Asus PCI-DA2200 User manual

PCI-DA2200
PCI-to-Ultra2 SCSI RAID Controller
User’s Manual
Version 1.2

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FCC & DOC Compliance
Federal Communications Commission Statement
This device complies with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the
following two conditions:
•This device may not cause harmful interference, and
•This device must accept any interference received, including
interference that may cause undesired operation.
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a
Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits
are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in
a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate
radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with
manufacturer's instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio
communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not
occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful
interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by
turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the
interference by one or more of the following measures:
•Re-orient or relocate the receiving antenna.
•Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
•Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit different from that to
which the receiver is connected.
•Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
WARNING! The use of shielded cables for connection of the monitor to the
graphics card is required to assure compliance with FCC regulations.
Changes or modifications to this unit not expressly approved by the party
responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate this
equipment.
Canadian Department of Communications Statement
This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class B limits for radio noise
emissions from digital apparatus set out in the Radio Interference
Regulations of the Canadian Department of Communications.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction ............................................................1-1
Chapter 2 Features...................................................................2-1
Chapter 3 Functional Description...........................................3-1
3.1 RAID Management...........................................................3-1
3.2 Drive Failure Management ............................................... 3-5
3.3 Disk Array Parameters.................................................... 3-11
3.4 Cache Parameters.......................................................... 3-13
3.5 Drive-Side SCSI Parameters.......................................... 3-15
3.6 Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion .................................. 3-20
Chapter 4 Hardware Installation..............................................4-1
4.1 The Main Board................................................................4-1
4.2 Installing DRAM SIMM.....................................................4-2
4.3 Basic Operational Set-Up ................................................. 4-3
4.4 Configuration Examples and Termination Settings............4-4
Chapter 5 Quick Setup.............................................................5-1
5.1 Using the BIOS RAID Manager......................................... 5-1
Chapter 6 Configuring RAID....................................................6-1
6.1 Starting to Build a RAID System Drive.............................. 6-1
6.2 How Does the RAID Controller Work? .............................. 6-4
Chapter 7 BIOS Configuration Utility......................................7-1
7.1 Configuration.................................................................... 7-1
7.2 Color/Monochrome........................................................... 7-5
Chapter 8 Text RAID Manager User Interface......................... 8-1
8.1 The Main Menu.................................................................8-1
8.2 Viewing and Editing Logical Drives................................. 8-10
8.3 Viewing and Editing SCSI ID Map................................... 8-27
8.4 Viewing and Editing SCSI Drives.................................... 8-32
8.5 Viewing and Editing SCSI Channels ............................... 8-37
8.6 Viewing and Editing Configuration Parameters............... 8-62
8.7 System Functions........................................................... 8-79
8.8 Viewing System Information........................................... 8-86
Chapter 9 Remote Administration...........................................9-1
9.1 GUI RAID Manager Using SNMP Service.........................9-1
Appendix A Driver Installation................................................A-1
1 MS-DOS®ASPI Drivers Installation.........................................A-1
2 NetWare®Driver Installation ...................................................A-3
2.1 Installing NetWare 3.1x ....................................................A-3
2.2 Installing NetWare 4.0x/4.1/4.11.......................................A-5
3 Windows NT®3.1/3.51 Driver Installation..............................A-11
3.1 Installing Driver During Windows NT 3.1/3.51 InstallationA-12
3.2 Installing Driver in Existing Windows NT3.1/3.51 SystemA-13
3.3 Updating Windows NT 3.1/3.51 Device Driver................A-14
3.4 Installing the Driver During Windows NT 4.0 InstallationA-15

3.5 Installing the Driver During Installation of Windows NT 4.0
(for DEC Alpha)........................................................................A-17
3.6 Installing the Driver in Existing Windows NT 4.0
(for DEC Alpha)........................................................................A-18
4 Windows®95/98 Driver Installation .......................................A-19
4.1 Installing Windows 95/98 and the Driver.........................A-19
4.2 Updating Device Driver for Windows 95/98 ....................A-21
5 OS/2®Driver Installation.......................................................A-21
5.1 Installing Driver During OS/2 2.x or 3.0 Installation.........A-22
5.2 Installing Driver in an Existing OS/2 2.x/3.0 System.......A-22
5.3 Updating ASUS PCI-DA2200 OS/2 Device Driver ..........A-23
5.4 ASUS PCI-DA2200 OS/2 Driver Command-Line OptionsA-23
6 Driver Installation for SCO OpenServer and UnixWare.........A-25
6.1 Installing the SCO OpenServer Driver............................A-25
7 Drivers and Utilities for Linux................................................A-27
7.1 Making Floppy Diskettes for Red Hat 5.1 Installation......A-27
7.2 Making Floppy Diskettes for SlackWare 3.2 Installation..A-28
7.3 Installing Red Hat Linux..................................................A-28
7.4 Installing SlackWare Linux.............................................A-30
7.5 Running the ASUS Text RAID Manager for Linux...........A-31
8 Drivers and Utilities for Sun Solaris™....................................A-32
8.1 Solaris 2.5.x and 2.6 (x86 platform)................................A-32
8.2 Installing the x86 Platform Driver and ASUS Text RAID
Manager...................................................................................A-33
8.3 Drivers and Utilities for Solaris 2.5.x and 2.6 (SPARC
platform) ..................................................................................A-34
8.4 Installing the SPARC platform Driver and ASUS Text RAID
Manager...................................................................................A-35
8.5 Configuring RAID in Solaris with ASUS Text RAID ManagerA-37
Appendix B SCSI Cable Specifications..................................B-1
Appendix C Upgrading BIOS, Firmware, and Boot Record..C-1
Appendix D Sync. Clock Period & Sync. Clock Frequency...D-1
Appendix E Troubleshooting Guide.......................................E-1
Appendix F Specifications......................................................F-1
Appendix G Record the Settings............................................G-1
View and Edit Logical Drives......................................................G-1
View and Edit Host LUNs ...........................................................G-2
View and Edit SCSI Drives.........................................................G-2
View and Edit SCSI Channels ....................................................G-3
View and Edit Configuration Parameters ....................................G-3
Index

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Chapter 1Introduction
The ASUS PCI-DA2200 is a PCI-to-SCSI RAID controller specifically
designed to provide RAID 0, 1, 3 or 5 capability to any host system
equipped with a Little Endian PCI Local Bus interface. All the RAID
functions of ASUS PCI-DA2200 are performed by an AMD 5x86 CPU
coupled with high-speed DRAMs and firmware in flash memory. In
effect, it endows the host system with the high-performance and
fault-tolerant disk storage operation of RAID technology. It is also an
ideal solution for weaving several hard disks into one contiguous
volume.
The controller has comprehensive drive failure management that
allows automatic reassignment of reserved blocks when a bad sector
is encountered during a write. Hot-swapping is supported through
automatic disconnection of a failed drive and detection of a reserved
drive followed with background rebuilding of data. The controller
also supports spare drive operation. Remarkably, all of these failure
recovery procedures are transparent to the host system.
The ASUS PCI-DA2200 has been designed with ease of integration
and maintenance in mind. The major features are described in the
next chapter. The controller already includes all the major
operational requirements for a RAID subsystem. The overall features
of a fully-built RAID subsystem will, however, depend on the actual
components used and the creativity of the integrator.

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Chapter 2Features
üFive operating modes:
Non-RAID Disk Spanning
RAID-0 Disk Striping
RAID-1 Disk Mirroring and Striping (RAID 0+1)
RAID-3 Disk Striping with Dedicated Parity
RAID-5 Multiple Block Striping with Interspersed
Parity
üComprehensive failure management including:
§Automatic bad sector reassignment
§Hot-swapping
§Spare drive operation (Supports both Global Spare and Local
Spare)
§Background rebuilding (Rebuild priority selectable)
§Verify-after-Write supported on normal writes, rebuild
writes and/or RAID initialization writes
üPCI Rev. 2.1 compliant
üPCI form factor: 9.21”(L) x 4.2”(W)
üSupports up to 15 SCSI drives per channel
üUp to 8 logical drives, each with independent RAID modes
üUp to 8 partitions per logical drive
üNumber of drives for each logical drive has no limitation
üDynamic mapping of LUNs to logical drives
üConcurrent/Background logical drive initialization
üPerformance optimization for Sequential or Random I/O
üAllows multiple drive failure and concurrent multiple drive
rebuild of a RAID (0+1) logical drive
üConfiguration of individual SCSI target parameters
üPrior to first disk access, it allows adjustment of delay time
during controller initialization to enhance compatibility with
slow-initial drives
üAll channels are Ultra2-Wide-SCSI (downward compatible to
SCSI-1)
üCompatible and will automatically match any SCSI hard disks
with SCSI-1, SCSI-2 or (Ultra)-Wide-SCSI (1 or 2) specification

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üFull Ultra2 Wide SCSI-2 implementation including Tagged
Command Queuing and Multi-Threaded I/O
üUses AMD 5x86-133 CPU with all executable firmware
downloaded into high-speed DRAM
üEDO DRAM supported for enhanced performance
üUp to 128 Mbytes of intelligent Read-Ahead/Write-Back cache
üFirmware resides in easy-to-update Flash Memory
üGUI RAID Manager and Text RAID Manager interfaces for RAID
management