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3w ar e ® SA T A RAID Controller Support s the 9000 Series PN 720-0117-01 March 2005 Inst allation Guide ...
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Cop yright ©2004-2005 AMCC. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or o t he rwise, without the proper written consent of AMCC, 455 W est Maud e A ve., Su nnyvale, CA 94085. T r ademar ks 3ware, Escala ...
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www.3ware.com i About this Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v Conventions Used in T his Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v About the 3ware RAID Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Product Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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ii 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Working with the 3war e BIOS Manager (3BM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 S tarting 3BM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Exiting 3BM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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www.3ware.com iii Driver Installation Under FreeBSD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Obtaining 3ware FreeBSD Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Materials Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Installing the Driver While Installing FreeBSD on the ...
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www.3ware.com v About this Guide This guide describes how to install the 3ware 9000 series RAID controller , configure arra ys, and make the arrays av ailable to you r operating system—Microsoft W indows, Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, or FreeBSD. For more complete information ab ou t managing and using arrays connected to the 3ware RAID controller , ...
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www.3ware.com 1 About the 3ware RAID Contr oller This section includes the following topics: Product Features What’ s New with the 3ware 9000 Series Controllers About 3ware Driver V ersions System Requirem ents Package Contents Product F ea tures The 3ware 9000 Series Serial A T A family includes 9500S-4LP , 9500S-8, 9500S-12, ...
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About the 3ware RAID Controller 2 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide An enhanced firmware platfo rm allows future upgrades. Anticipated upgrad es include Enclosure Management Serv ices (EMS). AMCC’ s remote management software, 3ware Disk Manager 2 (3DM®2) simplifies storage co nfiguration and manage ment via ...
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System Requirements www.3ware.com 3 Drives Depending on the particular mo del, th e 3 w are RAID cont roller may be connected to up to, four , eight, or twelve SA T A drives using the supplied interface cables. Drives must meet serial A T A 150 (SA T A I) or serial A T A 300 (SA T A 2) Gb/s standards. Drives ma y be of any capacity o r physical ...
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About the 3ware RAID Controller 4 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide P ackage Contents If your package is missing any of the items listed below , contact 3ware before proceeding with in stallation (disk drives and disk mounting brackets are not included). 3ware Serial A T A RAID Controller in an ESD-protective ba g ...
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www.3ware.com 5 Installa tion Ov er view Details about each step in the installation process are included in this guide. For your reference, the list below provides an overview of the main steps required. If you have a Battery Backup Unit (BBU), install it on the controller . (For details, see “Appendix A. Installing the Battery Backup Unit? ...
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Installation Overview 6 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Check the motherboard boot sequence. Refer to your system BIOS guide for more details. Configure RAID units. The basic steps are listed here. For details, see “Configuring Units” on page 27. a Start 3BM (the 3ware BIOS Manager). b Select the drives t ...
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www.3ware.com 7 Installing the Har d ware This section describes th e physical installation of the 3ware 9000 RAID controllers. It contains the foll owing topics: “Before Y ou Begin” provides important informat ion about things you should consider be fore starting instal lation, and tools and equipment you will need. “Safety Factors? ...
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Installing the Hardware 8 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Befo re Y ou Be gin The next few pages describe some fa ctors yo u may want to consider during installation, and the to ols and equipment you will need. Installation Considerations Cable Length, Routing S p ace, and Air Flow When you are installing multiple dr ...
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Before Y ou Begin www.3ware.com 9 Whether to Use the LED St atus Connector 3ware RAID controllers include two types of LED status connectors: Overall indicator , which lights when any drive is active. Individual LED indicators, for ea ch drive. (Not supported on chassis that have a c ommon ground.) If you are building a system from scratch, ...
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Installing the Hardware 10 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide W hat Y ou Need: T ools and Equipment T ools Required Y ou will need the following tools during installation: An ESD grounding strap or mat Standard hand tools to open your system’ s case and install the 3ware RAID controller into an available PCI e ...
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Safety Factors www.3ware.com 11 ESD (Electrost atic Discharge) Precautions T o avoid damaging computer components and accessories when installing or removing the 3ware RAID controller , follow standard electrostatic discharge (ESD) precautions: When your co mputer case is open an d its internal parts are exposed, do not touch any internal part ...
