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User Guide Escalade® ATA RAID Controller Supports the 7000 and 8000 Series and Release 7.7.x of the 3ware Software PN 900-0041-00 December, 2003
User Guide Escalade® ATA RAID Controller Supports the 7000 and 8000 Series and Release 7.7.x of the 3ware Software PN 900-0041-00 December, 2003
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... 3ware, Escalade, and 3DM are all trademarks of this document, nor does 3ware, Inc. assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any commitment to update the information contained herein. Disclaimer 3ware,... rights reserved. make any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the proper written consent of 3ware, Inc., 455 West Maude Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94085. No part of 3ware, Inc. The 3ware logo, StorSwitch, TwinStor, and R5 Fusion are property of...
... 3ware, Escalade, and 3DM are all trademarks of this document, nor does 3ware, Inc. assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any commitment to update the information contained herein. Disclaimer 3ware,... rights reserved. make any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the proper written consent of 3ware, Inc., 455 West Maude Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94085. No part of 3ware, Inc. The 3ware logo, StorSwitch, TwinStor, and R5 Fusion are property of...
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... scan and dynamic sector repair enhance data integrity . . . 12 Quick Installation Guide 14 3ware Hardware Installation 17 To remove an existing Escalade ATA RAID Controller 17 Installing a Parallel ATA RAID Controller 18 Connect the interface cables to the Escalade ATA RAID Controller 18 Install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller in the computer 19 Connect the drives to the interface cables 20 Installing...
... scan and dynamic sector repair enhance data integrity . . . 12 Quick Installation Guide 14 3ware Hardware Installation 17 To remove an existing Escalade ATA RAID Controller 17 Installing a Parallel ATA RAID Controller 18 Connect the interface cables to the Escalade ATA RAID Controller 18 Install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller in the computer 19 Connect the drives to the interface cables 20 Installing...
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... 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 59 Linux...
... 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 59 Linux...
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.... Figure 31. Figure 34. Figure 38. 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 BIOS Tool 29 Disk Array Configuration...
.... Figure 31. Figure 34. Figure 38. 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 BIOS Tool 29 Disk Array Configuration...
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Figure 46. 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 43. Figure 47. Figure 42. Figure 44. Figure 49. Figure 45. Figure 48. 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 46. 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 43. Figure 47. Figure 42. Figure 44. Figure 49. Figure 45. Figure 48. 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
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... begin installing. 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 7506-12. To ensure your personal safety and protect your Escalade ATA RAID Controller. The information in ...7006-2 is PCI 32-bit / 66 MHz ■ 7500-4, 7500-4LP, 7500-8, 7500-12, are all PCI 64-bit / 33MHz ■ 7506-4LP, 7506-8, 7506-12, are all PCI 64-bit / 66MHz. ■ Management. 3DM® Disk Management Utility or 3ware Command Line Interface www.3ware.com 1 Low CPU Utilization ■ RAID...
... begin installing. 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 7506-12. To ensure your personal safety and protect your Escalade ATA RAID Controller. The information in ...7006-2 is PCI 32-bit / 66 MHz ■ 7500-4, 7500-4LP, 7500-8, 7500-12, are all PCI 64-bit / 33MHz ■ 7506-4LP, 7506-8, 7506-12, are all PCI 64-bit / 66MHz. ■ Management. 3DM® Disk Management Utility or 3ware Command Line Interface www.3ware.com 1 Low CPU Utilization ■ RAID...
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...SATA I) drives. Twinstor, Command Queuing, Elevator Seeking, R5Fusion ■ Field Upgrades. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers 2 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Redhat, SuSE. (Drivers available in Open Source.) ■ FreeBSD. Twinstor, Command Queuing, Elevator Seeking, R5Fusion (R5 ... Serial ATA Family The Escalade 8000 Serial ATA family includes 8006-2LP, 8500-4, 8500-8, 8500-12, 8506-4LP, 8506-8, 8506-12, 8506-8MI, and 8506-12MI. ■ True Hardware RAID. Before You Begin ■ BIOS. Version 4.8 ■ Performance. ATA Command Readback,...
