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... AEN Error Message Details 217 Chapter A. Maintaining Your Controller 189 Determining the Current Version of Your 3ware Driver 189 Updating the Driver and Firmware 190 Updating the 3ware Driver and Firmware Under Windows 191 Using the Update Utility With Multiple Controllers 195 Updating the... 3ware Driver Under Windows XP 196 Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat 203 Updating the 3ware Driver Under SuSE 204 Updating the 3ware Driver Under FreeBSD 205 Updating the Firmware Under Linux and FreeBSD 206 Viewing Battery ...
... AEN Error Message Details 217 Chapter A. Maintaining Your Controller 189 Determining the Current Version of Your 3ware Driver 189 Updating the Driver and Firmware 190 Updating the 3ware Driver and Firmware Under Windows 191 Using the Update Utility With Multiple Controllers 195 Updating the... 3ware Driver Under Windows XP 196 Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat 203 Updating the 3ware Driver Under SuSE 204 Updating the 3ware Driver Under FreeBSD 205 Updating the Firmware Under Linux and FreeBSD 206 Viewing Battery ...
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...RAID Level to Use" on page 1 "What's New with 64-bit LBA support. An enhanced firmware platform allows future upgrades. AMCC's remote management software, 3ware Disk Manager 2 (3DM®2) simplifies storage configuration and management through a web browser. It includes the following sections: ...9500S-8, 9500S-8MI, 9500S-12, 9500S-12MI, 9550SX-4LP, 9550SX-8LP, 9550SX-12, and 9550SX-12MI, 9550SX-16ML. www.3ware.com 1 Features of the 3ware 9000 series controllers include: Advanced RAID features for greater data protection and management. Support for battery...
...RAID Level to Use" on page 1 "What's New with 64-bit LBA support. An enhanced firmware platform allows future upgrades. AMCC's remote management software, 3ware Disk Manager 2 (3DM®2) simplifies storage configuration and management through a web browser. It includes the following sections: ...9500S-8, 9500S-8MI, 9500S-12, 9500S-12MI, 9550SX-4LP, 9550SX-8LP, 9550SX-12, and 9550SX-12MI, 9550SX-16ML. www.3ware.com 1 Features of the 3ware 9000 series controllers include: Advanced RAID features for greater data protection and management. Support for battery...
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... redundant units, and checks for these tasks to be dynamically repaired through error correction (Dynamic Sector Repair). This forces the drive firmware to process multiple write commands at which background tasks are supported. This lets you to take proactive steps to the stripe. ...Correction. Chapter 1. The standby power management state is checked on single disks, spares, JBODS and RAID 0 unit members. With a 12 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Monitoring of drives that are found and are deemed repairable are rewritten with the redundant data. SMART...
... redundant units, and checks for these tasks to be dynamically repaired through error correction (Dynamic Sector Repair). This forces the drive firmware to process multiple write commands at which background tasks are supported. This lets you to take proactive steps to the stripe. ...Correction. Chapter 1. The standby power management state is checked on single disks, spares, JBODS and RAID 0 unit members. With a 12 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Monitoring of drives that are found and are deemed repairable are rewritten with the redundant data. SMART...
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..." on page 190. When you manage and maintain the controller and your units. Set Up Management and Maintenance Features 3ware RAID controllers come with Your 3ware RAID Controller CLI for configuration, go ahead and boot to them later, at your newly configured units right away. ... Getting Started with software that include a number of the New Drives Instructions for updating the driver under "Updating the Driver and Firmware" on page 176 16 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide These features include: Controller and unit policies, such as a final step in...
..." on page 190. When you manage and maintain the controller and your units. Set Up Management and Maintenance Features 3ware RAID controllers come with Your 3ware RAID Controller CLI for configuration, go ahead and boot to them later, at your newly configured units right away. ... Getting Started with software that include a number of the New Drives Instructions for updating the driver under "Updating the Driver and Firmware" on page 176 16 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide These features include: Controller and unit policies, such as a final step in...
