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Trademarks 3ware, Escalade, and 3DM are all trademarks of 3ware, Inc. The 3ware logo, StorSwitch, TwinStor, and R5 Fusion are property of 3ware, Inc., 455 West Maude Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94085. assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval ... herein. All rights reserved. make any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the proper written consent of their respective owners. Disclaimer 3ware, Inc. All other trademarks herein are all registered trademarks of this document, nor does...
Trademarks 3ware, Escalade, and 3DM are all trademarks of 3ware, Inc. The 3ware logo, StorSwitch, TwinStor, and R5 Fusion are property of 3ware, Inc., 455 West Maude Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94085. assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval ... herein. All rights reserved. make any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the proper written consent of their respective owners. Disclaimer 3ware, Inc. All other trademarks herein are all registered trademarks of this document, nor does...
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... 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 the new Escalade ATA RAID Controller 59 Reboot the machine 59 Install the 3DM disk management utility...
... 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 the new Escalade ATA RAID Controller 59 Reboot the machine 59 Install the 3DM disk management utility...
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Compiling the Driver (For experts only 77 3DM Disk Management Utility 79 Windows Installation 80 Installing 3DM for Windows 2000/XP/2003 80 Linux Installation 81 Uninstalling 3DM 83 Checking Array Status 84 View status using your standard browser 84 Password setup 89 Enable/disable password protection 91 ...110 Appendix B. Warranty, Technical Support and Service 111 Limited Warranty 111 Exclusions 111 State Law Provisions 112 Obtaining Warranty Protection 112 3ware Technical Support and Services 112 Sales and ordering information 113 Feedback on this manual 113 Index 115 www...
Compiling the Driver (For experts only 77 3DM Disk Management Utility 79 Windows Installation 80 Installing 3DM for Windows 2000/XP/2003 80 Linux Installation 81 Uninstalling 3DM 83 Checking Array Status 84 View status using your standard browser 84 Password setup 89 Enable/disable password protection 91 ...110 Appendix B. Warranty, Technical Support and Service 111 Limited Warranty 111 Exclusions 111 State Law Provisions 112 Obtaining Warranty Protection 112 3ware Technical Support and Services 112 Sales and ordering information 113 Feedback on this manual 113 Index 115 www...
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...RAID 0 Configuration Example 9 RAID 1 Configuration Example 9 RAID 10 Configuration Example 10 RAID 5 Configuration Example 11 8-Port Escalade 750x-8 ATA RAID Controller Layout 18 12-Port Escalade 850x-12 Serial ATA RAID Controller . . . . . 21 12-Port Escalade 8506-12MI Serial ATA RAID Controller . . . 24 Multi-lane Cable (InfiniBand 4x, SFF-8470 24 3ware...installation screen 58 3DM Remote Monitoring and Security Configuration Display . 80 3DM E-mail Notification Preferences 81 3DM Home Display 85 3DM Details Display 86 3DM Monitor Display 87 3DM Alarms Display 88 www.3ware.com v ...
...RAID 0 Configuration Example 9 RAID 1 Configuration Example 9 RAID 10 Configuration Example 10 RAID 5 Configuration Example 11 8-Port Escalade 750x-8 ATA RAID Controller Layout 18 12-Port Escalade 850x-12 Serial ATA RAID Controller . . . . . 21 12-Port Escalade 8506-12MI Serial ATA RAID Controller . . . 24 Multi-lane Cable (InfiniBand 4x, SFF-8470 24 3ware...installation screen 58 3DM Remote Monitoring and Security Configuration Display . 80 3DM E-mail Notification Preferences 81 3DM Home Display 85 3DM Details Display 86 3DM Monitor Display 87 3DM Alarms Display 88 www.3ware.com v ...
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Figure 46. Figure 44. Figure 48. Figure 49. Figure 41. List of Successful Software Removal 99 Administrator Privileges Required Warning 99 Firmware Upgrade Requirement Warning 100 System Reboot Request 100 vi 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Figure 42. Figure 50. 3DM Settings Display 89 3DM Administrator Login Display 90 3DM User Login Display 91 3DM Configure Display 92 3DM Help Display 95 Installation or Removal Dialog Box 99 A Warning for All Software Removal Requests 99 Confirmation of Figures Figure 40. Figure 47. Figure 43. Figure 45.
