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Installation Guide 3ware® SATA RAID Controller Supports the 9000 Series PN 720-0117-01 March 2005
Installation Guide 3ware® SATA RAID Controller Supports the 9000 Series PN 720-0117-01 March 2005
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... . . . 112 Limited Warranty 112 Exclusions 113 State Law Provisions 113 Obtaining Warranty Protection 114 AMCC's Technical Support and Services for 3ware RAID Controllers . 114 Sales and Ordering Information 115 Feedback on a FreeBSD System that Boots from a Different Device 92 Compiling... A. Driver Installation Under FreeBSD 87 Obtaining 3ware FreeBSD Drivers 88 Materials Required 88 Installing the Driver While Installing FreeBSD on the 3ware RAID Controller 88 Installing the 3ware Driver on this manual 115 Index 117 www.3ware.com iii Installing the Battery Backup Unit ...
... . . . 112 Limited Warranty 112 Exclusions 113 State Law Provisions 113 Obtaining Warranty Protection 114 AMCC's Technical Support and Services for 3ware RAID Controllers . 114 Sales and Ordering Information 115 Feedback on a FreeBSD System that Boots from a Different Device 92 Compiling... A. Driver Installation Under FreeBSD 87 Obtaining 3ware FreeBSD Drivers 88 Materials Required 88 Installing the Driver While Installing FreeBSD on the 3ware RAID Controller 88 Installing the 3ware Driver on this manual 115 Index 117 www.3ware.com iii Installing the Battery Backup Unit ...
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...known as a single drive. About this guide: 3BM refers to the 3ware BIOS Manager 3DM refers to the 3ware Disk Manager, version 2. Unit refers to one or more complete information...3ware.com/support/ Conventions Used in This Guide The following conventions are used interchangeably throughout this manual. Boldface is used throughout this Guide This guide describes how to install the 3ware 9000 series RAID controller, configure arrays, and make the arrays available to the 3ware RAID controller, see 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide. www.3ware...
...known as a single drive. About this guide: 3BM refers to the 3ware BIOS Manager 3DM refers to the 3ware Disk Manager, version 2. Unit refers to one or more complete information...3ware.com/support/ Conventions Used in This Guide The following conventions are used interchangeably throughout this manual. Boldface is used throughout this Guide This guide describes how to install the 3ware 9000 series RAID controller, configure arrays, and make the arrays available to the 3ware RAID controller, see 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide. www.3ware...
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... backup provides added data protection in the event of a power outage. (Battery Backup Unit sold separately.) Support for RAID units greater than 2 terabytes with the 3ware 9000 Series Controllers About 3ware Driver Versions System Requirements Package Contents Product Features The 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA family includes 9500S-4LP, 9500S-8, 9500S-12, 9500S-8MI, and 9500S-12MI.
... backup provides added data protection in the event of a power outage. (Battery Backup Unit sold separately.) Support for RAID units greater than 2 terabytes with the 3ware 9000 Series Controllers About 3ware Driver Versions System Requirements Package Contents Product Features The 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA family includes 9500S-4LP, 9500S-8, 9500S-12, 9500S-8MI, and 9500S-12MI.
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... Fusion technology. Extended drive and unit status information. System Requirements 3ware RAID controllers require the following: A workstation-class or server-class motherboard which meets the following : MultiLUN support with auto-carving of units greater than 2 terabytes into 2 terabyte volumes. RAID Level Migration (RLM) and Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) Unit naming...
... Fusion technology. Extended drive and unit status information. System Requirements 3ware RAID controllers require the following: A workstation-class or server-class motherboard which meets the following : MultiLUN support with auto-carving of units greater than 2 terabytes into 2 terabyte volumes. RAID Level Migration (RLM) and Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) Unit naming...
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... sections starting on page 12, and refer to Table 1, "LED Indicator Pin Positions," on the 3ware 9000 controller. Before You Begin Whether to Use the LED Status Connector 3ware RAID controllers include two types of LED status connectors: Overall indicator, which lights when any drive is...compatible with the 3ware RAID controller activity LEDs, such as the AMCC RDC-400 drive carrier, available through AMCC. Please check the 3ware web site (www.3ware.com) for chassis and drive carrier compatibility list. For more information, see the figure for each drive. (Not supported on chassis ...
... sections starting on page 12, and refer to Table 1, "LED Indicator Pin Positions," on the 3ware 9000 controller. Before You Begin Whether to Use the LED Status Connector 3ware RAID controllers include two types of LED status connectors: Overall indicator, which lights when any drive is...compatible with the 3ware RAID controller activity LEDs, such as the AMCC RDC-400 drive carrier, available through AMCC. Please check the 3ware web site (www.3ware.com) for chassis and drive carrier compatibility list. For more information, see the figure for each drive. (Not supported on chassis ...
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...or shared LED ground on the bottom 14 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Check with your chassis documentation before connecting. Table 1: LED Indicator Pin Positions Controller LED Header Pin Pair Comment 9500S-4LP J3 : : : : : 0 1 2 3 All Orientation Horizontal Port number/All (all activity indicator) 9500S-8 J7 (Pchip v1.4) k-cathode-minus ...indicator) J8 : : : : : Orientation Horizontal 4 5 6 7 NU Port number / NU (Not Used) k-cathode-minus is on the top a-anode-plus is on a chassis is not supported and can damage the 3ware controller.
...or shared LED ground on the bottom 14 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Check with your chassis documentation before connecting. Table 1: LED Indicator Pin Positions Controller LED Header Pin Pair Comment 9500S-4LP J3 : : : : : 0 1 2 3 All Orientation Horizontal Port number/All (all activity indicator) 9500S-8 J7 (Pchip v1.4) k-cathode-minus ...indicator) J8 : : : : : Orientation Horizontal 4 5 6 7 NU Port number / NU (Not Used) k-cathode-minus is on the top a-anode-plus is on a chassis is not supported and can damage the 3ware controller.
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...page 22. 18 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide For more information, see "Whether to Use the LED Status Connector" on page 9 and "To connect serial cables to the controller" on page 16. 4 (Optional) If staggered spinup is desired (and supported by cable or ...through the drive cage. 2 For each drive, select the end of each interface cable connector is fully seated. 8 Check that the 3ware RAID controller's metal bracket covers the hole...
...page 22. 18 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide For more information, see "Whether to Use the LED Status Connector" on page 9 and "To connect serial cables to the controller" on page 16. 4 (Optional) If staggered spinup is desired (and supported by cable or ...through the drive cage. 2 For each drive, select the end of each interface cable connector is fully seated. 8 Check that the 3ware RAID controller's metal bracket covers the hole...
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...place. 2 If your enclosure has a backplane, connect the other end. Each cable supports up to four serial ATA ports. 1 Connect each of each interface cable to a drive. 20 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide If you will connect two or three multi-lane cables. See Figure 5....serial ATA drives, use the break-out cable, which has a multi-lane connector on one end, and four individual SATA connectors on the controller. When the cable is inserted correctly, you are using a standard enclosure, connect each interface cable to a multi-lane connector on the other...
...place. 2 If your enclosure has a backplane, connect the other end. Each cable supports up to four serial ATA ports. 1 Connect each of each interface cable to a drive. 20 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide If you will connect two or three multi-lane cables. See Figure 5....serial ATA drives, use the break-out cable, which has a multi-lane connector on one end, and four individual SATA connectors on the controller. When the cable is inserted correctly, you are using a standard enclosure, connect each interface cable to a multi-lane connector on the other...
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... a standard 64 KB stripe size. Warning: Drives configured on the 9000 cannot be attached to a 9000 Controller" on the units attached to the 8000, you run a special utility, available from 3ware Technical Support, to convert the units to unlock the drive in normal mode before moving the units. You will need .... (This utility is not required for legacy JBOD units.) Do not remove the 8000 board from your 8000 storage units to a 9000 series controller. For most units, follow the steps below. The drive units must use . In addition, RAID 0, 10, and 5 units must be converted.
... a standard 64 KB stripe size. Warning: Drives configured on the 9000 cannot be attached to a 9000 Controller" on the units attached to the 8000, you run a special utility, available from 3ware Technical Support, to convert the units to unlock the drive in normal mode before moving the units. You will need .... (This utility is not required for legacy JBOD units.) Do not remove the 8000 board from your 8000 storage units to a 9000 series controller. For most units, follow the steps below. The drive units must use . In addition, RAID 0, 10, and 5 units must be converted.
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... a minimum of four drives to your 3ware RAID controller. Requires a minimum of three drives. RAID 10. Requires a minimum of RAID 5 with parity (exclusive OR) to two drives using RAID 1 algorithms. This gives your operating system. A JBOD is done on pairs of drives. Fault tolerance is no longer supported in the 3ware 9000 series. JBOD configuration is a basic...
... a minimum of four drives to your 3ware RAID controller. Requires a minimum of three drives. RAID 10. Requires a minimum of RAID 5 with parity (exclusive OR) to two drives using RAID 1 algorithms. This gives your operating system. A JBOD is done on pairs of drives. Fault tolerance is no longer supported in the 3ware 9000 series. JBOD configuration is a basic...
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...1) X (capacity of the smallest drive) RAID 10 RAID 50 Storage efficiency increases with the number of disks: storage efficiency = (number of drives -1)/ (number of drives) (number of drives / 2) X (capacity of smallest drive) (number of drives - Support for drives over 45 GB. The capacity ...Terabytes Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux 2.4, and FreeBSD 4.x, do not currently recognize unit capacity in 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide, see "Multi LUN Support and Auto-Carving." Auto-carving divides the available unit capacity into multiple chunks of the drives to be...
...1) X (capacity of the smallest drive) RAID 10 RAID 50 Storage efficiency increases with the number of disks: storage efficiency = (number of drives -1)/ (number of drives) (number of drives / 2) X (capacity of smallest drive) (number of drives - Support for drives over 45 GB. The capacity ...Terabytes Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux 2.4, and FreeBSD 4.x, do not currently recognize unit capacity in 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide, see "Multi LUN Support and Auto-Carving." Auto-carving divides the available unit capacity into multiple chunks of the drives to be...
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... unit will become the bootable unit, if you install the OS.) Page Up Page Down [Available only when there are saved when you have multiple 3ware Esc controllers in your system, return to starting values for this Use these keys Specify (or unspecify) a drive as a S hot spare Unlock the drives in a... Move a highlighted unit up or down in the list of the 3ware card, and whether or not BBU-support is highlighted.] Display context sensitive help F1 or Alt+F1 If you exit the Policy screen. www.3ware.com 39 Working with the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) Table 4: Working in 3BM To do this...
... unit will become the bootable unit, if you install the OS.) Page Up Page Down [Available only when there are saved when you have multiple 3ware Esc controllers in your system, return to starting values for this Use these keys Specify (or unspecify) a drive as a S hot spare Unlock the drives in a... Move a highlighted unit up or down in the list of the 3ware card, and whether or not BBU-support is highlighted.] Display context sensitive help F1 or Alt+F1 If you exit the Policy screen. www.3ware.com 39 Working with the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) Table 4: Working in 3BM To do this...
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... units of supported RAID levels on a single controller, depending on the type of drives that you select a drive, an asterisk appears next to it . Configuring Units Table 4: Working in the left-most column (see Figure 10). 40 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide ... Basic Steps for Creating a Unit The process of configuring your RAID units includes these keys Esc F8 Specifying the Unit Configuration You can implement one and pressing Enter to be included and indicate that the specific 3ware RAID controller supports and the number of drives attached.
... units of supported RAID levels on a single controller, depending on the type of drives that you select a drive, an asterisk appears next to it . Configuring Units Table 4: Working in the left-most column (see Figure 10). 40 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide ... Basic Steps for Creating a Unit The process of configuring your RAID units includes these keys Esc F8 Specifying the Unit Configuration You can implement one and pressing Enter to be included and indicate that the specific 3ware RAID controller supports and the number of drives attached.
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A drive or unit managed by the 3ware RAID controller may be configured to the motherboard. Driver Installation Under Windows Note: Before installing the 3ware driver, you must have already installed your boot ...3ware driver. www.3ware.com 53 This chapter contains instructions for the 3ware RAID controller Install the 3ware driver and Windows on a new drive or unit. Install the 3ware driver when Windows is already installed on a different device. The 3ware RAID controller can use another device as your 3ware RAID controller in the system. It is also supported...
A drive or unit managed by the 3ware RAID controller may be configured to the motherboard. Driver Installation Under Windows Note: Before installing the 3ware driver, you must have already installed your boot ...3ware driver. www.3ware.com 53 This chapter contains instructions for the 3ware RAID controller Install the 3ware driver and Windows on a new drive or unit. Install the 3ware driver when Windows is already installed on a different device. The 3ware RAID controller can use another device as your 3ware RAID controller in the system. It is also supported...
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Boot to UP version of kernel to fail. The instructions below 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. ... must boot to the UP kernel to use the make targets. 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...
Boot to UP version of kernel to fail. The instructions below 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. ... must boot to the UP kernel to use the make targets. 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...
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... 1 TByte, check to create an array larger than 1 TByte. Driver Installation Under FreeBSD Obtaining 3ware FreeBSD Drivers FreeBSD 4.10 and later have supports it. 88 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide If you will need to install the 3ware FreeBSD driver as described below. To see if a more recent driver is required. No...
... 1 TByte, check to create an array larger than 1 TByte. Driver Installation Under FreeBSD Obtaining 3ware FreeBSD Drivers FreeBSD 4.10 and later have supports it. 88 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide If you will need to install the 3ware FreeBSD driver as described below. To see if a more recent driver is required. No...
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... encounter when using 3ware RAID controllers. Troubleshooting: Problems and Solutions This chapter includes solutions to : 3ware support page at: http://www.3ware.com/support/ 3ware knowledgebase: http://www.3ware.com/KB/kb.asp 3ware software downloads: http://www.3ware.com/support/download.asp 3ware documentation: http://www.3ware.com/support/userdocs.asp 3ware Compatibility Lists: http://www.3ware.com/support/sys_compatibility.asp Hardware...
... encounter when using 3ware RAID controllers. Troubleshooting: Problems and Solutions This chapter includes solutions to : 3ware support page at: http://www.3ware.com/support/ 3ware knowledgebase: http://www.3ware.com/KB/kb.asp 3ware software downloads: http://www.3ware.com/support/download.asp 3ware documentation: http://www.3ware.com/support/userdocs.asp 3ware Compatibility Lists: http://www.3ware.com/support/sys_compatibility.asp Hardware...
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Points of connection on the half-height controller (top view) Note: If your 9000 series controller does not have the BBU receptacle, contact technical support for assistance. Installation Overview a) Slots on the edge b) BBU receptacle c) Hole for post Figure 3. Points of connection on the full-height controller (top view) a) Slots on the edge b) BBU receptacle c) Hole for post Figure 2. www.3ware.com 101
Points of connection on the half-height controller (top view) Note: If your 9000 series controller does not have the BBU receptacle, contact technical support for assistance. Installation Overview a) Slots on the edge b) BBU receptacle c) Hole for post Figure 3. Points of connection on the full-height controller (top view) a) Slots on the edge b) BBU receptacle c) Hole for post Figure 2. www.3ware.com 101
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Warranty, Technical Support, and Service Appendix C. Products or parts replaced under this provision shall become the property of improper workmanship or materials. Repair parts or replacement products will ... warrants this product against defects in material and workmanship for a period of twelve (12) months from the date of original purchase. Warranty, Technical Support, and Service Limited Warranty RAID Controller Hardware. 3-Year Hardware Warranty: AMCC warrants this product against defects in material and workmanship for a period of thirty-six (36) months from the...
Warranty, Technical Support, and Service Appendix C. Products or parts replaced under this provision shall become the property of improper workmanship or materials. Repair parts or replacement products will ... warrants this product against defects in material and workmanship for a period of twelve (12) months from the date of original purchase. Warranty, Technical Support, and Service Limited Warranty RAID Controller Hardware. 3-Year Hardware Warranty: AMCC warrants this product against defects in material and workmanship for a period of thirty-six (36) months from the...