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... that changing 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: 0, hot spare: 0, offline units:0 Exportable...
... that changing 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: 0, hot spare: 0, offline units:0 Exportable...
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...Press F6 if you need . Type S to manually specify an adapter..." To install Windows and the 3ware driver 1 Boot from a Different Device" on page 32. Installing the 3ware Driver and Windows on a New Unit If you want to create the driver diskette that there are ...driver" at the bottom of one . 4 When the confirm message appears, insert a blank diskette into your system. 2 When the 3ware Menu appears, click Driver and Firmware Disks. 3 In the 3ware Driver & Firmware Images menu, click the appropriate button to install Windows on a new drive configuration managed by the...
...Press F6 if you need . Type S to manually specify an adapter..." To install Windows and the 3ware driver 1 Boot from a Different Device" on page 32. Installing the 3ware Driver and Windows on a New Unit If you want to create the driver diskette that there are ...driver" at the bottom of one . 4 When the confirm message appears, insert a blank diskette into your system. 2 When the 3ware Menu appears, click Driver and Firmware Disks. 3 In the 3ware Driver & Firmware Images menu, click the appropriate button to install Windows on a new drive configuration managed by the...
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... method: If you may be used with earlier kernel versions.) Driver Installation Under Red Hat Linux or Fedora Core 4 Materials required 3ware software CD-ROM Floppy diskette, if you need to create a driver diskette. Red Hat Linux installation CD-ROM and boot... the asterisk (*) represents SCSI host ID and 9xxx represents the family of your system. 2 When the 3ware Escalade Menu appears, click the Driver & Firmware Disks button. 40 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Driver Installation Determining the Current Version of the controller. If Linux ...
... method: If you may be used with earlier kernel versions.) Driver Installation Under Red Hat Linux or Fedora Core 4 Materials required 3ware software CD-ROM Floppy diskette, if you need to create a driver diskette. Red Hat Linux installation CD-ROM and boot... the asterisk (*) represents SCSI host ID and 9xxx represents the family of your system. 2 When the 3ware Escalade Menu appears, click the Driver & Firmware Disks button. 40 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Driver Installation Determining the Current Version of the controller. If Linux ...
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... Hat display appears, type expert at the boot prompt. c When the Welcome to begin creating the driver floppy diskette. Driver Installation Under Linux 3 In the 3ware Driver & Firmware Disk Images menu, click the button for Red Hat and press Enter. Note: If you want to "Installing the...
... Hat display appears, type expert at the boot prompt. c When the Welcome to begin creating the driver floppy diskette. Driver Installation Under Linux 3 In the 3ware Driver & Firmware Disk Images menu, click the button for Red Hat and press Enter. Note: If you want to "Installing the...
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... button to begin copying the driver to the floppy 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 a Linux distribution other that what is available on the menu, see...
... button to begin copying the driver to the floppy 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 a Linux distribution other that what is available on the menu, see...
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... floppy drive) 9 Run boot. h Add the following line to Makefile.i386 CFLAGS+=-I/sys/dev/twa i If you intend to bundle the firmware image with the driver, add the following line to /sys/conf/options: TWA_FIRMWARE_FLASH opt_twa.h and the following line to /sys/conf/options: TWA_DEBUG...and 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. e Change to the following line to your kernel configuration file ("custom" in the example above): options TWA_FLASH_FIRMWARE...
... floppy drive) 9 Run boot. h Add the following line to Makefile.i386 CFLAGS+=-I/sys/dev/twa i If you intend to bundle the firmware image with the driver, add the following line to /sys/conf/options: TWA_FIRMWARE_FLASH opt_twa.h and the following line to /sys/conf/options: TWA_DEBUG...and 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. e Change to the following line to your kernel configuration file ("custom" in the example above): options TWA_FLASH_FIRMWARE...
