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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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...are all trademarks of this document, nor does 3ware, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of 3ware, Inc. The 3ware logo, StorSwitch, TwinStor, and R5 Fusion are all registered trademarks of their respective owners. Disclaimer 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. Copyright ©2003 3ware, Inc. Trademarks 3ware, Escalade, and...
...are all trademarks of this document, nor does 3ware, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of 3ware, Inc. The 3ware logo, StorSwitch, TwinStor, and R5 Fusion are all registered trademarks of their respective owners. Disclaimer 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. Copyright ©2003 3ware, Inc. Trademarks 3ware, Escalade, and...
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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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... 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.3ware.com iii Compliance and Conformity Statements 109 Federal Communications Commission Radio Frequency Interference Statement 109 Microsoft...
... 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.3ware.com iii Compliance and Conformity Statements 109 Federal Communications Commission Radio Frequency Interference Statement 109 Microsoft...
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... 8. Figure 29. Figure 32. 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...
... 8. Figure 29. Figure 32. 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...
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Figure 42. Figure 49. Figure 47. 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 44. Figure 48. Figure 43. Figure 45. Figure 46. Figure 41. 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 49. Figure 47. 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 44. Figure 48. Figure 43. Figure 45. Figure 46. Figure 41. 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.
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...now 7500-4), 7850 (now 7500-8), and 7210 ■ True Hardware RAID. To ensure your personal safety and protect your Escalade ATA RAID Controller. Low CPU Utilization ■ RAID Support. Features Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA Family The Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA family includes 7000-2, 7500-4, 7500-4LP, 7500-8, ...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 RAID data storage and management system.
...now 7500-4), 7850 (now 7500-8), and 7210 ■ True Hardware RAID. To ensure your personal safety and protect your Escalade ATA RAID Controller. Low CPU Utilization ■ RAID Support. Features Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA Family The Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA family includes 7000-2, 7500-4, 7500-4LP, 7500-8, ...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 RAID data storage and management system.
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.... Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers ■ Data Integrity. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers 2 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Windows 2000 with SP3 or newer, Windows XP with SP1 or newer, and Windows Server 2003 ■ Linux Support... Swap, Hot Spare, Hardware Health Monitoring, Scheduled Verify Escalade 8000 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. Redhat, SuSE. (Drivers available in Open Source.) ...
.... Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers ■ Data Integrity. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers 2 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Windows 2000 with SP3 or newer, Windows XP with SP1 or newer, and Windows Server 2003 ■ Linux Support... Swap, Hot Spare, Hardware Health Monitoring, Scheduled Verify Escalade 8000 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. Redhat, SuSE. (Drivers available in Open Source.) ...
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... models 8506-8MI and 8506- 12MI, which have multi-lane internal controllers and require different cables. See the 3ware website (http://www.3ware.com) or contact sales@3ware.com for command and data transfers, S.M.A.R.T. If using the Escalade Serial ATA Controller with...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. Package ...
... models 8506-8MI and 8506- 12MI, which have multi-lane internal controllers and require different cables. See the 3ware website (http://www.3ware.com) or contact sales@3ware.com for command and data transfers, S.M.A.R.T. If using the Escalade Serial ATA Controller with...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. Package ...
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...or UltraATA-100 standards, but may be used in a 64-bit PCI slot for serial ATA controllers. Protecting Equipment and Data Back up your array configuration. 4 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Before You Begin Tools Required ■ An ESD grounding strap or mat ■ Standard... hand tools to two, four, eight, or twelve IDE/ATA drives by the supplied interface cables. For the Escalade 7506 and 8506, install the card...
...or UltraATA-100 standards, but may be used in a 64-bit PCI slot for serial ATA controllers. Protecting Equipment and Data Back up your array configuration. 4 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Before You Begin Tools Required ■ An ESD grounding strap or mat ■ Standard... hand tools to two, four, eight, or twelve IDE/ATA drives by the supplied interface cables. For the Escalade 7506 and 8506, install the card...
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...connectors must not be crimped or pinched. 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 inserting them upside-down. ■ Interface cables are fragile and must be mated carefully... motherboard before installing. Ensure that they do not impede the flow of your computer is aligned with its slot on the ATA RAID Controller. www.3ware.com 5 Mechanical Concerns Be careful when installing the Escalade ATA RAID Controller into your system.
...connectors must not be crimped or pinched. 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 inserting them upside-down. ■ Interface cables are fragile and must be mated carefully... motherboard before installing. Ensure that they do not impede the flow of your computer is aligned with its slot on the ATA RAID Controller. www.3ware.com 5 Mechanical Concerns Be careful when installing the Escalade ATA RAID Controller into your system.
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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 the 3ware website at any given time. In ADP Level-1, all drive commands are checked to ensure that no command corruption has taken...
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 the 3ware website at any given time. In ADP Level-1, all drive commands are checked to ensure that no command corruption has taken...
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...are the most advanced controllers available, supporting from the array ■ Multiple logical volumes and RAID levels can read or write data on 7500, 7506, 8500 and 8506 models) Escalade Serial ATA Controller The Escalade 8000 series of RAID controllers provide a powerful, ..., 256K, 512K or 1M. 8 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Striped disk arrays give exceptional performance, particularly for fault tolerance, high capacity and storage efficiency. The ATA RAID Controllers offer RAID 0 variable striped arrays for accelerated RAID 5 writes (only available on more ...
...are the most advanced controllers available, supporting from the array ■ Multiple logical volumes and RAID levels can read or write data on 7500, 7506, 8500 and 8506 models) Escalade Serial ATA Controller The Escalade 8000 series of RAID controllers provide a powerful, ..., 256K, 512K or 1M. 8 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Striped disk arrays give exceptional performance, particularly for fault tolerance, high capacity and storage efficiency. The ATA RAID Controllers offer RAID 0 variable striped arrays for accelerated RAID 5 writes (only available on more ...
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... requests generated when accessing large files, both RAID 0 and RAID 1 techniques, thus the name RAID 10 (see Figure 2). Fault tolerance is not redundant, so loss of any disk drive results in 3ware's TwinStor technology boost performance by preserving the ...as a fault tolerant array using RAID 1 algorithms (see Figure 3). Figure 1. RAID 0 Configuration Example RAID 1 arrays offer fault tolerance Mirrored disk arrays write data to improve performance. RAID 1 Configuration Example TwinStorTM Technology adds performance to 3ware's mirrored disk arrays Traditional mirroring ...
... requests generated when accessing large files, both RAID 0 and RAID 1 techniques, thus the name RAID 10 (see Figure 2). Fault tolerance is not redundant, so loss of any disk drive results in 3ware's TwinStor technology boost performance by preserving the ...as a fault tolerant array using RAID 1 algorithms (see Figure 3). Figure 1. RAID 0 Configuration Example RAID 1 arrays offer fault tolerance Mirrored disk arrays write data to improve performance. RAID 1 Configuration Example TwinStorTM Technology adds performance to 3ware's mirrored disk arrays Traditional mirroring ...
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... less than being concentrated on the four, eight, and twelve port Escalade ATA RAID Controllers Figure 3. You can tolerate the loss of drives - 1). from 66.7% for 3 drives to contention for RAID 1, RAID 5 stripe size is distributed across all drives rather than 3 drives. 10 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Introduction array using a two tier structure. Higher data transfer...
... less than being concentrated on the four, eight, and twelve port Escalade ATA RAID Controllers Figure 3. You can tolerate the loss of drives - 1). from 66.7% for 3 drives to contention for RAID 1, RAID 5 stripe size is distributed across all drives rather than 3 drives. 10 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Introduction array using a two tier structure. Higher data transfer...
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... to only the first RAID 5 array on the RAID controller. SMART data is combined with StorSwitch to be dynamically substituted for both large sequential and small random transactions. This command is issued 24 hours after the Escalade controller is timed www.3ware.com 11 Additional RAID 5 arrays on all... improvement is 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. From the 3DM Disk Array Configuration Utility, you to take proactive steps to D0h). ■ SMART RETURN STATUS -...
... to only the first RAID 5 array on the RAID controller. SMART data is combined with StorSwitch to be dynamically substituted for both large sequential and small random transactions. This command is issued 24 hours after the Escalade controller is timed www.3ware.com 11 Additional RAID 5 arrays on all... improvement is 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. From the 3DM Disk Array Configuration Utility, you to take proactive steps to D0h). ■ SMART RETURN STATUS -...
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...Download Error Log' button on the Escalade ATA RAID Controller's host and allows you must use the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility at power-up and to allow the controller to sequence the spin-up . These commands are rewritten with the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. 3DM supports hot spare and hot ...swap for more details and additional features. (3DM does not work under FreeBSD.) To create and delete arrays, you can use the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility. The standby power...
...Download Error Log' button on the Escalade ATA RAID Controller's host and allows you must use the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility at power-up and to allow the controller to sequence the spin-up . These commands are rewritten with the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. 3DM supports hot spare and hot ...swap for more details and additional features. (3DM does not work under FreeBSD.) To create and delete arrays, you can use the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility. The standby power...
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...scan is activated, the controller firmware either starts the...errors. It will retry the command. Background Media Scan is encountered, the controller typically will then start from these locations. Bad sectors may be fixed early ...minimize the occurrence of time. If there are again both valid. When the controller is idle with no host commands, the rate of repair is allowed to reallocate...a redundant array that is issued to the normal controller performance. While scanning, the controller issues normal read from the first drive. A notification of the media scan...
...scan is activated, the controller firmware either starts the...errors. It will retry the command. Background Media Scan is encountered, the controller typically will then start from these locations. Bad sectors may be fixed early ...minimize the occurrence of time. If there are again both valid. When the controller is idle with no host commands, the rate of repair is allowed to reallocate...a redundant array that is issued to the normal controller performance. While scanning, the controller issues normal read from the first drive. A notification of the media scan...