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
Chapter 4. Driver Installation
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3ware Technical Support, or email your driver request to
support1@amcc.com.
For information about how to compile a driver from the 3ware driver source,
see the links appended to knowledgebase article 14546 (http://
www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=14546).
Obtaining 3ware Linux Drivers
Obtain the 3ware driver for Linux from one of these two sources:
•
3ware software CD-ROM. Compiled and tested drivers for Red Hat and
SuSE Linux are included on this CD.
•
3ware web site. You can download the latest compiled and tested driver
for supported Linux distributions from the 3ware web site at
http://www.3ware.com/support/index.asp. Included in these downloads is
the Linux driver source, which you can use to compile the latest driver for
RedHat, SuSE, and other similar distributions, running similar kernel
strings.
Be Sure to Use the Correct Drivers
The Linux 3w-9xxx drivers included on the 3ware CD are for 3ware 9650SE,
9590SE, 9550SX, and 9500S series controllers. 3ware 7/8000 series
controllers use a Linux driver labeled 3w-xxxx. The drivers for the 9000
series controllers and the 7/8000 series controllers are not interchangeable,
but can be used together when both controller types are installed in the same
system. The examples in this chapter refer only to the 9000 series driver
(9650SE, 9590SE, 9550SX, and 9500S). For information about using the 7/
8000 driver and controller, refer to the user guide or installation procedure for
the 7/8000-series controller.
Warning: Be sure to use the correct driver for your processor. It is possible to load
the wrong driver onto a system, however when you boot such systems, they will not
work.
For Red Hat and SuSE, AMCC offers the following drivers:
• x86 32-bit for Intel x86 and AMD Athlon
• x86 64-bit for AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon (EM64T)