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
Working in the 3BM Screens
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listed here in other units, you must first delete them. For more
information, see “Deleting a Unit” on page 120.
If any of the sections are not shown, it means that there are no items of that
type connected to the controller.
Table 7 lists how to move around and select information in the 3BM screens.
When these commands are available in 3BM, they appear at the bottom of the
3BM screen.
Table 7: Working in 3BM 2
To do this Use these keys
Move between units or drives in a list,
between fields, and between buttons
Up and Down Arrow Keys
OR
Left and Right Arrow Keys
OR
Tab and Shift+Tab
Select (or unselect) what is currently
highlighted.
A selection may be a drive in a list of
drives, a button at the bottom of the
screen, or a field in the middle of the
screen.
In lists, an asterisk appears to the left of
selected drives or units
Enter or the Spacebar
Display a drop-down list of available
choices in a field
Enter
Move between choices in a field list Up and Down Arrow Keys
Select all available drives Alt+A
In the list of units, expand a selected unit
to see any subunits and drives in the unit,
or contract it to see only the heading
again.
Shift+
Shift-
Highlight one of the primary buttons on
the main screen:
• Create Unit
• Delete Unit
• Maintain Unit
• Settings
• Information
Alt+C
Alt+D
Alt+M
Alt+S
Alt+I