Dell Perc 5i User Guide

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Glossary
This section defines or identifies technical terms, 
abbreviations, and acronyms used in this document.
A
Adapter
An adapter enables the computer system to access 
peripheral devices by converting the protocol of one 
bus or interface to another. An adapter may also 
provide specialized function. Adapters may reside 
on the system board or be an add-in card. Other 
examples of adapters include network and 
SCSI adapters.
B
BIOS
(Basic Input/Output System) The part of the 
operating...

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Driver
A device driver, often called a driver for short, is a 
program that allows the operating system or some other 
program to interface correctly with a peripheral device 
such as a printer or network PC card. Some device 
drivers, such as network drivers must be loaded from 
the config.sys file (with a device= statement) or as 
memory-resident programs (usually, from the 
autoexec.bat file). Others such as video drivers must 
load when you start the program for which they were...

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O
Operating System
The software that runs a computer, including 
scheduling tasks, managing storage, and handling 
communication with peripherals and performs basic 
input/output functions, such as recognizing input 
from the keyboard, sending output to the display 
screen, etc. is called an operating system.
P
PCI Express (PCI-E)
PCI Express (PCI-E) is an evolutionary upgrade to 
the existing Peripheral Component Interconnect 
(PCI) bus. PCI-E is a serial connection that operates 
more like...

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RPM
RPM, short for Red Hat Package Manager is a 
package management system primarily intended for 
Linux. RPM installs, updates, uninstalls, verifies and 
queries software. RPM is the baseline package format 
of the Linux Standard Base. Originally developed by 
Red Hat for Red Hat Linux, RPM is now used by many 
Linux distributions. It has also been ported to some 
other operating systems such as NetWare by Novell.
S
SAS
Serial-Attached SCSI, SAS, is a serial, point-to-point,...

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SMART
Acronym for Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting 
Technology. The self-monitoring analysis and 
reporting technology (SMART) feature monitors the 
internal performance of all motors, heads, and drive 
electronics to detect predictable drive failures. This 
feature helps monitor drive performance and 
reliability, and protects the data on the drive. When 
problems are detected on a drive, you can replace 
or repair the drive without losing any data. 
SMART-compliant disks have...

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Index
B
BIOS, 27Configuration Utility, 28
fault code messages, 2 7
POST messages, 2 7
C
Configuration Utilityfunctions performed, 28
navigating, 2 8
overview, 2 8
starting, 28
D
driverscreating diskette, 19
installation, 19
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, 22
SUSE Linux Enterprise  Server, 2 4
E
electrostatic discharge. 
See ESD
ESD, 8
F
firmware update utility, 41
updating, 41
I
installationdriver, 19
SAS 5/iR Adapter, 15
Windows driver, 2 0
Integrated RAID configuration, 29, 31
create new virtual...

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T
troubleshooting, 35
BIOS boot order, 35
BIOS error messages, 3 8
Configuration Utility error  messages, 3 7
physical disk issues, 3 6
W
Windows, 19 drivers, 1 9
updating drivers, 21
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