LED Board Connector: Mo lex 22-28-8022 2.54mm 1x2 RA H eader or equivalent ● LED Mating Cable Connec tor: Molex 5 0-57-9002 or equivale nt J1 Note: Aggregate LED signals only . There is no I2C function[...]

Chapter B: SAS Controller LED and I2C and SGPIO Connect or Reference l5 9 SFF-808 7 I2C Connect or J7 SFF-808 7 SGPIO Connector J7 Adapte c 1405 I2C Connect or Specification ● A daptec 1405 I2C Board Connector: Mole x 22-43-6030 or equivalent ● I2C Mating Cable Connect or: Molex 22-43-303 0 or equivalent J4 Note: I2C signals are contain ed with[...]

C Sa fet y I n for m at io n T o ensure y our personal safet y and the safet y of your equipment: ● K eep y our work ar ea and the c omputer c lean and clear of debris. ● Before opening the syst em cabinet, unplug the pow er cor d. Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Caution: ESD can damage electr onic com ponents when they are im properly handled, a[...]

D T echnical Specifications In this chapter ... Envir onmental Specifications .................................................... ............................................ 62 DC P ow er Requir ements .................................................................................................. ...... 62[...]

Appendix D: T echnical Specif ications ● 62 Environmental Specif ications Note: F orced air flow is recommended, but not required. DC Po wer R equirements Ambient te mperature wit hout forced airflow 0°C to 55° C Rela tive humidity 1 0% to 9 0%, noncondensing Altitude up to 3,000 meters PCIe DC V oltage 3.3V @ 1.4 A (4.62W) typic al[...]

Glossary A activity See task . AFU A daptec Co nfiguration Utility . An application used to up date, sa ve and v erify the SA T A/SAS contr oller’ s BIOS. ATA A T Bus A ttachment. St andard parallel int erface t o IDE hard disks typically used in desktop c omput ers and some entr y-level servers. Serial A T A (SA T A), is a successor t o parallel[...]

Glossar y ● 64 check point A feature that enables y ou to exit the A CU when an oper ation is in progress and be able to c ontinue without interruption. The driver then resumes the operation fr om where the BIOS left off and the BIOS resumes the operation where the driv er left off. clear For eground initialization of a fault-tolerant array . A c[...]

Glossar y ● 65 I impacted An impact ed array is one which ha s been creat ed but for some r eason the initial build ope ration did not complete. All member drives are pr esent and operational, and all data wr itten to the array is prot ected. T o opt im ize th e arra y , run a V erif y wit h Fi x T ask . initialize See configure . L legacy disk D[...]

Glossar y ● 66 simple volume A vol ume made up of disk space from a single disk . It can consist of a single region on a disk, or concat enated multiple regions of the same disk. T task An operation that occur s only on the SA T A/SAS contr oller , asynchronous t o all other operations; for example, initializing or v erifying a disk. Some tasks c[...]

Index A Adaptec Flash Utility. See AFU AFU 44 B backplane connections 21 , 54 D direct-attach connections 20 , 54 disk drives SAS identifiers 53 drivers installing on Linux 29 installing on Windows 28 E electrostatic discharge 60 end devices 51 Exit ing Con figura tion U tility 31 expander connections 54 expander devi ces 51 H hard disk, hard disk [...]

Index ● 95 transceivers 52 wide connectors 53 wide ports 52 SAS devices 51 SATA/SAS direct-attach connections 20 SCSI comparison to SAS 55 Setting the Controller Configuration 33 storage management AFU 44 SuSE driver installation 29 T Technical Support Identification (TSID) number 3 terminology SAS 51 tools AFU 44 TSID Number See Technical Suppor[...]

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