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Copyright ©2004-2005 AMCC. Trademarks 3ware, Escalade, and 3DM are all trademarks of AMCC. The 3ware logo, 3BM, StorSwitch, TwinStor, and R5 Fusion are property of AMCC, 455 West Maude Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94085. Disclaimer AMCC assumes no responsibility for errors ...
Copyright ©2004-2005 AMCC. Trademarks 3ware, Escalade, and 3DM are all trademarks of AMCC. The 3ware logo, 3BM, StorSwitch, TwinStor, and R5 Fusion are property of AMCC, 455 West Maude Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94085. Disclaimer AMCC assumes no responsibility for errors ...
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... screen similar to bring up or reboot your system. 2 While the system is starting, watch for your computer. Figure 7. 3ware BIOS Screen 3 Press Alt-3 immediately to Figure 7. 3ware ATA RAID Controller: Escalade 9500S-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Unit 0 Port 0 Port 1 Mirror - IC35L120AVVA07-0 ...the 3BM configuration utility during the start 3BM 1 Power up the 3BM configuration utility display. 34 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide IC35L120AVVA07-0 111.74GB 115.03 GB 115.03 GB Following drives will not be exported to access...
... screen similar to bring up or reboot your system. 2 While the system is starting, watch for your computer. Figure 7. 3ware BIOS Screen 3 Press Alt-3 immediately to Figure 7. 3ware ATA RAID Controller: Escalade 9500S-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Unit 0 Port 0 Port 1 Mirror - IC35L120AVVA07-0 ...the 3BM configuration utility during the start 3BM 1 Power up the 3BM configuration utility display. 34 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide IC35L120AVVA07-0 111.74GB 115.03 GB 115.03 GB Following drives will not be exported to access...
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... array you want to ten minutes. For information about using 3DM 2, see 3ware Escalade 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide. For information about using the CLI, see 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide. Initialization of 3 each will be a longer period of time until...progress box. Consequently, it and press Enter.) 3 Tab to Maintain Array and press Enter. 50 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide For RAID 1 and RAID 10 RAID 1 and RAID 10 units are not initialized when they are created and are immediately available for use...
... array you want to ten minutes. For information about using 3DM 2, see 3ware Escalade 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide. For information about using the CLI, see 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide. Initialization of 3 each will be a longer period of time until...progress box. Consequently, it and press Enter.) 3 Tab to Maintain Array and press Enter. 50 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide For RAID 1 and RAID 10 RAID 1 and RAID 10 units are not initialized when they are created and are immediately available for use...
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... or from a diskette. To create a driver diskette 1 Insert the 3ware software CD into your system. 2 When the 3ware Escalade Menu appears, click Driver and Firmware Disks. 54 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Creating a 3ware Driver Diskette If you are installing Windows, you must create a 3ware driver diskette. Driver Installation Under Windows Materials Required ...
... or from a diskette. To create a driver diskette 1 Insert the 3ware software CD into your system. 2 When the 3ware Escalade Menu appears, click Driver and Firmware Disks. 54 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Creating a 3ware Driver Diskette If you are installing Windows, you must create a 3ware driver diskette. Driver Installation Under Windows Materials Required ...
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Driver Installation Under Windows Finishing Up Your RAID unit is now ready for use. For more information, see the 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide and the 3ware Escalade 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide. 64 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide You may also want to install 3ware's browser-based Disk Management tool, 3DM 2, or the 3ware Command Line Interface (CLI). With 3DM 2 and CLI, you can maintain your RAID units while running Windows.
Driver Installation Under Windows Finishing Up Your RAID unit is now ready for use. For more information, see the 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide and the 3ware Escalade 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide. 64 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide You may also want to install 3ware's browser-based Disk Management tool, 3DM 2, or the 3ware Command Line Interface (CLI). With 3DM 2 and CLI, you can maintain your RAID units while running Windows.
