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Contents
Contents ...................................................................................................... iii
About this guide ......................................................................................... iv
PIKE 1078 specications summary .......................................................... vi
Chapter 1: Product introduction
1.1 Welcome! ...................................................................................... 1-2
1.2 Package contents......................................................................... 1-2
1.3 Card layout ................................................................................... 1-3
1.4 System requirements................................................................... 1-3
1.5 Card installation........................................................................... 1-4
Chapter 2: RAID conguration
2.1 Setting up RAID............................................................................ 2-2
2.1.1 RAID denitions .............................................................. 2-2
2.1.2 Installing hard disk drives................................................ 2-3
2.2 LSI WebBIOS Conguration Utility............................................. 2-4
2.2.1 Starting the WebBIOS CU............................................... 2-4
2.2.2 WebBIOS CU main screen options................................. 2-5
2.2.3 Creating a Storage Conguration ................................... 2-7
2.2.4 Viewing and Changing Device Properties..................... 2-31
2.2.5 Viewing System Event Information ............................... 2-36
2.2.6 Managing Congurations .............................................. 2-37
2.3 MegaRAID Storage Manager..................................................... 2-42
2.3.1 Hardware and Software Requirements......................... 2-42
2.3.2 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Sofware on
Microsoft Windows OS.................................................. 2-42
2.3.3 Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Sofware for
Linux ............................................................................. 2-46
2.3.4 Linux Error Messages ................................................... 2-47
2.3.5 Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software ........... 2-48
2.3.6 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window.......................... 2-50
Chapter 3: Driver installation
3.1 RAID driver installation ............................................................... 3-2
3.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk ............................................ 3-2
3.1.2 Windows®OS.................................................................. 3-4
3.1.3 Red Hat®Enterprise Linux OS ........................................ 3-9
3.1.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server OS ................................3-11
