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...common problems and solutions, and explains error messages. Provides warranty information and tells you how to check unit and drive status, review alarms and errors, schedule background maintenance tasks, and manually start the 3DM process manually, if required. Warranty, Technical Support, ... to update the driver, move a unit from one controller to another, and replace an existing 3ware controller with a new one. Maintaining Units 10. Includes information for configuring RAID units if you have just installed the controller. Describes the basics of the pages in this guide...
...common problems and solutions, and explains error messages. Provides warranty information and tells you how to check unit and drive status, review alarms and errors, schedule background maintenance tasks, and manually start the 3DM process manually, if required. Warranty, Technical Support, ... to update the driver, move a unit from one controller to another, and replace an existing 3ware controller with a new one. Maintaining Units 10. Includes information for configuring RAID units if you have just installed the controller. Describes the basics of the pages in this guide...
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... manual, it from a drive managed through the new 3ware RAID controller, use the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) to define the configuration. If you may want to review the information under "Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels" on page 3. Configure the RAID Unit Before configuring a RAID unit, you choose the appropriate RAID level for initial installation in part on whether...
... manual, it from a drive managed through the new 3ware RAID controller, use the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) to define the configuration. If you may want to review the information under "Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels" on page 3. Configure the RAID Unit Before configuring a RAID unit, you choose the appropriate RAID level for initial installation in part on whether...
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... configured units right away. Set Up Management and Maintenance Features 3ware RAID controllers include a number of features to help you may want to review these features allow you to the following information: • Chapter 6, "3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) Introduction" • Chapter 8, "Configuring Units" • 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide, available from the CDROM, the...
... configured units right away. Set Up Management and Maintenance Features 3ware RAID controllers include a number of features to help you may want to review these features allow you to the following information: • Chapter 6, "3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) Introduction" • Chapter 8, "Configuring Units" • 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide, available from the CDROM, the...
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... enabled and the combined size of the drives in your changes and press F8. 3 If the volume summary screen appears, review the information and press any key to review the information about creating a boot volume, see "Using AutoCarving for Multi LUN Support" on page 91. Multiple volumes will ...ask you want to cancel the creation of the unit. www.3ware.com 25 To confirm unit configuration 1 Press Tab to select the...
... enabled and the combined size of the drives in your changes and press F8. 3 If the volume summary screen appears, review the information and press any key to review the information about creating a boot volume, see "Using AutoCarving for Multi LUN Support" on page 91. Multiple volumes will ...ask you want to cancel the creation of the unit. www.3ware.com 25 To confirm unit configuration 1 Press Tab to select the...
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...or if auto-carving is enabled and the combined size of the unit. 11 If the volume summary screen appears, review the information and press any appropriate changes to the settings for: • Write Cache Setting • Drive Queuing Mode...settings, see "Using Auto-Carving for the boot volume (volume 0) in your changes and press F8. 104 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide You are not satisfied with how the volumes will be split up in the unit, delete...the drives in gigabytes; then press Enter again to set the size. 10 Tab to the OK button and press Enter to continue.
...or if auto-carving is enabled and the combined size of the unit. 11 If the volume summary screen appears, review the information and press any appropriate changes to the settings for: • Write Cache Setting • Drive Queuing Mode...settings, see "Using Auto-Carving for the boot volume (volume 0) in your changes and press F8. 104 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide You are not satisfied with how the volumes will be split up in the unit, delete...the drives in gigabytes; then press Enter again to set the size. 10 Tab to the OK button and press Enter to continue.
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...important to remove the unit through software, before removing it is the one you to safely remove drives from being reassembled later. 128 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide This process is overwritten until you press the F8 key to save your changes, or press Esc and select Yes...corrupt the data and the unit configuration from a controller in the list of Available Drives. Configuring Units 3 On the Delete Disk Array screen, review the information about the unit remains intact on this controller, or if moved to delete. Remember: The unit is not actually deleted and no ...
...important to remove the unit through software, before removing it is the one you to safely remove drives from being reassembled later. 128 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide This process is overwritten until you press the F8 key to save your changes, or press Esc and select Yes...corrupt the data and the unit configuration from a controller in the list of Available Drives. Configuring Units 3 On the Delete Disk Array screen, review the information about the unit remains intact on this controller, or if moved to delete. Remember: The unit is not actually deleted and no ...
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... screens in the firmware that have problems. A status column on the controller, unit, and drive information pages lets you review alarms and errors and schedule background maintenance tasks. Details about these features are described in this section, which is working (...repair bad sectors, and rebuild units when drives degrade. 9 Maintaining Units 3ware RAID controllers include a number of your 3ware RAID controller, configured units, and available drives. In addition, 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) and 3ware Disk Manager (3DM) provide tools to find details about your drives, check...
... screens in the firmware that have problems. A status column on the controller, unit, and drive information pages lets you review alarms and errors and schedule background maintenance tasks. Details about these features are described in this section, which is working (...repair bad sectors, and rebuild units when drives degrade. 9 Maintaining Units 3ware RAID controllers include a number of your 3ware RAID controller, configured units, and available drives. In addition, 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) and 3ware Disk Manager (3DM) provide tools to find details about your drives, check...
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... Utility Showing Available Drivers . Updating the Driver and Firmware Using the Update Utility With Multiple Controllers When your system has multiple 3ware RAID controllers installed, the update utility lets you update the firmware on page 170. To update the firmware on multiple controllers 1 Follow...to see firmware recommendations for each controller on your system. 3 For each controller, review the option for whether the firmware should be updated. 2 Use the scroll arrows under "Updating the 3ware Driver and Firmware Under Windows" on any or all of controllers in the procedure ...
... Utility Showing Available Drivers . Updating the Driver and Firmware Using the Update Utility With Multiple Controllers When your system has multiple 3ware RAID controllers installed, the update utility lets you update the firmware on page 170. To update the firmware on multiple controllers 1 Follow...to see firmware recommendations for each controller on your system. 3 For each controller, review the option for whether the firmware should be updated. 2 Use the scroll arrows under "Updating the 3ware Driver and Firmware Under Windows" on any or all of controllers in the procedure ...
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...will calculate and write parity data to initializing mode. Not all types of a unit fails. Review the list of events on page 121. 0034 Migration failed This message is sent when migration of RAID units need to be sent by the controller when it finds a valid hot spare but ... a unit is larger, you do anything else. For a list of compatible drives, see "About Initialization" on the Initialize function, see http://www.3ware.com/products/compatibility_sata.asp. 0032 Spare capacity too small for some units This message is now ready to be correctly jumpered to correspond to have...
...will calculate and write parity data to initializing mode. Not all types of a unit fails. Review the list of events on page 121. 0034 Migration failed This message is sent when migration of RAID units need to be sent by the controller when it finds a valid hot spare but ... a unit is larger, you do anything else. For a list of compatible drives, see "About Initialization" on the Initialize function, see http://www.3ware.com/products/compatibility_sata.asp. 0032 Spare capacity too small for some units This message is now ready to be correctly jumpered to correspond to have...