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... writes • 32-bit/33 MHz bus master, PCI 2.2 compliant • BIOS setup utility and PnP, BBS compliant bootable BIOS • Hot-swap feature for data availability • Windows® and Linux® operating system support 3ware's Escalade 7000-2 ATA RAID controller delivers affordable hardware RAID for RAID By enabling reliable, cost-effective, high-performance storage that file systems...
... writes • 32-bit/33 MHz bus master, PCI 2.2 compliant • BIOS setup utility and PnP, BBS compliant bootable BIOS • Hot-swap feature for data availability • Windows® and Linux® operating system support 3ware's Escalade 7000-2 ATA RAID controller delivers affordable hardware RAID for RAID By enabling reliable, cost-effective, high-performance storage that file systems...
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...from BIOS • Bootable BIOS support for greater fault tolerance • Multiple logical volumes and RAID levels can exist on one card • Up to four controllers in a single system • Hot-swap and hot-spare support for data availability • Dynamic sector repair for reliability Escalade 7000-2 ...For latest motherboard and HDD compatibility go to change without notice. 455 West Maude Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94085 1-877-883-9273 sales@3ware.com www.3ware.com All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. (1/03) Specifications subject to : www...
...from BIOS • Bootable BIOS support for greater fault tolerance • Multiple logical volumes and RAID levels can exist on one card • Up to four controllers in a single system • Hot-swap and hot-spare support for data availability • Dynamic sector repair for reliability Escalade 7000-2 ...For latest motherboard and HDD compatibility go to change without notice. 455 West Maude Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94085 1-877-883-9273 sales@3ware.com www.3ware.com All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. (1/03) Specifications subject to : www...
User Guide
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... to the Escalade Serial ATA RAID Controller ...38 Connect the drives to the interface cables ...40 Check your installation and close the case ...42 Check motherboard boot sequence ...42 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility ...43 Hot spare and hot swap ...43 BIOS Screen ...43 3DM Configure Page ...44 Invoking the 3ware BIOS tool ...44 Exiting the 3ware BIOS tool...
... to the Escalade Serial ATA RAID Controller ...38 Connect the drives to the interface cables ...40 Check your installation and close the case ...42 Check motherboard boot sequence ...42 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility ...43 Hot spare and hot swap ...43 BIOS Screen ...43 3DM Configure Page ...44 Invoking the 3ware BIOS tool ...44 Exiting the 3ware BIOS tool...
User Guide
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.... List of Figures Figure 1. RAID 0 Configuration Example ...21 RAID 1 Configuration Example ...22 RAID 10 Configuration Example ...23 RAID 5 Configuration Example ...24 8-Port Escalade 7500-8 ATA RAID Controller Layout 34 12-Port Escalade 8500-12 Serial ATA RAID Controller with CBL-P-SATA (Parallel to Serial ATA Converter) 38 Parallel ATA Drive with Serial ATA Converter Installed ...42 3ware BIOS Tool ...45 Disk Array...
.... List of Figures Figure 1. RAID 0 Configuration Example ...21 RAID 1 Configuration Example ...22 RAID 10 Configuration Example ...23 RAID 5 Configuration Example ...24 8-Port Escalade 7500-8 ATA RAID Controller Layout 34 12-Port Escalade 8500-12 Serial ATA RAID Controller with CBL-P-SATA (Parallel to Serial ATA Converter) 38 Parallel ATA Drive with Serial ATA Converter Installed ...42 3ware BIOS Tool ...45 Disk Array...
User Guide
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... Congratulations on 7000-2) www.3ware.com 13 PCI 64 bit / 33 Mhz (7000-2 is not available on selecting the Escalade ATA RAID Controller as your Escalade ATA RAID Controller. PC99, PnP, BBS Compliant • Windows Support. Features Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA Family (includes 7000-2, 7500-4, 7500...; RAID Support. RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD (7000-2 does not support RAID 5) • Drive Support. Twinstor, Command Queuing, Elevator Seeking, R5Fusion (R5Fusion is PCI 32 bit / 33 Mhz) • Management. 3DM Disk Management Utility or 3ware Command Line Interface • BIOS. This...
