User guide
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- About this User Guide
- Introducing the 3ware® SATA RAID Controller
- Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller
- First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM
- Driver Installation
- Driver Installation Under Windows
- Driver Installation Under Linux
- Obtaining 3ware Linux Drivers
- Driver Installation Under Red Hat Linux or Fedora Core 5
- Materials required
- Creating a Red Hat Linux Driver Diskette
- Installing the 3ware Kernel Driver Module while Installing Red Hat Linux on a New Unit
- Installing the 3ware Kernel Driver Module on a Red Hat or Fedora Core Linux System that Boots From a Different Device
- About Variables In the Kernel Driver Module Installation Instructions
- Driver Installation Under SuSE Linux
- Compiling a 3ware Driver for Linux
- Driver Installation Under FreeBSD
- 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2) Introduction
- 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) Introduction
- Configuring Your Controller
- Configuring Units
- Configuring a New Unit
- Creating a Hot Spare
- Naming a Unit
- Setting Unit Policies
- Changing An Existing Configuration by Migrating
- Deleting a Unit
- Removing a Unit
- Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another
- Adding a Drive
- Removing a Drive
- Rescanning the Controller
- Maintaining Units
- Checking Unit and Drive Status through 3DM
- About Degraded Units
- About Inoperable Units
- Alarms, Errors, and Other Events
- Background Tasks
- Scheduling Background Tasks
- Locating a Drive by Blinking Its LED
- Maintaining Your Controller
- Determining the Current Version of Your 3ware Driver
- Updating the Firmware and Driver
- Downloading the Driver and Firmware
- Updating the Firmware Through 3DM 2
- Updating the 3ware Driver and Firmware Under Windows
- Using the Update Utility With Multiple Controllers
- Updating the 3ware Driver Under Windows XP
- Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat or Fedora Core
- Updating the 3ware Driver Under SuSE
- Updating the 3ware Driver Under FreeBSD
- Updating the Firmware Under Linux and FreeBSD
- Viewing Battery Information
- Testing Battery Capacity
- 3DM 2 Reference
- Troubleshooting
- Appendices
- Index
Setting Unit Policies
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The page refreshes, and a message at the top confirms the change you
have made.
To set the Continue on Source Error During Rebuild policy in 3BM
1 At the main 3BM screen, select the unit by highlighting it and pressing
Enter.
An asterisk appears in the left-most column to indicate that it is selected.
2Tab to the
Maintain Unit button and press Enter.
3 On the pop-up menu, select
Configure and press Enter.
4In the
Configure Disk Array screen, Tab to the field Continue on
Source Error During Rebuild
.
5 Press
Enter to display the choices, use the arrow keys to select the
setting you want (Enabled or Disabled), and press
Enter again to choose
it.
6
Tab to the OK button and press Enter to select it.
You return to the main 3BM screen.
7 When you are finished making changes, press
F8 to save them and exit
3BM.
Enabling and Disabling Queuing for a Unit
Some drives support NCQ (Native Command Queuing), a feature that can
result in increased performance for applications that require a lot of random
access of data (usually server-type applications). This is accomplished by
causing command reordering to be done on the drive.
In order to make use of NCQ, the feature must be enabled at both the drive
and the controller. You can enable support for NCQ on a per-unit basis, as
described below.
You can see whether NCQ is supported and enabled for a particular drive in
the Drive Details window. For details, see “Drive Details window” on
page 193.
Note: Not all drives support NCQ. If a drive does not support NCQ, the policy
setting for the controller is ignored.