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User Guide Escalade® ATA RAID Controller Supports the 7000 and 8000 Series and Release 7.7.x of the 3ware Software PN 900-0041-00 December, 2003
User Guide Escalade® ATA RAID Controller Supports the 7000 and 8000 Series and Release 7.7.x of the 3ware Software PN 900-0041-00 December, 2003
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... scan and dynamic sector repair enhance data integrity . . . 12 Quick Installation Guide 14 3ware Hardware Installation 17 To remove an existing Escalade ATA RAID Controller 17 Installing a Parallel ATA RAID Controller 18 Connect the interface cables to the Escalade ATA RAID Controller 18 Install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller in the computer 19 Connect the drives to the interface cables 20 Installing...
... scan and dynamic sector repair enhance data integrity . . . 12 Quick Installation Guide 14 3ware Hardware Installation 17 To remove an existing Escalade ATA RAID Controller 17 Installing a Parallel ATA RAID Controller 18 Connect the interface cables to the Escalade ATA RAID Controller 18 Install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller in the computer 19 Connect the drives to the interface cables 20 Installing...
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... 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 59 Linux...
... 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 59 Linux...
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.... Figure 25. Figure 27. Figure 36. 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 BIOS Tool 29 Disk Array Configuration...
.... Figure 25. Figure 27. Figure 36. 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 BIOS Tool 29 Disk Array Configuration...
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Figure 44. Figure 46. Figure 48. Figure 42. Figure 47. 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. Figure 49. 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 45. Figure 43. Figure 41.
Figure 44. Figure 46. Figure 48. Figure 42. Figure 47. 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. Figure 49. 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 45. Figure 43. Figure 41.
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...Escalade ATA RAID Controller as your equipment and data, carefully read the information that follows the Features list before you begin installing. 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...-8, 7500-12, are all PCI 64-bit / 33MHz ■ 7506-4LP, 7506-8, 7506-12, are all PCI 64-bit / 66MHz. ■ Management. 3DM® Disk Management Utility or 3ware Command Line Interface www.3ware.com 1 The information in this manual also supports the following legacy products...
...Escalade ATA RAID Controller as your equipment and data, carefully read the information that follows the Features list before you begin installing. 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...-8, 7500-12, are all PCI 64-bit / 33MHz ■ 7506-4LP, 7506-8, 7506-12, are all PCI 64-bit / 66MHz. ■ Management. 3DM® Disk Management Utility or 3ware Command Line Interface www.3ware.com 1 The information in this manual also supports the following legacy products...
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..., SuSE. (Drivers available in Open Source.) ■ FreeBSD. Redhat, SuSE. (Drivers available in Open Source.) ■ FreeBSD. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers 2 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Windows 2000 with SP3 or newer, Windows XP with SP1 or newer, and Windows Server 2003 ■ Linux Support. Version 4.8 ■ Performance. Field...
..., SuSE. (Drivers available in Open Source.) ■ FreeBSD. Redhat, SuSE. (Drivers available in Open Source.) ■ FreeBSD. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers 2 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Windows 2000 with SP3 or newer, Windows XP with SP1 or newer, and Windows Server 2003 ■ Linux Support. Version 4.8 ■ Performance. Field...
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..., Hot Swap, Hot Spare, Hardware Health Monitoring, Background Verify Note: The Escalade Serial ATA controller can be used with the following : 3DM, Drivers and Escalade User Guide (.pdf format) ■ 3ware Release Notes ■ 3ware Installation Guide Escalade 8000 series Serial ATA RAID Controller ■ Escalade Serial ATA RAID Controller in conjunction. Package Contents If your retail package is the simpler...
..., Hot Swap, Hot Spare, Hardware Health Monitoring, Background Verify Note: The Escalade Serial ATA controller can be used with the following : 3DM, Drivers and Escalade User Guide (.pdf format) ■ 3ware Release Notes ■ 3ware Installation Guide Escalade 8000 series Serial ATA RAID Controller ■ Escalade Serial ATA RAID Controller in conjunction. Package Contents If your retail package is the simpler...
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... up and save data elsewhere before changing your array configuration. 4 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Drives must meet UltraATA-133 or UltraATA-100 standards, but may not exceed 36" (91.4 cm) for parallel ATA controllers and 1M (39") for best performance. Length of unshielded interface ... Standard hand tools to two, four, eight, or twelve IDE/ATA drives by the supplied interface cables. The ATA RAID Controller may be used . For the Escalade 7506 and 8506, install the card in this package or removing the protective covers of any computer equipment, turn off power...
