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
www.3ware.com 285
Index
Numerics
2TB support
86
3BM
help
65
main screen 60
navigation 61
screens 60
starting 57
working in 61
3DM
3DM menus
72
Alarms page 210
Battery Backup Information page 211
browser requirements 67
Controller Details page 188
Controller Settings page 195
Controller Summary page 187
Disk Management Utility Overview 66
Drive Details page 193
Drive Information page 192
enabling remote access 78
Enclosure Details page (3DM) 214
Enclosure Summary page (3DM) 213
installation 271
main 3DM screen 72
Maintenance page 202
managing email event notification 77
page refresh frequency 79
passwords 77
preferences 76
problems 223
remote access, enabling 78
Scheduling page 199
setting incoming port number 79
Settings page 215
SMART Details page 193
starting 68
starting in Linux 70
uninstalling 3DM on
Linux
279
Windows 279
Unit Details page 190
Unit Information page 189
3ware HTML Bookshelf ix
3ware Sidecar LED status indicators 135
3wUpdate.exe 167
A
A-Chip
definition
265
active content in the 3ware HTML Bookshelf,
security message about
x
AEN
Backup DCB read error detected (0043)
253
Battery capacity is below error level (0059) 261
Battery capacity is below warning level (0058) 260
Battery capacity test completed (0050) 258
Battery capacity test is overdue (0053) 259
Battery capacity test started (004E) 257
Battery charging completed (0056) 260
Battery charging fault (0057) 260
Battery charging started (0055) 259
Battery health check completed (0052) 259
Battery health check failed (005D) 262
Battery health check started (0051) 259
Battery is not present (005B) 261
Battery is present (005A) 261
Battery is weak (005C) 262
Battery temperature is high (004B) 256
Battery temperature is low (004A) 256
Battery temperature is normal (0049) 255
Battery temperature is too high (004D) 257
Battery temperature is too low (004C) 257
Battery voltage is high (0046) 254
Battery voltage is low (0045) 253
Battery voltage is normal (0044) 253
Battery voltage is too high (0048) 255
Battery voltage is too low (0047) 254
Buffer ECC error corrected (0039) 248
Buffer integrity test failed (0024) 238
Cache flush failed, some data lost (0025) 239
Cache synchronization completed (005E) 262
Cache synchronization failed 263
Cache synchronization skipped (004F) 258
Controller error occurred (0003) 228
Controller reset occurred (1001) 227
DCB checksum error detected(0027) 240
DCB version unsupported (0028) 240
Degraded unit (0002) 228
Downgrade UDMA (0021) 236
Drive ECC error reported (0026) 239
Drive error detected (000A) 232
Drive inserted (001A) 235
Drive not supported (0030) 245
Drive power on reset detected (003A) 249
Drive removed (0019) 235
Drive timeout detected (0009) 231