Installation Guide
Page 10
... motherboard which meets the following : MultiLUN support with multiple concurrent streams using Stream Fusion technology. Extended drive and unit status information. About the 3ware RAID Controller An enhanced firmware platform allows future upgrades. Anticipated upgrades include Enclosure Management Services (EMS). AMCC's remote management software...
... motherboard which meets the following : MultiLUN support with multiple concurrent streams using Stream Fusion technology. Extended drive and unit status information. About the 3ware RAID Controller An enhanced firmware platform allows future upgrades. Anticipated upgrades include Enclosure Management Services (EMS). AMCC's remote management software...
Installation Guide
Page 42
...03 GB Following drives will not be exported to Figure 7. 3ware ATA RAID Controller: Escalade 9500S-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Unit 0 Port 0 Port 1 Mirror - Configuring Units Working with the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) This section describes the basics of ...working with the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) configuration utility. It includes the following ...
...03 GB Following drives will not be exported to Figure 7. 3ware ATA RAID Controller: Escalade 9500S-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Unit 0 Port 0 Port 1 Mirror - Configuring Units Working with the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) This section describes the basics of ...working with the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) configuration utility. It includes the following ...
Installation Guide
Page 47
...when you have multiple 3ware Esc controllers in the 3ware BIOS Manager F6 Note: F6 cannot bring back previous policy settings; they can see the software versions (BIOS, Firmware, monitor), serial number, controller and model number, cache memory size, slot # of the 3ware card, and whether or... not BBU-support is available.) Shift+F5 Return to the board selection screen. www.3ware.com 39 Working with a controller other than a 9000-...
...when you have multiple 3ware Esc controllers in the 3ware BIOS Manager F6 Note: F6 cannot bring back previous policy settings; they can see the software versions (BIOS, Firmware, monitor), serial number, controller and model number, cache memory size, slot # of the 3ware card, and whether or... not BBU-support is available.) Shift+F5 Return to the board selection screen. www.3ware.com 39 Working with a controller other than a 9000-...
Installation Guide
Page 62
... Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, or Server 2003 installation CD- To create a driver diskette 1 Insert the 3ware software CD into your system. 2 When the 3ware Escalade Menu appears, click Driver and Firmware Disks. 54 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide ROM. (Not required if Windows is already installed on a new unit or drive managed...
... Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, or Server 2003 installation CD- To create a driver diskette 1 Insert the 3ware software CD into your system. 2 When the 3ware Escalade Menu appears, click Driver and Firmware Disks. 54 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide ROM. (Not required if Windows is already installed on a new unit or drive managed...
Installation Guide
Page 63
... and Windows on a New Unit 3 In the 3ware Driver & Firmware Images menu, click the appropriate button to create the driver diskette that you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver" at the bottom of the display. 2 When you see the message: "Press F6 if you need ....the correct one or more mass storage devices or you have an additional 3ware RAID controller. 3 Insert the 3ware driver diskette and press Enter. 4 When a box with AMCC 3ware Series ATA RAID Controller appears, press Enter to select it. Installing the 3ware Driver and Windows on a New Unit If you have chosen to install...
... and Windows on a New Unit 3 In the 3ware Driver & Firmware Images menu, click the appropriate button to create the driver diskette that you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver" at the bottom of the display. 2 When you see the message: "Press F6 if you need ....the correct one or more mass storage devices or you have an additional 3ware RAID controller. 3 Insert the 3ware driver diskette and press Enter. 4 When a box with AMCC 3ware Series ATA RAID Controller appears, press Enter to select it. Installing the 3ware Driver and Windows on a New Unit If you have chosen to install...
Installation Guide
Page 74
... or download the source from open source at http://www.3ware.com. You can use the drivers from the 3ware CD or web site, because they have a bundled firmware image. For more information, see 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide. Included in the controller. Although the drivers are also available in this CD. ...
... or download the source from open source at http://www.3ware.com. You can use the drivers from the 3ware CD or web site, because they have a bundled firmware image. For more information, see 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide. Included in the controller. Although the drivers are also available in this CD. ...
Installation Guide
Page 77
...interfered with using a drive or unit managed by the 3ware RAID controller, you must create a 3ware driver diskette. Note: We have tested some older systems where an IDE drive connected to create. www.3ware.com 69 Installing the 3ware Driver and Red Hat Linux on a New Unit Note... a blank diskette into your system. 2 When the 3ware Escalade Menu appears, click the Driver & Firmware Disks button. 3 In the 3ware Driver & Firmware Disk Images menu, click the button for the driver disk you may install the 3ware driver from either the 3ware software CD-ROM or make a driver diskette. Driver ...
