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... Driver on a System that Boots from a Different Device 32 Making Units Managed by a 3ware Controller Available to Use 9 3ware Tools for Configuration and Management 12 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager 12 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager 12 3ware CLI (Command Line Interface 13 Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features 13 Chapter 2. Getting Started with 9550SX and 9590SE Models 2 System Requirements 3 Understanding...
... Driver on a System that Boots from a Different Device 32 Making Units Managed by a 3ware Controller Available to Use 9 3ware Tools for Configuration and Management 12 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager 12 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager 12 3ware CLI (Command Line Interface 13 Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features 13 Chapter 2. Getting Started with 9550SX and 9590SE Models 2 System Requirements 3 Understanding...
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... 175 Downloading an Error Log 176 Viewing SMART Data About a Drive 176 About Background Tasks 177 About Initialization 177 Initialization of Different RAID Types 178 Auto Initialization After Power Failure 179 About Rebuilds 180 About Verification 181 About Migration 182 About Self-tests 183... of a Task Schedule 186 Removing a Task Schedule 187 Adding a New Task Schedule Slot 188 Selecting Self-tests to a 9550SX or 9590SE Controller 166 Adding a Drive through 3BM 191 Cancelling a Rebuild and Restarting It with a Different Drive 194 Verifying Units 194 www.3ware.com iii
... 175 Downloading an Error Log 176 Viewing SMART Data About a Drive 176 About Background Tasks 177 About Initialization 177 Initialization of Different RAID Types 178 Auto Initialization After Power Failure 179 About Rebuilds 180 About Verification 181 About Migration 182 About Self-tests 183... of a Task Schedule 186 Removing a Task Schedule 187 Adding a New Task Schedule Slot 188 Selecting Self-tests to a 9550SX or 9590SE Controller 166 Adding a Drive through 3BM 191 Cancelling a Rebuild and Restarting It with a Different Drive 194 Verifying Units 194 www.3ware.com iii
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... have not yet done so, see the installation guide that there are different installation guides for performing specific tasks are often multiple ways to create a unit from 3ware's website: 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide. The CLI is described in sections about each of this ...controller. www.3ware.com v You can download the installation guide from You can also perform many tasks at the command line, using two tools: one at the BIOS level (3ware BIOS Manager 2, or 3BM 2) and one that runs in your system. Step-by-step instructions for the 9590SE, the 9550SX...
... have not yet done so, see the installation guide that there are different installation guides for performing specific tasks are often multiple ways to create a unit from 3ware's website: 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide. The CLI is described in sections about each of this ...controller. www.3ware.com v You can download the installation guide from You can also perform many tasks at the command line, using two tools: one at the BIOS level (3ware BIOS Manager 2, or 3BM 2) and one that runs in your system. Step-by-step instructions for the 9590SE, the 9550SX...
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... with YaST2 on a New Unit" on page 46 • "Installing the 3ware Kernel Driver Module on a SuSE Linux System that Boots from a Different Device" on page 47 The 9.3 code set from the 3ware website provides compiled drivers for these versions of Linux: • Fedora Core 4...9550SX or 9590SE. If you already have already installed your system's boot device. Chapter 4. This chapter provides step-by the 3ware RAID controller may be configured to upgrade the 9500S driver, 3DM 2, and/or CLI with your boot device. You can use units managed by the 3ware controller for secondary storage...
... with YaST2 on a New Unit" on page 46 • "Installing the 3ware Kernel Driver Module on a SuSE Linux System that Boots from a Different Device" on page 47 The 9.3 code set from the 3ware website provides compiled drivers for these versions of Linux: • Fedora Core 4...9550SX or 9590SE. If you already have already installed your system's boot device. Chapter 4. This chapter provides step-by the 3ware RAID controller may be configured to upgrade the 9500S driver, 3DM 2, and/or CLI with your boot device. You can use units managed by the 3ware controller for secondary storage...
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... # column. This amount may appear smaller in the 3DM screens. No storage capacity is actually lost; The serial number of the drive. The unit ...3ware.com 91 Check this drive to blink, if it typically has been calculated as 1KB = 1024. Consequently, the capacity of the drive may differ ... calculated as 1K = 1000. the size has simply been calculated differently for this box to cause the LED for consistency. Serial #. ...whether NCQ is supported and enabled, and the SATA Link speed, click the link in a chassis that has a Chassis Control Unit (CCU) and is connected to the status ...
... # column. This amount may appear smaller in the 3DM screens. No storage capacity is actually lost; The serial number of the drive. The unit ...3ware.com 91 Check this drive to blink, if it typically has been calculated as 1KB = 1024. Consequently, the capacity of the drive may differ ... calculated as 1K = 1000. the size has simply been calculated differently for this box to cause the LED for consistency. Serial #. ...whether NCQ is supported and enabled, and the SATA Link speed, click the link in a chassis that has a Chassis Control Unit (CCU) and is connected to the status ...
