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ii Asia Pacific (International Headquarters) Infortrend Technology, Inc. 8F, No. 102 Chung-Shan Rd., Sec. 3 Chung-Ho City, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan Tel: +886-2-2226-0126 Fax: +886-2-2226-0020 sales@infortrend.com.tw support@infortrend.com.tw http://www.infortrend.com.tw China Infortrend Technology, Ltd. Room 1210 West Wing, Tower One, Junefield Plaza, No. 6 Xuanwumen Street Xuanwu District, Beijing China 100052 Tel: +86-10-63106168 Fax: +86-10-63106188 sales@infortrend.com.cn support@infortrend.com.cn http://www.infortrend.com.cn Copyright 2004 North and South America Infortrend Corporation 3150 Coronado Drive, Unit C, Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA Tel: +1-408-988-5088 Fax: +1-408-988-6288 sales@infortrend.com support@infortrend.com http://www.infortrend.com Europe Infortrend Europe Limited 5 Elmwood, Crockford Lane, Chineham Business Park, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG24 8WG, United Kingdom Tel: +44-1256-70-77-00 Fax: +44-1256-70-78-89 sales@infortrend-europe.com support@infortrend-europe.com http://www.infortrend-europe.com This Edition First Published 2004 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written consent of Infortrend Technology, Inc. Disclaimer Infortrend Technology makes no representations or warranties with respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. Furthermore, Infortrend Technology reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes from time to time in the content hereof without obligation to notify any person of such revisions or changes. Product specifications are also subject to change without notice. Trademarks Infortrend and the Infortrend logo are registered trademarks and SentinelRAID, EonRAID, EonStor, RAIDWatch, and other names prefixed with “IFT” are trademarks of Infortrend Technology, Inc. PowerPC is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation and Motorola Inc.
DEC and Alpha are registered trademarks of Compaq Computer Corp. (formerly of Digital Equipment Corporation). Microsoft, Windows, Windows NT and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Novell and NetWare are registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. SCO, OpenServer, and UnixWare are trademarks or registered trademarks of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Solaris is a trademark of SUN Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the U.S. and other countries. All other names, brands, products or services are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. RMA Policy Please visit our websites (www.infortrend.com, www.infortrend.com.tw, www.infortrend.com.cn, or www.infortrend-europe.com) where our RMA policy is given a detailed explanation. Supported Models This manual supports the following Infortrend controllers/subsystems: • EonStor: subsystems that come with SCSI, iSCSI, or Fibre host channels and SCSI, Fibre, or SATA drive interfaces. • SentinelRAID: SCSI-based external RAID controllers (including the 5.25” full-height and 1U canister configuration) • EonRAID: Fibre-based external RAID controllers (including the 1U canister controller head configurations) Printed in Taiwan iii
Page 1: Infortrend External RAID Subsystem
Page 5 and 6: 2.2.1 Starting a RAID System.......
Page 7 and 8: Restore NVRAM from Disks ..........
Page 9 and 10: Controller Unique Identifier.......
Page 11 and 12: 12.3 Mapping Storage Volumes to Hos
Page 13 and 14: Copy and Replace Drives with Drives
Page 15 and 16: Functional Table of Contents This f
Page 17 and 18: 5.14/7.14 5.15/7.15 Adjust LCD Cont
Page 19 and 20: 13.3.4 Terminal View of Controller
Page 21 and 22: List of Figures Chapter 1 Figure 1
Page 23 and 24: About This Manual This manual provi
Page 25 and 26: Revision History: Version 1.0: •
Page 27 and 28: Version 1.66: Added Chapter 12 “i
Page 29 and 30: then distributes data segments to i
Page 31 and 32: RAID 0 Disk Striping RAID 1 Disk Mi
Page 33 and 34: RAID 5 is similar to RAID 3 but the
Page 35 and 36: 1.5 Identifying Drives Whenever the
Page 37 and 38: When the "Periodic Auto-Detect Fail
Page 39 and 40: 2. Decreasing the time to rebuild a
Page 41 and 42: Figure 1 - 21 Logical Volume with D
Page 43 and 44: logical drive expansion to utilize
Page 45 and 46: Chapter 2 RAID Planning This chapte
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2.3.3 Making Arrays Available to Ho
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Controller: (1) Channel Mode * Host
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Others: (3) Password N/A User-Defin
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3-2 3.1.1 Configuring RS-232C Conne
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3-4 3.2 Out-of-Band via Ethernet Th
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3-6 2. Create a Reserved Space on t
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3-8 7. PING the IP address from you
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4-2 4.3 Logical Drive Status Logica
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4-4 4.5 SCSI Drive Status SCSI Chan
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4-6 4.7 Controller Voltage and Temp
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Chapter 5 LCD Keypad Operation 5.1
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Each controller optimization mode h
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5.3 View Connected Drives: A RAID s
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change related parameters before in
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The Online Mode: If the online init
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When you are finished setting the p
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5.7 Mapping a Logical Volume/Logica
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The message “Add Local Spare Driv
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Press the up or down arrow keys to
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keys to select "View and Edit Logic
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Write Policy drive. If set to “Co
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Deleting Spare Drive (Global / Loca
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channel for which you wish the term
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Viewing and Editing a SCSI Target -
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Maximum Tag Count Press the up or d
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Issue LIP This option allows you to
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characters are used for a controlle
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Restore NVRAM from Disks If you wan
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then press ENT. Enter any hex numbe
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5.15 SCSI Drive Utilities From the
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Chapter 6 Terminal Screen Messages
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The controller will start initializ
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6.6 SCSI Drive Status Slot Slot num
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6.7 SCSI Channel’s Status Chl SCS
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6.8 Controller Voltage and Temperat
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Chapter 7 Terminal Operation 7.1 Po
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Optimization Mode and Stripe Size E
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Note that the “Continuous Sync”
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IMPORTANT! • Drives of the same b
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A logical drive composed in a non-r
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The array initialization runs in th
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Press [ENTER] and the information o
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7.7 Mapping a Logical Volume to Hos
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If your controller has not been con
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Deleting a Logical Drive Choose the
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The rebuild progress will be displa
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option can be found in “View and
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Scanning New Drive Slot Number Driv
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7.12 Viewing and Editing Channels E
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Deleting an ID Choose the SCSI ID y
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Setting a Transfer Speed Drive Chan
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Slot Number Choose “Slot Number
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Data Rate Issue LIP Terminal Operat
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Mute Beeper 7.13 System Functions C
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Enter the desired password in the c