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Installing the Hardware 12 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Installing a Serial A T A RAID Controller Figure 1 shows a 3ware Serial A T A RAID controller with twelve ports. Up to twelve drives can be attached to this particular controller , through serial A T A cables. Figure 1. 12-Po rt 3ware 950 0S-12 Serial A T A R ...
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Installing a Serial A T A RAID Controller www.3ware.com 13 Figure 2. 8-Por t 3ware 9500S-8 Serial A T A RAID Contro ller, Pchip v1.5 (BBU-compatible) Additional Det ails About the LED S t atus Connectors As shown in Figures 1 thro ugh 5, LED connectors for in dividual drives are on J7, J8, and J9 for the full size cards, and on J3 for the half-size ...
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Installing the Hardware 14 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide W arning: A common or shared LED ground on a chassis is not supported and can da mage the 3ware co ntro ller . Chec k with your chassis documentation before connecting. T able 1: LED Indicator Pin Positions Controller LED Header Pin Pair Comment 9500S-4LP J3 ...
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Installing a Serial A T A RAID Controller www.3ware.com 15 Figure 3. 8-Por t 3ware 9500S-8 Serial A T A RAID Contro ller, Pchip v1.4 (Non-BBU Comp atible) 9500S-12 J7 : : : : : Orientation Horizontal 0 1 2 3 NU Port number/NU (Not Used) J8 : : : : : Orientation Horizontal 4 5 6 7 NU Port number/NU (Not Used) J9 : : : : : Orientation Horizontal 8 9 ...
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Installing the Hardware 16 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Figure 4. 4-Por t 3ware 9500S-4 Serial A T A RAID Controller T o connect serial cables to the contr oller 1 T ake out the serial cables provided with the 3ware SA T A RAID controller . 3ware serial controllers are su pplied with serial interface cables, one f ...
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Installing a Serial A T A RAID Controller www.3ware.com 17 Note: The connectors on the end of the serial controller and the drive are susceptible to damage from excessive bending. Be careful not to insert or remove the serial cable connector at an angle. 3 Repeat steps 2 and 3 for each additional interface cable. (Y ou will connect one cable for ea ...
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Installing the Hardware 18 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 7 Press down gently on the edge of the 3ware RAID controller directly above the slot until it is fully seated. 8 Check that the 3ware RAID co ntroller ’ s metal bracket covers the hole in the case and secure the bracket with the screw that was used to secur ...
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Installing a Serial A T A RAID Co ntro ller with Multi-lane Internal Connectors www.3ware.com 19 Installing a Seri al A T A RAID Controller with Multi-lane In ter nal Connector s Figure 5. 12-Po rt 3ware 950 0S-12MI Serial A T A RAID Controller Models 9500S-12MI and 9500S-8M I, have multi-lane internal connectors, each of which can handle up to fou ...
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Installing the Hardware 20 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Figure 6. Multi-lane Cable (InfiniBand 4x, SFF-8470) For use with a backplane that has individual SA T A connec tors or individual serial A T A drives, use the break-out cable, which has a multi-lane conn ector on one end, and four individual SA T A conne ...
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Installing a Serial A T A RAID Co ntro ller with Multi-lane Internal Connectors www.3ware.com 21 T o install the controller in th e computer 1 If the computer is running, shut it down . T urn of f power to the computer and disconnect the power cord from the outlet. 2 Open the computer case acco rding to the manufacturer ’ s instructions. 3 Find t ...
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Installing the Hardware 22 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 3 Power down the system, disconnect the drive s from the 7/8000 controller and remove the controller from the system. 4 Attach the drives to the 9000 co ntro ller , as described earlier in this section. Finishing Up After you have installed the contro ller in ...
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Moving Units from an 8000 Controller to a 9000 Controller www.3ware.com 23 Mo ving Units fr om an 8000 Contr oller to a 9000 Contro ller It is possible to move your 80 00 storage units to a 9000 series controller . Y ou will then have th e advantages of the 9000 series controller . The drive un its must be in no rmal mode before moving the units. I ...
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Installing the Hardware 24 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide T o move unit s under Linux or FreeBSD 1 Upgrade your driver to the 90 00 series driver . (For details, refer to the Linux or FreeBSD Dr iver Installation section.) 2 Run the conversion utility to convert the units. 3 Power down the system, dis conn ect the d ...
