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User Guide - Page 3
... the drives to the interface cables 20 Check your installation and close the case 20 Check motherboard boot sequence 21 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility 23 Hot Spare and Hot Swap 23
BIOS Screen 23 3DM Configure Page 24 Invoking the 3ware BIOS tool 24 Exiting the 3ware BIOS tool 25 Determining your configuration 26 Displaying advance details 27 Creating a disk array 28 Determining...
User Guide - Page 4
... display instructions to complete Windows NT 4.0 installation 50 RAID array initialization 51 Install the 3DM disk management utility 51 Installing the storage switch on systems that boot from a different device 52 Create disk arrays 52 Install the 3ware driver 52 Reboot the machine 52 RAID array initialization 53 Install the 3DM disk management utility 53 Replacing an existing storage...
User Guide - Page 9
...Selecting Drives for RAID 5 32
Figure 13. Create Disk Array Display, RAID 0 Example . . . . . 30
Figure 11. Rebuild Confirmation Display 43
Figure 21. Install from Disk 73
Figure 32. Update driver 73
Figure 33. RAID 1 Configuration Example 8
Figure 3. RAID 5 Configuration Example 10
Figure 5. 8-Port Escalade 7850 Storage Switch Layout 17
Figure 6. 3ware BIOS Tool...
User Guide - Page 21
... substituted for both valid. The drive reallocates the sector where the read error occurred and a notification of all disks in the restoration of drive and data integrity; Configure and manage your disk arrays The 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility is a BIOS level tool for each read -scan of repair is an embedded feature that performs a read error detected (see "Screen Display Messages...
User Guide - Page 22
... User Guide
automatically checking a disk drive's health and reporting potential problems. It allows you to take proactive steps to prevent impending disk crashes.
3DM Disk Management Utility runs in the background on your system but you must use the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility at BIOS time or 3DM Disk Management Utility in a mirrored array while the system remains up.
To create...
User Guide - Page 23
Quick Installation Guide
Quick Installation Guide
Install Storage Switch
Refer to Hardware Installation
Create Arrays ALT-3 at Boot
Refer to 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility
Install System Driver Refer to
Windows Installation or
Linux Installation
RAID Array Background Initialization Process*
Install 3DM Refer to 3DM
Disk Management Utility
Installation Complete
* This process does not ...
User Guide - Page 35
... to bypass the BIOS installation. Note: If drives are attached and you have selected mirrored arrays after the operating system is running, the Escalade Storage Switch will resume. After you do not want to install the 3ware BIOS, press Alt-b to verify that both disks in the arrays are identical. www.3ware.com
25 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility
Figure 6. 3ware BIOS Tool
Press Alt...
User Guide - Page 37
... black when the cursor is over , pressing F6 will show the software versions (BIOS, Firmware, monitor) and slot # of the 3ware card (see Figure 7) use the Up and Down arrow keys to navigate, Enter to the main 3ware Disk Array Configuration screen. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility
Figure 7. Pressing F8 will exit the configuration utility as well as a hot spare and gray when hot...
User Guide - Page 42
... shown in the most efficient access times for the parity drive. 3ware Escalade Storage Switch User Guide
a single disk, to avoid throughput loss due to continue with its next task. BIOS Initialization Screen for your computer system.
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www.3ware.com QUANTUM FIREBALLP KX27.3
512 M
Disk Arrays: Array Unit 1 - 3 drive 64K RAID 5
Port 1 - Write cache is used to store data locally...
User Guide - Page 47
...the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility or 3DM Disk Management Utility chapters.
3ware Disk Array Configuration
Available Drives: Port 2 - QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30
30.0GB 30.0GB
30.0GB DEGRADED 30.0GB Not in Use
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37 You can still read or write requests, the array is marked as Not In Use (see Figure 15 and Figure 16). QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30 Port 3 - Degraded RAID 1 Array...
User Guide - Page 49
... Not In Use (see Figure 17). If one of RAID 1 and 10 arrays RAID 5 arrays allow you to read and write data from all drives. These disk arrays achieve fault tolerance by using the Rebuild feature. (Refer to the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility or 3DM Disk Management Utility chapters for more information.)
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39 When running in Degraded mode, the missing data...
User Guide - Page 53
... 20).
3ware Disk Array Configuration
Creating or destroying arrays will notify the user when the rebuild process is generated and the hot spare dynamically replaces the failed drive in the array without user intervention. The rebuild confirmation screen will be launched as a background process and an event notification will destroy all existing data on their member disk drives.
Auto...
User Guide - Page 152
... the Disk Array Configuration Utility's main display. Software Installation
Q8: The storage switch was installed before you configured your disk arrays, you may not be connected to their power source and reboot. The problem could be set as two primary master drives. To operate properly the storage switch requires that creating or deleting a disk array overwrites any existing data...
User Guide - Page 153
... the 3ware BIOS scrolling messages and appear in the display. Partition and format any existing data on page 52. Q13: I have created partitions over 70G but not all of Red Hat's Disk Druid partitioning utility with Red Hat 6.2 or 7.0 is your boot device, your machine will be unusable. The driver has not been installed. If this array is...
User Guide - Page 173
...Deleting a disk array 35 Determining your configuration 26 Disk Array Configuration Utility 142 Disk Arrays 26 Disk Druid partitioning utility 143 DiskSwitch Architecture 7 Drive Configuration Block (DCB) 154 Drive types 3 Drivers 49, 54, 62, 66, 69, 82, 85, 100, 109, 110 Dynamic Sector Repair 11 Dynamic sector repair 153
E Escalade 7 European Community Conformity 158
F FCC 157
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