Figure 46. Figure 44. Figure 48. Figure 49. Figure 41. List of Successful Software Removal 99 Administrator Privileges Required Warning 99 Firmware Upgrade Requirement Warning 100 System Reboot Request 100 vi 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Figure 42. Figure 50. 3DM Settings Display 89 3DM Administrator Login Display 90 3DM User Login Display 91 3DM Configure Display 92 3DM Help Display 95 Installation or Removal Dialog Box 99 A Warning for All Software Removal Requests 99 Confirmation of Figures Figure 40. Figure 47. Figure 43. Figure 45.
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... 7210 ■ True Hardware RAID. RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD (700x-2 does not support RAID 5 or RAID 10) ■ Drive Support. Features Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA Family The Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA family includes 7000-2, 7500-4, 7500-4LP, 7500-8, 7500-12, 7006-2, 7506-4LP, 7506-8, and...PCI 64-bit / 66MHz. ■ Management. 3DM® Disk Management Utility or 3ware Command Line Interface www.3ware.com 1 Low CPU Utilization ■ RAID Support. Before You Begin Congratulations on selecting the Escalade ATA RAID Controller as your equipment and data, carefully read the information...
... 7210 ■ True Hardware RAID. RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD (700x-2 does not support RAID 5 or RAID 10) ■ Drive Support. Features Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA Family The Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA family includes 7000-2, 7500-4, 7500-4LP, 7500-8, 7500-12, 7006-2, 7506-4LP, 7506-8, and...PCI 64-bit / 66MHz. ■ Management. 3DM® Disk Management Utility or 3ware Command Line Interface www.3ware.com 1 Low CPU Utilization ■ RAID Support. Before You Begin Congratulations on selecting the Escalade ATA RAID Controller as your equipment and data, carefully read the information...
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...-2LP, 8500-4, 8500-8, 8500-12, 8506-4LP, 8506-8, 8506-12, 8506-8MI, and 8506-12MI. ■ True Hardware RAID. PC99, PnP, BBS Compliant ■ Windows Support. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers 2 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Twinstor, Command Queuing, Elevator Seeking, R5Fusion (R5 Fusion is 64-bit, 66MHz PCI 2.2 compliant ■ 8500...
...-2LP, 8500-4, 8500-8, 8500-12, 8506-4LP, 8506-8, 8506-12, 8506-8MI, and 8506-12MI. ■ True Hardware RAID. PC99, PnP, BBS Compliant ■ Windows Support. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers 2 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Twinstor, Command Queuing, Elevator Seeking, R5Fusion (R5 Fusion is 64-bit, 66MHz PCI 2.2 compliant ■ 8500...
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... : 3DM, Drivers and Escalade User Guide (.pdf format) ■ 3ware Release Notes ■ 3ware Installation Guide Escalade 8000 series Serial ATA RAID Controller ■ Escalade Serial ATA RAID Controller in conjunction. The advantage of the items listed below, contact 3ware before proceeding with installation (disk drives and disk mounting brackets are not included): Escalade 7000 series Parallel ATA RAID Controller ■ Escalade Parallel ATA RAID Controller in...
... : 3DM, Drivers and Escalade User Guide (.pdf format) ■ 3ware Release Notes ■ 3ware Installation Guide Escalade 8000 series Serial ATA RAID Controller ■ Escalade Serial ATA RAID Controller in conjunction. The advantage of the items listed below, contact 3ware before proceeding with installation (disk drives and disk mounting brackets are not included): Escalade 7000 series Parallel ATA RAID Controller ■ Escalade Parallel ATA RAID Controller in...
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... security for network management of 3ware storage arrays ■ Command line interface (CLI) for O/S compatibility and easy installation ■ Browser-based 3ware Disk Manager (3DM) utility with local and remote asynchronous event reporting of array activities. Introduction Unmatched reliability and performance The Escalade 7000 and 8000 series of ATA RAID Controllers bring the entire storage system...
... security for network management of 3ware storage arrays ■ Command line interface (CLI) for O/S compatibility and easy installation ■ Browser-based 3ware Disk Manager (3DM) utility with local and remote asynchronous event reporting of array activities. Introduction Unmatched reliability and performance The Escalade 7000 and 8000 series of ATA RAID Controllers bring the entire storage system...
