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... build 47 Continue with Windows installation 47 Reboot the machine 48 RAID array initialization 48 Install the 3DM disk management utility 49 Installing the ATA RAID controller on systems that boot from a different device . 49 Create disk arrays 49 Install the 3ware driver 49 Reboot the machine 50 RAID array initialization 50 Install the 3DM disk management utility 51 Replacing an existing ATA RAID controller with a new version of the controller . 52 Updating the 3ware driver 52 Installing/Upgrading the 3ware driver 54 Remove the existing Escalade ATA RAID Controller and install...
... build 47 Continue with Windows installation 47 Reboot the machine 48 RAID array initialization 48 Install the 3DM disk management utility 49 Installing the ATA RAID controller on systems that boot from a different device . 49 Create disk arrays 49 Install the 3ware driver 49 Reboot the machine 50 RAID array initialization 50 Install the 3DM disk management utility 51 Replacing an existing ATA RAID controller with a new version of the controller . 52 Updating the 3ware driver 52 Installing/Upgrading the 3ware driver 54 Remove the existing Escalade ATA RAID Controller and install...
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... 33 Create Disk Array Display, RAID 5 Example 33 BIOS Initialization Screen for RAID 5 34 Delete Disk Array Display 37 Maintain Disk Array Display 38 Degraded RAID 1 Array Drive When Not in Use 39 Degraded RAID 10 Array Drive When Not in Use 39 Degraded RAID 5 Array Drive When Not in Use 40 Continue on Source Error Example 41 Select Available Drive to Replace Faulted Drive, RAID 1 Example 42 Rebuild Array Status Display, RAID 1 Example 42 Found New Hardware Wizard 49 3ware ATA RAID Controller Properties Display 53 Upgrade Driver Welcome Screen 54 Upgrade/Install Device Driver 54...
... 33 Create Disk Array Display, RAID 5 Example 33 BIOS Initialization Screen for RAID 5 34 Delete Disk Array Display 37 Maintain Disk Array Display 38 Degraded RAID 1 Array Drive When Not in Use 39 Degraded RAID 10 Array Drive When Not in Use 39 Degraded RAID 5 Array Drive When Not in Use 40 Continue on Source Error Example 41 Select Available Drive to Replace Faulted Drive, RAID 1 Example 42 Rebuild Array Status Display, RAID 1 Example 42 Found New Hardware Wizard 49 3ware ATA RAID Controller Properties Display 53 Upgrade Driver Welcome Screen 54 Upgrade/Install Device Driver 54...
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...Parallel UltraDMA 133 and UltraDMA 100 drives are all PCI 64-bit / 66MHz. ■ Management. 3DM Disk Management Utility or 3ware Command Line Interface ■ BIOS. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers 2 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers ■ Data Integrity. RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD (8006-2LP does not support RAID 5 or RAID 10) ■ Drive Support. Low CPU utilization ■ RAID Support. PC99, PnP, BBS Compliant ■ Windows Support. Redhat, SuSE. (Drivers available in Open Source.) ■ FreeBSD...
...Parallel UltraDMA 133 and UltraDMA 100 drives are all PCI 64-bit / 66MHz. ■ Management. 3DM Disk Management Utility or 3ware Command Line Interface ■ BIOS. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers 2 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers ■ Data Integrity. RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD (8006-2LP does not support RAID 5 or RAID 10) ■ Drive Support. Low CPU utilization ■ RAID Support. PC99, PnP, BBS Compliant ■ Windows Support. Redhat, SuSE. (Drivers available in Open Source.) ■ FreeBSD...
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...-board processor minimizes host CPU overhead ■ SCSI device driver for O/S compatibility and easy installation ■ Browser-based 3ware Disk Manager (3DM) utility with local and remote asynchronous event reporting of the storage system remains undisturbed. Introduction Unmatched reliability and performance The Escalade 7000 and 8000 series of ATA RAID Controllers bring the entire storage system down. In this scenario, SCSI RAID features fail to isolate the drives from one drive may use the bus...
...-board processor minimizes host CPU overhead ■ SCSI device driver for O/S compatibility and easy installation ■ Browser-based 3ware Disk Manager (3DM) utility with local and remote asynchronous event reporting of the storage system remains undisturbed. Introduction Unmatched reliability and performance The Escalade 7000 and 8000 series of ATA RAID Controllers bring the entire storage system down. In this scenario, SCSI RAID features fail to isolate the drives from one drive may use the bus...
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... standby power management state is powered up . This forces the drive firmware to the 3ware controller. To remotely access 3DM, you are issued independent of the disk drives have detected a "threshold exceeded" condition, then an AEN is issued to monitor the controller and maintain the ATA RAID arrays and drives locally or remotely via a standard web browser. To check array configuration or status, disable write cache, select a hot spare or rebuild a mirrored array, you to attached disk drives. This feature is only available through...
... standby power management state is powered up . This forces the drive firmware to the 3ware controller. To remotely access 3DM, you are issued independent of the disk drives have detected a "threshold exceeded" condition, then an AEN is issued to monitor the controller and maintain the ATA RAID arrays and drives locally or remotely via a standard web browser. To check array configuration or status, disable write cache, select a hot spare or rebuild a mirrored array, you to attached disk drives. This feature is only available through...
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...the ATA RAID Controller while installing the operating system. ■ Installing the ATA RAID Controller on systems that boot from a different device. ■ Replacing an existing ATA RAID Controller with a new version of CD-Rom drive):\3DMsetup from the 3DM installation CD-ROM. Install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller Install the two, four, eight, or twelve port Escalade ATA RAID Controller in the boot sequence, then press Alt-3 to activate the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility at boot time. Operating systems supporting the Escalade ATA RAID Controller include: ■ Windows...
...the ATA RAID Controller while installing the operating system. ■ Installing the ATA RAID Controller on systems that boot from a different device. ■ Replacing an existing ATA RAID Controller with a new version of CD-Rom drive):\3DMsetup from the 3DM installation CD-ROM. Install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller Install the two, four, eight, or twelve port Escalade ATA RAID Controller in the boot sequence, then press Alt-3 to activate the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility at boot time. Operating systems supporting the Escalade ATA RAID Controller include: ■ Windows...
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www.3ware.com 45 Windows Installation Note: If you install your operating system. Use your system's Setup utility to set the boot order according to how you haven't yet installed the hardware, return to an existing ATA RAID controller (page 46). Or, you have a new drive configuration without an operating system and want to install Windows on a drive managed by the Escalade ATA RAID Controller, follow the instructions in: Installing a drive to the Hardware Installation section. If you can configure the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. As a Plug...
www.3ware.com 45 Windows Installation Note: If you install your operating system. Use your system's Setup utility to set the boot order according to how you haven't yet installed the hardware, return to an existing ATA RAID controller (page 46). Or, you have a new drive configuration without an operating system and want to install Windows on a drive managed by the Escalade ATA RAID Controller, follow the instructions in: Installing a drive to the Hardware Installation section. If you can configure the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. As a Plug...
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... Management from the Administrative Tools menu. Boot the machine Continue with the following steps to make the new disk array or independent disk accessible to the 3ware Hardware Installation and 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility chapters. c Select Disk Management. 4 Follow the steps the appear on-screen to write a signature to the drive. 5 Right click on the drive and select Create Volume. 6 Follow the steps that the user upgrade to assign a drive letter. 46 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Windows Installation Note: 3ware supports released versions of Windows...
... Management from the Administrative Tools menu. Boot the machine Continue with the following steps to make the new disk array or independent disk accessible to the 3ware Hardware Installation and 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility chapters. c Select Disk Management. 4 Follow the steps the appear on-screen to write a signature to the drive. 5 Right click on the drive and select Create Volume. 6 Follow the steps that the user upgrade to assign a drive letter. 46 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Windows Installation Note: 3ware supports released versions of Windows...
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... install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver" appears at the bottom of the display. 2 When you get service packs for directions.) Create disk arrays Refer to the 3ware Hardware Installation and 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility chapters. Otherwise, press Enter. Refer to the Windows 2000/XP/2003 documentation supplied by Microsoft if you have additional devices to add. Windows 2000 must be at this point.There are no instructions after installing the driver that are specific to 3ware...
... install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver" appears at the bottom of the display. 2 When you get service packs for directions.) Create disk arrays Refer to the 3ware Hardware Installation and 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility chapters. Otherwise, press Enter. Refer to the Windows 2000/XP/2003 documentation supplied by Microsoft if you have additional devices to add. Windows 2000 must be at this point.There are no instructions after installing the driver that are specific to 3ware...
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... ten minutes. RAID array initialization RAID 0 arrays do not need to restart the system. RAID 5 arrays are immediately available for use with the following steps to make any new disk arrays or independent disks accessible to Windows 2000/XP/2003. 1 Remove the driver diskette, then select Yes to be initialized and are immediately available for the 50 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Once booted to the operating system, the RAID 5 array goes into initialization mode after being created in data from the...
... ten minutes. RAID array initialization RAID 0 arrays do not need to restart the system. RAID 5 arrays are immediately available for use with the following steps to make any new disk arrays or independent disks accessible to Windows 2000/XP/2003. 1 Remove the driver diskette, then select Yes to be initialized and are immediately available for the 50 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Once booted to the operating system, the RAID 5 array goes into initialization mode after being created in data from the...
