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
Updating the Firmware and Driver
www.3ware.com 165
Downloading the Driver and Firmware
You can download the latest drivers and firmware from the 3ware website, at
http://www.3ware.com/support.
For Windows, the firmware and driver can be installed from the same
download (3wUpdate.exe). When you run the update utility, you can choose
to update both the driver and the firmware, or only the driver.
For Linux and FreeBSD, updating the driver and updating the firmware are
done separately. You can download them individually from the website.
To download the driver or firmware
1 On the 3ware website (www.3ware.com), navigate to Service and
Support > Software Downloads.
2 Click
Download Released Software.
3 Select the product and release desired.
4 Select Driver or Firmware (as appropriate) as the item to download.
5 Select the Operating System you are using.
6 Click Next.
7 When details about the download you requested appear, click the link for
the item you want to download.
Depending on the item you selected, you may see either .zip (for
Windows) or .tgz (for Linux/FreeBSD) files to download.
8 Read and agree to the license agreement that appears.
9 Click Save to save the file to disk.
Note: Information in this section applies to updating drivers and firmware for the
9550SX, 9590SE, and 9650SE controllers. The 3ware website also allows you to
download drivers for other 3ware controller models and associated release notes.
Note: For Linux, do not use the driver from the external Linux distribution as it is
older than the currently supported driver. Instead, use the driver from the 3ware CD
or from the 3ware web site.
Note: If using Winzip or another Windows utility to extract the Linux
file, use the .zip version instead of the .tgz version. Otherwise the files
will not be compatible with Linux.