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iv Table of Contents About This Manual......................................................................................xiii Functional Table of Contents ...................................................................xv Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Functional Description 2.1 Logical Drive .......................................................................................2-1 2.2 Logical Volume ...................................................................................2-1 2.3 RAID Levels ........................................................................................2-2 NRAID................................................................................................2-3 JBOD .................................................................................................2-3 RAID 0 ...............................................................................................2-3 RAID 1 ...............................................................................................2-4 RAID (0+1)..........................................................................................2-4 RAID 3 ...............................................................................................2-5 RAID 5 ...............................................................................................2-5 2.4 Spare Drives .......................................................................................2-6 2.4.1 Global and Local Spare Drive ................................................................2-6 2.4.2 Identifying Drives .................................................................................2-7 Flash Selected SCSI Drive ...................................................................2-7 Flash All SCSI Drives...........................................................................2-8 Flash All but Selected Drives ................................................................2-8 2.4.3 Automatic Rebuild and Manual Rebuild..................................................2-9 Automatic Rebuild ...............................................................................2-9 Manual Rebuild ................................................................................. 2-10 2.4.4 Concurrent Rebuild in RAID (0+1)........................................................ 2-10 2.5 Logical Volume (Multi-Level RAID)....................................................... 2-11 Limitations:....................................................................................... 2-13 Partitioning ....................................................................................... 2-14 Multi-level RAID systems ................................................................... 2-15 Chapter 3 RAID Planning 3.1 Considerations ....................................................................................3-1 3.2 Configuring the Array: ..........................................................................3-3 3.2.1 Starting a RAID System.......................................................................3-3 3.3 Operation Theory .................................................................................3-4 3.3.1 I/O Channel, SCSI ID, and LUN.............................................................3-4 3.3.2 Understanding Step by Step.................................................................3-5 3.3.3 Preparing the Array..............................................................................3-7 Chapter 4 Out-of-Band via Serial Port and Ethernet 4.1 By RS-232..........................................................................................4-1 4.1.1 Configuring RS-232 Connection via Front Panel ......................................4-1 4.1.2 Starting RS-232 Terminal Emulation......................................................4-3 4.2 Out-of-Band via Ethernet ......................................................................4-4 4.2.1 Requirements......................................................................................4-4 4.2.2 Configuration Procedure .......................................................................4-4
Chapter 5 LCD Screen Messages 5.1 The Initial Screen.................................................................................5-1 5.2 Quick Installation Screen......................................................................5-1 5.3 Logical Drive Status .............................................................................5-2 5.4 Logical Volume Status .........................................................................5-3 5.5 SCSI Drive Status ................................................................................5-4 5.6 SCSI Channel Status ...........................................................................5-5 5.7 Controller Voltage and Temperature.......................................................5-6 5.8 Cache Dirty Percentage .......................................................................5-7 5.9 View and Edit Event Logs .....................................................................5-7 Chapter 6 Front Panel Operation 6.1 Power on RAID Enclosure....................................................................6-1 6.2 Caching Parameters ............................................................................6-1 6.3 View Connected Drives: .......................................................................6-4 6.4 Creating a Logical Drive .......................................................................6-6 6.5 Creating a Logical Volume ...................................................................6-8 6.6 Partitioning a Logical Drive/Logical Volume............................................6-9 6.7 Mapping a Logical Volume/Logical Drive to Host LUN ...........................6-10 6.8 Assigning Spare Drive and Rebuild Settings.........................................6-11 6.9 Viewing and Editing Logical Drives and Drive Members .........................6-13 6.10 Viewing and Editing Host LUNs ..........................................................6-17 6.11 Viewing and Editing SCSI Drives.........................................................6-18 6.12 Viewing and Editing SCSI Channels....................................................6-20 6.13 System Functions .............................................................................6-27 6.14 Controller Parameters ........................................................................6-30 6.15 SCSI Drive Utilities.............................................................................6-31 Chapter 7 Terminal Screen Messages 7.1 The Initial Screen.................................................................................7-1 7.2 Main Menu..........................................................................................7-2 7.3 Quick Installation.................................................................................7-2 7.4 Logical Drive Status .............................................................................7-3 7.5 Logical Volume Status .........................................................................7-4 7.6 SCSI Drive’s Status .............................................................................7-5 7.7 SCSI Channel’s Status.........................................................................7-7 7.8 Controller Voltage and Temperature.......................................................7-9 7.9 Viewing Event Logs on the Screen ......................................................7-10 Chapter 8 Terminal Operation 8.1 Power on RAID Enclosure ....................................................................8-1 8.2 Caching Parameters ............................................................................8-1 8.3 Viewing the Connected Drives ...............................................................8-4 8.4 Creating a Logical Drive ........................................................................8-5 8.5 Creating a Logical Volume....................................................................8-8 8.6 Partitioning a Logical Drive/Logical Volume ............................................8-9 8.7 Mapping a Logical Volume to Host LUN...............................................8-11 8.8 Assigning Spare Drive, Rebuild Settings ..............................................8-13 8.9 Viewing and Editing Logical Drive and Drive Members ...........................8-14 8.10 Viewing and Editing Host LUNs...........................................................8-18 v
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Page 3: UNIX is a registered trademark of T
Page 7 and 8: Logical Drive Information..........
Page 9 and 10: 13.9.1 Supported Operating Systems
Page 11 and 12: Chapter 8 Figure 8 - 1 Drive Space
Page 13 and 14: Chapter 13 details how to install t
Page 15 and 16: Functional Table of Contents: This
Page 17 and 18: Chapter 9 Fibre Operation Page numb
Page 19 and 20: Chapter 14 Fault-Bus Page number: L
Page 21 and 22: Chapter 2 1 2 3 Logical Drive Funct
Page 23 and 24: Figure 2 - 2 NRAID = + + + Logical
Page 25 and 26: Figure 2 - 7 RAID 3 Logical Drive P
Page 27 and 28: Local Spare Drive LS (9GB) 1 2 (9GB
Page 29 and 30: 2.4.3 Automatic Rebuild and Manual
Page 31 and 32: 2.5 Logical Volume (Multi-Level RAI
Page 33 and 34: Configuration A is a large logical
Page 35 and 36: To perform RAID expansion on a logi
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5-4 5.5 SCSI Drive Status SCSI Chan
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5-6 5.7 Controller Voltage and Temp
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Chapter 6 Front Panel Operation 6.1
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Write-Back/Write-Through Cache Enab
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You may first examine whether there
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Maximum Drive Capacity: Choose “M
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6.6 Partitioning a Logical Drive/Lo
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With any of the Host LUN mapped, th
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NOTE: • The different levels of r
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Assigning a Logical Drive Name Pres
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6.10 Viewing and Editing Host LUNs
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press ENT. Press ▼ or ▲ to choo
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SCSI channel information will be di
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Setting a SCSI Channel’s Terminat
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Press ▼ or ▲ to select “Set T
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Press ENT for two seconds to change
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Reset Controller To reset the contr
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Controller Unique Identifier Choose
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Chapter 7 Terminal Screen Messages
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7.4 Logical Drive Status LG LV ID R
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7.6 SCSI Drive’s Status Slot Chl
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On Terminator is enabled. Off Termi
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7.9 Viewing Event Logs on the Scree
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8-2 mode is to backup all data to s
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8-4 IMPORTANT! • The default opti
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8-6 Logical Drive Preferences: Afte
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8-8 8.5 Creating a Logical Volume A
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8-10 Choose the logical volume you
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8-12 select an available LUN (one n
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8-14 Move cursor bar to the SCSI dr
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8-16 Choose the logical drive you w
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8-18 8.10 Viewing and Editing Host
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8-20 You may also choose “flash s
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8-22 Viewing and Editing SCSI IDs /
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8-24 Setting a Secondary Controller
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8-26 IMPORTANT! • Every time you
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8-28 Disconnecting Support Choose
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8-30 Change Password Use the contro
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8-32 For "Controller Maintenance" f
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8-34 Saving NVRAM to File (via Text
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8-36 Choose “View and Edit Periph
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8-38 SCSI Drive Read/Write Test Fro
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9-2 Different Fibre arrays can be d
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9-4 issue when every server in this
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9-6 Figure 9 - 1 Host Loop Connecti
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9-8 9.4 Configuration: Host and Dri
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9-10 View and Edit Fibre Drive Choo
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9-12 Figure 9 - 3 Dual Loop Configu
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9-14 With firmware release 3.14 and
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9-16 Figure 9 - 5 Host-LUN Mapping
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9-18 When a logical unit is selecte
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9-20 Include: If a node's (a workst
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9-22 The exemplary entry list is sh
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10-2 Figure 10 - 1 Logical Drive Ex
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10-4 A list of available drives wil
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10-6 10.1.3 Copy and Replace Drives
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10-8 10.1.4 Expand Logical Drive In
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10-10 10.1.6 Example: RAID Expansio
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10-12 Follow the steps described in
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10-14 Select an existing volume (Di
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10-16 Drive E: now has a capacity r
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10-18 The cloning process will begi
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10-20 The cloning progress will be
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10-22 NOTE: Clone + Replace: Contro
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10-24 How to Utilize the S.M.A.R.T.