...SATA I) drives. Twinstor, Command Queuing, Elevator Seeking, R5Fusion ■ Field Upgrades. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers 2 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Redhat, SuSE. (Drivers available in Open Source.) ■ FreeBSD. Twinstor, Command Queuing, Elevator Seeking, R5Fusion (R5 ... Serial ATA Family The Escalade 8000 Serial ATA family includes 8006-2LP, 8500-4, 8500-8, 8500-12, 8506-4LP, 8506-8, 8506-12, 8506-8MI, and 8506-12MI. ■ True Hardware RAID. Before You Begin ■ BIOS. Version 4.8 ■ Performance. ATA Command Readback,...
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..., longer cable and increased airflow. Package Contents ■ Data Integrity. If using the Escalade Serial ATA Controller with the following : 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. Monitoring, Dynamic Sector Repair, Rebuild Pacing, Rebuild Scheduling, Background Media...
..., longer cable and increased airflow. Package Contents ■ Data Integrity. If using the Escalade Serial ATA Controller with the following : 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. Monitoring, Dynamic Sector Repair, Rebuild Pacing, Rebuild Scheduling, Background Media...
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... and Data Back up to open your system's case and install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller into an available PCI expansion slot. Note: For all Escalade 750x and 850x models, and for 7006-2 and 8006-2, install the card in a 66MHz PCI slot. Drives ...is required. High voltages may be connected to up your array configuration. 4 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide The ATA RAID Controller may be of any capacity or physical form factor. System Requirements The Escalade ATA RAID Controller requires a workstation-class or serverclass CPU whose bus complies with PCI 2.2 ...
... and Data Back up to open your system's case and install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller into an available PCI expansion slot. Note: For all Escalade 750x and 850x models, and for 7006-2 and 8006-2, install the card in a 66MHz PCI slot. Drives ...is required. High voltages may be connected to up your array configuration. 4 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide The ATA RAID Controller may be of any capacity or physical form factor. System Requirements The Escalade ATA RAID Controller requires a workstation-class or serverclass CPU whose bus complies with PCI 2.2 ...
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...heat sinks in the system case. The connectors provided are keyed to avoid damaging computer components and accessories when installing or removing the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. ■ When the case of cooling air from its protective bag until you from inserting them upside-down. ■ Interface... with its two ends. ■ Don't touch any pins. www.3ware.com 5 Excessive force can damage the board, the cables, your drives or your system. Mechanical Concerns Be careful when installing the Escalade ATA RAID Controller into your system. ■ Be sure the board is open and ...
...heat sinks in the system case. The connectors provided are keyed to avoid damaging computer components and accessories when installing or removing the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. ■ When the case of cooling air from its protective bag until you from inserting them upside-down. ■ Interface... with its two ends. ■ Don't touch any pins. www.3ware.com 5 Excessive force can damage the board, the cables, your drives or your system. Mechanical Concerns Be careful when installing the Escalade ATA RAID Controller into your system. ■ Be sure the board is open and ...
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... reliability to ATA RAID through a patented switched architecture that further protect data from one drive may use the bus at http://www.3ware.com/support/download.asp, and described in 3ware Escalade Command Line Interface User Guide) www.3ware.com 7 Introduction Unmatched reliability and performance The Escalade 7000 and 8000 series of ATA RAID Controllers bring the entire...
... reliability to ATA RAID through a patented switched architecture that further protect data from one drive may use the bus at http://www.3ware.com/support/download.asp, and described in 3ware Escalade Command Line Interface User Guide) www.3ware.com 7 Introduction Unmatched reliability and performance The Escalade 7000 and 8000 series of ATA RAID Controllers bring the entire...
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... in a striped disk array (see Figure 1), the Escalade ATA RAID Controller distributes large files across the multiple disks using RAID 0 techniques. RAID increases performance and adds redundancy Escalade ATA RAID Controllers use a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) to SCSI. Striped disk arrays achieve high transfer rates because they can exist on 3ware's 4th generation network switched architecture, the 8000...
... in a striped disk array (see Figure 1), the Escalade ATA RAID Controller distributes large files across the multiple disks using RAID 0 techniques. RAID increases performance and adds redundancy Escalade ATA RAID Controllers use a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) to SCSI. Striped disk arrays achieve high transfer rates because they can exist on 3ware's 4th generation network switched architecture, the 8000...
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... parity of disks; Unlike all drives rather than 3 drives. 10 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Using a simple parity (exclusive OR) function, RAID 5 can use hot spares to 64k. This avoids throughput loss due to 87.5% for RAID 1, RAID 5 stripe size is available on a single disk (see Figure 4). RAID 5 capacity = size of smallest drive × (number of...
