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
288 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
Drive timeout detected (0009) 231
driver
compiling for Linux
50
current version, determining 163
downloading 165
installation 30
installation under FreeBSD 50
installation under Linux 39
installation under Windows 31
updating
FreeBSD
181
Red Hat 178
SuSE 179
Windows 172
driver diskette
creating (Linux)
41
creating (Windows) 32
drives per spin-up policy 198
dynamic sector repair 148, 238
E
ECC
definition
267
ECC error policy (definition) 267
e-mail event notification, managing in 3DM 77, 216
enclosure
blinking LEDs
161
detail information 214
LED status indicators 135
summary information 213
Enclosure Details page (3DM) 214
Enclosure Management Services (EMS),
definition
267
Enclosure Summary page (3DM) 213
errors 138
error correction 15
error log, downloading 141
error messages 224
how handled by verification process 148
viewing 141
European Community Conformity statement 281
events (see also errors and alarms) 138
export a unit
definition 267
Export JBOD policy 83
setting 90
viewing in 3DM 198
exporting unconfigured disks 90
F
fault tolerant
definition
267
FCC Radio Frequency Interference Statement 280
firmware
definition 267
downloading 165
showing version 187, 188
updating 166
updating in Windows 167
Flash file system error detected (003F) 251
Flash file system repaired (0040) 252
FreeBSD driver
installation
50
updating 181
FUA (Force Unit Access) commands, part of
StorSave profile
113
G
grown defect, definition
267
H
hardware installation, troubleshooting
221
help, getting for 3BM 65
hot spare 10
creating 103, 104
hot spare (definition) 267
specifying 28
hot swap 5
hot swap (definition) 267
HTTP port number for 3DM 217
I
identify
drive by blinking LED
190, 193
identify checkbox in 3DM 190, 193
slot by blinking LED 214
unit by blinking (3DM) 162
identify checkbox in 3DM 214
import a unit
definition
268
incoming port number, 3DM 79
incomplete drives 121
incomplete drives, deleting through 3BM 122
Incomplete unit detected (0006) 230
initialization
about
143
background initialization after power failure 146
background versus foreground 143
definition 268
RAID 0 units 144
RAID 1 units 145
RAID 10 units 145
RAID 5 units 144
RAID 50 units 144
Initialize completed (0007) 230
Initialize failed (000E) 233
Initialize paused (003C) 250
Initialize started (000C) 233
Initializing (unit status) 136
Inoperable (unit status) 136