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 6. 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) Introduction
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Starting the 3DM Daemon under Linux and FreeBSD
3DM should start automatically after installation and upon bootup. If it does
not, use the steps below to start it.
To start the 3DM daemon manually
1 Login as root on the machine on which 3DM is installed.
2 Afterwards, type:
/etc/init.d/tdm2 start
3 To start the 3DM web application, open your browser and enter the URL
for your system.
http://localhost.888
If the 3DM connection is to a remote machine, you can replace
“localhost” with the IP address of the computer that contains the 3ware
controller. For example: http://<IP address>:888/
The 3DM login screen appears.
Starting the 3DM Process under Microsoft Windows
3DM should start automatically after installation and upon bootup. If it does
not, use the steps below to start it.
To start the 3DM process manually
1 On the system on which 3DM is installed, login as Administrator.
2 Open
Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services>3DM2 and select
the
Start/Play icon.
Note: If you close your browser, 3DM continues to run in the
background on the system.