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FastTrak TX4650, TX2650 User Manual
4
Key Features and Benefits
The following information offers an overview of the major features of your new
Promise FastTrak TX4650 and TX2650.
Advanced Hardware Design
Features Benefits
Supports single-lane PCIe
bus motherboards
Allows maximum data transfers of up to 2.5 Gb/s
in both directions simultaneously to dramatically
reduce the time to save and retrieve large files.
TX4650 supports: RAID 0,
RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10
TX2650 supports: RAID 0 and
RAID 1
Provides dramatic increase in drive performance
and/or fault tolerant options. Offers performance
customization and data rebuilds from the BIOS
menu.
Supports Serial ATA
Specification II
Burst data transfer rates up to 300 MB/s from
Serial ATA drives to boost overall system
performance.
Supports Serial Attached
SCSI Specification
Burst data transfer rates up to 300 MB/s from
SAS drives to boost overall system
performance.
Independent data channels
for SATA and SAS drives
Drives can multiply their data transfer
performance when striped together and each
drive uses a separate data channel.
Supports multiple LUNs, two
per physical drive
TX4650 supports up to 8 logical drives.
TX2650 supports up to 4 logical drives.
Supports online logical drive
expansion
Add physical drives to the logical drive without
affecting data availability.
Supports online logical drive
migration
Change RAID level without affecting data
availability.
Utilizes FastBuild™ automenu
from the FastTrak onboard
BIOS
Has “Auto Setup” option for quick and easy
logical drive builds.
Displays status and error
checking messages during
bootup
Notifies user of possible errors and allows for
recovery of mirrored drive logical drives directly
from FastBuild™.
Supports S.M.A.R.T.
monitoring and reporting
Polls status every 15 minutes, reports through
WebPAM.
Employs the latest Promise
PCI Express SATA/SAS ASIC
technology
Fully supports Serial ATA specifications with 150
and 300 MB/sec timing and CRC error-checking
at high speeds.
Содержание
- Fasttrak user manual 1
- Copyright 2
- Important data protection information 2
- Notice 2
- Recommendations 2
- Trademarks 2
- Contents 3
- About this manual 7
- Chapter 1 introduction 7
- Fasttrak tx series 8
- Fasttrak tx2650 8
- Fasttrak tx4650 8
- Overview 8
- Webpam software 9
- Key features and benefits 10
- Specifications 12
- Chapter 2 installation 13
- Unpacking your fasttrak card 13
- Installing the fasttrak card 14
- Connecting the fasttrak card 16
- Using a superswap enclosure 16
- Without a superswap enclosure 17
- Creating your logical drive 18
- Installing webpam 21
- Utility server 21
- Browser support 22
- Installation 22
- Java runtime environment 22
- Operating system support 22
- Windows 22
- Webpam installation for windows and linux 23
- Chapter 3 installing drivers 29
- Fasttrak driver diskette for windows 30
- Usb memory stick for windows 30
- Fasttrak driver diskette for linux 31
- New os installation 32
- Windows vista 32
- Confirming driver installation 33
- Existing system 33
- New os installation 34
- Windows server 2003 34
- Confirming driver installation 35
- Existing system 35
- New os installation 36
- Windows xp 36
- Confirming driver installation 37
- Existing system 37
- New os installation 38
- Windows 2000 38
- Confirming driver installation 39
- Existing system 39
- Existing system 40
- New os installation 40
- Red hat linux enterprise 5 40
- Existing system 41
- New os installation 41
- Suse linux enterprise server 10 41
- Chapter 4 fastbuild utility 43
- Using the fasttrak bios 43
- Navigating the main menu 44
- Viewing drive assignments 45
- Creating a logical drive 46
- Creating two logical drives 49
- Deleting a logical drive 55
- Viewing the controller configuration 57
- Finding a failed drive in fastbuild 58
- Responding to logical drive problems 58
- Chapter 5 webpam 59
- Logging into webpam 59
- Regular connection 59
- Secure connection 59
- Logging out of webpam 61
- Adding a user 62
- Managing users 62
- Right meaning 63
- Setting event notification 63
- Event notification severity levels 64
- Setting a net send ip address 66
- Changing a user s password 67
- Deleting a user 67
- Changing a user s access rights 69
- Changing a user s email address 69
- Right meaning 70
- Viewing host management 71
- Making utility configuration settings 72
- Viewing the fasttrak card 73
- Making controller settings 74
- Managing the controller 74
- Viewing controller information 74
- Deleting a scheduled action 76
- Viewing scheduled actions 76
- Locking the controller 77
- Restoring default settings 78
- Managing physical drives 79
- Viewing physical drives 79
- Viewing physical drive information 80
- Making physical drive settings 81
- Running media patrol 81
- On demand 82
- Scheduled 82
- Checking the bad sector log 83
- Locating a physical drive 84
- Creating a logical drive 86
- Managing logical drives 86
- Viewing all logical drives 86
- Creating a jbod 90
- Deleting a logical drive or jbod 94
- Viewing logical drive information 94
- Making logical drive settings 95
- Migrating a logical drive 96
- On demand 97
- Scheduled 98
- Cancelling a schedule 99
- On demand 99
- Rebuilding a logical drive 99
- Scheduled 100
- Cancelling a schedule 101
- Automatically after drive replacement 102
- Automatically using a free drive 102
- Automatically using a hot spare drive 102
- On demand 103
- Synchronizing a logical drive 103
- Scheduled 104
- Cancelling a schedule 105
- Viewing logical drive initialization 105
- Activating a logical drive 106
- Responding to a critical or offline logical drive 107
- When a physical drive fails in a raid 0 logical drive 107
- When a physical drive fails in a raid 1 5 or 10 logical drive 107
- Identify the failed physical drive 108
- Rebuild your logical drive 109
- Replace the failed physical drive 109
- Managing enclosures 111
- Viewing enclosure information 111
- Viewing enclosures 111
- Creating a spare drive 113
- Managing spare drives 113
- Viewing spare drives 113
- Deleting a spare drive 114
- About fasttrak 115
- Adapter bios 115
- Chapter 6 technology 115
- Introduction to raid 115
- Raid 0 stripe 116
- Raid 1 mirror 117
- Raid 5 block striping with distributed parity 118
- Raid 10 mirror stripe 119
- About dual data redundancy 120
- Jbod single drive 121
- Advantages disadvantages 122
- Choosing a raid level 122
- Raid 0 122
- Raid 1 122
- Advantages disadvantages 123
- Raid 10 123
- Raid 5 123
- Gigabyte boundary 124
- Hot spare drive 124
- Initialization 124
- Other logical drive features 124
- Stripe block size 124
- Cache setting 125
- Logical drive migration 125
- Ranges of logical drive expansion 127
- Chapter 7 support 129
- Frequently asked questions 129
- Pre installation 129
- Motherboard issues 130
- System cmos issues 130
- Drive issues 131
- Operating system related issues 133
- Installation issues 134
- Performance tips 135
- Post installation 135
- Contact technical support 136
- Technical support services 136
- The netherlands 136
- United states 136
- Germany 137
- Taiwan 137
- Disclaimer of other warranties 139
- Limited warranty 139
- Your responsibilities 140
- Return product for repair 141
- Appendix a partition and format 143
- Appendix b upgrades 147
- Bios and firmware upgrade 147
- Step 1 preparation 147
- Step 2 download bios file 147
- Step 3 install the bios package 148
- Software driver upgrade 149
- Step 1 preparation 149
- Step 2 download driver files 149
- Step 3 install the software drivers 150
- Windows vista server 2003 xp and 2000 150
- Red hat enterprise linux 5 151
- Suse linux server 10 151
- Step 1 download the webpam file 152
- Step 2 install webpam 152
- Webpam upgrade 152
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