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... 7500-8, 7500-12 7 Escalade 8000 Serial ATA Family (includes 8500-4, 8500-8, 8500-12 8 Package Contents 9 Escalade 7000 series Parallel ATA RAID Controller 9 Escalade 8000 series Serial ATA RAID Controller 9 CBL-P-SATA (Parallel to Serial Drive Converter Kit) . . . . . ...Serial ATA RAID Controller 18 Connect the drives to the interface cables 20 Check your installation and close the case 22 Check motherboard boot sequence 22 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility 23 Hot spare and hot swap 23 BIOS Screen 23 3DM Configure Page 24 Invoking the 3ware BIOS tool 24 Exiting the 3ware BIOS...
... 7500-8, 7500-12 7 Escalade 8000 Serial ATA Family (includes 8500-4, 8500-8, 8500-12 8 Package Contents 9 Escalade 7000 series Parallel ATA RAID Controller 9 Escalade 8000 series Serial ATA RAID Controller 9 CBL-P-SATA (Parallel to Serial Drive Converter Kit) . . . . . ...Serial ATA RAID Controller 18 Connect the drives to the interface cables 20 Check your installation and close the case 22 Check motherboard boot sequence 22 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility 23 Hot spare and hot swap 23 BIOS Screen 23 3DM Configure Page 24 Invoking the 3ware BIOS tool 24 Exiting the 3ware BIOS...
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... 1. 8-Port Escalade 7500-8 ATA RAID Controller Layout 14 Figure 2. 12-Port Escalade 8500-12 Serial ATA RAID Controller with Serial ATA Converter Installed 22 Figure 4. 3ware BIOS Tool 25 Figure 5. Selecting Drives for ...RAID 5 32 Figure 11. Degraded RAID 5 Array Drive When Not in Use . . 38 Figure 14. Select Available Drive to Serial ATA Converter) 18 Figure 3. BIOS Initialization Screen for a Mirrored Array 29 Figure 8. Degraded RAID 10 Array Drive When Not in Use . 39 Figure 15. Parallel ATA Drive with CBL-P-SATA (Parallel...
... 1. 8-Port Escalade 7500-8 ATA RAID Controller Layout 14 Figure 2. 12-Port Escalade 8500-12 Serial ATA RAID Controller with Serial ATA Converter Installed 22 Figure 4. 3ware BIOS Tool 25 Figure 5. Selecting Drives for ...RAID 5 32 Figure 11. Degraded RAID 5 Array Drive When Not in Use . . 38 Figure 14. Select Available Drive to Serial ATA Converter) 18 Figure 3. BIOS Initialization Screen for a Mirrored Array 29 Figure 8. Degraded RAID 10 Array Drive When Not in Use . 39 Figure 15. Parallel ATA Drive with CBL-P-SATA (Parallel...
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...Controller. W98SE, WME, WinNT4 with SP6, Win2k with SP2, and WinXP • Linux Support. Low CPU Utilization • RAID Support. Redhat, SuSE. (Drivers available in this manual also supports the following legacy products: 7410, 7810, 7450 (now 7500-4), 7850 (now 7500-8), and 7210. • True Hardware RAID. mand Line Interface • BIOS. Parallel... (R5Fusion is PCI 32 bit / 33 Mhz) • Management. 3DM Disk Management Utility or 3ware Com- This user guide gives simple, step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring your RAID data storage and management system.
...Controller. W98SE, WME, WinNT4 with SP6, Win2k with SP2, and WinXP • Linux Support. Low CPU Utilization • RAID Support. Redhat, SuSE. (Drivers available in this manual also supports the following legacy products: 7410, 7810, 7450 (now 7500-4), 7850 (now 7500-8), and 7210. • True Hardware RAID. mand Line Interface • BIOS. Parallel... (R5Fusion is PCI 32 bit / 33 Mhz) • Management. 3DM Disk Management Utility or 3ware Com- This user guide gives simple, step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring your RAID data storage and management system.
