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
Adjusting BIOS Loading Settings
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Adjusting BIOS Loading Settings
3BM 2 includes the following settings that let you customize the behavior of
the BIOS for the selected controller. You can access these settings by selecting
Settings > BIOS Settings from the main 3BM screen.
• Power-On Self Test (POST) Display Options
• BIOS Loading Options
• To change BIOS settings
Power-On Self Test (POST) Display Options
Display Control. Specifies what level of detail to display on the start-up
screen.
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Full displays all available information about the items attached to the
controller, including available drives, hot spares, and configured units.
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Unit Only displays only configured units.
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Summary displays a one-sentence description of the items attached to the
controller.
Array View. Specifies what level of information to show about configured
units on the start-up screen.
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Expanded lists each unit and shows the specific drives that make up the
unit.
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Collapsed lists only the configured units.
Pause Time. Sets the number of seconds that BIOS loading will pause to
displaying the RAID configuration before continuing to boot the operating
system. You can set a pause time of up to 10 seconds. The default is 6
seconds.
Full Screen Control. When you have many drives attached to a controller
and choose to display the Full level of detail, the information can extend
beyond a screens’ worth. The Full Screen Control setting lets you specify
whether to wait for a keystroke when the screen is full, before displaying
additional information. This option can be either
No Key or Wait Key.
BIOS Loading Options
Load Control. This setting lets you suppress loading of the BIOS for this
controller. This can be useful for “headless” systems (without a monitor and
keyboard) that have many types of PCI controllers and do not need to boot
from the units.