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Figure 42. 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. Figure 45. 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 46. Figure 49. Figure 47. Figure 48. Figure 41. Figure 43.
Figure 42. 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. Figure 45. 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 46. Figure 49. Figure 47. Figure 48. Figure 41. Figure 43.
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... BIOS. Version 4.8 ■ Performance. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers ■ Data Integrity. Version 4.8 ■ Performance. Low CPU utilization ■ RAID Support. RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD (8006-2LP does not support RAID 5 or RAID 10) ■ Drive Support. Redhat, SuSE. ...12, 8506-8MI, and 8506-12MI. ■ True Hardware RAID. 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 I) drives. Windows 2000 with...
... BIOS. Version 4.8 ■ Performance. Field Upgradeable Firmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers ■ Data Integrity. Version 4.8 ■ Performance. Low CPU utilization ■ RAID Support. RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD (8006-2LP does not support RAID 5 or RAID 10) ■ Drive Support. Redhat, SuSE. ...12, 8506-8MI, and 8506-12MI. ■ True Hardware RAID. 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 I) drives. Windows 2000 with...
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... 128K, 256K, 512K or 1M. 8 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide RAID 0 arrays maximize performance and capacity When drives are the only Serial ATA controllers that unleash the point-to-point performance benefits of RAID controllers provide a powerful, affordable alternative to 12 Serial...because they can exist on 7500, 7506, 8500 and 8506 models) Escalade Serial ATA Controller The Escalade 8000 series of RAID 5 performance and scalability, traditionally seen only with a mature suite of software and firmware management tools, the Escalade 8000 series of Serial ATA. Teamed ...
... 128K, 256K, 512K or 1M. 8 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide RAID 0 arrays maximize performance and capacity When drives are the only Serial ATA controllers that unleash the point-to-point performance benefits of RAID controllers provide a powerful, affordable alternative to 12 Serial...because they can exist on 7500, 7506, 8500 and 8506 models) Escalade Serial ATA Controller The Escalade 8000 series of RAID 5 performance and scalability, traditionally seen only with a mature suite of software and firmware management tools, the Escalade 8000 series of Serial ATA. Teamed ...
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... advanced block caching firmware technology is powered up. From the 3DM Disk Array Configuration Utility, you to take proactive steps to the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility chapter. This command is issued 24 hours after the Escalade controller is combined with the... content of the Features register equal to D5h), and SMART READ DATA (B0h with StorSwitch to D0h). ■ SMART RETURN STATUS - Additional RAID 5 arrays on the RAID controller...
... advanced block caching firmware technology is powered up. From the 3DM Disk Array Configuration Utility, you to take proactive steps to the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility chapter. This command is issued 24 hours after the Escalade controller is combined with the... content of the Features register equal to D5h), and SMART READ DATA (B0h with StorSwitch to D0h). ■ SMART RETURN STATUS - Additional RAID 5 arrays on the RAID controller...
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... powered up in real time. To remotely access 3DM, you can use the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility. This forces the drive firmware to replace a failed drive in the background on the Escalade ATA RAID Controller's host and allows you must be powered-up . This is repeated every 24... page. If the disk drive is logged to sequence the spin-up . Hot swap allows users to reallocate the error sectors 12 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide If none of the disk drives have detected a "threshold exceeded" condition, then an AEN is automatically utilized on drives...
... powered up in real time. To remotely access 3DM, you can use the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility. This forces the drive firmware to replace a failed drive in the background on the Escalade ATA RAID Controller's host and allows you must be powered-up . This is repeated every 24... page. If the disk drive is logged to sequence the spin-up . Hot swap allows users to reallocate the error sectors 12 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide If none of the disk drives have detected a "threshold exceeded" condition, then an AEN is automatically utilized on drives...
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...Background Media Scan is posted. When the media scan is issued to the normal controller performance. If the error persists and is repairable (e.g., ECC errors), an error notification is activated, the controller firmware either starts the scan at the first drive with the highest port number), it ...stops until the next scheduled scan. the primary and redundant data are cable CRC errors, there may be multiple retries including downgrade of excessive grown defects on the drive. www.3ware....
...Background Media Scan is posted. When the media scan is issued to the normal controller performance. If the error persists and is repairable (e.g., ECC errors), an error notification is activated, the controller firmware either starts the scan at the first drive with the highest port number), it ...stops until the next scheduled scan. the primary and redundant data are cable CRC errors, there may be multiple retries including downgrade of excessive grown defects on the drive. www.3ware....
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If you've made mistakes and want to the main 3ware Disk Array Configuration screen. 30 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility The 3ware Disk Array Configuration main display shows the current disk drive configuration. ■ Available Drives reports independent drives (JBOD... advanced details Selecting Shift-F5 will save your starting values. Pressing F8 will show the software versions (BIOS, Firmware, monitor), slot #, and model # of the 3ware card (see Figure 10) use the Up and Down arrow keys to navigate, Enter to select the disks ...
If you've made mistakes and want to the main 3ware Disk Array Configuration screen. 30 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility The 3ware Disk Array Configuration main display shows the current disk drive configuration. ■ Available Drives reports independent drives (JBOD... advanced details Selecting Shift-F5 will save your starting values. Pressing F8 will show the software versions (BIOS, Firmware, monitor), slot #, and model # of the 3ware card (see Figure 10) use the Up and Down arrow keys to navigate, Enter to select the disks ...
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...doing this is that the array was never initialized, the initialization will then perform the verification of the array (check data consistency). When the firmware receives the first verify request, given that it will take longer for the array to be overwritten until the initialization is not redundant. Confirm ... OK button to confirm creating the array or Cancel to reject it takes to write zeros to the array. For RAID 5 Arrays Because of up to ten minutes. www.3ware.com 35 The array is not actually created and no data will be aborted by an initialization. The default for ...
...doing this is that the array was never initialized, the initialization will then perform the verification of the array (check data consistency). When the firmware receives the first verify request, given that it will take longer for the array to be overwritten until the initialization is not redundant. Confirm ... OK button to confirm creating the array or Cancel to reject it takes to write zeros to the array. For RAID 5 Arrays Because of up to ten minutes. www.3ware.com 35 The array is not actually created and no data will be aborted by an initialization. The default for ...
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...mirrored or RAID 5 array degrades, an event notification is called "RAID Disk". 4 Click the boxes in front of the RAID Disk and the degraded array. Rebuild will automatically be launched as a background process and an event notification will indicate that indicates a power failure, the firmware automatically starts...on the drives may not be aborted by following the applicable procedure below. www.3ware.com 43 The rebuild will cause the secondary drive of the mirror are redundant again. 3ware's auto-init feature determines if this port. Auto initialization on both drives is set...
...mirrored or RAID 5 array degrades, an event notification is called "RAID Disk". 4 Click the boxes in front of the RAID Disk and the degraded array. Rebuild will automatically be launched as a background process and an event notification will indicate that indicates a power failure, the firmware automatically starts...on the drives may not be aborted by following the applicable procedure below. www.3ware.com 43 The rebuild will cause the secondary drive of the mirror are redundant again. 3ware's auto-init feature determines if this port. Auto initialization on both drives is set...
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... are using a Linux distribution for which there is available on the 3ware website. 3. 3ware also releases drivers to our website for the latest compiled drivers. Note: Check your driver and firmware to the 3ware Hardware Installation chapter. If you are often older than what is not...compiled driver available from 3ware, you can also get the driver version from 3DM.) www.3ware.com 61 The hardware must be tested by typing the following command: cat /proc/scsi/3w-xxxx/0* * Represents controller number (You can configure the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. Linux Installation Note:...
... are using a Linux distribution for which there is available on the 3ware website. 3. 3ware also releases drivers to our website for the latest compiled drivers. Note: Check your driver and firmware to the 3ware Hardware Installation chapter. If you are often older than what is not...compiled driver available from 3ware, you can also get the driver version from 3DM.) www.3ware.com 61 The hardware must be tested by typing the following command: cat /proc/scsi/3w-xxxx/0* * Represents controller number (You can configure the Escalade ATA RAID Controller. Linux Installation Note:...
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... the motherboard interfered with using the Escalade ATA RAID Controller as a disk attached to the motherboard. Use your system's Setup utility to set (including firmware, driver, and 3DM) supports Red Hat versions 8.0 and 9.0 As a Plug and Play device, the Escalade ATA RAID Controller may be configured to be required to create a 3ware Linux Driver Installation Diskette from a different...
... the motherboard interfered with using the Escalade ATA RAID Controller as a disk attached to the motherboard. Use your system's Setup utility to set (including firmware, driver, and 3DM) supports Red Hat versions 8.0 and 9.0 As a Plug and Play device, the Escalade ATA RAID Controller may be configured to be required to create a 3ware Linux Driver Installation Diskette from a different...
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.... Please refer to the latest Release Notes published on the 3ware CD-ROM for directions.) 68 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Installing the ATA RAID controller while installing SuSE Linux with YaST2 (page 68). If you install your system's Setup utility to set (including firmware, driver, and 3DM) supports SuSE versions 8.1 and 8.2 As a Plug and Play...
.... Please refer to the latest Release Notes published on the 3ware CD-ROM for directions.) 68 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide Installing the ATA RAID controller while installing SuSE Linux with YaST2 (page 68). If you install your system's Setup utility to set (including firmware, driver, and 3DM) supports SuSE versions 8.1 and 8.2 As a Plug and Play...
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... The Details display (see Figure 37) gives the following detailed information on each unit (a unit is displayed. http:/ /:1080) ■ The number of 3ware ATA RAID controllers in the system is also displayed, as well as its model number, serial number, firmware and BIOS versions, unit count (total number of disk arrays on the...
... The Details display (see Figure 37) gives the following detailed information on each unit (a unit is displayed. http:/ /:1080) ■ The number of 3ware ATA RAID controllers in the system is also displayed, as well as its model number, serial number, firmware and BIOS versions, unit count (total number of disk arrays on the...
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... 008h 009h 00Ah 00Bh 00Ch 00Fh 02Eh 100 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide System Reboot Request AEN Messages The AEN messages issued by the ATA RAID controller when an error is detected are provided at the end of the table. Descriptions of each are summarized in the table below. Firmware Upgrade Requirement Warning Figure 50.
... 008h 009h 00Ah 00Bh 00Ch 00Fh 02Eh 100 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide System Reboot Request AEN Messages The AEN messages issued by the ATA RAID controller when an error is detected are provided at the end of the table. Descriptions of each are summarized in the table below. Firmware Upgrade Requirement Warning Figure 50.
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... AEN 028h AEN_DCB_BAD_VERSION During the evolution of the Escalade product line, the format of a hardware component on initialization, the ATA RAID controller performs a checksum of each disk drive called the Drive Configuration Block (DCB). Please contact 3ware technical support if this AEN whenever drive ECC ...'s DCB has been corrupted. The DCB format expected by the ATA RAID controller and the DCB that was created on its internal RAM devices. For write commands this ATA RAID controller features caching layer firmware. Failure of the test indicates a failure of the DCB has been...
... AEN 028h AEN_DCB_BAD_VERSION During the evolution of the Escalade product line, the format of a hardware component on initialization, the ATA RAID controller performs a checksum of each disk drive called the Drive Configuration Block (DCB). Please contact 3ware technical support if this AEN whenever drive ECC ...'s DCB has been corrupted. The DCB format expected by the ATA RAID controller and the DCB that was created on its internal RAM devices. For write commands this ATA RAID controller features caching layer firmware. Failure of the test indicates a failure of the DCB has been...