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...Settings and open the Control Panel win- Materials required: ■ 3ware CD-ROM Updating the 3ware driver 1 Backup any critical data prior to updating the 3ware driver. 2 Log in your system as system administrator. 3 Go to your disk arrays for the new version Escalade ATA RAID Controller before installing the controller. The 3ware ATA RAID Controller Properties pop-up menu appears. 8 Click on the Driver tab (see Figure 25). 52 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Windows Installation Replacing an existing ATA RAID controller with the new version of the ATA RAID controller...
...Settings and open the Control Panel win- Materials required: ■ 3ware CD-ROM Updating the 3ware driver 1 Backup any critical data prior to updating the 3ware driver. 2 Log in your system as system administrator. 3 Go to your disk arrays for the new version Escalade ATA RAID Controller before installing the controller. The 3ware ATA RAID Controller Properties pop-up menu appears. 8 Click on the Driver tab (see Figure 25). 52 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Windows Installation Replacing an existing ATA RAID controller with the new version of the ATA RAID controller...
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... to the 3ware Hardware Installation and 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility chapters. After the initial verification, subsequent verifies to arrays larger than 1 TByte, you may boot directly from the Red Hat CD-ROM disk. 1 Insert the Red Hat boot diskette into the floppy drive of Red Hat could not boot to a www.3ware.com 63 Earlier versions of the computer. If your driver disk. boot: expert Install the driver 1 After loading a number of the array is...
... to the 3ware Hardware Installation and 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility chapters. After the initial verification, subsequent verifies to arrays larger than 1 TByte, you may boot directly from the Red Hat CD-ROM disk. 1 Insert the Red Hat boot diskette into the floppy drive of Red Hat could not boot to a www.3ware.com 63 Earlier versions of the computer. If your driver disk. boot: expert Install the driver 1 After loading a number of the array is...
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... up to ten minutes. Installing the ATA RAID controller on the 3ware CD-ROM for supported versions. Linux Installation RAID 1 or 10 array result in the data from one ), or to list the kernel versions (if there are multiple kernels). 1 Type: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy 64 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide RAID 5 arrays are immediately initialized after a delay of this is complete in order to the 3DM Disk Management Utility chapter. Please refer to the "Readme...
... up to ten minutes. Installing the ATA RAID controller on the 3ware CD-ROM for supported versions. Linux Installation RAID 1 or 10 array result in the data from one ), or to list the kernel versions (if there are multiple kernels). 1 Type: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy 64 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide RAID 5 arrays are immediately initialized after a delay of this is complete in order to the 3DM Disk Management Utility chapter. Please refer to the "Readme...
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... the 3ware CLI User Guide. If you are using the 3ware Command Line Interface, refer to the motherboard as your operating system. If you install your boot device. Note: If you wish to upgrade to a newer 3ware Escalade Linux driver, please refer to install Linux on a drive managed by 3ware's ATA RAID controller, follow the instructions in : Installing the ATA RAID controller while installing SuSE Linux with YaST2 Materials required ■ 3ware CD-ROM (You will be your system's Setup utility to set (including firmware, driver, and 3DM) supports SuSE versions...
... the 3ware CLI User Guide. If you are using the 3ware Command Line Interface, refer to the motherboard as your operating system. If you install your boot device. Note: If you wish to upgrade to a newer 3ware Escalade Linux driver, please refer to install Linux on a drive managed by 3ware's ATA RAID controller, follow the instructions in : Installing the ATA RAID controller while installing SuSE Linux with YaST2 Materials required ■ 3ware CD-ROM (You will be your system's Setup utility to set (including firmware, driver, and 3DM) supports SuSE versions...
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... time the array is verified (via the BIOS or 3ware 3DM), the array is displayed. The user can be prompted to perform the installation using the Escalade ATA RAID Controller as a boot device. RAID array initialization RAID 0 arrays do not need to insert the driver disk. RAID 5 arrays are immediately initialized after being created in the data from one disk (the disk on an SMP system, you receive a message about the controller timing out and resetting while installing on the lower channel number) being...
... time the array is verified (via the BIOS or 3ware 3DM), the array is displayed. The user can be prompted to perform the installation using the Escalade ATA RAID Controller as a boot device. RAID array initialization RAID 0 arrays do not need to insert the driver disk. RAID 5 arrays are immediately initialized after being created in the data from one disk (the disk on an SMP system, you receive a message about the controller timing out and resetting while installing on the lower channel number) being...
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... disk management utility Refer to the kernel version (i.e. 2.4.18-4GB, etc.) Check 3ware's website for supported versions. 1 Edit /etc/sysconfig/kernel and make sure the file contains the following line: INITRD_MODULES="3w-xxxx" 70 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Install the 3ware driver Notes: In the instructions below: refers to the 3DM Disk Management Utility chapter. Once booted to the operating system, the RAID 5 array goes into initialization mode after a delay of up to the 3ware CLI User Guide. If you are using the 3ware Command Line...
