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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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... 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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... 34. Figure 4. Figure 10. Figure 30. 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...
... 34. Figure 4. Figure 10. Figure 30. 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 45. Figure 44. 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 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 48. Figure 41. Figure 47.
Figure 42. Figure 45. Figure 44. 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 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 48. Figure 41. Figure 47.
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... 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 the Features list ...7500-4), 7850 (now 7500-8), and 7210 ■ True Hardware RAID. This user guide gives simple, step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring your Escalade ATA RAID Controller. Features Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA Family The Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA family includes 7000-2, 7500-4, 7500-4LP, 7500...
... 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 the Features list ...7500-4), 7850 (now 7500-8), and 7210 ■ True Hardware RAID. This user guide gives simple, step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring your Escalade ATA RAID Controller. Features Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA Family The Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA family includes 7000-2, 7500-4, 7500-4LP, 7500...
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... 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. PC99, PnP, BBS Compliant ■ Windows...9632; Linux Support. ATA Command Readback, S.M.A.R.T. Version 4.8 ■ Performance. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers 2 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Version 4.8 ■ Performance. Windows 2000 with SP3 or newer, Windows XP with SP1 or newer, and Windows Server...
... 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. PC99, PnP, BBS Compliant ■ Windows...9632; Linux Support. ATA Command Readback, S.M.A.R.T. Version 4.8 ■ Performance. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers 2 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Version 4.8 ■ Performance. Windows 2000 with SP3 or newer, Windows XP with SP1 or newer, and Windows Server...
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...If using the Escalade Serial ATA Controller with parallel drives is missing any of using the controller with models 8506-8MI and 8506- 12MI, which have multi-lane internal controllers and require ...Escalade User Guide (.pdf format) ■ 3ware Release Notes ■ 3ware Installation Guide Escalade 8000 series Serial ATA RAID Controller ■ Escalade Serial ATA RAID Controller in an ESD-protective bag ■ ATA interface cables (one per port) Exception: Cables are not included): Escalade 7000 series Parallel ATA RAID Controller ■ Escalade Parallel ATA RAID Controller...
...If using the Escalade Serial ATA Controller with parallel drives is missing any of using the controller with models 8506-8MI and 8506- 12MI, which have multi-lane internal controllers and require ...Escalade User Guide (.pdf format) ■ 3ware Release Notes ■ 3ware Installation Guide Escalade 8000 series Serial ATA RAID Controller ■ Escalade Serial ATA RAID Controller in an ESD-protective bag ■ ATA interface cables (one per port) Exception: Cables are not included): Escalade 7000 series Parallel ATA RAID Controller ■ Escalade Parallel ATA RAID Controller...
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...PCI slot is required. Protecting Equipment and Data Back up and save data elsewhere before changing your array configuration. 4 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Note: For all Escalade 750x and 850x models, and for 7006-2 and 8006-2, install the card in a 66MHz PCI slot. Personal ... and Play and PC99 specifications. For the Escalade 7506 and 8506, install the card in a 64-bit PCI slot for serial ATA controllers. If your drives contain valuable data, back them up your system's case and install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller into an available PCI expansion slot.
...PCI slot is required. Protecting Equipment and Data Back up and save data elsewhere before changing your array configuration. 4 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Note: For all Escalade 750x and 850x models, and for 7006-2 and 8006-2, install the card in a 66MHz PCI slot. Personal ... and Play and PC99 specifications. For the Escalade 7506 and 8506, install the card in a 64-bit PCI slot for serial ATA controllers. If your drives contain valuable data, back them up your system's case and install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller into an available PCI expansion slot.
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... Interface cable connectors must not be mated carefully without bending any pin, contact, lead or component on the motherboard before installing. www.3ware.com 5 Excessive force can damage the board, the cables, your drives or your system. ESD Precautions ESD Precautions Standard electrostatic discharge ... you are properly grounded. ■ Handle the ATA RAID Controller by its edges or by the black rail and metal bracket at its slot on the ATA RAID Controller. Mechanical Concerns Be careful when installing the Escalade ATA RAID Controller into your system. ■ Be sure the board ...
... Interface cable connectors must not be mated carefully without bending any pin, contact, lead or component on the motherboard before installing. www.3ware.com 5 Excessive force can damage the board, the cables, your drives or your system. ESD Precautions ESD Precautions Standard electrostatic discharge ... you are properly grounded. ■ Handle the ATA RAID Controller by its edges or by the black rail and metal bracket at its slot on the ATA RAID Controller. Mechanical Concerns Be careful when installing the Escalade ATA RAID Controller into your system. ■ Be sure the board ...
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Before You Begin 6 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide
Before You Begin 6 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide
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...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 Further, a single drive failure can bring new levels of reliability to ATA RAID through a patented switched architecture that exceeds the... Windows and Linux (available from the 3ware website at any given time. In ADP Level-1, all drive commands are checked to make the data available. Introduction Unmatched reliability and performance The Escalade 7000 and 8000 series of ATA RAID Controllers bring the entire storage system down.
...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 Further, a single drive failure can bring new levels of reliability to ATA RAID through a patented switched architecture that exceeds the... Windows and Linux (available from the 3ware website at any given time. In ADP Level-1, all drive commands are checked to make the data available. Introduction Unmatched reliability and performance The Escalade 7000 and 8000 series of ATA RAID Controllers bring the entire storage system down.
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... than one large volume. Teamed with a SCSI array. RAID 1 mirrored arrays for performance; Based on 7500, 7506, 8500 and 8506 models) Escalade Serial ATA Controller The Escalade 8000 series of RAID 5 performance and scalability, traditionally seen only with a mature...RAID increases performance and adds redundancy Escalade ATA RAID Controllers use a Redundant Array of Serial ATA. and RAID 5 arrays for fault tolerance and performance; The stripe size is user configurable at 64K, 128K, 256K, 512K or 1M. 8 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide variable striped mirrored RAID...