... up and save data elsewhere before changing your array configuration. 4 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Drives must meet UltraATA-133 or UltraATA-100 standards, but may not exceed 36" (91.4 cm) for parallel ATA controllers and 1M (39") for best performance. Length of unshielded interface ... Standard hand tools to two, four, eight, or twelve IDE/ATA drives by the supplied interface cables. The ATA RAID Controller may be used . For the Escalade 7506 and 8506, install the card in this package or removing the protective covers of any computer equipment, turn off power...
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... them upside-down. ■ Interface cables are fragile and must be crimped or pinched. Mechanical Concerns Be careful when installing the Escalade ATA RAID Controller into your system. ■ Be sure the board is open and its internal parts are exposed, don't touch any pins. ...contact, lead or component on the motherboard before installing. www.3ware.com 5 ESD Precautions ESD Precautions Standard electrostatic discharge (ESD) precautions must be followed to prevent you are properly grounded. ■ Handle the ATA RAID Controller by its edges or by the black rail and metal bracket...
... them upside-down. ■ Interface cables are fragile and must be crimped or pinched. Mechanical Concerns Be careful when installing the Escalade ATA RAID Controller into your system. ■ Be sure the board is open and its internal parts are exposed, don't touch any pins. ...contact, lead or component on the motherboard before installing. www.3ware.com 5 ESD Precautions ESD Precautions Standard electrostatic discharge (ESD) precautions must be followed to prevent you are properly grounded. ■ Handle the ATA RAID Controller by its edges or by the black rail and metal bracket...
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... may use the bus at http://www.3ware.com/support/download.asp, and described in 3ware Escalade Command Line Interface User Guide) www.3ware.com 7 Some of the Escalade features and benefits include: ■ Non-blocking switch technology with RAID 5 parity ■ On-board processor minimizes... to arbitration latency and only one another. The Escalade 7000 and 8000 series uses a non-blocking switched architecture to make the data available. Introduction Unmatched reliability and performance The Escalade 7000 and 8000 series of ATA RAID Controllers bring the entire storage system down.
... may use the bus at http://www.3ware.com/support/download.asp, and described in 3ware Escalade Command Line Interface User Guide) www.3ware.com 7 Some of the Escalade features and benefits include: ■ Non-blocking switch technology with RAID 5 parity ■ On-board processor minimizes... to arbitration latency and only one another. The Escalade 7000 and 8000 series uses a non-blocking switched architecture to make the data available. 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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...Escalade 8000 series of Serial ATA RAID cards are configured in a striped disk array (see Figure 1), the Escalade ATA RAID Controller distributes large files across the multiple disks using RAID 0 techniques. Based on 7500, 7506, 8500 and 8506 models) Escalade Serial ATA Controller The Escalade 8000 series of RAID controllers... 64K, 128K, 256K, 512K or 1M. 8 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide disk drive monitoring for reliability ■ R5 Fusion technology for accelerated RAID 5 writes (only available on 3ware's 4th generation network switched architecture, the 8000 series ...
...Escalade 8000 series of Serial ATA RAID cards are configured in a striped disk array (see Figure 1), the Escalade ATA RAID Controller distributes large files across the multiple disks using RAID 0 techniques. Based on 7500, 7506, 8500 and 8506 models) Escalade Serial ATA Controller The Escalade 8000 series of RAID controllers... 64K, 128K, 256K, 512K or 1M. 8 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide disk drive monitoring for reliability ■ R5 Fusion technology for accelerated RAID 5 writes (only available on 3ware's 4th generation network switched architecture, the 8000 series ...
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...for mission critical systems like web and database servers. Figure 2. RAID 1 Configuration Example TwinStorTM Technology adds performance to 3ware's mirrored disk arrays Traditional mirroring techniques do little to use this technique. Unlike other RAID levels, RAID 0 is not redundant, so loss of any disk drive results... in 3ware's TwinStor technology boost performance by preserving the data on one drive if the other drive fails. RAID 10 arrays maximize performance and fault ...
...for mission critical systems like web and database servers. Figure 2. RAID 1 Configuration Example TwinStorTM Technology adds performance to 3ware's mirrored disk arrays Traditional mirroring techniques do little to use this technique. Unlike other RAID levels, RAID 0 is not redundant, so loss of any disk drive results... in 3ware's TwinStor technology boost performance by preserving the data on one drive if the other drive fails. RAID 10 arrays maximize performance and fault ...