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...are installing Linux on another drive, turn to the motherboard interfered with using a drive or unit managed by the 3ware RAID controller, you must create a 3ware driver diskette. Installing the 3ware Driver and Red Hat Linux on a New Unit Note: If Red Hat Linux is installed, the drive can...will eliminate this problem. A confirmation window opens. 4 Insert a blank diskette into your system. 2 When the 3ware Escalade Menu appears, click the Driver & Firmware Disks button. 3 In the 3ware Driver & Firmware Disk Images menu, click the button for the driver disk you want to begin creating the ...
...are installing Linux on another drive, turn to the motherboard interfered with using a drive or unit managed by the 3ware RAID controller, you must create a 3ware driver diskette. Installing the 3ware Driver and Red Hat Linux on a New Unit Note: If Red Hat Linux is installed, the drive can...will eliminate this problem. A confirmation window opens. 4 Insert a blank diskette into your system. 2 When the 3ware Escalade Menu appears, click the Driver & Firmware Disks button. 3 In the 3ware Driver & Firmware Disk Images menu, click the button for the driver disk you want to begin creating the ...
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... Linux is already installed on the new drive or unit managed by the 3ware RAID controller, you must create a 3ware driver diskette. A confirmation window opens. 4 Insert a blank diskette into your system. 2 When the 3ware Escalade Menu appears, click Driver and Firmware Disks. 3 In the 3ware Driver and Firmware Disk Images menu, click the button for the driver...
... Linux is already installed on the new drive or unit managed by the 3ware RAID controller, you must create a 3ware driver diskette. A confirmation window opens. 4 Insert a blank diskette into your system. 2 When the 3ware Escalade Menu appears, click Driver and Firmware Disks. 3 In the 3ware Driver and Firmware Disk Images menu, click the button for the driver...
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... kernel build infrastructure to the following directory: cd /sys/conf f Edit the file "files.i386" and add the lines shown below under RAID controllers device twa # 3ware Escalade 9000 series d Save the file. For example, if the configuration file is the floppy drive) 9 Run 'boot'. h Add the following...optional twa g Save the file. a Change to the following line to a custom file. Installing the Driver While Installing FreeBSD on the 3ware RAID Controller drive. If you intend to bundle the firmware image with the driver, add the following directory: cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf b ...
... kernel build infrastructure to the following directory: cd /sys/conf f Edit the file "files.i386" and add the lines shown below under RAID controllers device twa # 3ware Escalade 9000 series d Save the file. For example, if the configuration file is the floppy drive) 9 Run 'boot'. h Add the following...optional twa g Save the file. a Change to the following line to a custom file. Installing the Driver While Installing FreeBSD on the 3ware RAID Controller drive. If you intend to bundle the firmware image with the driver, add the following directory: cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf b ...
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... the following directory: cd /sys/conf f Edit the file "files.i386" and add the lines shown below under RAID controllers. device twa # 3ware Escalade 9000 series d Save the file. www.3ware.com 93 For example, if the configuration file is GENERIC, type cp GENERIC custom c Edit the custom file and .../src/sys/i386/conf b Copy the configuration file to the directory you created in step 1. 3 Unpack the 3ware driver source files. Installing the 3ware Driver on a FreeBSD System that it controls are seen as da0, da1 etc. Note: Since twa.ko behaves like a SCSI driver, the units that...
... the following directory: cd /sys/conf f Edit the file "files.i386" and add the lines shown below under RAID controllers. device twa # 3ware Escalade 9000 series d Save the file. www.3ware.com 93 For example, if the configuration file is GENERIC, type cp GENERIC custom c Edit the custom file and .../src/sys/i386/conf b Copy the configuration file to the directory you created in step 1. 3 Unpack the 3ware driver source files. Installing the 3ware Driver on a FreeBSD System that it controls are seen as da0, da1 etc. Note: Since twa.ko behaves like a SCSI driver, the units that...
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..., 3BM, StorSwitch, TwinStor, and R5 Fusion are all registered trademarks of AMCC, 455 West Maude Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94085. Trademarks 3ware, Escalade, and 3DM are property of AMCC. All other trademarks herein are all trademarks of their respective owners. All rights reserved. Disclaimer AMCC assumes no responsibility ...