... than one large volume. Teamed with a SCSI array. RAID 1 mirrored arrays for performance; Based on 7500, 7506, 8500 and 8506 models) Escalade Serial ATA Controller The Escalade 8000 series of RAID 5 performance and scalability, traditionally seen only with a mature...RAID increases performance and adds redundancy Escalade ATA RAID Controllers use a Redundant Array of Serial ATA. and RAID 5 arrays for fault tolerance and performance; The stripe size is user configurable at 64K, 128K, 256K, 512K or 1M. 8 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide variable striped mirrored RAID...
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... less than being concentrated on a single disk (see Figure 4). Unlike all drives rather than 3 drives. 10 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Note: BIOS will reject the creation of one drive. The two mirrored arrays are achieved by leveraging TwinStor... parity (exclusive OR) function, RAID 5 can use hot spares to contention for 8 drives: storage efficiency = (number of drives -1) ÷ (number of drives - 1). This avoids throughput loss due to rebuild a failed drive "on the four, eight, and twelve port Escalade ATA RAID Controllers Figure 3. Higher data transfer rates...
... less than being concentrated on a single disk (see Figure 4). Unlike all drives rather than 3 drives. 10 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Note: BIOS will reject the creation of one drive. The two mirrored arrays are achieved by leveraging TwinStor... parity (exclusive OR) function, RAID 5 can use hot spares to contention for 8 drives: storage efficiency = (number of drives -1) ÷ (number of drives - 1). This avoids throughput loss due to rebuild a failed drive "on the four, eight, and twelve port Escalade ATA RAID Controllers Figure 3. Higher data transfer rates...
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...technology is available only with StorSwitch to be dynamically substituted for RAID 5 write operations. Note: R5 Fusion is combined with Escalade 750x and 8508 ATA RAID Controllers. Configure and manage your disk arrays The 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility is a BIOS level tool for both ...large sequential and small random transactions. RAID 5 0 parity A1 A2 A3 A4 A Blocks B0 1...
...technology is available only with StorSwitch to be dynamically substituted for RAID 5 write operations. Note: R5 Fusion is combined with Escalade 750x and 8508 ATA RAID Controllers. Configure and manage your disk arrays The 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility is a BIOS level tool for both ...large sequential and small random transactions. RAID 5 0 parity A1 A2 A3 A4 A Blocks B0 1...
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... the system remains up . ■ SMART READ LOG and SMART READ DATA - If the disk drive is issued to reallocate the error sectors 12 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Background media scan and dynamic sector repair enhance data integrity Background Media Scan checks for more details and additional features. (3DM does not...
... the system remains up . ■ SMART READ LOG and SMART READ DATA - If the disk drive is issued to reallocate the error sectors 12 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Background media scan and dynamic sector repair enhance data integrity Background Media Scan checks for more details and additional features. (3DM does not...
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... automatically rewrites the redundant data to the error location to force the drive to maintain optimal redundancy for scanning. While scanning, the controller issues normal read from the first drive. When an error from when it stops until reaching the maximum logical block address on a...repairs, Background Media Scan continues on the disk and can provide early warning of drive and data integrity; www.3ware.com 13 The result is activated, the controller firmware either starts the scan at the first drive with the highest port number), it was last deactivated. It ...
... automatically rewrites the redundant data to the error location to force the drive to maintain optimal redundancy for scanning. While scanning, the controller issues normal read from the first drive. When an error from when it stops until reaching the maximum logical block address on a...repairs, Background Media Scan continues on the disk and can provide early warning of drive and data integrity; www.3ware.com 13 The result is activated, the controller firmware either starts the scan at the first drive with the highest port number), it was last deactivated. It ...
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... monitoring. Step 1. Slots closest to activate the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility at boot time. in an available PCI slot. Install system drivers The Escalade ATA RAID Controller drivers must be installed according to the type of the controller. Create arrays Verify your boot device precedes the Escalade ATA RAID Controller in the boot sequence, then press Alt...
... monitoring. Step 1. Slots closest to activate the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility at boot time. in an available PCI slot. Install system drivers The Escalade ATA RAID Controller drivers must be installed according to the type of the controller. Create arrays Verify your boot device precedes the Escalade ATA RAID Controller in the boot sequence, then press Alt...
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...Escalade ATA RAID Controller installed in your boot device, note or mark which physical disk is followed. 5 Remove the screw in personal injury or damage to retain it aside. (Save the screw for installing the new controller.) www.3ware.com 17 This disk should be reconnected to port 0 on the controller. 3ware... Hardware Installation Warning: Before proceeding with hardware installation, read the Before You Begin section that a plug-to-plug replacement is connected to port 0 on the new ATA RAID Controller. Preserving the port order of...
...Escalade ATA RAID Controller installed in your boot device, note or mark which physical disk is followed. 5 Remove the screw in personal injury or damage to retain it aside. (Save the screw for installing the new controller.) www.3ware.com 17 This disk should be reconnected to port 0 on the controller. 3ware... Hardware Installation Warning: Before proceeding with hardware installation, read the Before You Begin section that a plug-to-plug replacement is connected to port 0 on the new ATA RAID Controller. Preserving the port order of...
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... the product to either pins 1 and 2 or pins 3 and 4. See Figure 5. 18 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Reusing interface cables is not recommended. 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. JP2 LED drive status connector Note: Pin 1 and 4 are 3.3V and...
... the product to either pins 1 and 2 or pins 3 and 4. See Figure 5. 18 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Reusing interface cables is not recommended. 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. JP2 LED drive status connector Note: Pin 1 and 4 are 3.3V and...