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... Basic Steps for Configuration and Management 10 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager 11 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager 11 3ware CLI (Command Line Interface 11 Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features 12 Chapter 2. Driver Installation 29 Driver Installation Under Windows 30 Materials Required 30 Creating a 3ware Driver Diskette 31 Installing the 3ware Driver and Windows on a New Unit 31...
... Basic Steps for Configuration and Management 10 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager 11 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager 11 3ware CLI (Command Line Interface 11 Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features 12 Chapter 2. Driver Installation 29 Driver Installation Under Windows 30 Materials Required 30 Creating a 3ware Driver Diskette 31 Installing the 3ware Driver and Windows on a New Unit 31...
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... Series Serial ATA family includes 9500S-4LP, 9500S-8, 9500S-8MI, 9500S-12, 9500S-12MI, 9550SX-4LP, 9550SX-8LP, 9550SX-12, and 9550SX-12MI, 9550SX-16ML. 1 Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller 3ware 9550SX controllers are part of the AMCC 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA family of a power outage. (Battery Backup unit sold separately) Support...
... Series Serial ATA family includes 9500S-4LP, 9500S-8, 9500S-8MI, 9500S-12, 9500S-12MI, 9550SX-4LP, 9550SX-8LP, 9550SX-12, and 9550SX-12MI, 9550SX-16ML. 1 Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller 3ware 9550SX controllers are part of the AMCC 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA family of a power outage. (Battery Backup unit sold separately) Support...
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... array, up to one drive in a twelve drive RAID 10 array, up to six drives can fail and the array will be lost . www.3ware.com 7 Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels RAID 10 This array is a combination of RAID 5 with RAID 0. The two mirrored arrays are required to function... multiple drive failures without data loss. RAID 10 Configuration Example RAID 50 This array is a combination of the data will continue to form the 12-drive RAID 50 array. When drives are mirrored as RAID 1 and RAID 5), since the array can sustain multiple drive failures without data loss....
... array, up to one drive in a twelve drive RAID 10 array, up to six drives can fail and the array will be lost . www.3ware.com 7 Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels RAID 10 This array is a combination of RAID 5 with RAID 0. The two mirrored arrays are required to function... multiple drive failures without data loss. RAID 10 Configuration Example RAID 50 This array is a combination of the data will continue to form the 12-drive RAID 50 array. When drives are mirrored as RAID 1 and RAID 5), since the array can sustain multiple drive failures without data loss....
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... or 4 subunits of 4 drives. The total array capacity is limited to the capacity of the smallest drive in the array. For example, with 12 drives, possible RAID 50 configurations include 2 subunits of 6, 3 subunits of 4, or 4 subunits of 3. number of groups of drives) X (...capacity of the smallest drive) Through drive coercion, the capacity used www.3ware.com 9 With 16 drives, a RAID 50 will contain 2 subunits of 5 drives each. Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels Table 2: Possible Configurations Based on #...
... or 4 subunits of 4 drives. The total array capacity is limited to the capacity of the smallest drive in the array. For example, with 12 drives, possible RAID 50 configurations include 2 subunits of 6, 3 subunits of 4, or 4 subunits of 3. number of groups of drives) X (...capacity of the smallest drive) Through drive coercion, the capacity used www.3ware.com 9 With 16 drives, a RAID 50 will contain 2 subunits of 5 drives each. Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels Table 2: Possible Configurations Based on #...
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...tasks should be given more processing time. Write Cache. SMART data is committed to be turned on and off in 3BM (the 3ware BIOS Management utility). Monitoring of drives that will try to be based intelligently on the location of a redundant unit, error locations that support ...disk. Reallocation of blocks will spin up of drives. You can all disk drives (array members, single disks, and hot spares). With a 12 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Bad sectors can be poweredup into the standby power management state to your drives. SMART Monitoring...
...tasks should be given more processing time. Write Cache. SMART data is committed to be turned on and off in 3BM (the 3ware BIOS Management utility). Monitoring of drives that will try to be based intelligently on the location of a redundant unit, error locations that support ...disk. Reallocation of blocks will spin up of drives. You can all disk drives (array members, single disks, and hot spares). With a 12 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Bad sectors can be poweredup into the standby power management state to your drives. SMART Monitoring...
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... Disabled 2048 1 6 seconds Disabled Enabled ATA-6 Enabled Disabled Disabled Enabled Protection Daily, starting at 12:00 am and running for 24 hours No Daily, starting at 12:00 am and running for 24 hours No Daily, starting at 12:00 am and running for 24 hours Yes 3BM, 3DM, CLI 3BM, 3DM, CLI..., CLI 3DM, CLI 3BM, 3DM, CLI 3BM, 3DM, CLI 3BM, 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI www.3ware.com 17
... Disabled 2048 1 6 seconds Disabled Enabled ATA-6 Enabled Disabled Disabled Enabled Protection Daily, starting at 12:00 am and running for 24 hours No Daily, starting at 12:00 am and running for 24 hours No Daily, starting at 12:00 am and running for 24 hours Yes 3BM, 3DM, CLI 3BM, 3DM, CLI..., CLI 3DM, CLI 3BM, 3DM, CLI 3BM, 3DM, CLI 3BM, 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI 3DM, CLI www.3ware.com 17
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... Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Normally your system. 2 While the system is starting, watch for just a few seconds. Figure 6. 3ware Controller Board Selection Screen You see a screen similar to work and press Enter. Chapter 3. However, if a unit has degraded, the ...9000-series controller in your disk array configuration may overwrite data on -screen for a screen similar to Figure 5. ----Press to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---- 3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9550SX-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX BBU Status: Not Present Number of online units: 1, available drives:...
... Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Normally your system. 2 While the system is starting, watch for just a few seconds. Figure 6. 3ware Controller Board Selection Screen You see a screen similar to work and press Enter. Chapter 3. However, if a unit has degraded, the ...9000-series controller in your disk array configuration may overwrite data on -screen for a screen similar to Figure 5. ----Press to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---- 3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9550SX-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX BBU Status: Not Present Number of online units: 1, available drives:...
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...the Motherboard Boot Sequence" on the RAID configuration you are creating, initialization of writing zeroes to save the changes and exit 3BM. Figure 12. You will begin immediately. After finalizing the configuration below .) You can take several hours, depending on the drives, and create the ... system before the process of the unit may begin after a delay of your computer. Once you have booted to ten minutes. 24 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Chapter 3. Confirmation Message when Saving and Exiting 6 Type Y to continue, delete any existing data...
...the Motherboard Boot Sequence" on the RAID configuration you are creating, initialization of writing zeroes to save the changes and exit 3BM. Figure 12. You will begin immediately. After finalizing the configuration below .) You can take several hours, depending on the drives, and create the ... system before the process of the unit may begin after a delay of your computer. Once you have booted to ten minutes. 24 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Chapter 3. Confirmation Message when Saving and Exiting 6 Type Y to continue, delete any existing data...
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... 11 Rebuild the kernel and install the new kernel. 12 Reboot with the rebuilt kernel. device twa # 3ware Escalade 9000 series d Save the file. Note: Since twa.ko behaves like a SCSI driver, the units that Boots from a Different Device To install the 3ware driver as a module 1 Copy the driver from the...directory: cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf b Copy the configuration file to the directory you should see unit information in step 1. 3 Unpack the 3ware driver source files. For example, if the configuration file is GENERIC, type cp GENERIC custom c Edit the custom file and add the lines shown ...
... 11 Rebuild the kernel and install the new kernel. 12 Reboot with the rebuilt kernel. device twa # 3ware Escalade 9000 series d Save the file. Note: Since twa.ko behaves like a SCSI driver, the units that Boots from a Different Device To install the 3ware driver as a module 1 Copy the driver from the...directory: cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf b Copy the configuration file to the directory you should see unit information in step 1. 3 Unpack the 3ware driver source files. For example, if the configuration file is GENERIC, type cp GENERIC custom c Edit the custom file and add the lines shown ...
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... page 63 Starting 3BM 2 You access 3BM during the start-up process for a screen similar to Figure 23. ----Press to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---- 3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9550SX-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX BBU Status: Not Present Number of the tools you can use to... configure and maintain the units connected to the later sections in this guide. This section is starting, watch for your 3ware 9550SX ...
... page 63 Starting 3BM 2 You access 3BM during the start-up process for a screen similar to Figure 23. ----Press to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---- 3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9550SX-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX BBU Status: Not Present Number of the tools you can use to... configure and maintain the units connected to the later sections in this guide. This section is starting, watch for your 3ware 9550SX ...
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...include RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, RAID 50, Single Disk, and Spare Disk. When you are configuring a RAID 50 with 12 Drives Name. Stripe. Figure 43. You can enter a name for the drives selected in 3DM For more detailed instructions, see "Available RAID Configurations...selected in which you specify configuration settings. Configuring a RAID 50 with twelve drives, an additional field appears, in the RAID level drop-down. www.3ware.com 105 Configuring a Unit in the list of drives per subunit-3, 4, or 6. For information about these configurations, see "Creating a New Unit...
...include RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, RAID 50, Single Disk, and Spare Disk. When you are configuring a RAID 50 with 12 Drives Name. Stripe. Figure 43. You can enter a name for the drives selected in 3DM For more detailed instructions, see "Available RAID Configurations...selected in which you specify configuration settings. Configuring a RAID 50 with twelve drives, an additional field appears, in the RAID level drop-down. www.3ware.com 105 Configuring a Unit in the list of drives per subunit-3, 4, or 6. For information about these configurations, see "Creating a New Unit...
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... Spinup: Select the number of drives-from 1 to 6. Staggered Method: Select either ATA-6 or SATA OOB as JBODs. Not all drives support staggered spinup. Note: If you enable staggered spinup and have drives ...the operating system, they will notice a short delay as 3BM makes the policy changes. 120 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide If you enable the Export JBOD Disks option, the ... to 7000/8000-series controllers as the type of staggered spinup you want to 4, 8, or 12, depending on the number of drives that will not be configured as JBODs. If you change ...
... Spinup: Select the number of drives-from 1 to 6. Staggered Method: Select either ATA-6 or SATA OOB as JBODs. Not all drives support staggered spinup. Note: If you enable staggered spinup and have drives ...the operating system, they will notice a short delay as 3BM makes the policy changes. 120 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide If you enable the Export JBOD Disks option, the ... to 7000/8000-series controllers as the type of staggered spinup you want to 4, 8, or 12, depending on the number of drives that will not be configured as JBODs. If you change ...
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Configuring a RAID 50 with 12 Drives 8 Make changes to the controller and selected RAID 50 as the configuration in step 3, select whether you want 3, 4, or 6 Drives Per Subunit, as desired. You can also set the StorSave policy. 9 Click Ok. www.3ware.com 129 Configuring a Unit in the Unit Maintenance... Size. 6 Optional: In the Name box, enter a name for the unit (up to 21 characters, including dashes and underscores). 7 If you have 12 drives attached to the unit policies, as shown here. You can enable or disable the Write Cache, Auto-Verify, and Continue on Source Error During...
Configuring a RAID 50 with 12 Drives 8 Make changes to the controller and selected RAID 50 as the configuration in step 3, select whether you want 3, 4, or 6 Drives Per Subunit, as desired. You can also set the StorSave policy. 9 Click Ok. www.3ware.com 129 Configuring a Unit in the Unit Maintenance... Size. 6 Optional: In the Name box, enter a name for the unit (up to 21 characters, including dashes and underscores). 7 If you have 12 drives attached to the unit policies, as shown here. You can enable or disable the Write Cache, Auto-Verify, and Continue on Source Error During...
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...Chapter 8. Tip: If you can be included by highlighting each unit created. Creating a Unit through 3BM In 3BM, configuration tasks start from the main 3ware BIOS Manager screen shown in Figure 54. The unit can configure new units, delete existing ones, or perform maintenance tasks. For more disks, and RAID... 50 units with each one and pressing Enter or Space to select it is initializing and is fault-tolerant. 12 Partition and format the unit. From this screen you want to use all available drives, press Alt-A to it in 3BM, see "Partitioning and...
...Chapter 8. Tip: If you can be included by highlighting each unit created. Creating a Unit through 3BM In 3BM, configuration tasks start from the main 3ware BIOS Manager screen shown in Figure 54. The unit can configure new units, delete existing ones, or perform maintenance tasks. For more disks, and RAID... 50 units with each one and pressing Enter or Space to select it is initializing and is fault-tolerant. 12 Partition and format the unit. From this screen you want to use all available drives, press Alt-A to it in 3BM, see "Partitioning and...
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... if you create a unit, whether through 3BM or 3DM, it needs to continue, delete any existing data on the drives, and create the unit. 12 Partition and format the units, as a system administrator. 2 Partition and format the new arrays or disks using the Administrative Tools from the Start menu: ...a Choose Computer Management from that unit, that unit must be the first unit. www.3ware.com 133 Partitioning and Formatting Units After you want to be a longer period of the units in 3BM and you can change the order of...
... if you create a unit, whether through 3BM or 3DM, it needs to continue, delete any existing data on the drives, and create the unit. 12 Partition and format the units, as a system administrator. 2 Partition and format the new arrays or disks using the Administrative Tools from the Start menu: ...a Choose Computer Management from that unit, that unit must be the first unit. www.3ware.com 133 Partitioning and Formatting Units After you want to be a longer period of the units in 3BM and you can change the order of...
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...a flag is a possibility some data and parity may not be inconsistent. During the next system power cycle the firmware queries the flag. www.3ware.com 171 Table 9: Initialization Requirements for Different RAID Configurations Initialization Required for data consistency by comparing the data from one drive (or set of ... 16 disks in 4 subunits of 4 Yes RAID 5 with 5 or more disks RAID 50 with 10 disks in 2 subunits of 5 RAID 50 with 12 disks in data from one disk (the disk on the drives may be correct. When a redundant unit is unexpectedly shutdown, there is set of drives...
...a flag is a possibility some data and parity may not be inconsistent. During the next system power cycle the firmware queries the flag. www.3ware.com 171 Table 9: Initialization Requirements for Different RAID Configurations Initialization Required for data consistency by comparing the data from one drive (or set of ... 16 disks in 4 subunits of 4 Yes RAID 5 with 5 or more disks RAID 50 with 10 disks in 2 subunits of 5 RAID 50 with 12 disks in data from one disk (the disk on the drives may be correct. When a redundant unit is unexpectedly shutdown, there is set of drives...
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... the page. 3 Select the checkbox next to remove. 4 Click the Remove Checked button. The Scheduling Page appears, showing the schedule for the task. www.3ware.com 179 To remove a task schedule 1 Choose Management > Schedule from the menu bar. Adding a New Task Schedule Slot When you add a rebuild/migrate ..., Time, and Duration for Rebuild/Migrate Tasks. 2 To view Verify Tasks or Self-test Tasks, select it from the drop-down list at 12:00 am and running for any of seven schedules can now add another . The Scheduling Page appears, showing the schedule for the task. Scheduling...
... the page. 3 Select the checkbox next to remove. 4 Click the Remove Checked button. The Scheduling Page appears, showing the schedule for the task. www.3ware.com 179 To remove a task schedule 1 Choose Management > Schedule from the menu bar. Adding a New Task Schedule Slot When you add a rebuild/migrate ..., Time, and Duration for Rebuild/Migrate Tasks. 2 To view Verify Tasks or Self-test Tasks, select it from the drop-down list at 12:00 am and running for any of seven schedules can now add another . The Scheduling Page appears, showing the schedule for the task. Scheduling...
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...to continue by checking the Overwrite ECC Error policy on the source disk, you can be launched as the failed drives are rebuilt simultaneously. www.3ware.com 181 If multiple drives are faulted in a RAID 10 configuration, the drives are only half of the drives in Degraded mode, the ... a RAID 10 unit can become defective and still have the user data retained, as long as a background process at the next scheduled time. In a 12-drive configuration, up to six drives can be rebuilt. Note: If a rebuild fails, check the Alarms page for the reason. If desired, you can...
...to continue by checking the Overwrite ECC Error policy on the source disk, you can be launched as the failed drives are rebuilt simultaneously. www.3ware.com 181 If multiple drives are faulted in a RAID 10 configuration, the drives are only half of the drives in Degraded mode, the ... a RAID 10 unit can become defective and still have the user data retained, as long as a background process at the next scheduled time. In a 12-drive configuration, up to six drives can be rebuilt. Note: If a rebuild fails, check the Alarms page for the reason. If desired, you can...
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Upgrade/Install Device Driver Wizard 198 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Figure 83. Figure 82. Chapter 10. Select "No, not this time" and click Next. Windows XP Service Pack 2 Windows Update Query 12 When you want to connect to Windows Update. Maintaining Your Controller 11 If your system has Windows XP Service Pack 2, the first screen asks whether you reach the Hardware Update Wizard screen shown in Figure 83, select "Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)" and then click Next.
Upgrade/Install Device Driver Wizard 198 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Figure 83. Figure 82. Chapter 10. Select "No, not this time" and click Next. Windows XP Service Pack 2 Windows Update Query 12 When you want to connect to Windows Update. Maintaining Your Controller 11 If your system has Windows XP Service Pack 2, the first screen asks whether you reach the Hardware Update Wizard screen shown in Figure 83, select "Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)" and then click Next.
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.... If your own driver. Updating the 3ware Driver Under FreeBSD 1 Download and extract the driver, as the system may need to compile your kernel or SuSE version is now updated. 11 Stop the current driver module, if loaded: rmmod 3w-9xxx 12 Load the new driver module: modprobe 3w-9xxx If the...
.... If your own driver. Updating the 3ware Driver Under FreeBSD 1 Download and extract the driver, as the system may need to compile your kernel or SuSE version is now updated. 11 Stop the current driver module, if loaded: rmmod 3w-9xxx 12 Load the new driver module: modprobe 3w-9xxx If the...