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... having less than being concentrated on a single disk (see Figure 4). Unlike all drives rather than 3 drives. 10 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Note: BIOS will reject the creation of RAID 4. RAID 10 is limited to 87.5% for 8 drives: storage efficiency = (number of drives -1) ÷ (number of one drive. Higher data transfer rates are then...
... having less than being concentrated on a single disk (see Figure 4). Unlike all drives rather than 3 drives. 10 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Note: BIOS will reject the creation of RAID 4. RAID 10 is limited to 87.5% for 8 drives: storage efficiency = (number of drives -1) ÷ (number of one drive. Higher data transfer rates are then...
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...the Features register equal to prevent impending disk crashes. This command is issued 24 hours after the Escalade controller is checked on the RAID controller will not benefit from available drives to deliver extremely high performance for creating, deleting, maintaining disk arrays... Figure 4. Configure and manage your disk arrays The 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility is available only with StorSwitch to be dynamically substituted for both large sequential and small random transactions. This 24 hour wait period is combined with Escalade 750x and 8508 ATA RAID Controllers.
...the Features register equal to prevent impending disk crashes. This command is issued 24 hours after the Escalade controller is checked on the RAID controller will not benefit from available drives to deliver extremely high performance for creating, deleting, maintaining disk arrays... Figure 4. Configure and manage your disk arrays The 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility is available only with StorSwitch to be dynamically substituted for both large sequential and small random transactions. This 24 hour wait period is combined with Escalade 750x and 8508 ATA RAID Controllers.
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..."threshold exceeded" condition, then an AEN is logged to the network with the redundant data. This feature is automatically utilized on the Escalade ATA RAID Controller's host and allows you to sequence the spin-up of the Error Log, starting after power-down and power-up . ■... at power-up in order to reallocate the error sectors 12 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Hot swap is powered up . Introduction internally in the 3ware firmware, and is not affected by changes to the 3ware controller. If any disk drive connected to the system clock. To remotely...
..."threshold exceeded" condition, then an AEN is logged to the network with the redundant data. This feature is automatically utilized on the Escalade ATA RAID Controller's host and allows you to sequence the spin-up of the Error Log, starting after power-down and power-up . ■... at power-up in order to reallocate the error sectors 12 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Hot swap is powered up . Introduction internally in the 3ware firmware, and is not affected by changes to the 3ware controller. If any disk drive connected to the system clock. To remotely...
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... Hat and SuSE Linux ■ FreeBSD Step 4. in an available PCI slot. www.3ware.com 15 Install 3DM Install 3DM for WEB monitoring. Step 1. Install system drivers The Escalade ATA RAID Controller drivers must be installed according to activate the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility at boot time. Linux mount /dev/cdrom /mnt cd /mnt...
... Hat and SuSE Linux ■ FreeBSD Step 4. in an available PCI slot. www.3ware.com 15 Install 3DM Install 3DM for WEB monitoring. Step 1. Install system drivers The Escalade ATA RAID Controller drivers must be installed according to activate the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility at boot time. Linux mount /dev/cdrom /mnt cd /mnt...
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... which physical disk is connected to port 0 on the new ATA RAID Controller. To remove an existing Escalade ATA RAID Controller 1 If the computer is running, shut it as your computer or the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. However, it is recommended that completely describes personal and system precautions. 3ware Hardware Installation Warning: Before proceeding with hardware installation, read the...
... which physical disk is connected to port 0 on the new ATA RAID Controller. To remove an existing Escalade ATA RAID Controller 1 If the computer is running, shut it as your computer or the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. However, it is recommended that completely describes personal and system precautions. 3ware Hardware Installation Warning: Before proceeding with hardware installation, read the...
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... 1 and 4 are 3.3V and pin 2 and 3 are not installing a Parallel ATA RAID Controller, continue to page 21 "Installing a Serial ATA RAID Controller". 3ware Hardware Installation 6 Gently remove the ATA RAID Controller from the PCI slot. 7 Remove the cables from the ATA RAID Controller and discard. See Figure 5. 18 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Ports: 65 4 7 3 21 0 0 Serial Number (on plate) Figure...
... 1 and 4 are 3.3V and pin 2 and 3 are not installing a Parallel ATA RAID Controller, continue to page 21 "Installing a Serial ATA RAID Controller". 3ware Hardware Installation 6 Gently remove the ATA RAID Controller from the PCI slot. 7 Remove the cables from the ATA RAID Controller and discard. See Figure 5. 18 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Ports: 65 4 7 3 21 0 0 Serial Number (on plate) Figure...