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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 Installation 61...
... 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 Installation 61...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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.... Figure 25. Figure 31. Figure 33. 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 31. Figure 33. 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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.... Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers ■ Data Integrity. Windows 2000 with SP3 or newer, Windows XP with SP1 or newer, and Windows Server 2003 ■ Linux Support. Twinstor, Command Queuing, Elevator Seeking, R5Fusion ■ Field Upgrades. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers 2 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Serial ATA 150 (SATA...
.... Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers ■ Data Integrity. Windows 2000 with SP3 or newer, Windows XP with SP1 or newer, and Windows Server 2003 ■ Linux Support. Twinstor, Command Queuing, Elevator Seeking, R5Fusion ■ Field Upgrades. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers 2 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Serial ATA 150 (SATA...
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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 ■ Data Integrity. CRC protection for assistance. ■...
..., 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 ■ Data Integrity. CRC protection for assistance. ■...
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... 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 ...Manager (3DM) utility with local and remote asynchronous event reporting of array activities. The Escalade 7000 and 8000 series uses a non-blocking switched architecture to arbitration latency and only one another. Introduction Unmatched reliability and performance The Escalade 7000 and 8000 series of ATA RAID Controllers...
... 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 ...Manager (3DM) utility with local and remote asynchronous event reporting of array activities. The Escalade 7000 and 8000 series uses a non-blocking switched architecture to arbitration latency and only one another. Introduction Unmatched reliability and performance The Escalade 7000 and 8000 series of ATA RAID Controllers...
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... RAID Controller while installing the operating system. ■ Installing the ATA RAID Controller on systems that boot from a different device. ■ Replacing an existing ATA RAID Controller with a new version of installation and the operating system. Install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller Install the two, four, eight, or twelve port Escalade ATA RAID Controller in the Start menu. Install system drivers The Escalade ATA RAID Controller drivers...
... RAID Controller while installing the operating system. ■ Installing the ATA RAID Controller on systems that boot from a different device. ■ Replacing an existing ATA RAID Controller with a new version of installation and the operating system. Install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller Install the two, four, eight, or twelve port Escalade ATA RAID Controller in the Start menu. Install system drivers The Escalade ATA RAID Controller drivers...
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...will start within a few minutes of the 3ware driver loading, once the operating system has booted. 42 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility 3ware Disk Array Configuration Available Drives: Port 2 - Rebuild Array Status Display, RAID 1 Example 11 Press F8 to continue. ...Rebuild Array button and press Enter. 10 Navigate to and select the OK button to save your requested array and member drives. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Available Drives: Port 2 - QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30 30.0GB Disk Arrays: Array Unit 1 - 2 drive Mirror...
...will start within a few minutes of the 3ware driver loading, once the operating system has booted. 42 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility 3ware Disk Array Configuration Available Drives: Port 2 - Rebuild Array Status Display, RAID 1 Example 11 Press F8 to continue. ...Rebuild Array button and press Enter. 10 Navigate to and select the OK button to save your requested array and member drives. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Available Drives: Port 2 - QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30 30.0GB Disk Arrays: Array Unit 1 - 2 drive Mirror...
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... that there was removed. During driver startup, a flag is rewritten, indicating that the driver loaded. www.3ware.com 43 The drive is called "RAID Disk". 4 Click the boxes in front of a mirrored or RAID 5 array If a hot spare is specified and the mirrored or RAID 5 array degrades, an event... notification is generated and the hot spare dynamically replaces the failed drive in front of the mirror are redundant again. 3ware's auto-init feature determines if this...
... that there was removed. During driver startup, a flag is rewritten, indicating that the driver loaded. www.3ware.com 43 The drive is called "RAID Disk". 4 Click the boxes in front of a mirrored or RAID 5 array If a hot spare is specified and the mirrored or RAID 5 array degrades, an event... notification is generated and the hot spare dynamically replaces the failed drive in front of the mirror are redundant again. 3ware's auto-init feature determines if this...
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... appear as a hot spare. Note: If the rebuild is made into a hot spare. For more information, see the 3ware CLI User's Guide. 44 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Rebuild starts about 10 minutes after the driver loads in the 'Force continue on source errors' option. 6 Select Rebuild. 7 Press F8 to the operating system. Booting...
... appear as a hot spare. Note: If the rebuild is made into a hot spare. For more information, see the 3ware CLI User's Guide. 44 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Rebuild starts about 10 minutes after the driver loads in the 'Force continue on source errors' option. 6 Select Rebuild. 7 Press F8 to the operating system. Booting...
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...driver or the operating system cannot be installed unless you have administrator privileges for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. We recommend that appear on the drive and select Create Volume. 6 Follow the steps that the user upgrade to assign a drive letter. 46 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller... User Guide Windows Installation Note: 3ware supports released versions of Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 only. Installing a drive to an existing ATA RAID controller To add the new drive to an existing disk array,...
...driver or the operating system cannot be installed unless you have administrator privileges for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. We recommend that appear on the drive and select Create Volume. 6 Follow the steps that the user upgrade to assign a drive letter. 46 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller... User Guide Windows Installation Note: 3ware supports released versions of Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 only. Installing a drive to an existing ATA RAID controller To add the new drive to an existing disk array,...
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... Installing the ATA RAID controller while installing Windows 2000/XP/2003 Materials required: ■ Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003 installation CD-ROM ■ 3ware CD-ROM (You will be required to select it. 5 Press S if you have an additional disk ATA RAID controller. 3 Insert the 3ware driver diskette and press Enter. 4 A box with 3ware ATA RAID Controller is at the...
... Installing the ATA RAID controller while installing Windows 2000/XP/2003 Materials required: ■ Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003 installation CD-ROM ■ 3ware CD-ROM (You will be required to select it. 5 Press S if you have an additional disk ATA RAID controller. 3 Insert the 3ware driver diskette and press Enter. 4 A box with 3ware ATA RAID Controller is at the...
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... are immediately available for use with full performance when created. Once booted to the array. 48 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Windows Installation Reboot the machine When you don't remove the diskette. 2 Partition and format the new arrays or disks using Disk Administrator: a Choose ... in order to use with the following steps to make any new disk arrays or independent disks accessible to Windows 2000/XP/2003. 1 Remove the driver diskette, then select Yes to the other drive (or set of this is complete. The first time the array is verified (via the BIOS or...
... are immediately available for use with full performance when created. Once booted to the array. 48 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Windows Installation Reboot the machine When you don't remove the diskette. 2 Partition and format the new arrays or disks using Disk Administrator: a Choose ... in order to use with the following steps to make any new disk arrays or independent disks accessible to Windows 2000/XP/2003. 1 Remove the driver diskette, then select Yes to the other drive (or set of this is complete. The first time the array is verified (via the BIOS or...
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... a Plug and Play device, 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. Found New Hardware Wizard www.3ware.com 49 Installing the ATA RAID controller on systems that boot from a different device Install the 3DM...
... a Plug and Play device, 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. Found New Hardware Wizard www.3ware.com 49 Installing the ATA RAID controller on systems that boot from a different device Install the 3DM...
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...screen, followed immediately by writing zeroes to ten minutes. RAID 1 and 10 arrays are not initialized when created and are immediately available for the 50 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Initialization results in order to the driver in as system administrator when you don't remove the ... on the lower channel number) being compared to the other half. button, insert your 3ware driver diskette, and enter the path to use the RAID 5 array immediately. RAID array initialization RAID 0 arrays do not need to restart the system. The advantage of this is that the...
...screen, followed immediately by writing zeroes to ten minutes. RAID 1 and 10 arrays are not initialized when created and are immediately available for the 50 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Initialization results in order to the driver in as system administrator when you don't remove the ... on the lower channel number) being compared to the other half. button, insert your 3ware driver diskette, and enter the path to use the RAID 5 array immediately. RAID array initialization RAID 0 arrays do not need to restart the system. The advantage of this is that the...
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... controller Caution: Install the correct driver (Escalade 7000/8000 ATA RAID Controller) for this and previous versions. The 3ware ATA RAID Controller Properties pop-up menu appears. 8 Click on the Driver tab (see Figure 25). 52 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Windows Installation Replacing an existing ATA RAID controller with the new version of the ATA RAID controller unless the new version of the Escalade ATA RAID Controller...
... controller Caution: Install the correct driver (Escalade 7000/8000 ATA RAID Controller) for this and previous versions. The 3ware ATA RAID Controller Properties pop-up menu appears. 8 Click on the Driver tab (see Figure 25). 52 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Windows Installation Replacing an existing ATA RAID controller with the new version of the ATA RAID controller unless the new version of the Escalade ATA RAID Controller...
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button. 10 Click Next on the Update Driver... www.3ware.com 53 Replacing an existing ATA RAID controller with a new version of the controller Figure 25. 3ware ATA RAID Controller Properties Display 9 Click on the Upgrade Device Driver Wizard (see Figure 26).
button. 10 Click Next on the Update Driver... www.3ware.com 53 Replacing an existing ATA RAID controller with a new version of the controller Figure 25. 3ware ATA RAID Controller Properties Display 9 Click on the Upgrade Device Driver Wizard (see Figure 26).
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Figure 27. Upgrade/Install Device Driver 54 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Upgrade Driver Welcome Screen Installing/Upgrading the 3ware driver 1 When you reach the Upgrade Device Driver screen shown in Figure 27, make sure to select "Display a list of known drivers for this device, so that I can choose a specific driver." Then click Next and follow the instructions. Windows Installation Figure 26.
Figure 27. Upgrade/Install Device Driver 54 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Upgrade Driver Welcome Screen Installing/Upgrading the 3ware driver 1 When you reach the Upgrade Device Driver screen shown in Figure 27, make sure to select "Display a list of known drivers for this device, so that I can choose a specific driver." Then click Next and follow the instructions. Windows Installation Figure 26.
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... and your CD drive is A:\. button. Replacing an existing ATA RAID controller with a new version of the controller 2 When the Select a Device Driver dialog appears (see Figure 28), click on the CD that has the name of the version of the box. www.3ware.com 55 For example, if your diskette drive is drive A, the...
... and your CD drive is A:\. button. Replacing an existing ATA RAID controller with a new version of the controller 2 When the Select a Device Driver dialog appears (see Figure 28), click on the CD that has the name of the version of the box. www.3ware.com 55 For example, if your diskette drive is drive A, the...
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Be sure to highlight it. The Start Device Driver Installation screen appears (see Figure 30). Select a Device Driver 56 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Install From Disk 4 The Select a Device Driver dialog box appears (see Figure 31). Windows Installation Figure 29. Figure 30. Click on Next. Then click on the appropriate driver name (i.e., Escalade 7000 ATA RAID Controller) listed in the dialog box to select the correct driver name, otherwise the driver upgrade will not be successful.
Be sure to highlight it. The Start Device Driver Installation screen appears (see Figure 30). Select a Device Driver 56 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Install From Disk 4 The Select a Device Driver dialog box appears (see Figure 31). Windows Installation Figure 29. Figure 30. Click on Next. Then click on the appropriate driver name (i.e., Escalade 7000 ATA RAID Controller) listed in the dialog box to select the correct driver name, otherwise the driver upgrade will not be successful.