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... 7500-4, 7500-4LP, 7500-8, 7500-12 7 Escalade 8000 Serial ATA Family (includes 8500-4, 8500-8, 8500-12 8 Package Contents 9 Escalade 7000 series Parallel ATA RAID Controller 9 Escalade 8000 series Serial ATA RAID Controller 9 CBL-P-SATA (Parallel to Serial Drive Converter Kit) . . . . . 10 Tools Required 10 System...a Serial ATA RAID Controller 18 Connect the interface cables to the Escalade Serial ATA RAID Controller 18 Connect the drives to the interface cables 20 Check your installation and close the case 22 Check motherboard boot sequence 22 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility...
... 7500-4, 7500-4LP, 7500-8, 7500-12 7 Escalade 8000 Serial ATA Family (includes 8500-4, 8500-8, 8500-12 8 Package Contents 9 Escalade 7000 series Parallel ATA RAID Controller 9 Escalade 8000 series Serial ATA RAID Controller 9 CBL-P-SATA (Parallel to Serial Drive Converter Kit) . . . . . 10 Tools Required 10 System...a Serial ATA RAID Controller 18 Connect the interface cables to the Escalade Serial ATA RAID Controller 18 Connect the drives to the interface cables 20 Check your installation and close the case 22 Check motherboard boot sequence 22 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility...
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3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Determining your configuration 26 Displaying advance details 28 Creating a disk array 28 Determining your configuration 30 Specifying a Hot Spare 34 Changing an existing configuration 35 Modifying a disk array 35 Deleting a disk array 35 How to maintain or verify a disk array 36 Rebuilding a mirrored disk array 37 Rebuilding a RAID 5 disk array... 53 Exclusions 53 State Law Provisions 54 Obtaining Warranty Protection 54 3ware Technical Support and Services 54 Sales and ordering information 55 Feedback on this manual 55 iv
3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Determining your configuration 26 Displaying advance details 28 Creating a disk array 28 Determining your configuration 30 Specifying a Hot Spare 34 Changing an existing configuration 35 Modifying a disk array 35 Deleting a disk array 35 How to maintain or verify a disk array 36 Rebuilding a mirrored disk array 37 Rebuilding a RAID 5 disk array... 53 Exclusions 53 State Law Provisions 54 Obtaining Warranty Protection 54 3ware Technical Support and Services 54 Sales and ordering information 55 Feedback on this manual 55 iv
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... CBL-P-SATA (Parallel to Replace Faulted Drive, RAID 1 Example 42 Figure 17. Selecting Drives for RAID 5 32 Figure 11. Select Available Drive to Serial ATA Converter) 18 Figure 3. ample 27 Figure 6. Maintain Disk Array Display 37 Figure 13. Degraded RAID 5 Array Drive When Not in Use . 39 Figure 15. List of Figures Figure 1. 8-Port Escalade 7500-8 ATA RAID Controller...
... CBL-P-SATA (Parallel to Replace Faulted Drive, RAID 1 Example 42 Figure 17. Selecting Drives for RAID 5 32 Figure 11. Select Available Drive to Serial ATA Converter) 18 Figure 3. ample 27 Figure 6. Maintain Disk Array Display 37 Figure 13. Degraded RAID 5 Array Drive When Not in Use . 39 Figure 15. List of Figures Figure 1. 8-Port Escalade 7500-8 ATA RAID Controller...
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...system's case and install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller into an available PCI expansion slot. Note: It is open your array configuration. Drives must be of unshielded interface cables may...disk arrays destroys existing files on an ESD-protective mat. • Don't remove the ATA RAID Controller from its internal parts are exposed, don't touch any internal part unnecessarily. • Always wear a grounded strap or work on the member drives. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide CBL-P-SATA (Parallel to Serial Drive Converter Kit) • Escalade CBL-P-SATA...
