Supermicro AOC-USAS-S4i Manuale utente

Rev. 1.0

USER'S GUIDE

PCB EDGE

10987654321

PCB EDGE

AOC-USAS-S4i

AOC-USAS-S4ir

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 reserves the right to make changes to the product described in this

manual at any time and without notice. This product, including software, if any, and documenta-

tion may not, in whole or in part, be copied, photocopied, reproduced, translated or reduced to any

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INCIDENTAL, SPECULATIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE USE

OR INABILITY TO USE THIS PRODUCT OR DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE

POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN PARTICULAR, THE VENDOR SHALL NOT HAVE

LIABILITY FOR ANY HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, OR DATA STORED OR USED WITH THE

PRODUCT, INCLUDING THE COSTS OF REPAIRING, REPLACING, INTEGRATING, INSTALLING

OR RECOVERING SUCH HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, OR DATA.

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claims will not exceed the price paid for the hardware product.

Manual Revision 1.0

Release Date: July 9, 2007

Unless you request and receive written permission from SUPER MICRO COMPUTER, you may not

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Safety Information and Technical Speciﬁcations

Table of Contents

Overview .............................................................................................................v

Product Features.................................................................................................v

Operating Systems Supported ............................................................................v

Manual Images....................................................................................................v

Contacting SuperMicro.......................................................................................vi

Chapter 1 Safety Guidelines

1-1 ESD Safety Guidelines ................................................................................... 1-1

1-2 General Safety Guidelines .............................................................................. 1-1

1-3 An Important Note to Users ............................................................................ 1-1

Chapter 2 LED Indicators and Connectors

2-1 Front Connectors and Jumpers ...................................................................... 2-1

Front Connectors ............................................................................................ 2-1

2-2 Front Connector and Pin Deﬁnitions............................................................... 2-2

2-3 Front Jumper Locations and Pin Deﬁnitions................................................... 2-3

Explanation of Jumpers .................................................................................. 2-3

LED INDICATORS .......................................................................................... 2-4

RAID Minimum Drive Requirements ............................................................... 2-4

Chapter 3 Boot Controller and Bootable Array

3-1 Boot Controller Setup .......................................................................................... 3-1

3-2 Creating an Array................................................................................................. 3-1

Creating an Array with the ACU...................................................................... 3-2

Creating an Array with Adaptec Storage Manager ......................................... 3-3

3-3 Making Your Array Bootable................................................................................ 3-4

Chapter 4 Installingthe Driver and an OperatingSystem

4-1 Overview .............................................................................................................. 4-1

4-2 Creating a Driver Disk ......................................................................................... 4-1

4-3 Installing with Windows........................................................................................ 4-2

4-4 Installing with Red Hat Linux............................................................................... 4-2

4-5 Installing with SUSE Linux................................................................................... 4-3

Chapter 5 Installingthe Driver on an Existing OperatingSystem

5-1 Overview .............................................................................................................. 5-1

5-2 Creating a Driver Disk ......................................................................................... 5-1

5-3 Installing on Windows .......................................................................................... 5-2

5-4 Installing on Linux (Red Hat and SUSE)............................................................. 5-2

Add-on Card User's Guide

Chapter 6 Managing Your Storage Space

6-1 About Adaptec Storage Manager......................................................................... 6-1

Installing Adaptec Storage Manager ............................................................... 6-2

6-2 The Adaptec RAID Controller Conﬁguration Utility.............................................. 6-2

6-3 About the Adaptec RAID Conﬁguration Utility ..................................................... 6-2

6-4 The Adaptec Flash Utility ..................................................................................... 6-3

6-5 Choosing a Utility................................................................................................. 6-3

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 USAS-S4i Add on Card to their

system.

Product Features

The AOC-USAS-S4i offers the following features:

• UIO Form Factor.

• Two Internal "ipass" cable ports.

• Support for RAID 0,1, and 10.

The AOC-USAS-S4ir offers the following features:

• UIO Form Factor.

• Two Internal "ipass" cable ports.

• Support for RAID 0,1, 5, and 10.

• Preinstalled iButton provides RAID 5 support.

Operating Systems Supported

The AOC-USAS-S4i and AOC-USAS-S4ir support the following Operating Systems

(OS):

• Windows 2000/Windows XP/Windows 2003

•Red Hat Enterprise Linux/SUSE Linux

Each operating systems must include the latest downloads and hot ﬁxes and at

least 256 MB of free hard drive space.

Manual Images

All images and layouts shown in this user's guide are based upon the latest PCB

Revision available at the time of publishing. The card you have received may or

may not look exactly the same as the graphics shown in this manual.

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 (General Information)

support@supermicro.nl (Technical Support)

rma@supermicro.nl (Customer Support)

Asia-Paciﬁc

Address: SuperMicro, Taiwan

4F, No. 232-1, Liancheng Rd.

Chung-Ho 235, Ta ipei County

Tai wan, R.O.C.

Tel: +886-(2) 8226-3990

Fax: +886-(2) 8226-3991

Web Site: www.supermicro.com.tw

Technical Support:

Email:support@supermicro.com.tw

Tel: 886-2-8228-1366,ext.132 or 139

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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 SafetyGuidelines

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 grounded wrist strap designed to prevent static discharge.

• Tou ch a grounded metal object before removing a component from the anti-

static bag.

• Handle the add-on card by its edges only; do not touch its components, pe-

ripheral chips, memory modules or gold contacts.

• When handling chips or modules, avoid touching their pins.

• Put the card and peripherals back into their antistatic bags when not in use.

1-2 General SafetyGuidelines

• Always disconnect power cables before installing or removing any components

from the computer.

• Disconnect the power cable before installing or removing any cables from the

system.

• Make sure that the add-on card is securely and properly installed on the moth-

erboard to prevent damage to the system due to power shortage.

1-3 AnImportant Note to Users

• All images and layouts shown in this user's guide are based upon the latest

PCB Revision available at the time of publishing. The card you have received

may or may not look exactly the same as the graphics shown in this manual.

1-2

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Notes

2-1

Safety Information and Technical Speciﬁcations

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Chapter 2

LED Indicators and Connectors

2-1 Front Connectors and Jumpers

Front Connectors

1. Internal SAS Connector

2. External SAS Connector

2-2

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2-2 Front Connector and Pin Deﬁnitions

#1. Internal SAS Connector

The Internal SAS port connects to the back-

plane allowing the motherboard to access

the hard drives. This connector supports

up to four HDD ports. This card supports

SAS, SATA1, and SATA2 drives.

Use a single port SAS "ipass" cable (Super

Micro order number CBL - 0108L-02).

#2. External SAS Connector

The External SAS port (J4) allows the moth-

erboard to connect to an external backplane

or hard drives. This connector supports up

to four hard drives. This card supports SAS,

SATA1, and SATA2 drives.

Use a single port, external SAS cable (Su-

per Micro order number CBL - 0166L).

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