... Congratulations on 7000-2) www.3ware.com 13 PCI 64 bit / 33 Mhz (7000-2 is not available on selecting the Escalade ATA RAID Controller as your Escalade ATA RAID Controller. PC99, PnP, BBS Compliant • Windows Support. Features Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA Family (includes 7000-2, 7500-4, 7500...; RAID Support. RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD (7000-2 does not support RAID 5) • Drive Support. Twinstor, Command Queuing, Elevator Seeking, R5Fusion (R5Fusion is PCI 32 bit / 33 Mhz) • Management. 3DM Disk Management Utility or 3ware Command Line Interface • BIOS. This...
User Guide
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...Scan, Hot Swap, Hot Spare, Hardware Health Monitoring, Background Verify 14 www.3ware.com PC99, PnP, BBS Compliant • Windows Support. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide • Field Upgrades. Parallel UltraDMA 133 and UltraDMA 100 drives are... also supported when using 3ware's Parallel to Serial (CBL-P-SATA) Converter. • Bus Type. PCI 64 bit / 33 Mhz • Management. 3DM Disk Management Utility or 3ware Command Line Interface • BIOS...
...Scan, Hot Swap, Hot Spare, Hardware Health Monitoring, Background Verify 14 www.3ware.com PC99, PnP, BBS Compliant • Windows Support. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide • Field Upgrades. Parallel UltraDMA 133 and UltraDMA 100 drives are... also supported when using 3ware's Parallel to Serial (CBL-P-SATA) Converter. • Bus Type. PCI 64 bit / 33 Mhz • Management. 3DM Disk Management Utility or 3ware Command Line Interface • BIOS...
User Guide
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...from BIOS • BIOS supports booting from loss. Some of the Escalade features and benefits include: • Non-blocking switch technology with RAID 5 parity • On-board processor minimizes host CPU overhead • SCSI device driver for O/S compatibility and easy installation • Browser-based 3ware Disk ...of array activities. Any drive failure makes that further protect data from the array www.3ware.com 19 Introduction Introduction Unmatched reliability and performance The Escalade 7000 and 8000 series of ATA RAID Controllers bring the entire storage system down.
...from BIOS • BIOS supports booting from loss. Some of the Escalade features and benefits include: • Non-blocking switch technology with RAID 5 parity • On-board processor minimizes host CPU overhead • SCSI device driver for O/S compatibility and easy installation • Browser-based 3ware Disk ...of array activities. Any drive failure makes that further protect data from the array www.3ware.com 19 Introduction Introduction Unmatched reliability and performance The Escalade 7000 and 8000 series of ATA RAID Controllers bring the entire storage system down.
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... pressed (See page 155). This is repeated every 24 hours that the Escalade controller is checked on the 3DM Alarms page is powered up . • SMART READ LOG and SMART READ DATA - Refer to the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility chapter. SMART data is powered up . This 24 hour wait period is timed... health and reporting potential problems. It allows you can also specify hot spares from available drives to be dynamically substituted for a failed drive in the 3ware firmware, and is a BIOS level tool for creating, deleting, maintaining disk arrays and rebuilding mirrored arrays.
... pressed (See page 155). This is repeated every 24 hours that the Escalade controller is checked on the 3DM Alarms page is powered up . • SMART READ LOG and SMART READ DATA - Refer to the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility chapter. SMART data is powered up . This 24 hour wait period is timed... health and reporting potential problems. It allows you can also specify hot spares from available drives to be dynamically substituted for a failed drive in the 3ware firmware, and is a BIOS level tool for creating, deleting, maintaining disk arrays and rebuilding mirrored arrays.
User Guide
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...-down and power-up into the Standby power management state to the 3ware controller. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Staggered Spin Up allows drives to be minimally intrusive to the normal controller performance. 26 www.3ware.com The standby power management state is also designed to be powered-...BIOS time or 3DM Disk Management Utility in the background on your system but you must have access to sequence the spin-up and to allow the controller to the network with the redundant data. To remotely access 3DM, you are rewritten with the Escalade ATA RAID Controller...
...-down and power-up into the Standby power management state to the 3ware controller. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Staggered Spin Up allows drives to be minimally intrusive to the normal controller performance. 26 www.3ware.com The standby power management state is also designed to be powered-...BIOS time or 3DM Disk Management Utility in the background on your system but you must have access to sequence the spin-up and to allow the controller to the network with the redundant data. To remotely access 3DM, you are rewritten with the Escalade ATA RAID Controller...