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A SCSI channel (SCSI bus) can conne
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10-28 This controller supports the
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10-30 Table 10 - 1 Peripheral Devic
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10-32 10.3.2 Drive-side Parameters:
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10-34 When the drive itself detects
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10-36 Edit SCSI Drives.” If any d
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10-38 To decide under what conditio
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11-2 Partition Information LG Parti
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11-4 11.3 View and Edit Host LUN’
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11-6 11.4 View and Edit SCSI Drives
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11-8 11.6 View and Edit Configurati
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11-10 Disk Array Parameters Rebuild
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11-12 Update Firmware 11.8 Save NVR
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12-2 � Fibre Interface The contro
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12-4 Figure 12 - 4 Partitioning Log
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12-6 in this configuration should f
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12-8 interface and multiple IDs are
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12-10 F. Considerations with Redund
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12-12 Controller Settings: Redundan
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12-14 12.2.2 Limitations • Both c
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12-16 12.3 Configuration Listed bel
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12-18 When the redundant controller
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12-20 The process of creating Prima
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12-22 NOTE: Front Panel View of Con
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12-24 The message "Enable Redundant
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12-26 Creating Primary and Secondar
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12-28 Select partition Mapping opti
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12-30 If the replacement has been i
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Chapter 13 In-band SCSI Text RAID M
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13.2 Windows NT for DEC Alpha Intro
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NOTE: • The names and values in t
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13.3 MS-DOS Introduction: The Drive
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(where "filename" is the filename o
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13.5.3 Install SNMP Extension Agent
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To uncompress the compressed file,
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5. Reboot the system. 6. Run the Te
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13.7 Solaris 2.5.x/2.6/7/8 for SPAR
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Select package(s) you will to proce
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(where "filename" is the filename o
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13.9 SCO UnixWare Introduction: The
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the corresponded Peripheral Device
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• SNMP MIB file ("RAIDSNMP.MIB")
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NOTE: 11. Type "Pathname" for value
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Chapter 14 Fault-Bus 14.1 What is F
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failure, activate the signal. When
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information list. Assign a slot num
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Press ▼ or ▲ to select “Toggl
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Delete the Slot Number of a SCSI Dr
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Viewing the Status of Each Fault-bu
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A-2 Create Create Logical Volume Su
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A-4 Change Setting Do Reset Ctlr ?
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A-6 Enable/Disable Motor Spin-Up ?
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Appendix B Basic RAID Management: F
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Maximum concurrent Host LUN connect
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Drive S.M.A.R.T. Support Supported,
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Data Safety: Redundant Controller f
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User Interface: RAIDWatch on-board
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C-2 The rolling upgrade is automati
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C-4 Upgrade the Firmware Binary Onl
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C-6 2. Go to "Controller Maintenanc
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D-2 Drive SCSI Channel/Drive Error
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Controller Event 2-Line LCD DRAM Pa
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2-Line LCD Controller Init Complete
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Drive SCSI Channel/Drive Error 2-Li
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2-Line LCD C=_ I=_ Drive Not Ready
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2-Line LCD CHL=_ SCSI Channel Failu
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2-Line LCD Mem is Now Enough Suppor
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2-Line LCD LG=_ Expansion Completed
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2-Line LCD LG=_ Add SCSI Drive Comp
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2-Line LCD High +12V Voltage Detect
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2-Line LCD High +5V Voltage Detecte
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Appendix E Differences in Logical D
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You may also see the status of rese
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D Dedicated Communications Loops 9-
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port) Out-of-band Configuration, Re
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target/drive channel, viewing and 6
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