...interfered with using a drive or unit managed by the 3ware RAID controller, you must create a 3ware driver diskette. Note: We have tested some older systems where an IDE drive connected to create. www.3ware.com 69 Installing the 3ware Driver and Red Hat Linux on a New Unit Note... a blank diskette into your system. 2 When the 3ware Escalade Menu appears, click the Driver & Firmware Disks button. 3 In the 3ware Driver & Firmware Disk Images menu, click the button for the driver disk you may install the 3ware driver from either the 3ware software CD-ROM or make a driver diskette. Driver ...
Installation Guide
Page 85
In addition, you are for Red Hat Linux For Experts Only If necessary, you can compile the 3ware driver yourself. (For example, if you must have a full Linux kernel source tree in /usr/src/linux in order to do the compile. For information ... driver. Boot to UP version of kernel to fail. www.3ware.com 77 cd driver 5 Red Hat 7.2 and later support multiple build targets from 3ware's website. 2 Copy the driver source into a working directory. (The latest 3ware driver source is bundled with the latest firmware.) 3 Untar the driver source with this command: tar zxfv 3w...
In addition, you are for Red Hat Linux For Experts Only If necessary, you can compile the 3ware driver yourself. (For example, if you must have a full Linux kernel source tree in /usr/src/linux in order to do the compile. For information ... driver. Boot to UP version of kernel to fail. www.3ware.com 77 cd driver 5 Red Hat 7.2 and later support multiple build targets from 3ware's website. 2 Copy the driver source into a working directory. (The latest 3ware driver source is bundled with the latest firmware.) 3 Untar the driver source with this command: tar zxfv 3w...
Installation Guide
Page 88
... 3ware Escalade Menu appears, click Driver and Firmware Disks. 3 In the 3ware Driver and Firmware Disk Images menu, click the button for the driver disk you want to the floppy diskette. 80 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide To create a driver diskette 1 Insert the 3ware software... is already installed on the new drive or unit managed by the 3ware RAID controller, you must create a 3ware driver diskette. Driver Installation Under Linux Driver Installation Under SuSE Linux Materials required 3ware software CD-ROM Floppy diskette, if you need to make...
... 3ware Escalade Menu appears, click Driver and Firmware Disks. 3 In the 3ware Driver and Firmware Disk Images menu, click the button for the driver disk you want to the floppy diskette. 80 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide To create a driver diskette 1 Insert the 3ware software... is already installed on the new drive or unit managed by the 3ware RAID controller, you must create a 3ware driver diskette. Driver Installation Under Linux Driver Installation Under SuSE Linux Materials required 3ware software CD-ROM Floppy diskette, if you need to make...
Installation Guide
Page 93
... directory (listed below) to a directory called "driver". Driver Installation Under SuSE Linux To compile a 3ware driver for from the 3ware website (www.3ware.com). 2 Copy the driver source into a working directory. (The latest 3ware driver source is in the /src sub-directory.) 3 Install the Kernel source under /usr/src 4.../defconfig.default x86_64 SMP /usr/src/linux/arch/x86_64/defconfig.smp 7 Make oldconfig 8 Untar the driver source with the latest firmware and is bundled with this command: tar zxfv 3w-9xxx.tgz The driver source will be output to /usr/src/linux/.config. www...
... directory (listed below) to a directory called "driver". Driver Installation Under SuSE Linux To compile a 3ware driver for from the 3ware website (www.3ware.com). 2 Copy the driver source into a working directory. (The latest 3ware driver source is in the /src sub-directory.) 3 Install the Kernel source under /usr/src 4.../defconfig.default x86_64 SMP /usr/src/linux/arch/x86_64/defconfig.smp 7 Make oldconfig 8 Untar the driver source with the latest firmware and is bundled with this command: tar zxfv 3w-9xxx.tgz The driver source will be output to /usr/src/linux/.config. www...
Installation Guide
Page 99
... the firmware image with the driver, add the following line to the following directory: cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf b Copy the configuration file to include the 3ware driver sources. a Change to the following directory: cd /sys/conf f Edit the file "files.i386" and add the lines shown below under RAID controllers device twa # 3ware Escalade...
... the firmware image with the driver, add the following line to the following directory: cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf b Copy the configuration file to include the 3ware driver sources. a Change to the following directory: cd /sys/conf f Edit the file "files.i386" and add the lines shown below under RAID controllers device twa # 3ware Escalade...
Installation Guide
Page 102
...the directories /sys/modules/twa and /sys/dev/twa mkdir /sys/modules/twa mkdir /sys/dev/twa 2 Copy the 3ware driver source file archive (twa.tgz) to your kernel configuration file ("custom" in the example above): options TWA_DEBUG= Specifying...firmware image with the driver, add the following line to /sys/conf/options: TWA_FIRMWARE_FLASH opt_twa.h and the following line to your kernel configuration file ("custom" in the example above): options TWA_FLASH_FIRMWARE j If you are running), then perform the following line to /sys/dev/twa. 94 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller...
...the directories /sys/modules/twa and /sys/dev/twa mkdir /sys/modules/twa mkdir /sys/dev/twa 2 Copy the 3ware driver source file archive (twa.tgz) to your kernel configuration file ("custom" in the example above): options TWA_DEBUG= Specifying...firmware image with the driver, add the following line to /sys/conf/options: TWA_FIRMWARE_FLASH opt_twa.h and the following line to your kernel configuration file ("custom" in the example above): options TWA_FLASH_FIRMWARE j If you are running), then perform the following line to /sys/dev/twa. 94 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller...
Installation Guide
Page 103
Installing the 3ware Driver on whether or not you intend to bundle the firmware image with the driver: TWA_FLASH_FIRMWARE=1 7 If you intend to enable printing of debug messages in the driver, uncomment the following line in Makefile: CFLAGS+=-DTWA_DEBUG= ... 10 prints a LOT of debug messages. 8 Build the driver make clean make depend make 9 Copy the driver to the appropriate directory. kldload twa.ko www.3ware.com 95 cd /sys/dev/twa tar -xzvf twa.tgz 4 Move the Makefile to /sys/modules/twa mv Makefile /sys/modules/twa 5 Change the directory...
Installing the 3ware Driver on whether or not you intend to bundle the firmware image with the driver: TWA_FLASH_FIRMWARE=1 7 If you intend to enable printing of debug messages in the driver, uncomment the following line in Makefile: CFLAGS+=-DTWA_DEBUG= ... 10 prints a LOT of debug messages. 8 Build the driver make clean make depend make 9 Copy the driver to the appropriate directory. kldload twa.ko www.3ware.com 95 cd /sys/dev/twa tar -xzvf twa.tgz 4 Move the Makefile to /sys/modules/twa mv Makefile /sys/modules/twa 5 Change the directory...
User Guide
Page 5
... Error Log 118 Viewing SMART Data About a Drive 118 About Background Tasks 119 About Initialization 119 Initialization of Different RAID Types 120 Auto Initialization After Power Failure 121 About Rebuilds 121 About Verification 122 About Migration 123 About Self-tests...Maintaining Your Controller 139 Determining the Current Version of Your 3ware Driver 139 Updating the Driver and Firmware 140 Updating the 3ware Driver and Firmware Under Windows 141 Using the Update Utility With Multiple Controllers 145 Updating the 3ware Driver Under Windows XP 146 Updating the 3ware Driver Under...
... Error Log 118 Viewing SMART Data About a Drive 118 About Background Tasks 119 About Initialization 119 Initialization of Different RAID Types 120 Auto Initialization After Power Failure 121 About Rebuilds 121 About Verification 122 About Migration 123 About Self-tests...Maintaining Your Controller 139 Determining the Current Version of Your 3ware Driver 139 Updating the Driver and Firmware 140 Updating the 3ware Driver and Firmware Under Windows 141 Using the Update Utility With Multiple Controllers 145 Updating the 3ware Driver Under Windows XP 146 Updating the 3ware Driver Under...
User Guide
Page 11
... page 5 "What's New With the 3ware 9000 Series Controller" on page 6 "System Requirements" on page 6 "Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels" on page 8 "Determining What RAID Level to Use" on page 12 Product Features The 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA family includes 9500S-4LP, 9500S-8, 9500S-12, 9500S-8MI, 9500S-12MI. Anticipated upgrades include Enclosure Management Services (EMS...
... page 5 "What's New With the 3ware 9000 Series Controller" on page 6 "System Requirements" on page 6 "Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels" on page 8 "Determining What RAID Level to Use" on page 12 Product Features The 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA family includes 9500S-4LP, 9500S-8, 9500S-12, 9500S-8MI, 9500S-12MI. Anticipated upgrades include Enclosure Management Services (EMS...
User Guide
Page 21
... functionality available in 3DM through error correction (Dynamic Sector Repair). This forces the drive firmware to interchangeably as adding or removing drives, and reconfiguring RAID units online. The 3ware CLI is the current version of blocks will spin up methods are rewritten with the redundant... the number of drives that are found and are deemed repairable are supported. Monitoring, Maintenance, 3DM 2 is described in 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide. Monitoring of the block in 3DM. (For details, see "Enabling and Setting Up Staggered Spinup" on and...
... functionality available in 3DM through error correction (Dynamic Sector Repair). This forces the drive firmware to interchangeably as adding or removing drives, and reconfiguring RAID units online. The 3ware CLI is the current version of blocks will spin up methods are rewritten with the redundant... the number of drives that are found and are deemed repairable are supported. Monitoring, Maintenance, 3DM 2 is described in 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide. Monitoring of the block in 3DM. (For details, see "Enabling and Setting Up Staggered Spinup" on and...
User Guide
Page 24
...of 3DM (3DM 2). You can configure the drives through either 3BM or through 3ware Disk Manager (3DM). For details about using 3DM, see "3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2)" on page 125 18 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Note: The ability to them later, at your convenience. Install ... and then configure your configured units. When you first set of steps for installing drivers and completing the installation under "Updating the Driver and Firmware" on another drive in your system, you may want to use of write cache, and how unconfigured disks (JBODs) are handled ...
...of 3DM (3DM 2). You can configure the drives through either 3BM or through 3ware Disk Manager (3DM). For details about using 3DM, see "3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2)" on page 125 18 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Note: The ability to them later, at your convenience. Install ... and then configure your configured units. When you first set of steps for installing drivers and completing the installation under "Updating the Driver and Firmware" on another drive in your system, you may want to use of write cache, and how unconfigured disks (JBODs) are handled ...
User Guide
Page 26
... press Enter. IC35L120AVVA07-0 115.03 GB Unconfigured Disk ----Press to OS: Port 2 - Figure 6. 3ware Controller Board Selection Screen 20 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Figure 5. 3ware BIOS Screen 3 Press Alt-3 immediately to Figure 5. 3ware ATA RAID Controller: Escalade 9500S-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Unit 0 Port 0 Port 1 Mirror - To start -up the...
... press Enter. IC35L120AVVA07-0 115.03 GB Unconfigured Disk ----Press to OS: Port 2 - Figure 6. 3ware Controller Board Selection Screen 20 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Figure 5. 3ware BIOS Screen 3 Press Alt-3 immediately to Figure 5. 3ware ATA RAID Controller: Escalade 9500S-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Unit 0 Port 0 Port 1 Mirror - To start -up the...
User Guide
Page 30
... Esc Esc Exit the utility and save or abandon all changes F8 24 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide they can see the software versions (BIOS, Firmware, monitor), serial number, controller and model number, cache memory size, slot # of the 3ware card, and whether or not BBU-support is highlighted.] Display context sensitive...
... Esc Esc Exit the utility and save or abandon all changes F8 24 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide they can see the software versions (BIOS, Firmware, monitor), serial number, controller and model number, cache memory size, slot # of the 3ware card, and whether or not BBU-support is highlighted.] Display context sensitive...
User Guide
Page 43
a firmware flash upgrade may be compatible with the 3DM Screens 3DM's features are organized on the page. You can move between pages by using the menu bar, or by clicking a link on a series of pages you view in your 3ware RAID controller and the resources connected to it may not be required. www.3ware.com ...in 3DM. Figure 13. 3DM Main Screen The menu bar across the top of the page provides summary or detail information about the results of controllers installed in the computer at the URL you expect to other pages in to 3DM, the Summary page shows a list of commands you access ...
a firmware flash upgrade may be compatible with the 3DM Screens 3DM's features are organized on the page. You can move between pages by using the menu bar, or by clicking a link on a series of pages you view in your 3ware RAID controller and the resources connected to it may not be required. www.3ware.com ...in 3DM. Figure 13. 3DM Main Screen The menu bar across the top of the page provides summary or detail information about the results of controllers installed in the computer at the URL you expect to other pages in to 3DM, the Summary page shows a list of commands you access ...