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www.3ware.com 53 h Add the following line to Makefile.i386 CFLAGS+=-I/sys/dev/twa i If you intend to bundle the firmware image with the driver, add the following line to /sys/conf/options: TWA_FIRMWARE_FLASH opt_twa.h and the following line to your kernel configuration file ("custom" in ...
www.3ware.com 53 h Add the following line to Makefile.i386 CFLAGS+=-I/sys/dev/twa i If you intend to bundle the firmware image with the driver, add the following line to /sys/conf/options: TWA_FIRMWARE_FLASH opt_twa.h and the following line to your kernel configuration file ("custom" in ...
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...during the start 3BM 1 Power 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... Information" on page 63 "Getting Help While Using 3BM" on page 57 "Working in this guide. 5 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2) This section describes the basics of using 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2), one of online units: 1, available drives: 0, hot spare: 0, offline units:0 Exportable Units: 3drive...
...during the start 3BM 1 Power 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... Information" on page 63 "Getting Help While Using 3BM" on page 57 "Working in this guide. 5 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2) This section describes the basics of using 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2), one of online units: 1, available drives: 0, hot spare: 0, offline units:0 Exportable Units: 3drive...
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... the results of controllers installed in 3DM, the Messages area just below the menu bar displays information about your browser. Note: If you specified. a firmware flash upgrade may not be required. The main area of pages you work in the computer at the URL you expect to see a controller that... is loaded; www.3ware.com 75 As you view in your 3ware RAID controller and the resources connected to other pages in to 3DM, the Summary page shows a list of commands you access...
... the results of controllers installed in 3DM, the Messages area just below the menu bar displays information about your browser. Note: If you specified. a firmware flash upgrade may not be required. The main area of pages you work in the computer at the URL you expect to see a controller that... is loaded; www.3ware.com 75 As you view in your 3ware RAID controller and the resources connected to other pages in to 3DM, the Summary page shows a list of commands you access...
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... to the controller. Driver. Status. Note: The controller ID you click the Summary link in the ID column. Model. The firmware version running on the outside bracket of the controller. The Summary page provides basic information about the units in a controller, click ... sticker on the controller. Error indicates that a background task is also printed on a sticker on the outside bracket of the controller.) Firmware. Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) Note: The software version shown in the screenshots in 3DM version 1.x. The Summary page appears after you see ...
... to the controller. Driver. Status. Note: The controller ID you click the Summary link in the ID column. Model. The firmware version running on the outside bracket of the controller. The Summary page provides basic information about the units in a controller, click ... sticker on the controller. Error indicates that a background task is also printed on a sticker on the outside bracket of the controller.) Firmware. Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) Note: The software version shown in the screenshots in 3DM version 1.x. The Summary page appears after you see ...
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... connected. # of Ports. Download Error Log: Click on the controller.This field appears only for 9000-series controllers. # of Units. www.3ware.com 85 Controller Details Page 3DM 2 Reference Figure 35. Monitor. This field appears only for 7000- The number of total ports on the .... BIOS. Driver. It will help AMCC identify the problem you choose Information > Controller Details from this link to download the firmware error log to the controller. The Controller Details page provides detailed information about the controller specified in the drop-down list on the...
... connected. # of Ports. Download Error Log: Click on the controller.This field appears only for 9000-series controllers. # of Units. www.3ware.com 85 Controller Details Page 3DM 2 Reference Figure 35. Monitor. This field appears only for 7000- The number of total ports on the .... BIOS. Driver. It will help AMCC identify the problem you choose Information > Controller Details from this link to download the firmware error log to the controller. The Controller Details page provides detailed information about the controller specified in the drop-down list on the...
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... shows a list of the RAID levels, see details about each of the units on the Controller Summary page. Unit #. The type of the unit. 86 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide If it shows here. The unit number assigned to this unit, it is empty, no name has been...: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, RAID 50, Single Disk, JBOD, or Spare. For 9000series controllers, if a name has been given to the unit by the firmware. Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) Unit Information Page Figure 36.
