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
Locating a Drive by Blinking Its LED
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3 Check the boxes next to the self-tests you want to be performed.
To disable self-tests
Unlike scheduling of rebuilds and verifies, scheduling of self-tests is always
enabled.
To disable self-tests you must either remove all schedule times, or uncheck
the tests listed in the
Tasks column.
Locating a Drive by Blinking Its LED
You can easily identify the drives in a unit, or an individual drive, by causing
the LEDs associated with the drives to blink.
When you have drives installed in an enclosure that has an integrated AMCC/
3ware CCU (chassis control unit) and have connected the I
2
C (chassis
control) connector on the 3ware RAID controller to the chassis, you can
locate individual drives by blinking their associated LED.
You can issue the command to blink the LED through 3DM.
(For details about what the different LED patterns on the enclosure mean, see
“Enclosure LED Status Indicators” on page 135.)
To blink the LED for a drive
1 Do one of the following:
• Choose
Information > Drive Information from the main menu in
3DM. On the Drive Information page, identify the drive you want to
physically locate.
• Choose
Monitor > Enclosure from the main menu in 3DM. On the
list of enclosures, click the ID number of the enclosure. On the
Enclosure Detail page, identify the drive you want to physically
locate.
2 Check the box in the
Identify column.
Note: Drive Locate is supported by some chassis vendors. This feature requires a
chassis with a Chassis Control Unit (CCU) designed according to AMCC/3ware
specifications. Check the 3ware support web site for future updates on a list of
chassis vendors that support the CCU, as they become available.