... disk management utility Refer to the kernel version (i.e. 2.4.18-4GB, etc.) Check 3ware's website for supported versions. 1 Edit /etc/sysconfig/kernel and make sure the file contains the following line: INITRD_MODULES="3w-xxxx" 70 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Install the 3ware driver Notes: In the instructions below: refers to the 3DM Disk Management Utility chapter. Once booted to the operating system, the RAID 5 array goes into initialization mode after a delay of up to the 3ware CLI User Guide. If you are using the 3ware Command Line...
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... arrays larger than 1 TByte, check to make sure that the version of FreeBSD you will replace the old 3ware driver source files with the FreeBSD CD-ROM or diskette Note: The boot diskette is optional since most computers can also download the FreeBSD driver from the FreeBSD CD-ROM disk. If you want to /sys/dev/twe. 74 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide FreeBSD Installation Installing the ATA RAID controller while installing...
... arrays larger than 1 TByte, check to make sure that the version of FreeBSD you will replace the old 3ware driver source files with the FreeBSD CD-ROM or diskette Note: The boot diskette is optional since most computers can also download the FreeBSD driver from the FreeBSD CD-ROM disk. If you want to /sys/dev/twe. 74 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide FreeBSD Installation Installing the ATA RAID controller while installing...
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... drives. Check that both the power and ATA cables are connected properly and that deleting a disk array overwrites any existing data on ? What is limited to the ATA RAID controller. Enter the Dell BIOS setup and reload the BIOS defaults. Software installation Q6: The ATA RAID controller was installed before you configured your disk arrays, you may have made a mistake in the Disk Array Configuration Utility's main display similar to include the StorSwitch controller in the boot order. ■ If your system's boot order...
... drives. Check that both the power and ATA cables are connected properly and that deleting a disk array overwrites any existing data on ? What is limited to the ATA RAID controller. Enter the Dell BIOS setup and reload the BIOS defaults. Software installation Q6: The ATA RAID controller was installed before you configured your disk arrays, you may have made a mistake in the Disk Array Configuration Utility's main display similar to include the StorSwitch controller in the boot order. ■ If your system's boot order...
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... modifying 36 verifying 37 Disk Array Configuration Utility 98 Disk Arrays, listed in BIOS 30 Disk Druid partitioning utility 98 Download Error Log 87 drive adding a new one to a controller 46 Drive Configuration Block (DCB) 105 drive status connector 18, 21 Drive types 4 drivers installing under Linux 63 installing under Windows 49 updating under Windows 52 upgrading 54 Dynamic Sector Repair 13, 104 E Escalade 7 European Community Conformity 110 Extended Error Log 87 F FCC 109 Force Continue on Rebuild 93 FreeBSD Installation 73 H Hardware Installation 17 hot spare 27, 36 www.3ware.com 115
... modifying 36 verifying 37 Disk Array Configuration Utility 98 Disk Arrays, listed in BIOS 30 Disk Druid partitioning utility 98 Download Error Log 87 drive adding a new one to a controller 46 Drive Configuration Block (DCB) 105 drive status connector 18, 21 Drive types 4 drivers installing under Linux 63 installing under Windows 49 updating under Windows 52 upgrading 54 Dynamic Sector Repair 13, 104 E Escalade 7 European Community Conformity 110 Extended Error Log 87 F FCC 109 Force Continue on Rebuild 93 FreeBSD Installation 73 H Hardware Installation 17 hot spare 27, 36 www.3ware.com 115
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... mirrored disk array 40 Rebuilding RAID 5 40 Rebuilding with Hot Spare 40 rebuilding with hot spare 43 Red Hat Linux installation 62 Remote Access 91 removing an existing Escalade controller 17 S Serial ATA 8 serial ATA RAID controller with multi-lane internal connectors 24 SMART 11, 87, 103 Staggered Spin Up 12 status connector for drive (LED) 18, 21 stripe size, selecting 34 System requirements 4 T Technical Support 111 Tools required 4 Troubleshooting 97 TwinStor 11 U Ultra DMA protocol 104 uninstalling 3DM 83 upgrading the 3ware driver 54 116 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide
... mirrored disk array 40 Rebuilding RAID 5 40 Rebuilding with Hot Spare 40 rebuilding with hot spare 43 Red Hat Linux installation 62 Remote Access 91 removing an existing Escalade controller 17 S Serial ATA 8 serial ATA RAID controller with multi-lane internal connectors 24 SMART 11, 87, 103 Staggered Spin Up 12 status connector for drive (LED) 18, 21 stripe size, selecting 34 System requirements 4 T Technical Support 111 Tools required 4 Troubleshooting 97 TwinStor 11 U Ultra DMA protocol 104 uninstalling 3DM 83 upgrading the 3ware driver 54 116 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide