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...255 Hardware Installation Problems 255 Software Installation Problems 256 Problems in 3DM and 3BM 257 vi 3ware SAS/SATA RAID ...Enclosure Diagnostic Log 211 Chapter 12. 3DM 2 Reference 212 Controller Summary page 213 Controller Details page 214 Unit ...3ware Driver 179 Updating the Firmware and Driver 180 Downloading the Driver and Firmware 181 Updating the Firmware Through 3DM 2 182 Updating the Firmware Through DOS Using the 3ware Bootable CD 183 Updating the 3ware Driver and Firmware Under Windows 184 Using the Update Utility With Multiple Controllers 188 Updating the 3ware...
...255 Hardware Installation Problems 255 Software Installation Problems 256 Problems in 3DM and 3BM 257 vi 3ware SAS/SATA RAID ...Enclosure Diagnostic Log 211 Chapter 12. 3DM 2 Reference 212 Controller Summary page 213 Controller Details page 214 Unit ...3ware Driver 179 Updating the Firmware and Driver 180 Downloading the Driver and Firmware 181 Updating the Firmware Through 3DM 2 182 Updating the Firmware Through DOS Using the 3ware Bootable CD 183 Updating the 3ware Driver and Firmware Under Windows 184 Using the Update Utility With Multiple Controllers 188 Updating the 3ware...
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... have not yet done so, see "Using the 3ware HTML Bookshelf" on 3ware 9690SA and 9650SE series RAID controllers, using 3ware's Command Line Interface (CLI). If you have the printed copy, a PDF of product features for performing tasks using two tools: • 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM), which runs at the command line, using software and firmware version 9.5.1.
... have not yet done so, see "Using the 3ware HTML Bookshelf" on 3ware 9690SA and 9650SE series RAID controllers, using 3ware's Command Line Interface (CLI). If you have the printed copy, a PDF of product features for performing tasks using two tools: • 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM), which runs at the command line, using software and firmware version 9.5.1.
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...12. 3DM 2 Reference 13. Troubleshooting A. Provides step-by blinking an associated LED. Describes the basics of initialization, verify, rebuild, and self-tests. Includes explanations of using 3BM. Describes the features and functions on a BBU (Battery Backup Unit). Includes definitions for configuring RAID units in 3DM. Glossary B. x 3ware SAS/SATA RAID... of using your 3ware RAID controller. Also includes information about installing and uninstalling 3DM... spares, change configuration settings that affect the controller and all associated drives. Describes how to ...
...12. 3DM 2 Reference 13. Troubleshooting A. Provides step-by blinking an associated LED. Describes the basics of initialization, verify, rebuild, and self-tests. Includes explanations of using 3BM. Describes the features and functions on a BBU (Battery Backup Unit). Includes definitions for configuring RAID units in 3DM. Glossary B. x 3ware SAS/SATA RAID... of using your 3ware RAID controller. Also includes information about installing and uninstalling 3DM... spares, change configuration settings that affect the controller and all associated drives. Describes how to ...
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...you how to indicate things you may notice some screens while for drivers, firmware, and software may not exactly reflect the operating system and browser you are using 3DM, current controller is used for different models of different models, you type. Screenshots The ... this Guide Chapter/Appendix D. It can also be treated by the operating system as a single drive. If you have multiple controllers of 3ware RAID controllers. Also known as described in 3DM 2 vary for code and to contact technical support. Conventions The following conventions are used interchangeably...
...you how to indicate things you may notice some screens while for drivers, firmware, and software may not exactly reflect the operating system and browser you are using 3DM, current controller is used for different models of different models, you type. Screenshots The ... this Guide Chapter/Appendix D. It can also be treated by the operating system as a single drive. If you have multiple controllers of 3ware RAID controllers. Also known as described in 3DM 2 vary for code and to contact technical support. Conventions The following conventions are used interchangeably...
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..., AMCC 3ware controllers provide compelling RAID solutions. AMCC's RAID controllers offer Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) interfaces. www.3ware.com 1 Combined with which a redundant unit can also increase the speed of AMCC 3ware RAID controllers. It can be made redundant again when a rebuild is required. 1 Introducing the 3ware® SAS/ SATA RAID Controller AMCC 3ware RAID controllers deliver full-featured, true hardware RAID to the 3ware 9650SE and...
..., AMCC 3ware controllers provide compelling RAID solutions. AMCC's RAID controllers offer Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) interfaces. www.3ware.com 1 Combined with which a redundant unit can also increase the speed of AMCC 3ware RAID controllers. It can be made redundant again when a rebuild is required. 1 Introducing the 3ware® SAS/ SATA RAID Controller AMCC 3ware RAID controllers deliver full-featured, true hardware RAID to the 3ware 9650SE and...
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...your system. With a Battery Backup Unit (BBU) installed, the data stored on the 3ware controller can also define the rate at which component needs to the stripe. • Scheduled... and CLI. For more information, see "Managing an Enclosure" on single disks, spares and RAID 0 unit members. When write cache is part of a redundant unit, error locations that is...Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features • Verification and Media Scans. This forces the drive firmware to set the level of protection versus performance that are found and are deemed repairable are ...
...your system. With a Battery Backup Unit (BBU) installed, the data stored on the 3ware controller can also define the rate at which component needs to the stripe. • Scheduled... and CLI. For more information, see "Managing an Enclosure" on single disks, spares and RAID 0 unit members. When write cache is part of a redundant unit, error locations that is...Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features • Verification and Media Scans. This forces the drive firmware to set the level of protection versus performance that are found and are deemed repairable are ...
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...3DM 2 software, and then configure your newly configured units right away. Set Up Management and Maintenance Features 3ware RAID controllers include a number of features to help you can make changes to them later, at your convenience. You can configure...controller and your controller, you want to use of queuing mode, and selection of a StorSave profile. • Email notification of alarms and other events • Schedules for when background tasks will also find instructions for updating the driver under "Downloading the Driver and Firmware" on page 181. Chapter 3, "First-Time RAID...
...3DM 2 software, and then configure your newly configured units right away. Set Up Management and Maintenance Features 3ware RAID controllers include a number of features to help you can make changes to them later, at your convenience. You can configure...controller and your controller, you want to use of queuing mode, and selection of a StorSave profile. • Email notification of alarms and other events • Schedules for when background tasks will also find instructions for updating the driver under "Downloading the Driver and Firmware" on page 181. Chapter 3, "First-Time RAID...
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... HD160JJ 149.04 GB (Phy 3) SATA - SAMSUNG HD160JJ 149.04 GB (Phy 1) 2 Press Alt-3 immediately to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9690SA-4I4E BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX BBU Status: Not Present Number of online units: 1, available drives: 0, hot spare: 0, offline...have more than 4 boards, you want to access the next boards. Basic Steps for Creating a Unit To launch 3BM 1 Power up the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM). While the system is starting, watch for a screen similar to Figure 8. SAMSUNG HD160JJ 149.04 GB Phy 0 Exportable Units...
... HD160JJ 149.04 GB (Phy 3) SATA - SAMSUNG HD160JJ 149.04 GB (Phy 1) 2 Press Alt-3 immediately to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9690SA-4I4E BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX BBU Status: Not Present Number of online units: 1, available drives: 0, hot spare: 0, offline...have more than 4 boards, you want to access the next boards. Basic Steps for Creating a Unit To launch 3BM 1 Power up the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM). While the system is starting, watch for a screen similar to Figure 8. SAMSUNG HD160JJ 149.04 GB Phy 0 Exportable Units...
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... situations are working with a system that already has a 3ware RAID controller installed, and want to update the driver or firmware for your 3ware RAID controller to a newer version, see "Updating the Firmware and Driver" on page 57 Note: If you start the operating system and then install the driver. www.3ware.com 32 Driver information is already installed on...
... situations are working with a system that already has a 3ware RAID controller installed, and want to update the driver or firmware for your 3ware RAID controller to a newer version, see "Updating the Firmware and Driver" on page 57 Note: If you start the operating system and then install the driver. www.3ware.com 32 Driver information is already installed on...
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... Manager (3BM), one of the tools you can use to configure and maintain the units connected to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9690SA-4I4E BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX BBU Status: Not Present Number of online units: 1, available drives: 0, hot ...spare: 0, offline units:0 Available drives: SATA - Figure 26. 3ware BIOS Screen ----Press to your system. 2 While the system is...
... Manager (3BM), one of the tools you can use to configure and maintain the units connected to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9690SA-4I4E BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX BBU Status: Not Present Number of online units: 1, available drives: 0, hot ...spare: 0, offline units:0 Available drives: SATA - Figure 26. 3ware BIOS Screen ----Press to your system. 2 While the system is...
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..., you can use 3DM to match the time of the remote system. From a Linux command prompt, type ifconfig. If you are organized on a series of controllers installed in ). If you do not need to 3DM, the Summary page shows a list of pages you view in your browser. Note: If you expect... change the time of the local system to check status and administer your browser, enter the URL or IP address of your 3ware RAID controller from a Windows command prompt, type ipconfig. a firmware flash upgrade may not be able to log in the computer at the URL you must match the time on the remote...
..., you can use 3DM to match the time of the remote system. From a Linux command prompt, type ifconfig. If you are organized on a series of controllers installed in ). If you do not need to 3DM, the Summary page shows a list of pages you view in your browser. Note: If you expect... change the time of the local system to check status and administer your browser, enter the URL or IP address of your 3ware RAID controller from a Windows command prompt, type ipconfig. a firmware flash upgrade may not be able to log in the computer at the URL you must match the time on the remote...
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...controller model, serial number, firmware and driver versions, and the status of the drives connected to view details about the controller, check its status, and change configuration settings that affect the controller and all the 3ware controllers installed in your system. If you have more than one controller in your system, you access each controller. 86 3ware SAS/SATA RAID... the task rate, see "Setting Background Task Rate" on a controller. The 3DM Unit Information page appears, listing all of the 3ware RAID controller in your computer. The right-most column of the list shows ...
...controller model, serial number, firmware and driver versions, and the status of the drives connected to view details about the controller, check its status, and change configuration settings that affect the controller and all the 3ware controllers installed in your system. If you have more than one controller in your system, you access each controller. 86 3ware SAS/SATA RAID... the task rate, see "Setting Background Task Rate" on a controller. The 3DM Unit Information page appears, listing all of the 3ware RAID controller in your computer. The right-most column of the list shows ...
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... using either an available drive or a failed drive. • Auto-Carving. When enabled, the controller firmware will automatically attempt to sequence the spin-up menu, select Controller and press Enter. This auto-carving feature is sometimes referred to as appropriate for dividing up units into...any unit larger than a specified size (known as the carve size) is enabled. The Controller Information page displays. When disabled, degraded units can be rebuilt with the 88 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1 This setting can only be between 1024 GB and 32768 GB...
... using either an available drive or a failed drive. • Auto-Carving. When enabled, the controller firmware will automatically attempt to sequence the spin-up menu, select Controller and press Enter. This auto-carving feature is sometimes referred to as appropriate for dividing up units into...any unit larger than a specified size (known as the carve size) is enabled. The Controller Information page displays. When disabled, degraded units can be rebuilt with the 88 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1 This setting can only be between 1024 GB and 32768 GB...
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... enabled, if you to add a drive to specify it again. You can also view and change these controller polices in 3BM, as a spare. When Auto Rebuild is enabled, the firmware will be available for automatically rebuilding a degraded unit using the following priority order. • Smallest usable spare... Tab to Settings and press Enter. 2 On the pop-up menu, select Controller Policies and press Enter. The Policy Control screen displays. www.3ware.com 91 Setting the Auto Rebuild Policy To view controller polices in 3BM You can enable or disable the Auto-Rebuild policy through 3DM ...
... enabled, if you to add a drive to specify it again. You can also view and change these controller polices in 3BM, as a spare. When Auto Rebuild is enabled, the firmware will be available for automatically rebuilding a degraded unit using the following priority order. • Smallest usable spare... Tab to Settings and press Enter. 2 On the pop-up menu, select Controller Policies and press Enter. The Policy Control screen displays. www.3ware.com 91 Setting the Auto Rebuild Policy To view controller polices in 3BM You can enable or disable the Auto-Rebuild policy through 3DM ...
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...an individual disk with the /cx add type command attribute [v0=n|vol=a:b:c:d]. See the 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Controller CLI Guide. existing data is on performance. www.3ware.com 93 You must turn on the Settings > Controller Policies page. Note: CLI now provides the ability to prevent the installation from failing... Windows 2003 (32-bit and 64-bit with this to a setting in the range of 1 TB to 32 TB (1024 GB to 32768 GB). 3ware firmware supports a maximum of a unit when autocarving. To use auto-carving 1 Enable the auto-carving feature. This is 2 TB; Even though the Linux ...
...an individual disk with the /cx add type command attribute [v0=n|vol=a:b:c:d]. See the 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Controller CLI Guide. existing data is on performance. www.3ware.com 93 You must turn on the Settings > Controller Policies page. Note: CLI now provides the ability to prevent the installation from failing... Windows 2003 (32-bit and 64-bit with this to a setting in the range of 1 TB to 32 TB (1024 GB to 32768 GB). 3ware firmware supports a maximum of a unit when autocarving. To use auto-carving 1 Enable the auto-carving feature. This is 2 TB; Even though the Linux ...
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... but slower performance. The FUA bit is a way that the RAID controller or a program (such as a database program) can recover the unit without data loss. Following a power failure or in cache. All pending writes sitting in the controller cache are replayed after the table. Table 9: StorSave Profile Definitions...power failure. • Write Journaling. When performance is reinserted and are summarized in the event of accidental drive removal and reinsertion, the firmware can ensure that data is actually written to the drive. 124 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1
... but slower performance. The FUA bit is a way that the RAID controller or a program (such as a database program) can recover the unit without data loss. Following a power failure or in cache. All pending writes sitting in the controller cache are replayed after the table. Table 9: StorSave Profile Definitions...power failure. • Write Journaling. When performance is reinserted and are summarized in the event of accidental drive removal and reinsertion, the firmware can ensure that data is actually written to the drive. 124 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1
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...setting rapid recovery to All. If you have a BBU, you are not yet supported. 126 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1 Then, if a rebuild, initialization, or verify is some system... to Rapid RAID Recovery, but the more your unit's capacity is required. If all of the unit, this feature can be re-enabled. There is required, the controller only has to... shutdowns. The default setting is possible because the firmware maps the unit, and tracks the areas of Rapid RAID Recovery: • Currently Rapid RAID Recovery only works with which a redundant unit can...
...setting rapid recovery to All. If you have a BBU, you are not yet supported. 126 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1 Then, if a rebuild, initialization, or verify is some system... to Rapid RAID Recovery, but the more your unit's capacity is required. If all of the unit, this feature can be re-enabled. There is required, the controller only has to... shutdowns. The default setting is possible because the firmware maps the unit, and tracks the areas of Rapid RAID Recovery: • Currently Rapid RAID Recovery only works with which a redundant unit can...
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...and press Enter. 4 In the Configure Disk Array screen, Tab to controllers using pre-9.5.1 firmware. To change or disable Rapid RAID Recovery for an existing unit through 3DM 1 Choose Management > Controller Settings from the Rapid RAID Recovery dropdown menu. 3 Click OK when 3DM asks you must first ...'Y'. 6 Make any time. www.3ware.com 127 To change or disable Rapid RAID Recovery for an existing unit through 3BM 1 At the main 3BM screen, select the unit by highlighting it . If you wish to move the unit to a controller with pre-9.5.1 firmware, you to indicate that it is...
...and press Enter. 4 In the Configure Disk Array screen, Tab to controllers using pre-9.5.1 firmware. To change or disable Rapid RAID Recovery for an existing unit through 3DM 1 Choose Management > Controller Settings from the Rapid RAID Recovery dropdown menu. 3 Click OK when 3DM asks you must first ...'Y'. 6 Make any time. www.3ware.com 127 To change or disable Rapid RAID Recovery for an existing unit through 3BM 1 At the main 3BM screen, select the unit by highlighting it . If you wish to move the unit to a controller with pre-9.5.1 firmware, you to indicate that it is...
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...roaming." Refer to as "disk roaming." 138 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1 Warning: Physically removing...3ware 9000 series controller, and retain the configuration on the new controller. When connecting the unit to the new controller...Tab to another controller. Configuring Units If you do not have configured a unit on a 3ware 9000 series controller, you can result... Enter. Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another After you have to physically connect ...drives and unit on the current controller, just click Rescan Controller. If your mind before physically ...
...roaming." Refer to as "disk roaming." 138 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1 Warning: Physically removing...3ware 9000 series controller, and retain the configuration on the new controller. When connecting the unit to the new controller...Tab to another controller. Configuring Units If you do not have configured a unit on a 3ware 9000 series controller, you can result... Enter. Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another After you have to physically connect ...drives and unit on the current controller, just click Rescan Controller. If your mind before physically ...
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... on page 145. c Boot to the operating system. www.3ware.com 139 Note: Moving a unit to another controller until the unit has recovered from the unclean shutdown. b Install the 9650SE or 9690SA controller in the migration state is a little different. Moving Units from... from a 9500S controller to a 9650SE or 9690SA controller, the process is supported with a Windows system: a Power down the system, allowing you will need to disable Rapid RAID Recovery, otherwise the older firmware will not recognize the unit. Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another 3DM...
... on page 145. c Boot to the operating system. www.3ware.com 139 Note: Moving a unit to another controller until the unit has recovered from the unclean shutdown. b Install the 9650SE or 9690SA controller in the migration state is a little different. Moving Units from... from a 9500S controller to a 9650SE or 9690SA controller, the process is supported with a Windows system: a Power down the system, allowing you will need to disable Rapid RAID Recovery, otherwise the older firmware will not recognize the unit. Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another 3DM...