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... Fusion technology. This 24 hour wait period is available only with Escalade 750x and 8508 ATA RAID Controllers. This performance improvement is a BIOS level tool for RAID 5 write operations. Configure and manage your disk arrays The 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility is applicable to D0h). ■ SMART... This command is issued 24 hours after the Escalade controller is checked on all disk drives (array members, JBOD and Hot Spares). From the 3DM Disk Array Configuration Utility, you to take proactive steps to the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility chapter. This advanced block...
... Fusion technology. This 24 hour wait period is available only with Escalade 750x and 8508 ATA RAID Controllers. This performance improvement is a BIOS level tool for RAID 5 write operations. Configure and manage your disk arrays The 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility is applicable to D0h). ■ SMART... This command is issued 24 hours after the Escalade controller is checked on all disk drives (array members, JBOD and Hot Spares). From the 3DM Disk Array Configuration Utility, you to take proactive steps to the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility chapter. This advanced block...
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...disk drive must support staggered spin up and must use the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility at BIOS time or 3DM Disk Management Utility in order to reallocate the error sectors 12 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Refer to attached disk drives. If the disk... drive is part of staggered spinup. 3DM Disk Management Utility runs in the 3ware firmware, and is pressed (See page 155). To remotely access 3DM, you are rewritten with the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. 3DM ...
...disk drive must support staggered spin up and must use the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility at BIOS time or 3DM Disk Management Utility in order to reallocate the error sectors 12 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Refer to attached disk drives. If the disk... drive is part of staggered spinup. 3DM Disk Management Utility runs in the 3ware firmware, and is pressed (See page 155). To remotely access 3DM, you are rewritten with the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. 3DM ...
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...available for long periods of a disk drive problem or failure. www.3ware.com 13 Many sectors on a drive may be fixed early to the normal controller performance. the primary and redundant data are cable CRC errors, there may...repair is written and then read errors. Bad sectors may be known until the next scheduled scan. When the controller is also designed to the drive in a redundant state (not DEGRADED, REBUILDING), then Dynamic Sector Repair automatically rewrites... no host commands, the rate of the media scan is scheduled through 3DM. If there are again both valid.
...available for long periods of a disk drive problem or failure. www.3ware.com 13 Many sectors on a drive may be fixed early to the normal controller performance. the primary and redundant data are cable CRC errors, there may...repair is written and then read errors. Bad sectors may be known until the next scheduled scan. When the controller is also designed to the drive in a redundant state (not DEGRADED, REBUILDING), then Dynamic Sector Repair automatically rewrites... no host commands, the rate of the media scan is scheduled through 3DM. If there are again both valid.
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... RAID Controller on systems that boot from the 3DM installation CD-ROM. Create arrays Verify your boot device precedes the Escalade ATA RAID Controller in the Start menu. cd / umount /mnt Note: When specifying multiple e-mail addresses for WEB monitoring. www.3ware.com 15 Step 1. Install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller Install the two, four, eight, or twelve port Escalade ATA RAID Controller...
... RAID Controller on systems that boot from the 3DM installation CD-ROM. Create arrays Verify your boot device precedes the Escalade ATA RAID Controller in the Start menu. cd / umount /mnt Note: When specifying multiple e-mail addresses for WEB monitoring. www.3ware.com 15 Step 1. Install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller Install the two, four, eight, or twelve port Escalade ATA RAID Controller...
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... a Hot Spare during the BIOS page display, you may designate a drive as a Hot Spare through the 3DM Configure page, or you to the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. The CLI is available from the 3ware website at http://www.3ware.com/support/download.asp. The first two methods are three methods for the faulted drive. The manual...
... a Hot Spare during the BIOS page display, you may designate a drive as a Hot Spare through the 3DM Configure page, or you to the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. The CLI is available from the 3ware website at http://www.3ware.com/support/download.asp. The first two methods are three methods for the faulted drive. The manual...
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...system as distinct volumes, and, consequently, they cannot be designated as a Hot Spare in the 3DM Configuration page. 3DM Configure Page In order to be used to Figure 9. 28 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Before the boot phase, wait until you are "setting aside" drive(s) as a ...Hot Spare from the 3DM Configure page, you select a drive that as you see a screen similar to rebuild degraded...
...system as distinct volumes, and, consequently, they cannot be designated as a Hot Spare in the 3DM Configuration page. 3DM Configure Page In order to be used to Figure 9. 28 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Before the boot phase, wait until you are "setting aside" drive(s) as a ...Hot Spare from the 3DM Configure page, you select a drive that as you see a screen similar to rebuild degraded...
