Specifications

8 MaxPac Single/Dual/Triple-Screen 8230 Training and Maintenance Guide
Configuring the RAID Array (with Separate System Drive)
Note: Your MaxPac8230 may be configured for connection to the optional TeraPac3 8 drive SATA
Expansion. In this case the MaxPac8230 will include a 12 or 16 port SATA RAID 5 controller. This
chapter illustrates and assumes a 4 port SATA RAID 5 controller so the photos may be somewhat
different. Refer to Chapter 7 for a brief section on the MaxPac8230 connection to the TeraPac3 and
to the TeraPac3 User Operation and Maintenance Guide for more details.
Note that these discussions reflect system configurations with a separate system drive as illustrated
in Figures 3-7 and 3-8). Configurations that have the system partition established on the RAID array
itself (leaving a hot-spare drive) are discussed later in this chapter.
When you take possession of your MaxPac 8230 system, the RAID system will already have been
established, initialized, and verified. The instructions in this section are intended to address those rare
situations where you need to replace a degraded/failed drive or you wish to rebuild the RAID system
from the ground up.
Your MaxPac system can contain up to four SATA hot-swappable hard disk drives presented in a
4-drive disk caddy. This caddy is located on the lower left-hand side of the main chassis under the
"Baghdad Filter" assembly as shown in Figure 3-7 (the numbering of the disks is as shown in
Figure 3-8). In the case of a typical RAID 5 system, the upper disk is the system disk, while the
lower three disks are used to implement the RAID data array.
Figure 3-7 Figure 3-8
Installing the Web-Based 3ware Software
If you reload your operating system, then you will also need to reload the appropriate RAID driver
followed by 3ware's 3DM 2 web-based RAID management application as follows:
1) Power-up the system. The operating system will see the RAID controller as a new device and will
therefore prompt you to load the appropriate driver from the 3ware CD, which is provided with
your system.
2) Insert the 3ware CD. The auto-play function will bring up the 3ware Escalade Menu as shown in
Figure 3-9. Initially you should ignore this menu; don’t dismiss it, but instead use the operating
system's Device Manager utility to look for the 3ware driver on the CD and install it.
3) Once the 3ware driver has been loaded, return to the 3ware Escalade Menu and click the Install
3DM 2 button.
4) Approve the license agreement in the ensuing pop-up dialog.