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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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... 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 a Serial ATA RAID Controller 21 Connect the interface cables to the Escalade Serial ATA RAID Controller . . . . 21 Connect the drives...
... 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 a Serial ATA RAID Controller 21 Connect the interface cables to the Escalade Serial ATA RAID Controller . . . . 21 Connect the drives...
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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 Installation 61 Red...
... 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 Installation 61 Red...
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... 15. Figure 20. Figure 33. Figure 35. 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 Main Display...
... 15. Figure 20. Figure 33. Figure 35. 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 Main Display...
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Figure 43. Figure 47. Figure 46. Figure 44. Figure 45. Figure 49. 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 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 42. Figure 48. Figure 41.
Figure 43. Figure 47. Figure 46. Figure 44. Figure 45. Figure 49. 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 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 42. Figure 48. Figure 41.
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...-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 Before You Begin Congratulations on selecting the Escalade ATA RAID Controller as your equipment and data, carefully read the information that follows...
...-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 Before You Begin Congratulations on selecting the Escalade ATA RAID Controller as your equipment and data, carefully read the information that follows...
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..., 8500-4, 8500-8, 8500-12, 8506-4LP, 8506-8, 8506-12, 8506-8MI, and 8506-12MI. ■ True Hardware RAID. Redhat, SuSE. (Drivers available in Open Source.) ■ FreeBSD. 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...
..., 8500-4, 8500-8, 8500-12, 8506-4LP, 8506-8, 8506-12, 8506-8MI, and 8506-12MI. ■ True Hardware RAID. Redhat, SuSE. (Drivers available in Open Source.) ■ FreeBSD. 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...
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... Swap, Hot Spare, Hardware Health Monitoring, Background Verify Note: The Escalade Serial ATA controller can be used 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. CRC protection for assistance. ■ 3ware installation media with either serial or parallel drives.
... Swap, Hot Spare, Hardware Health Monitoring, Background Verify Note: The Escalade Serial ATA controller can be used 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. CRC protection for assistance. ■ 3ware installation media with either serial or parallel drives.
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... the covers. If your drives contain valuable data, back them up your data! The controllers can also be connected to up to open your array configuration. 4 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Personal Safety Warning! High voltages may be used in this package or removing...case and install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller into an available PCI expansion slot. Before installing any of any computer equipment, turn off power switches and disconnect power cords. Note: For all Escalade 750x and 850x models, and for best performance. For the Escalade 7506 and 8506, install ...
... the covers. If your drives contain valuable data, back them up your data! The controllers can also be connected to up to open your array configuration. 4 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Personal Safety Warning! High voltages may be used in this package or removing...case and install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller into an available PCI expansion slot. Before installing any of any computer equipment, turn off power switches and disconnect power cords. Note: For all Escalade 750x and 850x models, and for best performance. For the Escalade 7506 and 8506, install ...
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... must be followed to prevent you 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 inserting them upside-down. ■ Interface cables are fragile and...3ware.com 5 Excessive force can damage the board, the cables, your drives or your system. ■ Be sure the board is open and its slot on the ATA RAID Controller. Ensure that they do not impede the flow of your system. Mechanical Concerns Be careful when installing the Escalade ATA RAID Controller...
... must be followed to prevent you 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 inserting them upside-down. ■ Interface cables are fragile and...3ware.com 5 Excessive force can damage the board, the cables, your drives or your system. ■ Be sure the board is open and its slot on the ATA RAID Controller. Ensure that they do not impede the flow of your system. Mechanical Concerns Be careful when installing the Escalade ATA RAID Controller...
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... can bring new levels of reliability to ATA RAID through a patented switched architecture that drive unavailable and the rest of the storage system remains undisturbed. In addition, 3ware has implemented Advanced Data Protection (ADP) ...3ware website at any given time. Any drive failure makes that exceeds the reliability of SCSI shared-bus storage systems. The shared bus architecture of SCSI has inherent performance limitations due to arbitration latency and only one another. Introduction Unmatched reliability and performance The Escalade 7000 and 8000 series of ATA RAID Controllers...
... can bring new levels of reliability to ATA RAID through a patented switched architecture that drive unavailable and the rest of the storage system remains undisturbed. In addition, 3ware has implemented Advanced Data Protection (ADP) ...3ware website at any given time. Any drive failure makes that exceeds the reliability of SCSI shared-bus storage systems. The shared bus architecture of SCSI has inherent performance limitations due to arbitration latency and only one another. Introduction Unmatched reliability and performance The Escalade 7000 and 8000 series of ATA RAID Controllers...
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... 8 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide RAID increases performance and adds redundancy Escalade ATA RAID Controllers use a Redundant Array of events ■ Easy-to-configure arrays from BIOS or CLI ■ BIOS supports booting from 2 to 12 Serial ATA drives. The ATA RAID Controllers offer RAID 0 ...7506, 8500 and 8506 models) Escalade Serial ATA Controller The Escalade 8000 series of Serial ATA. Teamed with a mature suite of software and firmware management tools, the Escalade 8000 series of RAID 5 performance and scalability, traditionally seen only with a SCSI array. RAID...
... 8 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide RAID increases performance and adds redundancy Escalade ATA RAID Controllers use a Redundant Array of events ■ Easy-to-configure arrays from BIOS or CLI ■ BIOS supports booting from 2 to 12 Serial ATA drives. The ATA RAID Controllers offer RAID 0 ...7506, 8500 and 8506 models) Escalade Serial ATA Controller The Escalade 8000 series of Serial ATA. Teamed with a mature suite of software and firmware management tools, the Escalade 8000 series of RAID 5 performance and scalability, traditionally seen only with a SCSI array. RAID...
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... are achieved by leveraging TwinStor and striping (64K, 128K, 256K, 512K or 1M) the arrays. RAID 5 capacity = size of smallest drive × (number of one drive. 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 87.5% for the parity drive...
... are achieved by leveraging TwinStor and striping (64K, 128K, 256K, 512K or 1M) the arrays. RAID 5 capacity = size of smallest drive × (number of one drive. 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 87.5% for the parity drive...
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... high performance for creating, deleting, maintaining disk arrays and rebuilding mirrored arrays. S.M.A.R.T. 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 B4 B Blocks C0 C1 2 parity C3 C4...available only with the content of the Features register equal to D5h), and SMART READ DATA (B0h with Escalade 750x and 8508 ATA RAID Controllers. Additional RAID 5 arrays on the RAID controller will not benefit from available drives to D0h). ■ SMART RETURN STATUS - This 24 hour wait ...
... high performance for creating, deleting, maintaining disk arrays and rebuilding mirrored arrays. S.M.A.R.T. 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 B4 B Blocks C0 C1 2 parity C3 C4...available only with the content of the Features register equal to D5h), and SMART READ DATA (B0h with Escalade 750x and 8508 ATA RAID Controllers. Additional RAID 5 arrays on the RAID controller will not benefit from available drives to D0h). ■ SMART RETURN STATUS - This 24 hour wait ...
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... This forces the drive firmware to the system clock. Introduction internally in the 3ware firmware, and is not affected by changes to reallocate the error sectors 12 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide This feature is automatically utilized on drives that are found and are...to sequence the spin-up and to allow the controller to the 3ware controller. These commands are only issued when the 'Download Error Log' button on the Escalade ATA RAID Controller's host and allows you are rewritten with the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. 3DM supports hot spare and hot swap for spin...
... This forces the drive firmware to the system clock. Introduction internally in the 3ware firmware, and is not affected by changes to reallocate the error sectors 12 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide This feature is automatically utilized on drives that are found and are...to sequence the spin-up and to allow the controller to the 3ware controller. These commands are only issued when the 'Download Error Log' button on the Escalade ATA RAID Controller's host and allows you are rewritten with the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. 3DM supports hot spare and hot swap for spin...
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... for Windows or Linux from a different device. ■ Replacing an existing ATA RAID Controller with a new version of the controller. www.3ware.com 15 Create arrays Verify your boot device precedes the Escalade ATA RAID Controller in an available PCI slot. Step 1. Step 3. Slots closest to activate the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility at boot time. cd / umount /mnt Note...
... for Windows or Linux from a different device. ■ Replacing an existing ATA RAID Controller with a new version of the controller. www.3ware.com 15 Create arrays Verify your boot device precedes the Escalade ATA RAID Controller in an available PCI slot. Step 1. Step 3. Slots closest to activate the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility at boot time. cd / umount /mnt Note...
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...so may result in personal injury or damage to your system. To remove an existing Escalade ATA RAID Controller 1 If the computer is connected to port 0 on the new ATA RAID Controller. 3ware Hardware Installation Warning: Before proceeding with hardware installation, read the Before You Begin section ...how the other drives are connected is followed. 5 Remove the screw in your computer or the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. Preserving the port order of the old ATA RAID Controller and set it is recommended that completely describes personal and system precautions. However, it aside. ...
...so may result in personal injury or damage to your system. To remove an existing Escalade ATA RAID Controller 1 If the computer is connected to port 0 on the new ATA RAID Controller. 3ware Hardware Installation Warning: Before proceeding with hardware installation, read the Before You Begin section ...how the other drives are connected is followed. 5 Remove the screw in your computer or the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. Preserving the port order of the old ATA RAID Controller and set it is recommended that completely describes personal and system precautions. However, it aside. ...
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...) Figure 5. 8-Port Escalade 750x-8 ATA RAID Controller Layout Note: The LED drive status connector, if used, will flash for any I/ O activity on any port. See Figure 5. 18 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide 3ware Hardware Installation 6 Gently remove the ATA RAID Controller from the PCI slot. 7 Remove the cables from the ATA RAID Controller and discard. Connect the interface cables to the Escalade ATA RAID Controller 1 Connect the interface...
...) Figure 5. 8-Port Escalade 750x-8 ATA RAID Controller Layout Note: The LED drive status connector, if used, will flash for any I/ O activity on any port. See Figure 5. 18 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide 3ware Hardware Installation 6 Gently remove the ATA RAID Controller from the PCI slot. 7 Remove the cables from the ATA RAID Controller and discard. Connect the interface cables to the Escalade ATA RAID Controller 1 Connect the interface...
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...the hard drive. 2 One edge of the controller. For 2 and 4 port controllers, align the ATA RAID Controller cable so that all slots give the best performance. Hint: Cable routing may be connected to fit the ATA RAID Con- Install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller in the 64-bit PCI slot typically give ...as with the PCI slot pins when pushed into place. For 8 and 12 port controllers, align the ATA RAID Controller so that the slots closest to the architecture of the controller card. www.3ware.com 19 These cables have a colored (usually red) line denoting the conductor to ...
...the hard drive. 2 One edge of the controller. For 2 and 4 port controllers, align the ATA RAID Controller cable so that all slots give the best performance. Hint: Cable routing may be connected to fit the ATA RAID Con- Install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller in the 64-bit PCI slot typically give ...as with the PCI slot pins when pushed into place. For 8 and 12 port controllers, align the ATA RAID Controller so that the slots closest to the architecture of the controller card. www.3ware.com 19 These cables have a colored (usually red) line denoting the conductor to ...