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
Driver Installation Under Windows
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Driver Installation Under Windows
The 3ware RAID controller can be used with Microsoft Windows 2000 (SP3
or newer), Windows XP (SP1 or newer), and Windows Server 2003. Windows
2003 64-bit for AMD Opteron or Intel EM64T is also supported. It is
recommended that you upgrade to the latest service pack available.
A drive or unit managed by the 3ware RAID controller may be configured to
be your system’s boot device. Or, you can use units managed by the 3ware
controller for secondary storage and boot from another device, such as a disk
attached to the motherboard, or other bootable media.
This section contains instructions for how to:
• Create a driver diskette for the 3ware RAID controller
• Install the 3ware driver and Windows on a new drive or unit.
• Install the 3ware driver when Windows is already installed on a different
device.
Materials Required
• 3ware software CD-ROM
• Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, or Server 2003 installation CD-ROM. (Not
required if Windows is already installed on another drive.).
• Floppy diskette, to create a driver diskette.
If you are installing Windows onto the RAID unit you are creating, you
must create a 3ware driver diskette. If Windows is already installed on
another device, you may install the 3ware driver from either the 3ware
software CD-ROM or from a diskette.
Note: Before installing the 3ware driver, you must have already physically installed
your 3ware RAID controller in the system.
Consult the installation guide that came with your controller for how to do this. You
can download that guide from: http://www.3ware.com/support/userdocs.asp.
Note: You must have administrator privileges for your system to install the
Windows operating system and the 3ware driver.