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7.14 Controller Parameters Controll
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Password Validation Timeout Choose
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The unique identifier setting can b
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SCSI Drive Low-level Format Choose
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Chapter 8 Fibre Operation 8.1 Overv
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load-sharing algorithm to optimize
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Drive IDs: Supported ways to addres
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Limitation: 1. If host connection i
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A drive enclosure usually has drive
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To configure a dual-loop, connect t
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There are two options for controlle
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9-2 Maximum Concurrent Host LUN Con
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9-4 LUNs per Host SCSI ID Choose
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9-6 system. References to “Periph
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9-8 Selecting Head Ranges Selecting
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9-10 IMPORTANT! • If the drives a
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Chapter 10 Enclosure Management Thi
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Event Triggered Operations Select
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Dynamic Caching Mode Switch Control
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Select an item, such as “Trigger
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Chapter 11 NOTE: Data Integrity Thi
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NOTE: 3. UPS AC power loss: Even wi
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11.2 Maintenance 11.2.1 Failed Driv
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IMPORTANT! • The "Periodic Drive
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Select “Task Scheduler” by pres
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If the maintenance schedule include
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loss. Disable this option if you su
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Verification on Writes Errors may o
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12-2 IMPORTANT! Avoid configuring t
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12-4 2. Configure the controller pa
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12-6 logical volume, the whole capa
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13-2 � 13.2.3 Configurable Parame
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13-4 3. For the Fibre-to-Fibre cont
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13-6 Figure 13 - 3 Grouping Hard Dr
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13-8 Figure 13 - 5 Mapping System D
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13-10 assigned to the Secondary Con
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13-12 NOTE: Rolling Firmware Upgrad
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13-14 Figure 13 - 10 Controller Fai
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13-16 NOTE: Controller Settings: Ge
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13-18 The two controllers continuou
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13-20 NOTE: 13.3.1 Setup Flowchart
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13-22 1. Enable Redundant Controlle
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13-24 arrow keys to select “Set S
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13-26 NOTE: Front Panel View of Con
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13-28 current setting will be displ
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13-30 Creating Primary and Secondar
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13-32 NOTE: Terminal Interface View
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13-34 Forcing Controller Failover f
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13-36 Cache Synchronization on Writ
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14-2 #LN #SB #FL NAME Partition Inf
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14-4 14.3 View and Edit Host LUN’
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14-6 14.5 View and Edit SCSI Channe
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14-8 Host Cylinder/Head/Sector Mapp
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14-10 14.7 View and Edit Peripheral
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14-12 14.9 RAID Security: Password
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15-2 NOTE: Infortrend’s RAID Expa
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15-4 15.2 Mode 1 Expansion: Adding
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15-6 Upon completion, there will ap
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15-8 The array members will be list
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15-10 Choose Yes to confirm and pro
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15-12 15.6 Configuration Example: V
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15-14 Follow the steps described in
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15-16 The Extend Volume Wizard will
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Chapter 16 16.1 Overview S.M.A.R.T.
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Select “Clone Failing Drive” ag
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16.1.2 S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring,
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16.2 Configuration Procedure Enabli
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Using S.M.A.R.T. Functions 1. Enabl
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Chapter 17 Implementations for AV A
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Appendix A Firmware Functionality S
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Advanced Features: Media Scan Suppo
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Scatter / Gather Supported I/O sort
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S.M.A.R.T. Support: Copy & replace
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Bad block autoreassignment Battery
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User Interface: RAIDWatch on-board
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B-2 will hand over the workload and
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B-4 Upgrade the Firmware Binary Onl
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B-6 Upgrading the Firmware Binary O
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C-2 Warning: Force Controller Write
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C-4 CHL:_ NOTICE: Fibre Channel Loo
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C-6 UPS Connection Is Absent SES De
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Terminal CHL:_ FATAL ERROR (_) Even
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Terminal Memory is Now Sufficient t
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C-12 Do? Terminal CHL:_ ID:_ SCSI T
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Terminal SMART-CH:_ ID:_ Predictabl
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Terminal CHL:_ ID:_ ALERT: Redundan
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C-18 What to Do? Terminal CHL:_ Dri
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Logical Drive Events: C-20 Alert: T
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C-22 What to Do? 1. One of the driv
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C-24 Do? Terminal LG:_ Logical Driv
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Event Type �Alert �Warning �N
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General Target Events: C-28 Alert:
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C-30 your Hardware Manual for more
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Event Type �Alert �Warning �N
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What Happens? What to Do? C-34 Devi
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C-36 Notification: SAF-TE Devices:
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C-38 Happens? What to Do? Press to
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C-40 General Peripheral Device: Ter
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Battery Support, 13-18 battery, A-9
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disk mirroring, 1-4 Disk Reserved S
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LCD Title Display Controller Name,
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Periodic Drive Check Time, 7-20, 11
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Shared, 11-7 Shutdown Controller, 5
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