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
Chapter 10. Maintaining Your Controller
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10 Uncompress the file to extract the driver or firmware files to a local
directory or a diskette.
(Make note of the absolute path to the local directory.)
11 Turn to the driver section for your operating system:
• For Windows, turn topage 172
• For RedHat Linux, turn to page 178
• For SuSE Linux, turn to page 179
• For FreeBSD, turn to page 181
Or, to update the firmware, turn to
• “Updating the Firmware Through 3DM 2” on page 166 (for any
operating system with a Windowing user interface)
• “Updating the Firmware Under Linux and FreeBSD” on page 182
(for command line instructions)
To make a driver diskette
If you want to create a driver diskette, extract the driver files to a floppy in
step 9 above. Refer to the user manual for your operating system for more
details.
Updating the Firmware Through 3DM 2
You can use 3DM 2 to update the 3ware RAID controller firmware for any
operating system that has a graphical user interface such as Windows or X
Windows.
To update the firmware through 3DM
1 Download the firmware update from the 3ware website. For details, see
“To download the driver or firmware” on page 165.
2 In 3DM 2, navigate to
Management > Controller Settings.
3In the
Update Firmware section of Controller Settings page, browse to
the location where you have saved the downloaded firmware update.
4 Click
Begin Update.
The 3ware RAID controller firmware is updated.
5 Power cycle your system for the firmware update to take effect.
If you are updating from release 9.4 (firmware version 3.06.x) or earlier
to release 9.4.1 (firmware version 3.07.x) or later, you will need to power
cycle your system--meaning that you must turn it all the way off and then
turn it on again, in order for your system to recognize the controller.