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... then the controller firmware can initiate a verify task at both the drive and the controller. Enabling NCQ can enable it causes command reordering to start a rebuild manually. The 9550SX and 9590SE,...schedule is enabled at any time. For the 9550SX and 9590SE models, StorSave II includes an option that affect protection and www.3ware.com 95 When this policy is recommended that a...the time window, depending on Source Error During Rebuild. These profiles automatically adjust several different factors that lets you have the option to be executed when the rebuild completes. ...
... then the controller firmware can initiate a verify task at both the drive and the controller. Enabling NCQ can enable it causes command reordering to start a rebuild manually. The 9550SX and 9590SE,...schedule is enabled at any time. For the 9550SX and 9590SE models, StorSave II includes an option that affect protection and www.3ware.com 95 When this policy is recommended that a...the time window, depending on Source Error During Rebuild. These profiles automatically adjust several different factors that lets you have the option to be executed when the rebuild completes. ...
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For information about the different RAID levels, see "Adding a Drive through 3DM" on page 168. Note: Creating a unit erases all data on page 5. Striping size...as video, and larger stripe sizes are set when you want to be used . Name of 64KB usually gives you the best performance for 9550SX and 9590SE controllers. • Auto-Verify (disabled, by default) • Continue on Source Error When Rebuild (disabled, by default). Available only for mixed ... both drives after it is put in use, creating a RAID 1 cannot be used to two individual single disks. www.3ware.com 129
For information about the different RAID levels, see "Adding a Drive through 3DM" on page 168. Note: Creating a unit erases all data on page 5. Striping size...as video, and larger stripe sizes are set when you want to be used . Name of 64KB usually gives you the best performance for 9550SX and 9590SE controllers. • Auto-Verify (disabled, by default) • Continue on Source Error When Rebuild (disabled, by default). Available only for mixed ... both drives after it is put in use, creating a RAID 1 cannot be used to two individual single disks. www.3ware.com 129
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...the failed drive in 3DM. Note: 3ware's 9000 series RAID controllers use sysinstall to occur with drives that drives from different manufacturers, chances are more information, see "Setting the Auto-Rebuild Policy" on page 120. www.3ware.com 139 For 9550SX and 9590SE controllers, the Auto-Rebuild policy allows automatic...terminal window. 3 Partition the unit: fdisk -BI /dev/da0; In order to create a hot spare after you have the same or larger storage capacity than the drive it is generated and appears in the list of a drive that one drive might be 122 GB, and the other ....
...the failed drive in 3DM. Note: 3ware's 9000 series RAID controllers use sysinstall to occur with drives that drives from different manufacturers, chances are more information, see "Setting the Auto-Rebuild Policy" on page 120. www.3ware.com 139 For 9550SX and 9590SE controllers, the Auto-Rebuild policy allows automatic...terminal window. 3 Partition the unit: fdisk -BI /dev/da0; In order to create a hot spare after you have the same or larger storage capacity than the drive it is generated and appears in the list of a drive that one drive might be 122 GB, and the other ....
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... have to physically connect the drives to the same ports to select it to another controller. www.3ware.com 163 You can do not have configured a unit on a 3ware 9000 series controller (9500S, 9550SX, or 9590SE), you want to remove and press Enter to which are now connected, and updates the...hang or may even damage the system and the drive. 2 At the main 3BM screen, highlight the unit you can move them to a different 3ware 9000 series controller, and retain the configuration on page 171. The firmware will still recognize the unit. If you have a hot swap carrier, you can ...
... have to physically connect the drives to the same ports to select it to another controller. www.3ware.com 163 You can do not have configured a unit on a 3ware 9000 series controller (9500S, 9550SX, or 9590SE), you want to remove and press Enter to which are now connected, and updates the...hang or may even damage the system and the drive. 2 At the main 3BM screen, highlight the unit you can move them to a different 3ware 9000 series controller, and retain the configuration on page 171. The firmware will still recognize the unit. If you have a hot swap carrier, you can ...
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...add-on card that can see "Battery Backup Page" on page 110. 218 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide To view information about the fields on all units attached to the disks. Two different BBU models are the same as those available through 3DM. For details about ...to a 3ware 9000 RAID controller to preserve data in the event of a system power failure. Note: When the BBU status is not "Ready," write caching is written to the controller. When fully charged, the battery preserves the contents of the cache memory for 9550SX and 9590SE controllers (BBU-9550SX-01). ...
...add-on card that can see "Battery Backup Page" on page 110. 218 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide To view information about the fields on all units attached to the disks. Two different BBU models are the same as those available through 3DM. For details about ...to a 3ware 9000 RAID controller to preserve data in the event of a system power failure. Note: When the BBU status is not "Ready," write caching is written to the controller. When fully charged, the battery preserves the contents of the cache memory for 9550SX and 9590SE controllers (BBU-9550SX-01). ...