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 with the 3DM Screens
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Table 8: List of 3DM Pages
3DM Page Description
Controller Summary
page
Provides basic information about each 3ware RAID
controller in your system.
To see this page, click Summary in the menu bar.
Controller Details
page
Provides detailed information about the current controller.
To see this page, choose Information > Controller
Details from the menu bar.
Unit Information page Shows a list of the units on the current controller and
provides summary information about each unit.
To see this page, choose Information > Unit Information
from the menu bar or click an ID number on the Controller
Summary.
Unit Details page Shows details about a particular unit.
To see this page, click an ID number on the Unit
Information page.
Drive Information
page
Shows a list of drives on the current controller and
provides summary information about each drive.
To see this page, choose Information > Drive
Information from the menu bar.
Drive Details window Shows the SMART data for a specific drive, and shows
additional detail information for the drive.
To see this page, click the Port # for a drive on the Drive
Information page.
Controller Settings
page
Lets you view settings that affect the units on the current
controller and change some of those settings.
Controller-level settings that can be changed include
background task rate, Auto Rebuild, Auto-Carving, and
Carve Size. Some additional policies are shown that can
only be changed in the BIOS or CLI.
Unit-level settings include specifying the StorSave Profile
and enabling or disabling the Write Cache, Auto-Verify,
Continue on Error During Rebuild, and Queuing.
To see this page, choose
Management > Controller
Settings from the menu bar.
Scheduling page Lets you view and change the schedule for tasks that
affect all units on the current controller.
To see this page, choose Management > Scheduling
from the menu bar.