User guide

176 3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card Software User Guide, Version 10.0
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Maintaining Your Controller
This section contains instructions for how to perform tasks that help you
maintain your controller, including:
• 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 Under Windows
• Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat or Fedora Core
• Updating the 3ware Driver Under SUSE
• Viewing Battery Information
• Testing Battery Capacity
Determining the Current Version of Your
3ware Driver
You can view controller and driver information in several different ways:
• Using 3DM 2 you can see both the driver and firmware versions (see the
“Controller Summary page” on page 201)
• Using 3BM you can see the firmware version (see “Displaying
Information About the Controller and Related Devices” on page 59)
• Using the CLI you can see both the driver and firmware versions (see
3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card CLI Guide, Version 10.0)
• Under Linux, you can type the following command if you have a 2.4
kernel or earlier:
cat /proc/modules/scsi/3w-sas/*
where the asterisk (*) represents controller number.
If you have a 2.6 kernels with sysfs, type the following command:
cat /sys/class/scsi_host/<hostid>/stats