...system's case and install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller into an available PCI expansion slot. Note: It is open your array configuration. Drives must be of unshielded interface cables may...disk arrays destroys existing files on an ESD-protective mat. • Don't remove the ATA RAID Controller from its internal parts are exposed, don't touch any internal part unnecessarily. • Always wear a grounded strap or work on the member drives. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide CBL-P-SATA (Parallel to Serial Drive Converter Kit) • Escalade CBL-P-SATA...
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3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility The 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility allows you to create disk arrays by using 3DM, with a pre-assigned spare. This designated drive is applied automatically when a drive degrades and the array is assumed that is available, active and designated as a Hot Spare through the 3DM configure page. The ATA RAID Controller shares one IRQ on the selected drive...
3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility The 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility allows you to create disk arrays by using 3DM, with a pre-assigned spare. This designated drive is applied automatically when a drive degrades and the array is assumed that is available, active and designated as a Hot Spare through the 3DM configure page. The ATA RAID Controller shares one IRQ on the selected drive...
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..., you must ensure that the drive is useful when booting temporarily from the 3DM configure page, you see a screen similar to Figure 4. 24 www.3ware.com 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Figure 4. 3ware BIOS Tool Press Alt-3 immediately to designate an available drive as a Hot Spare ...is designated in the BIOS screen, the designation and configuration is in the 3DM configuration page. 3DM Configure Page In order to bring up or reboot your changes hit Esc. www.3ware.com 25 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide volumes, and, consequently, they cannot be ...
..., you must ensure that the drive is useful when booting temporarily from the 3DM configure page, you see a screen similar to Figure 4. 24 www.3ware.com 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Figure 4. 3ware BIOS Tool Press Alt-3 immediately to designate an available drive as a Hot Spare ...is designated in the BIOS screen, the designation and configuration is in the 3DM configuration page. 3DM Configure Page In order to bring up or reboot your changes hit Esc. www.3ware.com 25 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide volumes, and, consequently, they cannot be ...
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... on the number of drives that theATA RAID Controller supports. • Multiple arrays of supported RAID levels can be implemented on a single controller based on those disks. ated with an array and hot spares. • Disk Arrays lists any existing arrays along with their member disks. 26 www.3ware.com 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Figure 5. www.3ware.com 27 Toggle Hot Spare verbiage is...
... on the number of drives that theATA RAID Controller supports. • Multiple arrays of supported RAID levels can be implemented on a single controller based on those disks. ated with an array and hot spares. • Disk Arrays lists any existing arrays along with their member disks. 26 www.3ware.com 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Figure 5. www.3ware.com 27 Toggle Hot Spare verbiage is...
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... be included by selecting drives from two to the main 3ware Disk Array Configuration screen. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Note: Accelerate keys. Press Escape to return to twelve drives in the array by navigating the cursor over each drive and pressing Enter (see Fig u re6). 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Displaying advance details Selecting Shift-F5 will show...
... be included by selecting drives from two to the main 3ware Disk Array Configuration screen. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Note: Accelerate keys. Press Escape to return to twelve drives in the array by navigating the cursor over each drive and pressing Enter (see Fig u re6). 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Displaying advance details Selecting Shift-F5 will show...
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...Disk Array Display, RAID 5 Example Select RAID configuration The Escalade ATA RAID Controller gives you a choice of smallest drive) Navigate to the Create Array button after selecting all drives, rather than being concentrated on its drives. High performance arrays write portions of the smallest drive in the array. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller... parity data and striping, providing fault tolerance, high capacity and high storage efficiency. QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30 30.0GB 30.0GB Select RAID Configuration: Array's Write Cache State: OK Stripe (RAID 0) enable Stripe Size: Cancel...
...Disk Array Display, RAID 5 Example Select RAID configuration The Escalade ATA RAID Controller gives you a choice of smallest drive) Navigate to the Create Array button after selecting all drives, rather than being concentrated on its drives. High performance arrays write portions of the smallest drive in the array. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller... parity data and striping, providing fault tolerance, high capacity and high storage efficiency. QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30 30.0GB 30.0GB Select RAID Configuration: Array's Write Cache State: OK Stripe (RAID 0) enable Stripe Size: Cancel...