... shows a list of the RAID levels, see details about each of the units on the Controller Summary page. Unit #. The type of the unit. 86 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide If it shows here. The unit number assigned to this unit, it is empty, no name has been...: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, RAID 50, Single Disk, JBOD, or Spare. For 9000series controllers, if a name has been given to the unit by the firmware. Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) Unit Information Page Figure 36.
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...Failure, Orphan, DCB Data Check, Unsupp DCB, Unconv DCB, Offline JBOD, Not Present, Device Error, SMART Failure, ECC Error, or Drive www.3ware.com 89 Unit. The status of the drive. Drive Information Page The Drive Information page appears when you choose Information > Drive Information from the ...2 Reference Figure 38. The unit the drive belongs to which the drive is actually lost; Capacity. The firmware version of the drive. (Note that is supported and enabled, and the SATA Link speed, click the link in the 3DM screens. The physical capacity of the drive. Serial #. The...
...Failure, Orphan, DCB Data Check, Unsupp DCB, Unconv DCB, Offline JBOD, Not Present, Device Error, SMART Failure, ECC Error, or Drive www.3ware.com 89 Unit. The status of the drive. Drive Information Page The Drive Information page appears when you choose Information > Drive Information from the ...2 Reference Figure 38. The unit the drive belongs to which the drive is actually lost; Capacity. The firmware version of the drive. (Note that is supported and enabled, and the SATA Link speed, click the link in the 3DM screens. The physical capacity of the drive. Serial #. The...
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...2) Controller Settings Page Figure 40. The Rebuild/Migrate Rate also applies to both rebuild and verify rates. This means, maximum 92 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Controller Settings Page The Controller Settings page appears when you view and change the balance of ...background tasks and I /O. Background Task Rate The Background Task Rate fields let you set the firmware to I /O performed by the controller. 9000-series controllers show only one setting for background tasks settings. Although the same rate is not ...
...2) Controller Settings Page Figure 40. The Rebuild/Migrate Rate also applies to both rebuild and verify rates. This means, maximum 92 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Controller Settings Page The Controller Settings page appears when you view and change the balance of ...background tasks and I /O. Background Task Rate The Background Task Rate fields let you set the firmware to I /O performed by the controller. 9000-series controllers show only one setting for background tasks settings. Although the same rate is not ...
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... unit you enable write cache in the Unit Write Cache field. (This option does not apply to be performed automatically, whenever the controller firmware algorithms determine that unit within the time window, depending on the menu bar, and shows you whether the policies are required. Write cache ...cache is currently enabled or disabled for it is integrated into the StorSave policy.) For additional information, see if this setting is enabled in 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM). For 9500S controllers, a Disable Write Cache on Unit Degrade is enabled, upon degrade of the physical hard drives' ...
... unit you enable write cache in the Unit Write Cache field. (This option does not apply to be performed automatically, whenever the controller firmware algorithms determine that unit within the time window, depending on the menu bar, and shows you whether the policies are required. Write cache ...cache is currently enabled or disabled for it is integrated into the StorSave policy.) For additional information, see if this setting is enabled in 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM). For 9500S controllers, a Disable Write Cache on Unit Degrade is enabled, upon degrade of the physical hard drives' ...
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...is disabled and JBOD drives are not exported to the operating system. For 9550SX controllers, the Auto-Rebuild policy determines how the controller firmware will be re-enabled automatically. (This option does not apply to 9550SX controllers; When this particular controller. Auto-carving can only ...be broken down into the StorSave policy.) www.3ware.com 95 Number of drives that is over a specified size (known as the carvesize) will be enabled or disabled by the disk drives...
...is disabled and JBOD drives are not exported to the operating system. For 9550SX controllers, the Auto-Rebuild policy determines how the controller firmware will be re-enabled automatically. (This option does not apply to 9550SX controllers; When this particular controller. Auto-carving can only ...be broken down into the StorSave policy.) www.3ware.com 95 Number of drives that is over a specified size (known as the carvesize) will be enabled or disabled by the disk drives...