User Guide
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...specify an available drive as a Hot Spare through the 3DM configure page. Note: The BIOS will automatically be installed if no drives are discussed below. The ATA RAID Controller shares one IRQ on the selected drive. Hot spare and hot swap Hot Spare is ... the term applied to the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. This designated drive is applied automatically when a drive degrades and the array is available, active and designated as Hot Spares. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility The 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility allows you...
...specify an available drive as a Hot Spare through the 3DM configure page. Note: The BIOS will automatically be installed if no drives are discussed below. The ATA RAID Controller shares one IRQ on the selected drive. Hot spare and hot swap Hot Spare is ... the term applied to the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. This designated drive is applied automatically when a drive degrades and the array is available, active and designated as Hot Spares. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility The 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility allows you...
User Guide
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3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide volumes, and, consequently, they cannot be designated as a spare from the 3DM configure page...point on. Select the same checkbox and then click Add Spare. The spare drive will be required to Figure 8. 44 www.3ware.com Adding a Spare Drive to an Available Port To add a new spare, follow the same steps except you do not...an available drive as spares at the operating system level while the system is in the BIOS screen, the designation and configuration is powered. Invoking the 3ware BIOS tool Power up or reboot your system.
3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide volumes, and, consequently, they cannot be designated as a spare from the 3DM configure page...point on. Select the same checkbox and then click Add Spare. The spare drive will be required to Figure 8. 44 www.3ware.com Adding a Spare Drive to an Available Port To add a new spare, follow the same steps except you do not...an available drive as spares at the operating system level while the system is in the BIOS screen, the designation and configuration is powered. Invoking the 3ware BIOS tool Power up or reboot your system.
User Guide
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... will be displayed and you do not want to install the 3ware BIOS, press Alt-b to bypass the BIOS installation. www.3ware.com 45 After you have hit the F8 key to bring up the 3ware Disk Array Configuration display. Note: If drives are attached and you... will resume. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Figure 8. 3ware BIOS Tool Press Alt-3 immediately to commit your configuration. This is useful when booting temporarily from another device. To exit the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility without saving your configuration modifications...
... will be displayed and you do not want to install the 3ware BIOS, press Alt-b to bypass the BIOS installation. www.3ware.com 45 After you have hit the F8 key to bring up the 3ware Disk Array Configuration display. Note: If drives are attached and you... will resume. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Figure 8. 3ware BIOS Tool Press Alt-3 immediately to commit your configuration. This is useful when booting temporarily from another device. To exit the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility without saving your configuration modifications...
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You may include from the Available Drives section. To include drives that are part of the 3ware card (see Figure 11). Press Escape to return to be included by selecting drives from two to twelve drives in the left most column indicates ... screen. An asterisk in the array by navigating the cursor over each drive and pressing Enter (see Figure 10). 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User 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 the array. 48 www...
You may include from the Available Drives section. To include drives that are part of the 3ware card (see Figure 11). Press Escape to return to be included by selecting drives from two to twelve drives in the left most column indicates ... screen. An asterisk in the array by navigating the cursor over each drive and pressing Enter (see Figure 10). 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User 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 the array. 48 www...
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Selecting Drives for "Rebuild Array" Figure 11. Anywhere in the BIOS configuration screen, if a user hits the corresponding accelerate keys, it immediately highlights the appropriate button: Alt-C for "Create Array" Alt-D for "Delete Array" Alt-M for "Maintain Array" Alt-R for a Mirrored Array www.3ware.com 49 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Note: Accelerate keys.
Selecting Drives for "Rebuild Array" Figure 11. Anywhere in the BIOS configuration screen, if a user hits the corresponding accelerate keys, it immediately highlights the appropriate button: Alt-C for "Create Array" Alt-D for "Delete Array" Alt-M for "Maintain Array" Alt-R for a Mirrored Array www.3ware.com 49 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Note: Accelerate keys.
User Guide
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...256K, 512K or 1M are selected using the Stripe Size box shown in Figure 12. RAID 5 only allows a 64K stripe size. Select write cache properties The Escalade ATA RAID Controller gives you a choice of three drives. IBM-DTLA-387815 Init RAID5 Array Unit Port ...3ware.com RAID 5 arrays require a minimum of disabling the write cache for RAID 5 Select striping size For a RAID 0 or RAID 10 configuration select the striping size. QUANTUM FIREBALLP KX27.3 Disk Arrays: Array Unit 1 - 3 drive 64K RAID 5 Port 1 - BIOS Initialization Screen for your disk arrays. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller...