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.... QUANTUM FIREBALLP KX27.3 512 M Disk Arrays: Array Unit 1 - 3 drive 64K RAID 5 Port 1 - Select write cache properties The Escalade ATA RAID Controller gives you have finished making all drives in Figure 10 appears after a delay of disk space available exceeds the maximum allowable capacity. Enabling the write cache 32 www.3ware.com 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility results in Figure 8. RAID...
.... QUANTUM FIREBALLP KX27.3 512 M Disk Arrays: Array Unit 1 - 3 drive 64K RAID 5 Port 1 - Select write cache properties The Escalade ATA RAID Controller gives you have finished making all drives in Figure 10 appears after a delay of disk space available exceeds the maximum allowable capacity. Enabling the write cache 32 www.3ware.com 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility results in Figure 8. RAID...
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.... Specifying a Hot Spare The Escalade ATA RAID Controller gives you want to retain before the configuration change. 2 Create new disk arrays following the instructions in the left most column indicates the array is specified and the array degrades, an event notification will inform the user that...dynamically replace the failed drive in initializing mode the array is already enabled. 34 www.3ware.com 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Note: Hot spare drives need to delete existing arrays to free up any data saved from one of the array (check data consistency). Enter s to select ...
.... Specifying a Hot Spare The Escalade ATA RAID Controller gives you want to retain before the configuration change. 2 Create new disk arrays following the instructions in the left most column indicates the array is specified and the array degrades, an event notification will inform the user that...dynamically replace the failed drive in initializing mode the array is already enabled. 34 www.3ware.com 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Note: Hot spare drives need to delete existing arrays to free up any data saved from one of the array (check data consistency). Enter s to select ...
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... a mirrored RAID 1 or RAID 10 array. QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30 Port 2 - QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30 Port 3 - Yes launches a foreground process that checks the data integrity of a fault tolerant array. Array Unit 2 - 2 drive Mirror Port 2 - Rebuilding a mirrored disk array Escalade ATA RAID Controllers allow you have selected. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 3ware Disk Array Configuration Available Drives: Disk Arrays: *Array Unit 0 - 4 drive 64K RAID 0 Port...
... a mirrored RAID 1 or RAID 10 array. QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30 Port 2 - QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30 Port 3 - Yes launches a foreground process that checks the data integrity of a fault tolerant array. Array Unit 2 - 2 drive Mirror Port 2 - Rebuilding a mirrored disk array Escalade ATA RAID Controllers allow you have selected. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 3ware Disk Array Configuration Available Drives: Disk Arrays: *Array Unit 0 - 4 drive 64K RAID 0 Port...
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... you to four drives can be rebuilt. Degraded RAID 1 Array Drive When Not in the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility or 3DM Disk Management Utility chapters. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Available Drives: Port 2 - In an 8-drive configuration, up to generate the parity data www.3ware.com 39 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide array is removed, unplugged or fails on read and write data...
... you to four drives can be rebuilt. Degraded RAID 1 Array Drive When Not in the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility or 3DM Disk Management Utility chapters. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Available Drives: Port 2 - In an 8-drive configuration, up to generate the parity data www.3ware.com 39 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide array is removed, unplugged or fails on read and write data...
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... longer available (see Figure 16). 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide that you to read or write requests, the array is marked as DEGRADED and the drive is marked as Not In Use or is rebuilt using the Rebuild feature. (Refer to the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility or 3DM Disk Management Utility chapters for more information...
... longer available (see Figure 16). 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide that you to read or write requests, the array is marked as DEGRADED and the drive is marked as Not In Use or is rebuilt using the Rebuild feature. (Refer to the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility or 3DM Disk Management Utility chapters for more information...