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... Disk Management Utility or 3ware Command Line Interface • BIOS. The advantage of using the Escalade SerialATA Controller with parallel drives is missing any of the items listed below, contact 3ware before proceeding with installation (disk drives and disk mounting brackets are also supported when using the controller with parallel drives the CBL-P-SATA (Parallel to Serial (CBL-P-SATA) Converter. • Bus Type. Twinstor...
... Disk Management Utility or 3ware Command Line Interface • BIOS. The advantage of using the Escalade SerialATA Controller with parallel drives is missing any of the items listed below, contact 3ware before proceeding with installation (disk drives and disk mounting brackets are also supported when using the controller with parallel drives the CBL-P-SATA (Parallel to Serial (CBL-P-SATA) Converter. • Bus Type. Twinstor...
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...drive. There are discussed below. You may designate a drive as a Hot Spare during the BIOS page display, or you to the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. Leaving a drive undesignated results in the BIOS screen, it becoming a JBOD drive. If an array becomes degraded, the hot spare will ...key on the PCI bus. This is rebuilt. You can also specify an available drive as distinct www.3ware.com 23 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility The 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility allows you may designate a drive as a Hot Spare through the 3DM configure page...
...drive. There are discussed below. You may designate a drive as a Hot Spare during the BIOS page display, or you to the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. Leaving a drive undesignated results in the BIOS screen, it becoming a JBOD drive. If an array becomes degraded, the hot spare will ...key on the PCI bus. This is rebuilt. You can also specify an available drive as distinct www.3ware.com 23 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility The 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility allows you may designate a drive as a Hot Spare through the 3DM configure page...
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... in effect from this page, you do not want to install the 3ware BIOS, press Alt-b to an Available Port To add a new spare, follow the same steps except you will resume. This is powered. www.3ware.com 25 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide volumes, and, consequently, they cannot be designated as a Hot...
... in effect from this page, you do not want to install the 3ware BIOS, press Alt-b to an Available Port To add a new spare, follow the same steps except you will resume. This is powered. www.3ware.com 25 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide volumes, and, consequently, they cannot be designated as a Hot...
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..." Alt-D for "Delete Array" Alt-M for "Maintain Array" Alt-R for a Mirrored Array www.3ware.com 29 Selecting Drives for "Rebuild Array" Figure 6. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Displaying advance details Selecting Shift-F5 will show the software versions (BIOS, Firmware, monitor) and slot # of an existing disk array you must first delete...
..." Alt-D for "Delete Array" Alt-M for "Maintain Array" Alt-R for a Mirrored Array www.3ware.com 29 Selecting Drives for "Rebuild Array" Figure 6. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Displaying advance details Selecting Shift-F5 will show the software versions (BIOS, Firmware, monitor) and slot # of an existing disk array you must first delete...
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...to the operating system, the array goes into initialization mode after selecting OK to 12 drives. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Available Drives: Port 0 - 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide a single disk. RAID 5 arrays require a minimum of doing this is complete. ...QUANTUM FIREBALLP KX27.3 512 M Disk Arrays: Array Unit 1 - 3 drive 64K RAID 5 Port 1 - BIOS Initialization Screen for your changes and...
...to the operating system, the array goes into initialization mode after selecting OK to 12 drives. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Available Drives: Port 0 - 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide a single disk. RAID 5 arrays require a minimum of doing this is complete. ...QUANTUM FIREBALLP KX27.3 512 M Disk Arrays: Array Unit 1 - 3 drive 64K RAID 5 Port 1 - BIOS Initialization Screen for your changes and...
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...that caused the array to become degraded. 2 Add a different disk drive to rebuild the array. 3 Press Alt + F3 at Boot time to enter 3ware BIOS. 4 Select the degraded array and the newly added drive. 5 Select Rebuild. The rebuild starts with a new drive Currently, a rebuild cannot be ...a rebuild will be aborted by following drives will be launched as a background process and an event notification will automatically be destroyed. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 10 Press F8 to replace the degraded drive. If your system has hot swap carriers: 1 Remove the disk while ...
...that caused the array to become degraded. 2 Add a different disk drive to rebuild the array. 3 Press Alt + F3 at Boot time to enter 3ware BIOS. 4 Select the degraded array and the newly added drive. 5 Select Rebuild. The rebuild starts with a new drive Currently, a rebuild cannot be ...a rebuild will be aborted by following drives will be launched as a background process and an event notification will automatically be destroyed. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 10 Press F8 to replace the degraded drive. If your system has hot swap carriers: 1 Remove the disk while ...
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Booting with this drive. Note: If the rebuild is not started in the 3ware BIOS, the new drive cannot be used to the operating system. 46 www.3ware.com 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 6 Press F8 to start a rebuild with the drive attached will make the drive appear as a single disk (JBOD) to rebuild the degraded array.
Booting with this drive. Note: If the rebuild is not started in the 3ware BIOS, the new drive cannot be used to the operating system. 46 www.3ware.com 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 6 Press F8 to start a rebuild with the drive attached will make the drive appear as a single disk (JBOD) to rebuild the degraded array.
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It aligns and secures the ATA RAID controller in the case. www.3ware.com 49 Note: More troubleshooting problems and solutions can prevent your system from running its BIOS. Hardware installation Q1: The rail on the 3ware web site at http://www.3ware.com/support. A cable plugged in upside down ...can be found on the ATA RAID controller doesn't fit in the computer chassis but boots OK ...
It aligns and secures the ATA RAID controller in the case. www.3ware.com 49 Note: More troubleshooting problems and solutions can prevent your system from running its BIOS. Hardware installation Q1: The rail on the 3ware web site at http://www.3ware.com/support. A cable plugged in upside down ...can be found on the ATA RAID controller doesn't fit in the computer chassis but boots OK ...
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3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Q3: The 3ware BIOS screen never appears. The ATA RAID controller is not installed properly. To operate properly the ATA RAID controller requires that the drives are not connected properly to see if you motherboard has been tested by 3ware. Your drives are...Reinstall the hardware and reboot. There may also be set as Single (if available on the 3ware website at http://www.3ware.com/products/compatibility.asp to the ATA RAID controller. Check that both the power and ATA cables are connected properly and that drives be a ...
3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Q3: The 3ware BIOS screen never appears. The ATA RAID controller is not installed properly. To operate properly the ATA RAID controller requires that the drives are not connected properly to see if you motherboard has been tested by 3ware. Your drives are...Reinstall the hardware and reboot. There may also be set as Single (if available on the 3ware website at http://www.3ware.com/products/compatibility.asp to the ATA RAID controller. Check that both the power and ATA cables are connected properly and that drives be a ...
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... 15, 16 ATA/133 15, 16 ATA/66 14, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21 Auto rebuild 44, 45 Auto rebuild of a mirrored array 44 B BIOS 25, 49 BIOS tool 24 C Cancelling rebuild 45 Compliance and Conformity 51 D Deleting a disk array 35 Determining your configuration 26 Disk Array Configuration Utility 50 Disk Arrays... P PCI 16, 19 Personal safety 11 R RAID 31 RAID 0 31 RAID 1 31, 37 RAID 10 31 RAID 5 31, 39 Rebuild Array 42 Rebuilding 45 www.3ware.com 57 www...
... 15, 16 ATA/133 15, 16 ATA/66 14, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21 Auto rebuild 44, 45 Auto rebuild of a mirrored array 44 B BIOS 25, 49 BIOS tool 24 C Cancelling rebuild 45 Compliance and Conformity 51 D Deleting a disk array 35 Determining your configuration 26 Disk Array Configuration Utility 50 Disk Arrays... P PCI 16, 19 Personal safety 11 R RAID 31 RAID 0 31 RAID 1 31, 37 RAID 10 31 RAID 5 31, 39 Rebuild Array 42 Rebuilding 45 www.3ware.com 57 www...