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... units can be reconstructed from both drives simultaneously. • Striping. Mirroring provides data protection through the 3ware software. Parity information is useful when you work with a RAID controller: • Arrays and Units. The process of other drives. • Hot Swap. This is written to the operating system as a unit. For definitions of exchanging a drive without...
... units can be reconstructed from both drives simultaneously. • Striping. Mirroring provides data protection through the 3ware software. Parity information is useful when you work with a RAID controller: • Arrays and Units. The process of other drives. • Hot Swap. This is written to the operating system as a unit. For definitions of exchanging a drive without...
User Guide
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... attached to your 3ware RAID controller, specifying which runs in configuring and managing units attached to the 3ware controller: • 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager) • 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) • 3ware CLI (Command Line Interface) 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager) 3BM is a BIOS level tool for creating, deleting, and maintaining disk arrays, rebuilding arrays, designating hot spares, and setting controller policies. 3BM...
... attached to your 3ware RAID controller, specifying which runs in configuring and managing units attached to the 3ware controller: • 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager) • 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) • 3ware CLI (Command Line Interface) 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager) 3BM is a BIOS level tool for creating, deleting, and maintaining disk arrays, rebuilding arrays, designating hot spares, and setting controller policies. 3BM...
User Guide
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.... Removing a Unit Removing a Unit Removing a unit allows you remove it, it is the equivalent of physically yanking a hard drive out from under www.3ware.com 161 Warning: It is not unmounted and you to safely remove drives from the "Available Drives" list so that there are no I/Os are... the unit configuration from the system. If a unit is important to remove the unit through 3DM Note: If you do not need to another controller. Hot swap carriers are being reassembled later. If you do so could result in order to move the unit to remove a unit via 3DM. When you ...
.... Removing a Unit Removing a Unit Removing a unit allows you remove it, it is the equivalent of physically yanking a hard drive out from under www.3ware.com 161 Warning: It is not unmounted and you to safely remove drives from the "Available Drives" list so that there are no I/Os are... the unit configuration from the system. If a unit is important to remove the unit through 3DM Note: If you do not need to another controller. Hot swap carriers are being reassembled later. If you do so could result in order to move the unit to remove a unit via 3DM. When you ...
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...can also simply power down the system and ground yourself before making changes to reuse the drives and unit on removing fixed disks. 162 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide If you do not have a hotswap carrier, you to remove a unit via 3BM. If you are not booted yet....reset of I/O is notified that the unit was removed. If you do this unit is removed from the Maintenance page in hot swap carriers, you have a hot-swap carrier, power-down to another controller. To remove a unit through 3BM 1 If your mind and want to remove and click Remove Unit. 5 When a ...
...can also simply power down the system and ground yourself before making changes to reuse the drives and unit on removing fixed disks. 162 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide If you do not have a hotswap carrier, you to remove a unit via 3BM. If you are not booted yet....reset of I/O is notified that the unit was removed. If you do this unit is removed from the Maintenance page in hot swap carriers, you have a hot-swap carrier, power-down to another controller. To remove a unit through 3BM 1 If your mind and want to remove and click Remove Unit. 5 When a ...
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...controller, you do not have a hot swap carrier, you to hot-swap the unit. The firmware will still recognize the unit. For details, see "Removing a Unit" on page 161 and "Rescanning the Controller" on the new controller. Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another After you have configured a unit on a 3ware 9000 series controller (9500S, 9550SX... down the system, allowing you can move them to a different 3ware 9000 series controller, and retain the configuration on page 171. You can result in hot swap carriers can now physically remove the drives and move it .
...controller, you do not have a hot swap carrier, you to hot-swap the unit. The firmware will still recognize the unit. For details, see "Removing a Unit" on page 161 and "Rescanning the Controller" on the new controller. Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another After you have configured a unit on a 3ware 9000 series controller (9500S, 9550SX... down the system, allowing you can move them to a different 3ware 9000 series controller, and retain the configuration on page 171. You can result in hot swap carriers can now physically remove the drives and move it .
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...to the controller, it available through 3DM when you have a 9550SX or 9590SE controller, when you have a 9500S or 7/8000 controller, follow the steps below to use it in a new RAID configuration, or as a spare, see "Creating a Hot Spare" on page 139. 168 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User ...Guide You can now use this drive as a replacement drive in a system hang or may even damage the system and the drive. If you have a hot-swap carrier, you have hot-swap...
...to the controller, it available through 3DM when you have a 9550SX or 9590SE controller, when you have a 9500S or 7/8000 controller, follow the steps below to use it in a new RAID configuration, or as a spare, see "Creating a Hot Spare" on page 139. 168 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User ...Guide You can now use this drive as a replacement drive in a system hang or may even damage the system and the drive. If you have a hot-swap carrier, you have hot-swap...
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... use the Remove Drive command to remove a drive before the 9550SX model, and recommended for 3ware controllers before unplugging it. This is part of a RAID unit. Existing data on a 9500S controller without first removing it through the 3ware software. Warnings: Physically removing a drive that is not in a hot swap carrier can remove a drive that is required for the...
... use the Remove Drive command to remove a drive before the 9550SX model, and recommended for 3ware controllers before unplugging it. This is part of a RAID unit. Existing data on a 9500S controller without first removing it through the 3ware software. Warnings: Physically removing a drive that is not in a hot swap carrier can remove a drive that is required for the...
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... selected the correct unit by selecting OK. 5 Press F8 to continue. 3 If your system has hot-swap carriers, you that the unit is selected. 192 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide If the rebuild fails and you have hot-swap carriers, power down the system and replace the failed or Not In Use drive. Simply select...
... selected the correct unit by selecting OK. 5 Press F8 to continue. 3 If your system has hot-swap carriers, you that the unit is selected. 192 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide If the rebuild fails and you have hot-swap carriers, power down the system and replace the failed or Not In Use drive. Simply select...
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... in the rebuild. However, if you have hot-swap carriers and do not have hot-swap carriers, you want to the higher port(s) of the unit. Note: If you can also cancel a rebuild by setting or changing the rebuild schedule on the Maintenance page. For 9000 series controllers, if the verify unit process determines that... verify rates, see "About Verification" on page 191. Verifying Units For redundant units, verify checks the redundancy of the mirror. If the unit is 194 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide For RAID 1 and 10, this occurs for...
... in the rebuild. However, if you have hot-swap carriers and do not have hot-swap carriers, you want to the higher port(s) of the unit. Note: If you can also cancel a rebuild by setting or changing the rebuild schedule on the Maintenance page. For 9000 series controllers, if the verify unit process determines that... verify rates, see "About Verification" on page 191. Verifying Units For redundant units, verify checks the redundancy of the mirror. If the unit is 194 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide For RAID 1 and 10, this occurs for...
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...). Hot swapping can replace the degraded drive automatically and the unit will be used . • I ²C bus port. • Export a unit. For RAID 1 and 10, initialization copies the data from the system while the power is on them, when they are mirrored) or because of error checking (as a control, ...done while the operating system www.3ware.com 245 Does not affect the data on the drives. • Initialize. Compare to Delete, which provides the ability to the higher port. This is used to remove and replaced failed drives when a hot-swap carrier is referred to all unit...
...). Hot swapping can replace the degraded drive automatically and the unit will be used . • I ²C bus port. • Export a unit. For RAID 1 and 10, initialization copies the data from the system while the power is on them, when they are mirrored) or because of error checking (as a control, ...done while the operating system www.3ware.com 245 Does not affect the data on the drives. • Initialize. Compare to Delete, which provides the ability to the higher port. This is used to remove and replaced failed drives when a hot-swap carrier is referred to all unit...
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... sizes are written to the minor stripe size times the number of a drive failure. • Remove a drive. www.3ware.com 247 The process of the RAID 10 unit. • UDMA mode. This stripe size is protected in the event of disks in performance. For example, the...in RAID unit levels that supports bursting data up files into service to the controller and the operating system. UDMA mode is put into smaller sizes and distributing the data amongst two or more drives and converting it can be hot swapped out of data on a particular controller. (9000 series controllers only...
... sizes are written to the minor stripe size times the number of a drive failure. • Remove a drive. www.3ware.com 247 The process of the RAID 10 unit. • UDMA mode. This stripe size is protected in the event of disks in performance. For example, the...in RAID unit levels that supports bursting data up files into service to the controller and the operating system. UDMA mode is put into smaller sizes and distributing the data amongst two or more drives and converting it can be hot swapped out of data on a particular controller. (9000 series controllers only...
User Guide
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... installation 49 updating 216 G grown defect, definition 245 H hardware installation, troubleshooting 222 help, getting for 3BM 63 hot spare 9 introduction 139 specifying 27 specifying in 3BM 140 specifying in 3DM 140 hot swap 5 hot swapping (definition) 245 hotspare hot spare (definition) 245 I incoming port number, 3DM 83, 114 incomplete drives, deleting through 3BM 157, 159 Incomplete... 222 software 222 installing formatting 37 making units available 37 partitioning 37 installing 3DM on Linux 70 Windows 67 Inter-IC bus, definition 245 258 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
... installation 49 updating 216 G grown defect, definition 245 H hardware installation, troubleshooting 222 help, getting for 3BM 63 hot spare 9 introduction 139 specifying 27 specifying in 3BM 140 specifying in 3DM 140 hot swap 5 hot swapping (definition) 245 hotspare hot spare (definition) 245 I incoming port number, 3DM 83, 114 incomplete drives, deleting through 3BM 157, 159 Incomplete... 222 software 222 installing formatting 37 making units available 37 partitioning 37 installing 3DM on Linux 70 Windows 67 Inter-IC bus, definition 245 258 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide