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Installation Guide - Page 3
... the interface cables 16 Installing a Serial ATA RAID Controller 18 Connect the interface cables to the Escalade Serial ATA RAID Controller 18 Connect the drives to the interface cables 20 Check your installation and close the case 22 Check motherboard boot sequence 22
3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility 23 Hot spare and hot swap 23 BIOS Screen 23 3DM Configure...
Installation Guide - Page 4
3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide
Determining your configuration 26 Displaying advance details 28 Creating a disk array 28 Determining your configuration 30 Specifying a Hot Spare 34 Changing an existing configuration 35 Modifying a disk array 35 Deleting a disk array 35 How to maintain or verify a disk array 36 Rebuilding a mirrored disk array 37 Rebuilding a RAID 5 ...
Installation Guide - Page 5
... Array Display 36 Figure 12. ample 27 Figure 6. Disk Array Configuration Main Display, RAID 1 Ex- List of Figures
Figure 1. 8-Port Escalade 7500-8 ATA RAID Controller Layout 14
Figure 2. 12-Port Escalade 8500-12 Serial ATA RAID Controller with Serial ATA Converter Installed 22
Figure 4. 3ware BIOS Tool 25 Figure 5. Create Disk Array Display, RAID 5 Example . . . . . 31 Figure 10...
Installation Guide - Page 7
...selecting the Escalade ATA RAID Controller as your RAID data storage and management system. To ensure your personal safety and protect your Escalade ATA RAID Controller. Features
Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA Family (includes 7000-2, 7500-4, 7500-4LP, 7500-8, 7500-12) The information in Open
Source.) • Performance. Redhat, SuSE. (Drivers available in this manual also supports the following...
Installation Guide - Page 8
...-4, 85008, 8500-12) • True Hardware RAID. Low CPU utilization • RAID Support. Serial ATA 150 (SATA I) drives. Redhat, SuSE. (Drivers available in an ESD-protective bag • Serial ATA interface cables (one per port) • 3ware installation media with the following: 3DM, Drivers and
Escalade User Guide (.pdf format) • 3ware Release Notes • 3ware Installation Guide...
Installation Guide - Page 9
... covers of any of your data! The 12-port 7000 board requires one per port) • Power Converter Adapter (one full size PCI slot. . 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide
CBL-P-SATA (Parallel to Serial Drive Converter Kit) • Escalade CBL-P-SATA (one per port) • Jumper(s) for serial ATA controllers. Length of unshielded interface cables may be...
Installation Guide - Page 11
...'s instructions.
3 Disconnect the disks from theATA RAID Controller and discard. www.3ware.com
13 However, it is connected to the ATA RAID Controller and you intend to retain it down. Failing to do so may result in your computer or the Escalade ATA RAID Controller.
If your boot disk is recommended that completely describes personal and system precautions. Hardware Installation...
Installation Guide - Page 14
...Settings
Figure 2. 12-Port Escalade 8500-12 Serial ATA RAID Controller with CBL-P-SATA (Parallel to Serial ATA Converter)
Connect the interface cables to the Escalade Serial ATA RAID Controller 1 Connect the interface cables supplied with 3.3V.
5 Line up the ATA RAID Controller... down.
3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide
Installing a Serial ATA RAID Controller
JP2 LED...
Installation Guide - Page 21
...Figure 8. Create Disk Array Display, RAID 5 Example
Select RAID configuration The Escalade ATA RAID Controller gives you a choice of 4, 6, 8, 10 or 12 drives. • RAID 5: combines parity ... on its drives. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide
Determining your configuration
Hint: The capacity of each drive is limited to bring up the Create Disk Array display (see Figure...
Installation Guide - Page 25
...to create fault tolerant RAID 5 disk arrays.
These disk arrays achieve fault tolerance by using the Rebuild feature, described in Use 30.0GB
Create Array Delete Array Maintain Array Rebuild Array
Alt-F1 Help Previous/Next $ Toggle Hot Spare EnterSelect/Deselect
F6 Restore Initial Values Esc Cancel
F8 Done
Figure 13. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide
array is removed...
Installation Guide - Page 26
... on all nondegraded drives.
3ware Disk Array Configuration
Available Drives: Port 0 - If one of the operating system load.
5 If the rebuild fails and you have no longer available (see Figure 16). Power on read and write data from all drives. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide
that you must power down the system and replace the failed or Not...
Installation Guide - Page 28
...system 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. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide
10 Press F8 to update configurations and exit...
Installation Guide - Page 29
Note: If the rebuild is not started in the 3ware BIOS, the new drive cannot be used to the operating system.
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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.
Booting with this drive.
Installation Guide - Page 30
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47 The Escalade User Guide describes these procedures in "Hardware Installation" and "3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility", the operating system, disk drivers, and 3DM disk management application must be installed next. ferent device (i.e., operating system has been installed on a drive connected to another controller) • Replacing an existing ATA RAID Controller with a new version...
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3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide
Rebuilding a mirrored array with no hot spare 40 Rebuilding a mirrored disk array 39 Rebuilding RAID 5 39 Rebuilding with Hot Spare 40, 44
S System requirements 10
T Technical Support 53 Tools required 10 Troubleshooting 49
U Ultra ATA 16
V Verify Array 36
W Warranty 53 WHQL 52
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