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 291
definition 270
system requirements 2
T
task schedules
about, 3DM
200
adding 159
rebuild/migrate 159
removing 159
self-test 159
task duration 157
turning on and off 157, 158
verify 159
viewing 157
technical support 282
contacting 219, 284
troubleshooting 218
3DM 223
hardware installation 221
software installation 222
TwinStor 8
U
UDMA mode, definition
270
ultra DMA protocol 237
Unclean shutdown detected (0008) 231
unconfigured disks, exporting 90
uninstalling 3DM on
Linux
279
Windows 279
unit
checking status in 3DM
133
configuring 91
creating a unit
in 3DM
94
introduction 91
creating a unit for the first time, in BIOS 20
creating in 3BM 97
definition 4, 270
deleting a unit 120
in 3BM 122
in 3DM 121
expanding capacity 118
maintaining 133
moving from one controller to another 126
name 189, 197
naming 93, 105
ordering in 3BM 100
partitioning and formatting 101
policies, setting 106, 196
rebuilding a unit 150
in 3BM 152
in 3DM 151
removing in 3DM 123, 124
removing vs. deleting 123
statuses 135
Unit Maintenance in 3DM 203
unit number (definition) 270
unit statuses 135
verifying a unit 148
in 3BM 149
in 3DM 149
volumes 191
write cache, 3DM 196
write cache, enabling and disabling 108
Unit Details page, 3DM 190
unit ID
definition
270
Unit Information page, 3DM 189
Unit inoperable (001E) 235
Unit number assignments lost (0041) 252
Unit Operational (001F) 236
unit policies
enabling and disabling queuing for a unit
111
enabling and disabling write cache 108
overview 106
setting Auto Verify 109
setting Continue on Source Error During
Rebuild
110
setting the StorSave policy 112
Unsupported DCB, indication on drive 121, 122
update utility 167
updating
firmware
166
Linux and FreeBSD 182
Windows 167
Upgrade UDMA mode (0022) 237
V
verification
14
about 146
error handling 148
media scans 147
non-redundant units 147
redundant units 147
Verify completed(002B) 242
Verify failed (002A) 241
Verify fixed data/parity mismatch (0036) 247
Verify not started, unit never initialized (002F) 244
Verify paused (003D) 250
Verify started (0029) 241
verify task schedule
adding (3DM)
159
removing (3DM) 159
viewing (3DM) 157
verifying
definition
270
Verifying (unit status) 136
verifying a unit 148, 149, 205
Auto Verify policy 109