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Installation Guide - Page 3
Contents
Before You Begin 7 Features 7 Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA Family (includes 7000-2, 7500-4, 7500-4LP, 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) . . . . . 10 Tools ...
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... 37 Rebuilding a RAID 5 disk array 39 Additional Procedures 47 Troubleshooting: Problems and Solutions 49 Hardware installation 49 Appendix A Compliance and Conformity Statements 51 Federal Communications Commission Radio Frequency Interference Statement 51 Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Lab (WHQL 52 European Community Conformity Statement 52 Appendix B Warranty, Technical Support and...
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...14. Degraded RAID 5 Array Drive When Not in Use . . 40 Figure 16. Delete Disk Array Display 36 Figure 12. ample 27 Figure 6. Disk Array Configuration Main Display, RAID 1 Ex- List of Figures
Figure 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...
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Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA Family (includes 7000-2, 7500-4, 7500-4LP, 7500-8, 7500-12) The information in Open
Source.) • Performance. 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. Before you begin installing.
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... and JBOD • Drive Support. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers • Data Integrity. Parallel
UltraDMA 133 and UltraDMA 100 drives are not included):
Escalade 7000 series Parallel ATA RAID Controller • Escalade Parallel ATA RAID Controller in an ESD-protective
bag • ATA interface cables (one per port) • 3ware installation media with the following...
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...Settings
Figure 2. 12-Port Escalade 8500-12 Serial ATA RAID Controller with CBL-P-SATA (Parallel to Serial ATA Converter)
Connect the interface cables to the Escalade Serial ATA RAID...3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide
Installing a Serial ATA RAID...installation. The
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Our card should fit in the slot.
See Figure 2.
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Hardware Installation...
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... the appropriate button: Alt-C for "Create Array" Alt-D for "Delete Array" Alt-M for "Maintain Array" Alt-R for a Mirrored Array
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29 To include drives that are part of the 3ware card (see Figure 7). 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...
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... RAID Controller Installation Guide
a single disk. IBM-DTLA-387815 Port 2 - IBM-DTLAI-n3i8t78R1A5ID5 Array Unit Port 3 - Enabling the write cache
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3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility
results in the array before it . Note: The current limitation is 2 TB for RAID 5
Select striping size For a RAID 0 or RAID 10 configuration select the striping size. For RAID 5 Arrays...
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... 12. Rebuilding a mirrored disk array
Escalade ATA RAID Controllers...3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide
3ware Disk Array Configuration
Available Drives:
Disk Arrays: *Array Unit 0 - 4 drive 64K RAID 0
Port 0 -
Check that the mirrored drives are listed. QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30
120.0GB 30.0GB 30.0GB 30.0GB 30.0GB
Create Array Delete Array Maintain Array Rebuild Array...
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... Values Esc Cancel
F8 Done
Figure 13. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide
array is removed, unplugged or fails on read and write data from a degraded disk array, but the array will not be rebuilt. Degraded RAID 1 Array Drive When Not in Use 30.0GB 30.0GB 30.0GB
Create Array Delete Array Maintain Array Rebuild Array
Alt-F1 Help Previous/Next $ Toggle...
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... all nondegraded drives.
3ware Disk Array Configuration
Available Drives: Port 0 - If one of the operating system load.
5 If the rebuild fails and you have no longer available (see Figure 16). Power on read and write data from all drives. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide
that you must power down the system and replace the failed or...
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... LM30
30.0GB
Disk Arrays: Array Unit 1 - 2 drive Mirror
Port 1 - 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide
3ware Disk Array Configuration
Available Drives: Port 2 - QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30
Disk Arrays: *Array Unit 1 - 2 drive Mirror
Port 1 - QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30
30.0GB REBUILDING (after F8) 30.0GB 30.0GB
Create Array Delete Array Maintain Array Rebuild Array
Alt-F1 Help...
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...system is a problem, the firmware starts the background verification that checks 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. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide
10 Press F8 to update configurations and exit...
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... Array Configuration Utility 50 Disk Arrays 26 Drive types 10
E European Community Conformity 52
F FCC 51
H Hardware Installation 13 hot spare 23, 34
M Maintaining a disk array 36 Modifying a disk array 35 motherboard boot sequence 22
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
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3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide
Rebuilding a mirrored array with no hot spare 40 Rebuilding a mirrored disk array 39 Rebuilding RAID 5 39 Rebuilding with Hot Spare 40, 44
S System requirements 10
T Technical Support 53 Tools required 10 Troubleshooting 49
U Ultra ATA 16
V Verify Array 36
W Warranty 53 WHQL 52
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