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Battery Support ............................................................................... 12-15 12.3 Configuration................................................................................... 12-16 12.3.1 Via Front Panel Keypad ................................................................... 12-17 12.3.2 Via Terminal Emulation .................................................................... 12-23 12.3.3 When and How Is the Failed Controller Replaced?.............................. 12-29 Forcing Controller Failover for Testing ................................................ 12-30 Chapter 13 In-band SCSI Text RAID Manager and SNMP Agent Installation 13.1 In-band SCSI Text RAID Manager ....................................................... 13-1 13.1.1 Local Management via In-band SCSI ................................................... 13-2 13.1.2 Remote Management via SNMP ......................................................... 13-2 13.2 Windows NT for DEC Alpha................................................................ 13-3 13.2.1 Before Using In-band SCSI Text RAID Manager.................................... 13-3 13.2.2 Use In-band SCSI Text RAID Manager to Configure RAID...................... 13-3 13.2.3 Install SNMP Agent for Windows NT ................................................... 13-3 13.2.4 How to Configure the SNMP Trap........................................................ 13-5 13.3 MS-DOS........................................................................................... 13-7 13.3.1 Before Using In-band SCSI Text RAID Manager for DOS ....................... 13-7 13.3.2 To configure RAID under DOS - Text RAID Manager for DOS:................ 13-7 13.4 Linux (Red Hat and SlackWare).......................................................... 13-8 13.4.1 Supported Operating Systems............................................................ 13-8 13.4.2 How to Make the Installation Diskette from the Disk Image File ............. 13-8 13.4.3 Label the Installation Diskette(s)......................................................... 13-9 13.4.4 Before Using In-band SCSI for Linux .................................................... 13-9 13.4.5 To run Text RAID Manager for Linux: ................................................... 13-9 13.5 NetWare......................................................................................... 13-10 13.5.1 Before Using In-band SCSI Text RAID Manager for NetWare................ 13-10 13.5.2 Use Text RAID Manager to Configure RAID........................................ 13-10 13.5.3 Install SNMP Extension Agent for NetWare ....................................... 13-11 13.5.4 How to Configure the SNMP Trap...................................................... 13-11 13.6 SCO OpenServer 5.0.x..................................................................... 13-12 13.6.1 Supported Operating Systems.......................................................... 13-12 13.6.2 How to Make the Installation Diskette from the Disk Image File ........... 13-12 13.6.3 Label the Installation Diskette(s)....................................................... 13-13 13.6.4 Install the In-band SCSI Driver in SCO OpenServer 5........................... 13-13 13.6.5 Before Using In-band SCSI Text RAID Manager.................................. 13-14 13.6.6 Using Text RAID Manager to Configure RAID ..................................... 13-14 13.6.7 SNMP Readme File......................................................................... 13-15 13.7 Solaris 2.5.x/2.6/7/8 for SPARC........................................................ 13-17 13.7.1 How to Make the Installation Diskette from the Disk Image File ........... 13-17 13.7.2 Label the Installation Diskette(s)....................................................... 13-18 13.7.3 Install the In-band SCSI Driver and Text RAID Manager for SUN Solaris 2.5/2.6/7/8..................................................................................... 13-18 13.7.4 Using Text RAID Manager to Configure RAID ..................................... 13-19 13.8 Solaris 2.5.x/2.6/7/8 for x86.............................................................. 13-20 13.8.1 How to Make the Installation Diskette from the Disk Image File ........... 13-20 13.8.2 Label the Installation Diskette(s)....................................................... 13-21 13.8.3 Install the In-band SCSI Driver and Text RAID Manager for SUN Solaris 5/2.6/7/8........................................................................................ 13-21 13.8.4 Using Text RAID Manager to Configure RAID ..................................... 13-22 13.9 SCO UnixWare ............................................................................... 13-23 viii
13.9.1 Supported Operating Systems .......................................................... 13-23 13.9.2 How to Make the Installation Diskette from the Disk Image File............ 13-23 13.9.3 Label the Installation Diskette(s) ....................................................... 13-24 13.9.4 Install In-band SCSI Driver for SCO UnixWare 7.................................. 13-24 13.9.5 Before Using Text RAID Manager to Configure RAID Controller............. 13-24 13.9.6 Install Text RAID Manager for SCO UnixWare 7.................................. 13-25 13.10 Windows 95/98................................................................................ 13-26 13.10.1 Before Using In-band SCSI Text RAID Manager .................................. 13-26 13.10.2 Use In-band SCSI Text RAID Manager to Configure RAID .................... 13-26 13.11 Windows NT (x86) ........................................................................... 13-26 Executing the Text RAID Management Utility ..................................... 13-27 13.11.1 Before Using In-band SCSI Text RAID Manager .................................. 13-27 13.11.2 Use In-band SCSI Text RAID Manager to Configure RAID .................... 13-27 13.11.3 Install the SNMP Agent for Windows NT............................................ 13-28 13.11.4 How to Configure the SNMP Trap ...................................................... 13-29 Chapter 14 Fault-Bus 14.1 What is Fault-Bus? Why the Need for Fault-Bus? ................................14-1 14.2 How Does the Fault-Bus Work?..........................................................14-2 Error Signals Input .............................................................................14-2 Drive Failure Signal Outputs................................................................14-3 14.2.1 Fault-Bus Error Alert ..........................................................................14-3 14.3 How to Setup the Fault-bus?...............................................................14-4 14.3.1 Hardware ..........................................................................................14-4 14.3.2 Configuring the Controller through the Front Panel.................................14-4 14.3.3 Configuring on the Controller through the RS-232C Terminal Interface .....14-7 Appendix A LCD Front Panel Navigation Map Appendix B Firmware Functionality Specifications Appendix C System Functions: Upgrading Firmware Appendix D Event Message Appendix E Differences in Logical Drive Format Index ix
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Page 3 and 4: UNIX is a registered trademark of T
Page 5 and 6: Chapter 5 LCD Screen Messages 5.1 T
Page 7: Logical Drive Information..........
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
Page 37 and 38: Chapter 3 RAID Planning 3.1 Conside
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Page 41 and 42: 3.3.2 Understanding Step by Step Fi
Page 43 and 44: following chapters. The configurati
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Page 47 and 48: 4-2 Select "Communication Parameter
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Page 51 and 52: 4-6 • One logical drive with rese
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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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