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
Enabling and Setting Up Staggered Spin-up
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3 On the Policy Settings page, Tab to the Carving Factor field, press Enter
to display the text entry box, enter the size you want (between 1024 GB
and 2048 GB) and press
Enter again to accept it.
4
Tab to OK and press Enter to select it.
The policy is enabled immediately.
Enabling and Setting Up Staggered Spin-up
You can set the number of drives that will spin up at the same time and the
delay time between drive group spinups. Three policy settings let you set the
number of drives that will spin up at the same time and set the delay between
drive groups that spin up at one time.
Not all drives support staggered spinup. If you enable staggered spinup and
have drives that do not support it, the setting will be ignored. You can change
these settings in 3BM or using the CLI.
To enable or disable spinup and set the delay between spinups
1 At the main 3BM screen,
Tab to Policy and press Enter.
2 On the Policy
Control screen, Tab through these fields, making the
choices you want to use:
• Staggered Spinup: Choose enabled or disabled.
• Number of Drives Per Spinup: Select the number of drives—from 1
to 4, 8, 12, or 16, depending on the number of ports on the controller.
•
Delay between spinup: Select the number of seconds—from 1 to 6.
•
Staggered Method: Select either ATA-6 or SATA OOB as the type of
staggered spinup you want to use. For staggering to work correctly,
the drives must support the selected method. Check the
documentation for the drive to see which method is supported.
3
Tab to the OK button and press Enter.
You will notice a short delay as 3BM makes the policy changes.
It is possible to enable or disable automatic detection of drives on the controller’s
ports for staggered spinup during hot-swapping of drives. This feature is only
available in the CLI using the autodetect=on|off command. For more information,
see /cx set autodetect=on|off disk=<p:-p>|all 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI
Guide.
Note: Some hard drives require that the power management jumper (PM2) be set
to enable staggered spinup, in order for the SATA OOB option to be used. For more
information, see the knowledgebase article 14889, at
http://www.3ware.com/
KB/article.aspx?id=14889