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... can use to configure and maintain the units connected to your 3ware 9000-series RAID controller. If you see the 3ware Escalade ATA User Guide for 3ware 7000- 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) This section describes the basics of using 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM), one of working with the 3ware Disk Array Configuration utility for the 7000 and 8000 series...
... can use to configure and maintain the units connected to your 3ware 9000-series RAID controller. If you see the 3ware Escalade ATA User Guide for 3ware 7000- 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) This section describes the basics of using 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM), one of working with the 3ware Disk Array Configuration utility for the 7000 and 8000 series...
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... the available boards. (See Figure 6.) In this case, highlight the board with which you want to work and press Enter. Figure 5. 3ware BIOS Screen 3 Press Alt-3 immediately to Figure 5. 3ware ATA RAID Controller: Escalade 9500S-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Unit 0 Port 0 Port 1 Mirror - IC35L120AVVA07-0 111.74GB 115.03 GB...
... the available boards. (See Figure 6.) In this case, highlight the board with which you want to work and press Enter. Figure 5. 3ware BIOS Screen 3 Press Alt-3 immediately to Figure 5. 3ware ATA RAID Controller: Escalade 9500S-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Unit 0 Port 0 Port 1 Mirror - IC35L120AVVA07-0 111.74GB 115.03 GB...
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..., they will also appear in different BIOS summaries, and will appear for the 7000/8000-series controller, similar to Figure 5. For information about rebuilding a degraded array, see the version of the 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide that controller appears, to enter the BIOS software. Instead, an additional BIOS summary will launch different versions of...
..., they will also appear in different BIOS summaries, and will appear for the 7000/8000-series controller, similar to Figure 5. For information about rebuilding a degraded array, see the version of the 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide that controller appears, to enter the BIOS software. Instead, an additional BIOS summary will launch different versions of...
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... remote administration, change these later, from within 3DM. (The first question appears for Linux, but not for FreeBSD.) 1 Was RPM used to install the Escalade driver and/or 3DM? The default answer is no. ("RPM" stands for RedHat Package Manager.) 2 Please enter the location of the help documentation (default ... The default answer to this to No. 6 Change the directory and then eject the CD-ROM disk when finished: cd /home eject cdrom www.3ware.com 33 You can change this question is /usr/local/doc/3dm) Press Enter to accept the default location and display the next question, or...
... remote administration, change these later, from within 3DM. (The first question appears for Linux, but not for FreeBSD.) 1 Was RPM used to install the Escalade driver and/or 3DM? The default answer is no. ("RPM" stands for RedHat Package Manager.) 2 Please enter the location of the help documentation (default ... The default answer to this to No. 6 Change the directory and then eject the CD-ROM disk when finished: cd /home eject cdrom www.3ware.com 33 You can change this question is /usr/local/doc/3dm) Press Enter to accept the default location and display the next question, or...
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Figure 57. 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller Properties Dialog 10 Click the Update Driver... button. The 3ware Escalade 9000 Series ATA RAID Controller Properties dialog box appears. 9 Click the Driver tab (Figure 57). www.3ware.com 147 Updating the Driver and Firmware 5 In the Control Panel window, double-click on the System icon. 6 Click on the Hardware tab and then click on the Device Manager tab. 7 Open the SCSI and RAID Controllers selection. 8 Locate and double-click on the applicable 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller.
Figure 57. 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller Properties Dialog 10 Click the Update Driver... button. The 3ware Escalade 9000 Series ATA RAID Controller Properties dialog box appears. 9 Click the Driver tab (Figure 57). www.3ware.com 147 Updating the Driver and Firmware 5 In the Control Panel window, double-click on the System icon. 6 Click on the Hardware tab and then click on the Device Manager tab. 7 Open the SCSI and RAID Controllers selection. 8 Locate and double-click on the applicable 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller.