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Trademarks 3ware, Escalade, and 3DM are all trademarks of 3ware, Inc. All rights reserved. The 3ware logo, StorSwitch, TwinStor, and R5 Fusion are property of 3ware, Inc., 455 West Maude Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94085. make any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the proper written consent of their respective owners. Disclaimer 3ware, Inc. assumes no responsibility...
Trademarks 3ware, Escalade, and 3DM are all trademarks of 3ware, Inc. All rights reserved. The 3ware logo, StorSwitch, TwinStor, and R5 Fusion are property of 3ware, Inc., 455 West Maude Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94085. make any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the proper written consent of their respective owners. Disclaimer 3ware, Inc. assumes no responsibility...
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... the machine 50 RAID array initialization 50 Install the 3DM disk management utility 51 Replacing an existing ATA RAID controller with a new version of the controller . 52 Updating the 3ware driver 52 Installing/Upgrading the 3ware driver 54 Remove the existing Escalade ATA RAID Controller and install the new Escalade ATA RAID Controller 59 Reboot the machine 59 Install the 3DM disk management utility...
... the machine 50 RAID array initialization 50 Install the 3DM disk management utility 51 Replacing an existing ATA RAID controller with a new version of the controller . 52 Updating the 3ware driver 52 Installing/Upgrading the 3ware driver 54 Remove the existing Escalade ATA RAID Controller and install the new Escalade ATA RAID Controller 59 Reboot the machine 59 Install the 3DM disk management utility...
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... 110 Appendix B. Warranty, Technical Support and Service 111 Limited Warranty 111 Exclusions 111 State Law Provisions 112 Obtaining Warranty Protection 112 3ware Technical Support and Services 112 Sales and ordering information 113 Feedback on this manual 113 Index 115 www....3ware.com iii Compiling the Driver (For experts only 77 3DM Disk Management Utility 79 Windows Installation 80 Installing 3DM for Windows 2000/XP/2003 80 Linux Installation 81 Uninstalling 3DM 83 Checking Array Status 84 View status using your ...
... 110 Appendix B. Warranty, Technical Support and Service 111 Limited Warranty 111 Exclusions 111 State Law Provisions 112 Obtaining Warranty Protection 112 3ware Technical Support and Services 112 Sales and ordering information 113 Feedback on this manual 113 Index 115 www....3ware.com iii Compiling the Driver (For experts only 77 3DM Disk Management Utility 79 Windows Installation 80 Installing 3DM for Windows 2000/XP/2003 80 Linux Installation 81 Uninstalling 3DM 83 Checking Array Status 84 View status using your ...
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...RAID 0 Configuration Example 9 RAID 1 Configuration Example 9 RAID 10 Configuration Example 10 RAID 5 Configuration Example 11 8-Port Escalade 750x-8 ATA RAID Controller Layout 18 12-Port Escalade 850x-12 Serial ATA RAID Controller . . . . . 21 12-Port Escalade 8506-12MI Serial ATA RAID Controller . . . 24 Multi-lane Cable (InfiniBand 4x, SFF-8470 24 3ware...installation screen 58 3DM Remote Monitoring and Security Configuration Display . 80 3DM E-mail Notification Preferences 81 3DM Home Display 85 3DM Details Display 86 3DM Monitor Display 87 3DM Alarms Display 88 www.3ware.com v ...
...RAID 0 Configuration Example 9 RAID 1 Configuration Example 9 RAID 10 Configuration Example 10 RAID 5 Configuration Example 11 8-Port Escalade 750x-8 ATA RAID Controller Layout 18 12-Port Escalade 850x-12 Serial ATA RAID Controller . . . . . 21 12-Port Escalade 8506-12MI Serial ATA RAID Controller . . . 24 Multi-lane Cable (InfiniBand 4x, SFF-8470 24 3ware...installation screen 58 3DM Remote Monitoring and Security Configuration Display . 80 3DM E-mail Notification Preferences 81 3DM Home Display 85 3DM Details Display 86 3DM Monitor Display 87 3DM Alarms Display 88 www.3ware.com v ...
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Figure 42. Figure 45. Figure 47. Figure 43. Figure 46. Figure 48. Figure 44. Figure 50. 3DM Settings Display 89 3DM Administrator Login Display 90 3DM User Login Display 91 3DM Configure Display 92 3DM Help Display 95 Installation or Removal Dialog Box 99 A Warning for All Software Removal Requests 99 Confirmation of Figures Figure 40. List of Successful Software Removal 99 Administrator Privileges Required Warning 99 Firmware Upgrade Requirement Warning 100 System Reboot Request 100 vi 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Figure 49. Figure 41.
Figure 42. Figure 45. Figure 47. Figure 43. Figure 46. Figure 48. Figure 44. Figure 50. 3DM Settings Display 89 3DM Administrator Login Display 90 3DM User Login Display 91 3DM Configure Display 92 3DM Help Display 95 Installation or Removal Dialog Box 99 A Warning for All Software Removal Requests 99 Confirmation of Figures Figure 40. List of Successful Software Removal 99 Administrator Privileges Required Warning 99 Firmware Upgrade Requirement Warning 100 System Reboot Request 100 vi 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Figure 49. Figure 41.
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... PCI 64-bit / 66MHz. ■ Management. 3DM® Disk Management Utility or 3ware Command Line Interface www.3ware.com 1 Before You Begin Congratulations on selecting the Escalade ATA RAID Controller as your Escalade ATA RAID Controller. This user guide gives simple, step-by-step instructions...RAID 5 or RAID 10) ■ Drive Support. Features Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA Family The Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA family includes 7000-2, 7500-4, 7500-4LP, 7500-8, 7500-12, 7006-2, 7506-4LP, 7506-8, and 7506-12. The information in this manual also supports the following legacy products: 7410, 7810...
... PCI 64-bit / 66MHz. ■ Management. 3DM® Disk Management Utility or 3ware Command Line Interface www.3ware.com 1 Before You Begin Congratulations on selecting the Escalade ATA RAID Controller as your Escalade ATA RAID Controller. This user guide gives simple, step-by-step instructions...RAID 5 or RAID 10) ■ Drive Support. Features Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA Family The Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA family includes 7000-2, 7500-4, 7500-4LP, 7500-8, 7500-12, 7006-2, 7506-4LP, 7506-8, and 7506-12. The information in this manual also supports the following legacy products: 7410, 7810...
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..., 8506-8, 8506-12, 8506-8MI, and 8506-12MI are all PCI 64-bit / 66MHz. ■ Management. 3DM Disk Management Utility or 3ware Command Line Interface ■ BIOS. Redhat, SuSE. (Drivers available in Open Source.) ■ FreeBSD. Version 4.8 ...RAID. PC99, PnP, BBS Compliant ■ Windows Support. Windows 2000 with SP3 or newer, Windows XP with SP1 or newer, and Windows Server 2003 ■ Linux Support. ATA Command Readback, S.M.A.R.T. PC99, PnP, BBS Compliant ■ Windows Support. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers 2 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller...
..., 8506-8, 8506-12, 8506-8MI, and 8506-12MI are all PCI 64-bit / 66MHz. ■ Management. 3DM Disk Management Utility or 3ware Command Line Interface ■ BIOS. Redhat, SuSE. (Drivers available in Open Source.) ■ FreeBSD. Version 4.8 ...RAID. PC99, PnP, BBS Compliant ■ Windows Support. Windows 2000 with SP3 or newer, Windows XP with SP1 or newer, and Windows Server 2003 ■ Linux Support. ATA Command Readback, S.M.A.R.T. PC99, PnP, BBS Compliant ■ Windows Support. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers 2 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller...
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... disk mounting brackets 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 : 3DM, Drivers and 3ware Escalade User Guide (.pdf format) ■ 3ware Release Notes ■ 3ware Installation Guide www.3ware.com 3 Package Contents ■ Data Integrity...
... disk mounting brackets 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 : 3DM, Drivers and 3ware Escalade User Guide (.pdf format) ■ 3ware Release Notes ■ 3ware Installation Guide www.3ware.com 3 Package Contents ■ Data Integrity...
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... O/S compatibility and easy installation ■ Browser-based 3ware Disk Manager (3DM) utility with local and remote asynchronous event reporting of SCSI has inherent performance limitations due to arbitration latency and only one another. Introduction Unmatched reliability and performance The Escalade 7000 and 8000 series of ATA RAID Controllers bring the entire storage system down. Any...
... O/S compatibility and easy installation ■ Browser-based 3ware Disk Manager (3DM) utility with local and remote asynchronous event reporting of SCSI has inherent performance limitations due to arbitration latency and only one another. Introduction Unmatched reliability and performance The Escalade 7000 and 8000 series of ATA RAID Controllers bring the entire storage system down. Any...
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... SMART READ DATA (B0h with StorSwitch to prevent impending disk crashes. Configure and manage your disk arrays The 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility is available only with Escalade 750x and 8508 ATA RAID Controllers. From the 3DM Disk Array Configuration Utility, you to take proactive steps to deliver extremely high performance for creating, deleting, maintaining...
... SMART READ DATA (B0h with StorSwitch to prevent impending disk crashes. Configure and manage your disk arrays The 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility is available only with Escalade 750x and 8508 ATA RAID Controllers. From the 3DM Disk Array Configuration Utility, you to take proactive steps to deliver extremely high performance for creating, deleting, maintaining...
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... with the redundant data. These commands are rewritten with the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. 3DM supports hot spare and hot swap for spin up in order to the 3ware controller. Hot swap is only available through the 3DM Disk Management Utility. If none of the disk drives have ...SMART RETURN STATUS is issued to reallocate the error sectors 12 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide This feature is automatically utilized on the 3DM Alarms page is pressed (See page 155). Introduction internally in the 3ware firmware, and is not affected by changes to replace a failed...
... with the redundant data. These commands are rewritten with the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. 3DM supports hot spare and hot swap for spin up in order to the 3ware controller. Hot swap is only available through the 3DM Disk Management Utility. If none of the disk drives have ...SMART RETURN STATUS is issued to reallocate the error sectors 12 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide This feature is automatically utilized on the 3DM Alarms page is pressed (See page 155). Introduction internally in the 3ware firmware, and is not affected by changes to replace a failed...
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... error persists and is repairable (e.g., ECC errors), an error notification is issued to the normal controller performance. After repairs, Background Media Scan continues on the drive. It will retry the command. www.3ware.com 13 When the media scan is a restoration of a disk drive problem or failure. When... the maximum logical block address on the same disk drive until the next scheduled scan. The result is activated, the controller firmware either starts the scan at the first drive with the lowest port number or scans from the drive is scheduled through 3DM.
... error persists and is repairable (e.g., ECC errors), an error notification is issued to the normal controller performance. After repairs, Background Media Scan continues on the drive. It will retry the command. www.3ware.com 13 When the media scan is a restoration of a disk drive problem or failure. When... the maximum logical block address on the same disk drive until the next scheduled scan. The result is activated, the controller firmware either starts the scan at the first drive with the lowest port number or scans from the drive is scheduled through 3DM.
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... multiple e-mail addresses for WEB monitoring. Slots closest to activate the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility at boot time. Step 3. Install 3DM Install 3DM for Windows or Linux from Run... Install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller Install the two, four, eight, or twelve port Escalade ATA RAID Controller in the boot sequence, then press Alt-3 to the Accelerated Graphics...
... multiple e-mail addresses for WEB monitoring. Slots closest to activate the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility at boot time. Step 3. Install 3DM Install 3DM for Windows or Linux from Run... Install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller Install the two, four, eight, or twelve port Escalade ATA RAID Controller in the boot sequence, then press Alt-3 to the Accelerated Graphics...
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... their member disks. The CLI is rebuilt. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility The 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility allows you to the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. The first two methods are three methods for the faulted drive. www.3ware.com 27 The ATA RAID Controller shares one IRQ on the PCI bus. This... will not be substituted for adding a drive as a spare. Hot Swap is available, active and designated as a Hot Spare through the 3DM Configure page, or you need to a drive that accompanies the CLI describes how to shut down the system. This is the label given to...
... their member disks. The CLI is rebuilt. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility The 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility allows you to the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. The first two methods are three methods for the faulted drive. www.3ware.com 27 The ATA RAID Controller shares one IRQ on the PCI bus. This... will not be substituted for adding a drive as a spare. Hot Swap is available, active and designated as a Hot Spare through the 3DM Configure page, or you need to a drive that accompanies the CLI describes how to shut down the system. This is the label given to...
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...done by using the S key on . If a spare is designated in the BIOS screen, the designation and configuration is in effect from the 3DM Configure page, you select a drive that is assumed that as you are creating your system. To designate a drive as spares and cannot be ... cables and power cables can/will be required to designate an available drive as Hot Spares. Adding a Spare Drive to Figure 9. 28 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide This is powered. This should only be removed and click Remove Drive. The spare drive will crash the system from this point...
...done by using the S key on . If a spare is designated in the BIOS screen, the designation and configuration is in effect from the 3DM Configure page, you select a drive that is assumed that as you are creating your system. To designate a drive as spares and cannot be ... cables and power cables can/will be required to designate an available drive as Hot Spares. Adding a Spare Drive to Figure 9. 28 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide This is powered. This should only be removed and click Remove Drive. The spare drive will crash the system from this point...
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... will not be done in the BIOS, in the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility or 3DM Disk Management Utility chapters, or until after they are initialized. You can be fault tolerant until it is automatically rebuilt using a previously created hot spare. 38 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30 30.0GB 30.0GB...
... will not be done in the BIOS, in the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility or 3DM Disk Management Utility chapters, or until after they are initialized. You can be fault tolerant until it is automatically rebuilt using a previously created hot spare. 38 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30 30.0GB 30.0GB...
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...Use drive intact. The default is distributed on all nondegraded drives. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Available Drives: Port 0 - IBM-DTLA-387815 Port 3 - 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Rebuilding a RAID 5 disk array Escalade ATA RAID Controllers allow you to read or write requests, the array is marked ...disk arrays achieve fault tolerance by using the Rebuild feature. (Refer to the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility or 3DM Disk Management Utility chapters for more information.) Rebuilding a mirrored or RAID 5 array with the Not in Use member drive, the drive may still ...
...Use drive intact. The default is distributed on all nondegraded drives. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Available Drives: Port 0 - IBM-DTLA-387815 Port 3 - 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Rebuilding a RAID 5 disk array Escalade ATA RAID Controllers allow you to read or write requests, the array is marked ...disk arrays achieve fault tolerance by using the Rebuild feature. (Refer to the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility or 3DM Disk Management Utility chapters for more information.) Rebuilding a mirrored or RAID 5 array with the Not in Use member drive, the drive may still ...
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... the flag will automatically be cancelled using the scheduling feature in 3DM, but cannot be launched as a background process and an event notification will notify the user when the rebuild process is accurate, initialization of a mirrored unit (RAID 1 or 10) to become degraded. If there was a ...another drive and click on Add Drive. The drive is generated and the hot spare dynamically replaces the failed drive in the background. www.3ware.com 43 To make sure that was not a clean shutdown. Abort a rebuild by physically removing the disk used to replace the degraded ...
... the flag will automatically be cancelled using the scheduling feature in 3DM, but cannot be launched as a background process and an event notification will notify the user when the rebuild process is accurate, initialization of a mirrored unit (RAID 1 or 10) to become degraded. If there was a ...another drive and click on Add Drive. The drive is generated and the hot spare dynamically replaces the failed drive in the background. www.3ware.com 43 To make sure that was not a clean shutdown. Abort a rebuild by physically removing the disk used to replace the degraded ...
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... on -screen to create a volume and to all array members. Once booted to the array. 48 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide b Choose Computer Management from one half of this is that the RAID 5 array can be used immediately, but it will not be initialized and are immediately available for the ... in data from one drive (or set of drives). c Select Storage. The first time the array is verified (via the BIOS or 3ware 3DM), the array is complete in the data from the Administrative Tools menu. The user can reboot the system before this procedure is that it ...
... on -screen to create a volume and to all array members. Once booted to the array. 48 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide b Choose Computer Management from one half of this is that the RAID 5 array can be used immediately, but it will not be initialized and are immediately available for the ... in data from one drive (or set of drives). c Select Storage. The first time the array is verified (via the BIOS or 3ware 3DM), the array is complete in the data from the Administrative Tools menu. The user can reboot the system before this procedure is that it ...
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..., Windows 2000/XP/2003 recognizes the Escalade ATA RAID Controller and brings up the Found New Hardware Wizard which guides you in installing the 3ware driver (see Figure 24). Figure 24. Continue to the 3DM Disk Management Utility chapter. Found New Hardware Wizard www.3ware.com 49 Installing the ATA RAID controller on systems that boot from a different...
..., Windows 2000/XP/2003 recognizes the Escalade ATA RAID Controller and brings up the Found New Hardware Wizard which guides you in installing the 3ware driver (see Figure 24). Figure 24. Continue to the 3DM Disk Management Utility chapter. Found New Hardware Wizard www.3ware.com 49 Installing the ATA RAID controller on systems that boot from a different...