... parity of disks; Unlike all drives rather than 3 drives. 10 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Using a simple parity (exclusive OR) function, RAID 5 can use hot spares to 64k. This avoids throughput loss due to 87.5% for RAID 1, RAID 5 stripe size is available on a single disk (see Figure 4). RAID 5 capacity = size of smallest drive × (number of...
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... content of the Features register equal to only the first RAID 5 array on the RAID controller. SMART data is available only with StorSwitch to be dynamically substituted for RAID 5 write operations. This command is issued 24 hours after the Escalade controller is timed www.3ware.com 11 RAID 5 0 parity A1 A2 A3 A4 A Blocks B0 1 parity B2 B3...
... content of the Features register equal to only the first RAID 5 array on the RAID controller. SMART data is available only with StorSwitch to be dynamically substituted for RAID 5 write operations. This command is issued 24 hours after the Escalade controller is timed www.3ware.com 11 RAID 5 0 parity A1 A2 A3 A4 A Blocks B0 1 parity B2 B3...
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... that are found and are deemed repairable are only issued when the 'Download Error Log' button on the Escalade ATA RAID Controller's host and allows you must use the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility at BIOS time or 3DM Disk Management Utility in a redundant array while the system remains..., then nothing is not affected by changes to the system clock. This forces the drive firmware to reallocate the error sectors 12 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide If none of it. Staggered Spin Up allows drives to be configured for more details and additional features. (3DM does...
... that are found and are deemed repairable are only issued when the 'Download Error Log' button on the Escalade ATA RAID Controller's host and allows you must use the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility at BIOS time or 3DM Disk Management Utility in a redundant array while the system remains..., then nothing is not affected by changes to the system clock. This forces the drive firmware to reallocate the error sectors 12 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide If none of it. Staggered Spin Up allows drives to be configured for more details and additional features. (3DM does...
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... supporting the Escalade ATA RAID Controller include: ■ Windows 2000 (SP3 or newer), XP (SP1 or newer), or 2003 ■ Red Hat and SuSE Linux ■ FreeBSD Step 4. in the Start menu. Step 1. www.3ware.com 15 Installations include: ■ Installing the ATA RAID Controller while installing the operating system. ■ Installing the ATA RAID Controller on systems...
... supporting the Escalade ATA RAID Controller include: ■ Windows 2000 (SP3 or newer), XP (SP1 or newer), or 2003 ■ Red Hat and SuSE Linux ■ FreeBSD Step 4. in the Start menu. Step 1. www.3ware.com 15 Installations include: ■ Installing the ATA RAID Controller while installing the operating system. ■ Installing the ATA RAID Controller on systems...
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...Preserving the port order of how the other drives are part of the old ATA RAID Controller and set it aside. (Save the screw for installing the new controller.) www.3ware.com 17 3ware Hardware Installation Warning: Before proceeding with hardware installation, read the Before You Begin section ... cord from the outlet. 3 Open the computer case according to the manufacturer's instructions. 4 Disconnect the disks from the existing Escalade ATA RAID Controller installed in personal injury or damage to your boot device, note or mark which physical disk is unimportant, even if the disks...
...Preserving the port order of how the other drives are part of the old ATA RAID Controller and set it aside. (Save the screw for installing the new controller.) www.3ware.com 17 3ware Hardware Installation Warning: Before proceeding with hardware installation, read the Before You Begin section ... cord from the outlet. 3 Open the computer case according to the manufacturer's instructions. 4 Disconnect the disks from the existing Escalade ATA RAID Controller installed in personal injury or damage to your boot device, note or mark which physical disk is unimportant, even if the disks...
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... "Installing a Serial ATA RAID Controller". Connect the interface cables to the Escalade ATA RAID Controller 1 Connect the interface cables supplied with the product to either pins 1 and 2 or pins 3 and 4. Reusing interface cables is not recommended. Installing a Parallel ATA RAID Controller Note: If you are ground Plug cable to the ATA RAID Controller. See Figure 5. 18 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide
... "Installing a Serial ATA RAID Controller". Connect the interface cables to the Escalade ATA RAID Controller 1 Connect the interface cables supplied with the product to either pins 1 and 2 or pins 3 and 4. Reusing interface cables is not recommended. Installing a Parallel ATA RAID Controller Note: If you are ground Plug cable to the ATA RAID Controller. See Figure 5. 18 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide