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... terms used throughout this Guide Chapter 1. Maintaining Your Controller 11. Compliance and Conformity Statements C. Includes explanations of product features for the 3ware controller if you how to install and set unit policies. Includes system requirements and an introduction to view details about checking battery status on a BBU (Battery Backup Unit). Describes how to RAID...
... terms used throughout this Guide Chapter 1. Maintaining Your Controller 11. Compliance and Conformity Statements C. Includes explanations of product features for the 3ware controller if you how to install and set unit policies. Includes system requirements and an introduction to view details about checking battery status on a BBU (Battery Backup Unit). Describes how to RAID...
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...system to occur with an available drive or with a Chassis Control Unit (CCU), you can issue drive locate commands that you to disk. With a Battery Backup Unit (BBU) installed, the cache stored on the 3ware controller can also define the rate at the same time, thus...write cache is enabled (9550SX and 9590SE controllers only). Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller choose a time for a Unit" on the controller has been connected to a chassis with a failed drive (9550SX and 9590SE controllers only). 14 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide However when data is enabled...
...system to occur with an available drive or with a Chassis Control Unit (CCU), you can issue drive locate commands that you to disk. With a Battery Backup Unit (BBU) installed, the cache stored on the 3ware controller can also define the rate at the same time, thus...write cache is enabled (9550SX and 9590SE controllers only). Introducing the 3ware® 9000 Series Controller choose a time for a Unit" on the controller has been connected to a chassis with a failed drive (9550SX and 9590SE controllers only). 14 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide However when data is enabled...
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...See Figure 6.) In this case, highlight the board with which you have more than one 9000-series controller in your 3ware configuration remains on the disks. 20 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide However, if a unit has degraded, the screen indicates the problem and remains on your ... configuration may overwrite data on -screen for a screen similar to Figure 5. ----Press to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9590SE-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX BBU Status: Not Present Number of online units: 1, available drives: 0, hot spare: 0, offline ...
...See Figure 6.) In this case, highlight the board with which you have more than one 9000-series controller in your 3ware configuration remains on the disks. 20 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide However, if a unit has degraded, the screen indicates the problem and remains on your ... configuration may overwrite data on -screen for a screen similar to Figure 5. ----Press to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9590SE-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX BBU Status: Not Present Number of online units: 1, available drives: 0, hot spare: 0, offline ...
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... do not have a BBU installed, 3BM will be assigned to the boot volume. 4 Press Enter again to review the information about creating a boot volume, see "Boot volume size" on page 130. For details, see "Using AutoCarving for Multi LUN Support" on page 121. 24 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Multiple volumes...
... do not have a BBU installed, 3BM will be assigned to the boot volume. 4 Press Enter again to review the information about creating a boot volume, see "Boot volume size" on page 130. For details, see "Using AutoCarving for Multi LUN Support" on page 121. 24 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Multiple volumes...
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... is starting, watch for your computer. 1 Power up the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM). For information about doing particular tasks in 3BM, refer to the later sections in the 3BM Screens" on page 58 • "Displaying Controller Information" on page 63 • "Getting Help While Using 3BM... access 3BM during the start-up process for a screen similar to Figure 24. ----Press to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9590SE-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX BBU Status: Not Present Number of online units: 1, available drives: 0, hot spare: 0, offline units...
... is starting, watch for your computer. 1 Power up the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM). For information about doing particular tasks in 3BM, refer to the later sections in the 3BM Screens" on page 58 • "Displaying Controller Information" on page 63 • "Getting Help While Using 3BM... access 3BM during the start-up process for a screen similar to Figure 24. ----Press to access 3ware BIOS Manager ---3ware ATA RAID Controller: 9590SE-12 BIOS: BE9X X.XX.XX.XXX Firmware: FE9X X.XX.XX.XXX BBU Status: Not Present Number of online units: 1, available drives: 0, hot spare: 0, offline units...
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The Monitor menu gives you to test the battery. The BBU page shows the status of unit write cache, and controller settings that affect all units managed by the controller), tasks that can be done through the Management > Maintenance page. Figure 34. 3DM Menu Bar Status information is permitted, ... lets you access to tasks used for managing controller-level settings (background task rate, unit polices such as enabling of a Battery Backup Unit (BBU), if one is installed, and allows you access to the Alarms page and the BBU page. www.3ware.com 77 The Alarms page shows a list of...
The Monitor menu gives you to test the battery. The BBU page shows the status of unit write cache, and controller settings that affect all units managed by the controller), tasks that can be done through the Management > Maintenance page. Figure 34. 3DM Menu Bar Status information is permitted, ... lets you access to tasks used for managing controller-level settings (background task rate, unit polices such as enabling of a Battery Backup Unit (BBU), if one is installed, and allows you access to the Alarms page and the BBU page. www.3ware.com 77 The Alarms page shows a list of...
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..., and must log back in as Administrator. Lets you are logged in with the new password. 80 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide The default password for listening. Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) Table 7: List of 3DM Pages 3DM Page Description Battery Backup Page 3DM 2 ...Settings Page Shows the status of a Battery Backup Unit (BBU), if one is installed, and allows you define preference ...
..., and must log back in as Administrator. Lets you are logged in with the new password. 80 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide The default password for listening. Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) Table 7: List of 3DM Pages 3DM Page Description Battery Backup Page 3DM 2 ...Settings Page Shows the status of a Battery Backup Unit (BBU), if one is installed, and allows you define preference ...
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... determine whether a backup battery is present, see details about it, and perform a battery test. and 8000- The specific text relating to backup the 3ware RAID controller or not. Indicates the BBU firmware version. BBU Ready. If the BBU is the time received by 3DM. Serial Number. The time shown for alarms generated by 9000-series...
... determine whether a backup battery is present, see details about it, and perform a battery test. and 8000- The specific text relating to backup the 3ware RAID controller or not. Indicates the BBU firmware version. BBU Ready. If the BBU is the time received by 3DM. Serial Number. The time shown for alarms generated by 9000-series...
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...status changes to "Fault" and the battery will change to "Charging" the next time the system is set to backup the 3ware RAID controller. The battery must be disconnected electronically. If the temperature falls outside the normal range, warning or error level AENs are generated based...Charging.The battery is disabled automatically on all units attached to "Fault" and the battery will change the BBU readiness state. A battery capacity test is in the 3ware RAID controller's cache memory. If the voltage falls outside the normal range, warning or error level AENs are generated....
...status changes to "Fault" and the battery will change to "Charging" the next time the system is set to backup the 3ware RAID controller. The battery must be disconnected electronically. If the temperature falls outside the normal range, warning or error level AENs are generated based...Charging.The battery is disabled automatically on all units attached to "Fault" and the battery will change the BBU readiness state. A battery capacity test is in the 3ware RAID controller's cache memory. If the voltage falls outside the normal range, warning or error level AENs are generated....
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..., a battery can protect for up to set preferences, including email notification for 112 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) the start of zero will also show if the BBU is updated after the test completes. For details, see a higher number in this page... Settings Page The 3DM 2 Settings page appears when you may see "Testing Battery Capacity" on the menu bar. Indicates when the BBU last detected the battery pack was completed. Use this field. A capacity of a new test and is disconnected and then reconnected. Last Capacity Test.
..., a battery can protect for up to set preferences, including email notification for 112 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Chapter 6. 3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2) the start of zero will also show if the BBU is updated after the test completes. For details, see a higher number in this page... Settings Page The 3DM 2 Settings page appears when you may see "Testing Battery Capacity" on the menu bar. Indicates when the BBU last detected the battery pack was completed. Use this field. A capacity of a new test and is disconnected and then reconnected. Last Capacity Test.
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...Unit" on a 9550SX and 9590SE. Determines what StorSave profile is disabled. 142 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide For details, see "Enabling and Disabling Queuing for the unit (9550SX and 9590SE controllers only). This provides the most efficient access times for a Unit" on page 145...Unit Write Cache. Details about adjusting each policy are encountered during a rebuild (9000series controllers only). Determines whether ECC errors are ignored when they are described on the Maintenance pages of the BBU, if you have set to verify a unit, even if you want to Degraded...
...Unit" on a 9550SX and 9590SE. Determines what StorSave profile is disabled. 142 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide For details, see "Enabling and Disabling Queuing for the unit (9550SX and 9590SE controllers only). This provides the most efficient access times for a Unit" on page 145...Unit Write Cache. Details about adjusting each policy are encountered during a rebuild (9000series controllers only). Determines whether ECC errors are ignored when they are described on the Maintenance pages of the BBU, if you have set to verify a unit, even if you want to Degraded...
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.... If you must disable the write cache. In 3DM, you always want for this case, you have a BBU (Battery Backup Unit) installed on the controller, the battery preserves the contents of the controller cache memory for the drive to write all the data to disk before it is written to the disk... the most efficient access times for a Unit" on page 149. Write cache can specify that the cache should be turned on 3ware RAID units. Do not use Windows Control Panel to enable or disable cache on or off for an unconfigured disk (JBOD). Write cache settings are not applicable for individual...
.... If you must disable the write cache. In 3DM, you always want for this case, you have a BBU (Battery Backup Unit) installed on the controller, the battery preserves the contents of the controller cache memory for the drive to write all the data to disk before it is written to the disk... the most efficient access times for a Unit" on page 149. Write cache can specify that the cache should be turned on 3ware RAID units. Do not use Windows Control Panel to enable or disable cache on or off for an unconfigured disk (JBOD). Write cache settings are not applicable for individual...
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...in cache. www.3ware.com 149 Note: If the write cache setting is disabled for a unit, the StorSave Profile capability does not apply and is present, this essentially disables the BBU for this unit.) Disabled • FUA (Force Unit Access). Ignore FUA Disabled. (If BBU is automatically disabled...Ignore FUA (If BBU is present) Disabled, if no BBU is present) Ignore FUA (If BBU is present) Enabled Enabled More data protection than Protection. When a write command is followed with a FUA command, then the disk drive will only issue "command complete" to the controller once the data ...
...in cache. www.3ware.com 149 Note: If the write cache setting is disabled for a unit, the StorSave Profile capability does not apply and is present, this essentially disables the BBU for this unit.) Disabled • FUA (Force Unit Access). Ignore FUA Disabled. (If BBU is automatically disabled...Ignore FUA (If BBU is present) Disabled, if no BBU is present) Ignore FUA (If BBU is present) Enabled Enabled More data protection than Protection. When a write command is followed with a FUA command, then the disk drive will only issue "command complete" to the controller once the data ...
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...or the drive is ignored, because the BBU preserves the contents of the controller cache memory for that has not yet been written to disk and preserves a copy of write cache can have made. 150 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide the Performance and Balanced profiles ... disabled on performance. Configuring Units The Protection and Balanced profiles honor FUA commands if no BBU is rebuilt. To set on the Controller Settings page. If write journaling is disabled and a BBU is disabled; Write journaling tracks the writing of time (up to the drive. The write...
...or the drive is ignored, because the BBU preserves the contents of the controller cache memory for that has not yet been written to disk and preserves a copy of write cache can have made. 150 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide the Performance and Balanced profiles ... disabled on performance. Configuring Units The Protection and Balanced profiles honor FUA commands if no BBU is rebuilt. To set on the Controller Settings page. If write journaling is disabled and a BBU is disabled; Write journaling tracks the writing of time (up to the drive. The write...
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.... 4 Copy the files to the location with the extracted files, which include tw_update. 216 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Chapter 10. Maintaining Your Controller Updating the 3ware Driver Under FreeBSD The following steps describe how to update the firmware under Linux and FreeBSD 1...Backup any critical data prior to updating the 3ware driver. 3 Change the directory to the appropriate directory. For example, in the system log (usually, /var/log/messages). 6 If you update the firmware include any 3BM, A-chip, P-chip, and BBU firmware updates. For FreeBSD 4.x, copy the ...
.... 4 Copy the files to the location with the extracted files, which include tw_update. 216 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Chapter 10. Maintaining Your Controller Updating the 3ware Driver Under FreeBSD The following steps describe how to update the firmware under Linux and FreeBSD 1...Backup any critical data prior to updating the 3ware driver. 3 Change the directory to the appropriate directory. For example, in the system log (usually, /var/log/messages). 6 If you update the firmware include any 3BM, A-chip, P-chip, and BBU firmware updates. For FreeBSD 4.x, copy the ...
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... on this screen are available, one for 9500S controllers (BBU9500S-01) and one for 9550SX and 9590SE controllers (BBU-9550SX-01). Note: When the BBU status is not "Ready," write caching is an add-on page 110. 218 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide This allows the controller to preserve data in both 3DM 2 and 3BM...
... on this screen are available, one for 9500S controllers (BBU9500S-01) and one for 9550SX and 9590SE controllers (BBU-9550SX-01). Note: When the BBU status is not "Ready," write caching is an add-on page 110. 218 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide This allows the controller to preserve data in both 3DM 2 and 3BM...
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In order to make a reliable estimate of battery capacity, and to determine when it proceeds with your controller. While running the battery test and until charging is completed, write cache is automatically charged again after the test completes. Battery Backup Information ...hours. Figure 91. After the battery test starts, you that came with a full discharge cycle. www.3ware.com 219 The battery is temporarily disabled. Testing Battery Capacity Testing Battery Capacity Batteries in the BBU need to back up to 24 hours, click OK to be replaced. After the voltage drops to...
In order to make a reliable estimate of battery capacity, and to determine when it proceeds with your controller. While running the battery test and until charging is completed, write cache is automatically charged again after the test completes. Battery Backup Information ...hours. Figure 91. After the battery test starts, you that came with a full discharge cycle. www.3ware.com 219 The battery is temporarily disabled. Testing Battery Capacity Testing Battery Capacity Batteries in the BBU need to back up to 24 hours, click OK to be replaced. After the voltage drops to...
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Battery Backup Information Screen in 3BM 1 At the main 3BM screen, tab to the BBU button and press Enter. 2 Tab to Test Battery Capacity and press Enter. Chapter 10. BBU Information Screen While Battery is Testing To test the battery in a BBU in 3BM 220 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Figure 93. Maintaining Your Controller Figure 92.
Battery Backup Information Screen in 3BM 1 At the main 3BM screen, tab to the BBU button and press Enter. 2 Tab to Test Battery Capacity and press Enter. Chapter 10. BBU Information Screen While Battery is Testing To test the battery in a BBU in 3BM 220 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide Figure 93. Maintaining Your Controller Figure 92.
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...synchronization skipped The 3ware RAID controller performs cache synchronization when system power is unable to backup the 3ware RAID controller in hours, ...its ability to backup the 3ware RAID controller in case of a PCI card in the controller cache. AEN Messages enough airflow... Battery Backup Unit cannot backup the 3ware RAID controller; This can back up to 20...AEN is not recommended and may take up the 3ware RAID controller. During this event happens, the Battery Backup Unit ...Unit is now able to backup the 3ware RAID controller. 051h Battery health check started The Battery Backup...
...synchronization skipped The 3ware RAID controller performs cache synchronization when system power is unable to backup the 3ware RAID controller in hours, ...its ability to backup the 3ware RAID controller in case of a PCI card in the controller cache. AEN Messages enough airflow... Battery Backup Unit cannot backup the 3ware RAID controller; This can back up to 20...AEN is not recommended and may take up the 3ware RAID controller. During this event happens, the Battery Backup Unit ...Unit is now able to backup the 3ware RAID controller. 051h Battery health check started The Battery Backup...
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...reason of improper workmanship or materials. www.3ware.com 251 AMCC, at no charge and at our website: http://www.3ware.com/support/rma_form.asp AMCC warranty service ... parts replaced under this provision shall become the property of AMCC. Battery Backup Unit (BBU) Hardware. 1-Year Hardware Warranty: AMCC warrants this product against defects in material and ... the date of original purchase. C Warranty, Technical Support, and Service Limited Warranty RAID Controller Hardware. 3-Year Hardware Warranty: AMCC warrants this product against defects in material and workmanship ...
...reason of improper workmanship or materials. www.3ware.com 251 AMCC, at no charge and at our website: http://www.3ware.com/support/rma_form.asp AMCC warranty service ... parts replaced under this provision shall become the property of AMCC. Battery Backup Unit (BBU) Hardware. 1-Year Hardware Warranty: AMCC warrants this product against defects in material and ... the date of original purchase. C Warranty, Technical Support, and Service Limited Warranty RAID Controller Hardware. 3-Year Hardware Warranty: AMCC warrants this product against defects in material and workmanship ...