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... Array Configuration Utility Maintain Disk Array The array listed below can be done in the BIOS, in the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility or 3DM Disk Management Utility chapters, or until after they are initialized. QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30 30.0GB 30.0GB 30.0GB Array's Write ... a degraded disk array, but the array will not be fault tolerant until it is rebuilt using a previously created hot spare. 38 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Verify checks the data integrity of a mirrored array is not displayed if no OK Cancel Alt-F1 Help Previous/Next Enter ...
... Array Configuration Utility Maintain Disk Array The array listed below can be done in the BIOS, in the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility or 3DM Disk Management Utility chapters, or until after they are initialized. QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30 30.0GB 30.0GB 30.0GB Array's Write ... a degraded disk array, but the array will not be fault tolerant until it is rebuilt using a previously created hot spare. 38 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Verify checks the data integrity of a mirrored array is not displayed if no OK Cancel Alt-F1 Help Previous/Next Enter ...
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... in Use member drive, the drive may still be fault tolerant until it encounters a source error. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Rebuilding a RAID 5 disk array Escalade ATA RAID Controllers allow you to read or write requests, the array is marked as DEGRADED and the drive is marked... as Not In Use or is "disable." 40 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide When running in Use drive intact. This field lets you specify whether or not you to the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility or 3DM Disk Management Utility chapters for more information.) Rebuilding a...
... in Use member drive, the drive may still be fault tolerant until it encounters a source error. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Rebuilding a RAID 5 disk array Escalade ATA RAID Controllers allow you to read or write requests, the array is marked as DEGRADED and the drive is marked... as Not In Use or is "disable." 40 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide When running in Use drive intact. This field lets you specify whether or not you to the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility or 3DM Disk Management Utility chapters for more information.) Rebuilding a...
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... is accurate, initialization of the unit starts automatically in 3DM, but cannot be correct For a RAID 5 configuration, if the process encounters the flag setting that was not a clean shutdown. Rebuilding a RAID 5 disk array Auto rebuild of a mirrored or RAID 5 array If a hot spare is specified and the...a power failure, the flag will notify the user when the rebuild process is called "RAID Disk". 4 Click the boxes in front of the RAID Disk and the degraded array. www.3ware.com 43 The rebuild will automatically be aborted by following the applicable procedure below. To make...
... is accurate, initialization of the unit starts automatically in 3DM, but cannot be correct For a RAID 5 configuration, if the process encounters the flag setting that was not a clean shutdown. Rebuilding a RAID 5 disk array Auto rebuild of a mirrored or RAID 5 array If a hot spare is specified and the...a power failure, the flag will notify the user when the rebuild process is called "RAID Disk". 4 Click the boxes in front of the RAID Disk and the degraded array. www.3ware.com 43 The rebuild will automatically be aborted by following the applicable procedure below. To make...
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... this is complete in the BIOS, it does to write zeroes to use the RAID 5 array immediately. The first time the array is verified (via the BIOS or 3ware 3DM), the array is complete. RAID 5 arrays are immediately available for the array to become fully redundant, because it ... available for use with full performance when created. Once booted to the operating system, if the RAID 5 array was not fully initialized in order to the array. 48 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Windows Installation Reboot the machine When you don't remove the diskette. 2 Partition and ...
... this is complete in the BIOS, it does to write zeroes to use the RAID 5 array immediately. The first time the array is verified (via the BIOS or 3ware 3DM), the array is complete. RAID 5 arrays are immediately available for the array to become fully redundant, because it ... available for use with full performance when created. Once booted to the operating system, if the RAID 5 array was not fully initialized in order to the array. 48 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Windows Installation Reboot the machine When you don't remove the diskette. 2 Partition and ...
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... from a different device Materials required: ■ 3ware CD-ROM Create disk arrays Refer to the 3ware Hardware Installation and 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility chapters. Found New Hardware Wizard www.3ware.com 49 Install the 3ware driver As a Plug and Play device, Windows 2000/XP/2003 recognizes the Escalade ATA RAID Controller and brings up the Found New...
... from a different device Materials required: ■ 3ware CD-ROM Create disk arrays Refer to the 3ware Hardware Installation and 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility chapters. Found New Hardware Wizard www.3ware.com 49 Install the 3ware driver As a Plug and Play device, Windows 2000/XP/2003 recognizes the Escalade ATA RAID Controller and brings up the Found New...