Manuali utente per Areca ARC-1231ML/1261ML/1280ML

Sommario

• 1. Introduction

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• 1.1 Overview

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• 1.2 Features

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• 1.3 RAID Concept

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• 1.3.1 RAID Set

  15
• 1.3.2 Volume Set

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• 1.3.3 Ease of Use Features

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• 1.3.3.1 Foreground Availability/Background Initialization

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• 1.3.3.2 Array Roaming

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• 1.3.3.3 Online Capacity Expansion

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• 1.3.3.4 Online RAID Level and Stripe Size Migration

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• 1.3.3.5 Online Volume Expansion

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• 1.4 High availability

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• 1.4.1 Global Hot Spares

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• 1.4.2 Hot-Swap Disk Drive Support

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• 1.4.3 Auto Declare Hot-Spare .

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• 1.4.4 Auto Rebuilding .

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• 1.4.5 Adjustable Rebuild Priority

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• 1.5.1 Hard Drive Failure Prediction

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• 1.5.2 Auto Reassign Sector

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• 1.5.3 Consistency Check

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• 1.6 Data Protection

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• 1.6.1 BATTERY BACKUP

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• 1.6.2 RECOVERY ROM

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• 1.7 Understanding RAID

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• 1.7.1 RAID 0

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• 1.7.2 RAID 1

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• 1.7.3 RAID 1E

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• 1.7.4 RAID 3

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• 1.7.5 RAID 5

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• 1.7.6 RAID 6

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• 2. Hardware Installation

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• 2.1 Before Your begin Installation

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• 2.2 Board Layout

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• 2.3 Installation

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• 3. McBIOS RAID Manager

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• 3.1 Starting the McBIOS RAID Manager

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• 3.2 McBIOS Configuration manager

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• 3.3 Configuring Raid Sets and Volume Sets

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• 3.4 Designating Drives as Hot Spares

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• 3.5 Using Quick Volume /Raid Setup Configuration

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• 3.6 Using RAID Set/Volume Set Function Method

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• 3.7 Main Menu

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• 3.7.1 Quick Volume/RAID Setup

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• 3.7.2 Raid Set Function

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• 3.7.2.1 Create Raid Set

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• 3.7.2.2 Delete Raid Set

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• 3.7.2.3 Expand Raid Set

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• • Migrating

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• 3.7.2.4 Activate Incomplete Raid Set

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• 3.7.2.5 Create Hot Spare

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• 3.7.2.6 Delete Hot Spare

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• 3.7.2.7 Raid Set Information

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• 3.7.3 Volume Set Function

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• 3.7.3.1 Create Volume Set

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• • Volume Name

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• • Raid Level

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• • Capacity

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• • Strip Size

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• • SCSI Channel

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• • SCSI ID

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• • SCSI LUN

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• • Cache Mode

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• 3.7.3.2 Delete Volume Set

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• • Tag Queuing

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• 3.7.3.3 Modify Volume Set

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• • Volume Growth

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• • Volume Set Migration

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• 3.7.3.4 Check Volume Set

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• 3.7.3.5 Stop Volume Set Check

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• 3.7.3.6 Display Volume Set Info

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• 3.7.4 Physical Drives

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• 3.7.4.1 View Drive Information .

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• 3.7.4.2 Create Pass-Through Disk

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• 3.7.4.3 Modify a Pass-Through Disk

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• 3.7.4.4 Delete Pass-Through Disk

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• 3.7.4.5 Identify Selected Drive

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• 3.7.5 Raid System Function

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• 3.7.5.1 Mute The Alert Beeper .

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• 3.7.5.2 Alert Beeper Setting

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• 3.7.5.3 Change Password

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• 3.7.5.4 JBOD/RAID Function

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• 3.7.5.5 Background Task Priority

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• 3.7.5.6 Maximum SATA Mode

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• 3.7.5.7 HDD Read Ahead Cache

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• 3.7.5.8 Stagger Power On

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• 3.7.5.9 Empty HDD slot HDD

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• 3.7.5.10 HDD SMART Status Polling

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• 3.7.5.11 Controller Fan Detection

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• 3.7.5.12 Disk Write Cache Mode

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• 3.7.5.13 Capacity Truncation

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• 3.7.6 Ethernet Configuration (12/16/24-port)

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• 3.7.6.1 DHCP Function

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• 3.7.6.2 Local IP address

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• 3.7.6.3 Ethernet Address

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• 3.7.7 View System Events

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• 3.7.8 Clear Events Buffer

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• 3.7.9 Hardware Monitor

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• 3.7.10 System Information

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• 4. Driver Installation

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• 4.1 Creating the Driver Diskettes

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• 4.2 Driver Installation for Windows

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• 4.2.1 New Storage Device Drivers in Windows Server 2003

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• 4.2.2.1 Installation procedures

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• Installation

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• 4.2.4 Uninstall controller from Windows 2000/XP/2003

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• 4.3 Driver Installation for Linux

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• 4.4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD

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• 4.5 Driver Installation for Solaris 10

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• 4.6 Driver Installation for Mac 10.x

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• 4.7 Driver Installation for UnixWare 7.1.4

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• 4.8 Driver Installation for NetWare 6.5

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• 5. ArcHttp Proxy Server Installation

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• 5.1 For Windows

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• 5.2 For Linux

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• 5.3 For FreeBSD

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• 5.4 For Solaris 10 x86

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• 5.5 For Mac OS 10.x

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• 5.6 ArcHttp Configuration

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• 6. Web Browser-based Configuration

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• 6.1 Start-up McRAID Storage Manager

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• Windows Local Administration

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• 6.1.1 Through Ethernet port (Out-of-Band)

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• 6.2 SATA RAID controller McRAID Storage Manager

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• 6.3 Main Menu

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• 6.4 Quick Function

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• 6.5 RaidSet Functions

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• 6.5.1 Create Raid Set

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• 6.5.2 Delete Raid Set

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• 6.5.3 Expand Raid Set

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• 6.5.4 Activate Incomplete Raid Set

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• 6.5.5 Create Hot Spare

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• 6.5.6 Delete Hot Spare

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• 6.5.7 Rescue Raid Set

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• 6.6 Volume Set Functions

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• 6.6.1 Create Volume Set

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• • Volume Name

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• • Raid Level

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• • Capacity

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• • Greater Two TB Volume Support

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• • Initialization Mode

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• • Strip Size

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• • Cache Mode

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• • SCSI Channel/SCSI ID/SCSI Lun

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• • Tag Queuing

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• 6.6.2 Delete Volume Set

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• 6.6.3 Modify Volume Set

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• 6.6.3.1 Volume Set Migration

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• 6.6.4 Check Volume Set

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• 6.6.5 Stop VolumeSet Check

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• 6.7 Physical Drive

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• 6.7.1 Create Pass-Through Disk

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• 6.7.2 Modify Pass-Through Disk

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• 6.7.3 Delete Pass-Through Disk

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• 6.8 System Controls

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• 6.8.1 System Config

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• • System Beeper Setting

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• • Background Task Priority

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• • JBOD/RAID Configuration

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• • Maximun SATA Supported

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• • HDD Read Ahead Cache

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• • Stagger Power on .

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• • Empty HDD Slot LED

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• • HDD SMART Status Polling

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• • Disk Write Cache Mode

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• • Disk Capacity Truncation Mode

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• 6.8.2 Ethernet Configuration (12/16/24-port)

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• 6.8.3 Alert by Mail Configuration (12/16/24-port)

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• 6.8.4 SNMP Configuration (12/16/24-port)

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• • SNMP Trap Configurations

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• • SNMP System Configurations

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• • SNMP Trap Notification Configurations

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• 6.8.5 NTP Configuration (12/16/24-port)

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• • NTP Sever Address

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• • Time Zone

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• • Automatic Daylight Saving

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• 6.8.6 View Events/Mute Beeper

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• 6.8.7 Generate Test Event

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• 6.8.8 Clear Events Buffer

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• 6.8.9 Modify Password

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• 6.8.10 Update Firmware

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• 6.9 Information

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• 6.9.1 RaidSet Hierarchy

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• 6.9.2 System Information

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• Appendix A

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• Upgrading Flash ROM Update Process

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• Upgrading Firmware Through McRAID Storage Manager

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• Appendix B

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• Battery Backup Module (ARC-6120-BAT)

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• BBM Components

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• BBM Specifications

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• Installation

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• Battery Backup Capacity

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• Operation

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• Changing the Battery Backup Module

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• Status of BBM

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• Appendix C

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• SNMP Operation & Definition

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• Appendix D

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• Event Notification Configurations

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• A. Device Event

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• B. Volume Event

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• C. RAID Set Event

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• D. Hardware Event

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• Appendix E

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• General Troubleshooting Tips

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• Appendix F

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• Technical Support

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• Glossary

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• 2TB

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• Array

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• ATA

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• Auto Reassign Sector

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• Battery Backup Module

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• BIOS

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• Cache

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• Consistency Check

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• Driver

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• Hot Spare

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• Hardware RAID versus Software RAID

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• Hot Swap

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• NVRAM

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• Parity

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• PCI Express

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• PCI-X

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• RAID .

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• Rebuild

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• SATA (Serial ATA)

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• SMART

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• SNMP

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• Volume Set

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• Write-back

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• Write-through

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• XOR-Engine

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