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USER'S GUIDE
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Add-on Card User's Guide The information in this User’s Manual has been carefully reviewed and is believed to be accurate. The vendor assumes no responsibility for any inaccuracies that may be contained in this document, makes no commitment to update or to keep current the information in this manual, or to notify any person or organization of the updates. Please Note: For the most up-to-date version of this manual, please see our web site at www.supermicro.com. SUPERMICRO COMPUTER rese
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Safety Information and Technical Specifications Table of Contents Introduction Overview ...........................................................................................................vii Product Features ...............................................................................................vii Operating Systems Supported ..........................................................................vii An Important Note to Users .....................................................
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Add-on Card User's Guide 3-11 Clearing a Storage Configuration ..................................................................... 3-16 Chapter 4 MegaRAID Storage Manager SoftwareOverview and Installation 4-1 Overview .............................................................................................................. 4-1 Creating Storage Configurations ..................................................................... 4-1 Monitoring Storage Devices ..............................
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Safety Information and Technical Specifications 6-8 Adding a Saved Storage Configuration ............................................................. 6-18 v
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Add-on Card User's Guide Notes vi
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Safety Information and Technical Specifications Introduction Overview This manual is written for system integrators, PC technicians and knowledgeable PC users who intend to integrate SuperMicro's AOC-USAS-L4i and/or the AOC- USAS-L4iR add-on cards to their system. Product Features The AOC-USAS-L4i and the AOC-USAS-L4iR add-on cards offer the following features: • UIO Form Factor. • Internal and External "ipass" cable ports. • Multiple LED Activity/Failure indicators. In addition, the AOC-USAS-L
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Add-on Card User's Guide Contacting SuperMicro Headquarters Address: SuperMicro Computer, Inc. 980 Rock Ave. San Jose, CA 95131 U.S.A. Tel: +1 (408) 503-8000 Fax: +1 (408) 503-8008 Email: marketing@supermicro.com (General Information) support@supermicro.com (Technical Support) Web Site: www.supermicro.com Europe Address: SuperMicro Computer B.V. Het Sterrenbeeld 28, 5215 ML 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands Tel: +31 (0) 73-6400390 Fax: +31 (0) 73-6416525 Email: sales@supermicro.nl (Genera
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Safety Information and Technical Specifications Chapter 1 Safety Guidelines To avoid personal injury and property damage, carefully follow all the safety steps listed below when accessing your system or handling the components. 1-1 ESD Safety Guidelines Electric Static Discharge (ESD) can damage electronic components. To prevent dam- age to your system, it is important to handle it very carefully. The following measures are generally sufficient to protect your equipment from ESD. • Use a g
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Add-on Card User's Guide Notes 1-2
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1 1 3 3 A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C P C B E D G E Safety Information and Technical Specifications Chapter 2 LED Indicators and Connectors 2-1 Front Connectors and Jumpers Buzzer 2 1 B A R C O D E W W N 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 0 1 2 1 4 1 6 1 8 2 0 2 2 2 4 2 6 1 1 1 3 1 5 1 7 1 9 2 1 2 3 2 5 A B C D E F G H J K L M 3 N P R T U V W Y A A 4 A B A C A D A E A F Front Connectors #1. Internal SAS Connect
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Add-on Card User's Guide 2-2 Front Connector and Pin Definitions #1. Internal SAS Connector The Internal SAS port (J3) connects to the backplane allowing the motherboard to access the hard drives and RAID capabili- ties. This connector supports up to 4 HDD ports. Use a single port SAS "ipass" cable (Super Micro order number CBL - 0108L-02). #2. iButton Socket The iButton is used to enable RAID 5 with the AOC-USAS-L4iR card only.. To do this, you must install a SuperMicro ibutton and e
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1 1 3 3 A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C A A C C P C B E D G E Safety Information and Technical Specifications 2-3 Front Jumper Locations and Pin Definitions B A R C O D E W W N 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 0 1 2 1 4 1 6 1 8 2 0 2 2 2 4 2 6 1 1 1 3 1 5 1 7 1 9 2 1 2 3 2 5 A B C D E F G H J K L M N P R T U V W Y A A A B A C A D SWR5 A E A F Explanation of Jumpers 3 2 1 C o n n e c t o r P in s To modify the operation of
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Safety Information and Technical Specifications RAID Minimum Drive Requirements Use the following chart to determine the minimum number of hard drives needed to set up a RAID environment. RAID Minimum Hard Drives RAID 0 2 RAID 1 2 RAID 5* 3* RAID 10 4 (2 RAID 1 Arrays) * Raid 5 is supported by the AOC-USAS-L4iR add-on card. 2-5
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Add-on Card User's Guide Notes 2-6
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Safety Information and Technical Specifications Chapter 3 Driver Installation The MegaRAID BIOS Configuration Utility (CU) is used to configure disk arrays and logical drives and to do other configuration tasks in a pre-bootenvironment. 3-1 Performing a Quick Configuration This section provides high level instructions for quickly configuring arrays and logical drives with the MegaRAID BIOS CU. These instructions are intended for users that are familiar with configuration utilities and tools. Re
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Add-on Card User's Guide 3-2 Configuring Arrays and Logic Drives This section provides detailed instructions for configuring arrays and logical drives with the MegaRAID BIOS CU. LSI recommends that you use drives with the same capacity when you create a storage configuration. If you use drives with different capacities in one array, the CU limits each drive to the capacity of the smallest drive. The number of physical drives in a specific array determines the possible RAID levels that you c
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Safety Information and Technical Specifications Note: When you start the MegaRAID BIOS CU by pressing Ctrl-H the Configuration Manager Module of the BIOS allocates three segments of memory using either PMM or conventional memory: these are the Destination Segment, Scratch Segment, and Read Write Buffer Segment. If the three segments are not available the BIOS hooks INT19h and loads the CU at the fixed segments 5000:0 (Destination Segment), 6000:0 (Scratch Segment) and 7000:0 (Read Write Buffer
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Add-on Card User's Guide Figure 3-2: Logical Drive Configuration 8. Highlight RAID and press Enter. The available RAID levels for the current logical drive are displayed. 9. Select a RAID level for the logical drive and press Enter. 10. (Optional) Change the drive’s default Write Cache and Read Ahead policies (see Section 3-3, “Setting the Hard Disk Write Cache and Read Ahead Policies”). 11. When you have finished defining the current logical drive, select Accept and press Enter. 12. Save the