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... Figure 16 .Select Available Drive to Replace Faulted Drive, RAID 1 Example 8 Navigate to continue. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility 3ware Disk Array Configuration Available Drives: Port 2 - QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30 *Port 3 - QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30 30.0GB Disk Arrays: Array Unit 1 - 2 drive Mirror Port 1 - Rebuild Array Status Display, RAID 1 Example 42 www.3ware.com www.3ware.com 43 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 3ware Disk Array Configuration Available Drives: Port 2 -
... Figure 16 .Select Available Drive to Replace Faulted Drive, RAID 1 Example 8 Navigate to continue. 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility 3ware Disk Array Configuration Available Drives: Port 2 - QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30 *Port 3 - QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30 30.0GB Disk Arrays: Array Unit 1 - 2 drive Mirror Port 1 - Rebuild Array Status Display, RAID 1 Example 42 www.3ware.com www.3ware.com 43 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 3ware Disk Array Configuration Available Drives: Port 2 -
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3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 10 Press F8 to update configurations and exit. Using a drive for a rebuild will overwrite data on the following the applicable procedure below. If your system does not have hot swap carriers: 1 Power down the system and remove the disk.... During the next system power cycle the firmware queries the flag. For a RAID 5 configuration, if there is complete. 44 www.3ware.com 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Auto rebuild on their member disk drives. Click on the box in front of this port. The rebuild starts with a ...
3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 10 Press F8 to update configurations and exit. Using a drive for a rebuild will overwrite data on the following the applicable procedure below. If your system does not have hot swap carriers: 1 Power down the system and remove the disk.... During the next system power cycle the firmware queries the flag. For a RAID 5 configuration, if there is complete. 44 www.3ware.com 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility Auto rebuild on their member disk drives. Click on the box in front of this port. The rebuild starts with a ...
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... procedures in "Hardware Installation" and "3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility", the operating system, disk drivers, and 3DM disk management application must be installed next. www.3ware.com 47 ferent device (i.e., operating system has been installed on a drive connected to another controller) • Replacing an existing ATA RAID Controller with a new version of the 3DM disk management application. Additional Proce dures...
... procedures in "Hardware Installation" and "3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility", the operating system, disk drivers, and 3DM disk management application must be installed next. www.3ware.com 47 ferent device (i.e., operating system has been installed on a drive connected to another controller) • Replacing an existing ATA RAID Controller with a new version of the 3DM disk management application. Additional Proce dures...
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... Your drives are all properly jumpered. Q4: Some of the drives do not appear in the Disk Array Configuration Utility's main display. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Q3: The 3ware BIOS screen never appears. Check that both the power and ATA cables are connected properly and that drives be... a problem with the motherboard. To operate properly the ATA RAID controller requires that the drives are not connected properly to see if you motherboard has been tested by 3ware. Reinstall the hardware and reboot. There may also be set as Single (if...
... Your drives are all properly jumpered. Q4: Some of the drives do not appear in the Disk Array Configuration Utility's main display. 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Q3: The 3ware BIOS screen never appears. Check that both the power and ATA cables are connected properly and that drives be... a problem with the motherboard. To operate properly the ATA RAID controller requires that the drives are not connected properly to see if you motherboard has been tested by 3ware. Reinstall the hardware and reboot. There may also be set as Single (if...
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... a disk array 35 Determining your configuration 26 Disk Array Configuration Utility 50 Disk Arrays 26 Drive types 10 E European Community Conformity 52 F FCC 51 H Hardware Installation 13 hot spare 23, 34 M Maintaining a disk array 36 Modifying a disk array 35 ...motherboard boot sequence 22 P PCI 16, 19 Personal safety 11 R RAID 31 RAID 0 31 RAID 1 31, 37 RAID 10 31 RAID 5 31, 39 Rebuild Array 42 Rebuilding 45 www.3ware...
... a disk array 35 Determining your configuration 26 Disk Array Configuration Utility 50 Disk Arrays 26 Drive types 10 E European Community Conformity 52 F FCC 51 H Hardware Installation 13 hot spare 23, 34 M Maintaining a disk array 36 Modifying a disk array 35 ...motherboard boot sequence 22 P PCI 16, 19 Personal safety 11 R RAID 31 RAID 0 31 RAID 1 31, 37 RAID 10 31 RAID 5 31, 39 Rebuild Array 42 Rebuilding 45 www.3ware...