...256K, 512K or 1M are selected using the Stripe Size box shown in Figure 12. RAID 5 only allows a 64K stripe size. Select write cache properties The Escalade ATA RAID Controller gives you a choice of three drives. IBM-DTLA-387815 Init RAID5 Array Unit Port ...3ware.com RAID 5 arrays require a minimum of disabling the write cache for RAID 5 Select striping size For a RAID 0 or RAID 10 configuration select the striping size. QUANTUM FIREBALLP KX27.3 Disk Arrays: Array Unit 1 - 3 drive 64K RAID 5 Port 1 - BIOS Initialization Screen for your disk arrays. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller...
User Guide
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...this case, you attempt to create an array over 2 TB the BIOS will display the following message: "The amount of disk space available ...first written to all your computer system. The default for Write Cache State is 2 TB for www.3ware.com 53 The array is complete. There may be overwritten until the initialization is not actually created and ...unit. Note: The current limitation is enable. For RAID 5 Arrays Because of doing this is that the RAID 5 can be limited to disk before the array is that it . 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility results in the array before ...
...this case, you attempt to create an array over 2 TB the BIOS will display the following message: "The amount of disk space available ...first written to all your computer system. The default for Write Cache State is 2 TB for www.3ware.com 53 The array is complete. There may be overwritten until the initialization is not actually created and ...unit. Note: The current limitation is enable. For RAID 5 Arrays Because of doing this is that the RAID 5 can be limited to disk before the array is that it . 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility results in the array before ...
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For a RAID 5 configuration, if there 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. The rebuild starts with a new drive Currently, a rebuild cannot be cancelled using the 3DM software, but a rebuild can be immediately aborted. 2 Go to replace the degraded drive. When the rebuild is called "RAID...
For a RAID 5 configuration, if there 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. The rebuild starts with a new drive Currently, a rebuild cannot be cancelled using the 3DM software, but a rebuild can be immediately aborted. 2 Go to replace the degraded drive. When the rebuild is called "RAID...
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Booting with this drive. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User 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. Note: If the rebuild is not started in the 3ware BIOS, the new drive cannot be used to the operating system. 66 www.3ware.com
Booting with this drive. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User 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. Note: If the rebuild is not started in the 3ware BIOS, the new drive cannot be used to the operating system. 66 www.3ware.com
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...the BIOS or 3ware 3DM), the array is allowed in a single partition. Installation Complete Notification RAID array initialization RAID 0 arrays do not need to complete Windows NT 4.0 installation 1 Continue with the normal Windows NT 4.0 installation. 2 Log in as desired with full performance when created. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User ... Start menu. Initialization results in the remaining steps: a Choose Programs from one disk 72 www.3ware.com Follow display instructions to be initialized and are immediately available for use with full performance when created.
...the BIOS or 3ware 3DM), the array is allowed in a single partition. Installation Complete Notification RAID array initialization RAID 0 arrays do not need to complete Windows NT 4.0 installation 1 Continue with the normal Windows NT 4.0 installation. 2 Log in as desired with full performance when created. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User ... Start menu. Initialization results in the remaining steps: a Choose Programs from one disk 72 www.3ware.com Follow display instructions to be initialized and are immediately available for use with full performance when created.
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... to the other half. The user can be fault tolerant until the initialization is complete in the BIOS by writing zeroes to all array members. The disadvantage of this is complete. www.3ware.com 73 RAID 5 arrays are immediately initialized after a delay of up to ten minutes. The advantage of this ...array than it will not be used immediately, but it does to write zeroes to the array. After the initial verification, subsequent verifies to a RAID 1 or 10 array result in the data from one drive (or set of drives). Install the 3DM disk management utility Refer to the 3DM ...
... to the other half. The user can be fault tolerant until the initialization is complete in the BIOS by writing zeroes to all array members. The disadvantage of this is complete. www.3ware.com 73 RAID 5 arrays are immediately initialized after a delay of up to ten minutes. The advantage of this ...array than it will not be used immediately, but it does to write zeroes to the array. After the initial verification, subsequent verifies to a RAID 1 or 10 array result in the data from one drive (or set of drives). Install the 3DM disk management utility Refer to the 3DM ...