December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
260 pages
9h 18m
English
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The Adaptec Storage Manager
The Adaptec Storage Manager is a user-space application that can monitor and manage Adaptec RAID controllers. It is packaged as an RPM file and included on the CD-ROM that shipped with your controller. You can also download the package file from Adaptec’s Linux web site (http://linux.adaptec.com). Follow the Linux Downloads link and choose the Storage Manager package for your controller and distribution. Adaptec provides package files for Red Hat and SuSE, and while they are usually a couple of revisions behind each distribution’s most recent release, they tend to work even with newer versions of either distribution. You shouldn’t have any problem using the RPM files with an unsupported distribution. I tested them with Mandrake and encountered no problems.
The Storage Manager includes a command-line utility for managing arrays and controllers (raidutil) and a GUI utility (dptmgr) that performs the same functions. It also includes a few daemons that provide event logging and a low-level communication layer for interfacing with the controller.
The Storage Manager RPM (dptapps) depends on the driver RPM (dptdriver). Since support is now included in the stable kernel, it’s undesirable and unnecessary to use the prepackaged RPM kernel and driver that Adaptec provides. Just pass the --nodeps option to rpm when installing the storage manager:
# rpm -ihv --nodeps sm_linux_v314_install.rpmThere are a couple of device special files that also need to be created. These ...
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