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
Before Contacting Customer Support
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Before Contacting Customer Support
Three screens in 3DM 2 provide controller version and status information that
can be helpful when contacting 3ware Customer Support with questions or for
troubleshooting: Controller Summary, Unit Details, and Unit Information.
You can copy and paste the information from these screens into an email
using the system clipboard. When each page is displayed on the screen,
highlight it using your mouse (or press Ctrl-A to select all text), press Ctrl-C
to copy it to the clipboard, and then Ctrl-V to paste it into an e-mail.
You may also want to take a screen capture of these pages so that you can
respond to questions about your system configuration to the Customer
Support representative.
Additional useful information can be gathered from the error logs.For
instructions for collecting error logs, see knowledgebase article 12278:
http://
www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=12278.
Basic Troubleshooting: Check This First
Many error messages can be traced to improperly connected hardware.
Hardware can appear to be connected, yet not be in full contact. This can
cause intermittent errors that are hard to identify.
Reseat the following items to make sure they are in full contact and are not
loose:
• Cables
• Power cords and power connectors
• BBU connectors
• RAID controller
• Hard drives
If you have insured that all connections are secure and the errors still occur,
one strategy to confirm or rule out hardware problems is to swap suspected
bad drives, cables or power cords with known good ones. You can also:
• Move the drive to a different port on the controller.
• In the case of a controller, try a different slot (being sure to use a slot of
the correct type for your controller), or even a different computer.