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
Error and Notification Messages
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0025 Cache flush failed; some data lost
Event Type
Error
Cause
The 3ware RAID controller was not able to commit data to the drive(s) during
a caching operation.This is due to a serious drive failure, possibly from a
power outage.
Background Information
The 3ware RAID controller uses caching layer firmware to improve
performance. For write commands this means that the controller
acknowledges it has completed a write operation before the data is committed
to disk. If the 3ware RAID controller cannot commit the data to the drive after
it has acknowledged to the host, this message is posted.
Action
To troubleshoot the reasons for the failure, collect the logs for your system
and contact 3ware technical support at http://www.3ware.com/support/
index.asp. For information on what error logs are and how to collect them, see
http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=12278.
0026 Drive ECC error reported
Event Type
Error
Cause
Drive ECC errors are an indication of grown defects on a particular drive. For
redundant units, this typically means that dynamic sector repair has been
invoked (see message “0023 Sector repair completed” on page 237) . For non-
redundant units (JBOD, RAID 0 and degraded units), which do not have
another copy of the data, drive ECC errors result in the 3ware RAID
controller returning failed status to the associated host command.
Action
Schedule periodic verifications of all units so that drive ECC errors can be
found and corrected. If the unit is non-redundant a unit file system check is
recommended.
Under Windows, right-click on your drive icon and choose
Properties>
Tools> Check Now.