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Hardware Installation and User’s Guide
Hardware Specifications and Features
Note:
For a migrated RAID array to be recognized by the new host operating system, the host
system may need to be rebooted.
Warning:
RAID arrays set up with an GDT85x6RZ controller cannot roam to computers that
use other controllers (anything other than the GDT85x6RZ). Unpredictable behavior
may include, but is not limited to, data loss or corruption.
3.5
PCI Hot Plug
The GDT8546RZ and GDT8586RZ adapter supports PCI Hot Plug under the following
OS’s:
•
Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP2
•
Windows 2000 Server
•
Novell NetWare 5.1 SP2a
•
Novel NetWare 6.x
This ICP RAID controller supports the PCI Hot Plug functionality for the hot replacement
of an adapter. Hot replacement assumes that the drivers for the adapter being replaced are
already loaded.
3.6
Hot-Plug Disk Drive Support
This feature allows for the ability to remove and replace drives while I/O activity is taking
place, provided that both the hard disk drive and backplane fully support Hot-Plug,
without interruption of operations on any other drives. It supports the Hot Plug of new
drives in non-intelligent enclosures as detailed in
Section 3.7
.
3.7
Auto-detection of Hot-Plug Disk Drives in a Non-
Intelligent Drive Enclosure
This feature allows the use of non-intelligent disk enclosures (requires truly hot-pluggable
disk drives and backplane connectors) as though they were intelligent enclosures. This
feature is configurable and allows the user to set up non-intelligent enclosures to detect
the insertion or removal of hot plug disk drives and report the event to the RAID
firmware. The RAID configuration is automatically updated to the new configuration.
Access this feature through the
Advanced Setup
menu of ICP RAID Console.
3.8
RAID Controller Drive Limitations (Host, Array,
Logical, and Physical)
The following are limitations assuming the following:
•
Four/eigth SATA ports