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Moving Units from an 8000 Controller to a 9000 Controller www.3ware.com 25 4 Reboot the system and enter the 3ware 9000 series BIOS (3BM) by pressing Alt-3. Enab le the Export JBOD policy on the Policy screen. (The next section in this guide, “Configuring Units” , describes how to work in 3BM. Additional information about 3BM is available in 3w ...
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www.3ware.com 27 Configuring Units After you have physically insta lled y our 3ware RAID controller and connected it to your disk drives, you configure how the drives connected to the controller wi ll be used in RAID arrays. This section includes the following topics: “Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels” on page 28 “Determining Wh ...
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Configuring Units 28 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Note: This section describes how to configure your RAID arrays as part of the installation process. For complete information about using 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM), including how to use i t to change existing configurations, and for inform ation about how to define a ...
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Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels www.3ware.com 29 disk arrays achieve highest transfer rates and performance at the expense of fault tolerance. Distributed Parity . Parity works in combination with striping on RAID 5 and RAID 50. Parity information is written to each of the striped drives, in rotation. Should a failure occur , the data on ...
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Configuring Units 30 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide cause a system hang, depend ing on your operatin g system. RAID 0 arrays are not recommended for high availability systems unless additional precau tions are taken to prevent system hangs and data loss. RAID 1 . Also known as a mirrored a rray . Mirroring is do ...
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Determini ng What R A ID Level to Use www.3ware.com 31 Disk as a replacement for JBOD, to take advantag e of advanced features such as OCE, and RLM. JBOD units are not fault to lerant and therefore not recommended for high availability system s unless additional precautions are taken to preven t system hangs and data loss. Hot Sp are . A single ...
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Configuring Units 32 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Drive Cap acity Considera tions The capacity of each drive is limited to the capacity of the smallest drive in the array . The total arra y capacity is defined as follows: 2 RAID 0 or RAID 1 3R A I D 0 RAID 1 with hot spare RAID 5 4 RAID 5 + hot spare RAID 10 Combi ...
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Determini ng What R A ID Level to Use www.3ware.com 33 Through drive coercion, the capacity used for each drive is rounded down so that drives from differin g manufacturers are more likely to be able to be used as spares for each other . The capacity used for each drive is rounded down t o the nearest GB for drives un der 45 GB (45,000,000,00 0), a ...
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Configuring Units 34 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide W or king with the 3ware BIOS Mana ger (3BM) This section describes the basics of working with the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) configuration ut ility . It includes the following sections: Star ting the 3BM configuration utility Exiting the 3BM configuration ut ...
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Working with the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) www.3ware.com 35 A message warns you that changing your disk array configuration may overwrite data on the disks. Figure 8. W arning Message When you Start 3BM 4 If you need to backup data before continui ng, press ESC and do so now . Otherwise, press any key to continue. ...
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Configuring Units 36 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Exiting 3BM When you are ready to exit the 3B M configuration utility , you have the option to save the configur ation changes yo u have made, or to discard the changes. T o save your configura tion modifications 1 Press the F8 or Esc key . A list of affected drive ...
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Working with the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) www.3ware.com 37 W or king in the 3BM Scr eens Figure 9. 3BM Configuration Utility Main Display The main 3BM screen shows a list of available drives. After you have configured one or more dr ives, it also lists the existing configuration. A vailable Drives lists the drives that are available to create u ...
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Configuring Units 38 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Unusable Units. Any unit that is missing too many drives to be constructed properly will be listed here. T able 4 lists how to move around and select information in the 3BM screens. T able 4: Working in 3BM T o do this Use these keys Move between units or drive ...
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Working with the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) www.3ware.com 39 S pecify (or unspecify) a drive as a hot spare S Unlock the drives in a unit, so that they can be removed and used with a controller other than a 9000-series controller . R (Remove) Return to starting values f or this session in the 3ware BIOS Manager F6 Note: F6 cann ot bring back previous ...
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Configuring Units 40 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Specifying the Unit Configuration Y ou can implement one or mo re units of supported RAID levels on a single controller , depending on the number o f drives that the specific 3ware RAID controller supports and the number of drives attached. Basic Steps for Creating ...
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S pecifying the Unit Configuration www.3ware.com 41 Y ou may include from one to twelve drives in the unit, depending on the number availa ble. (For information about how many drives to select for a given RAID level, see T able 2 on page 31.) Note: T o includ e drives that are part of an existing unit you must first delete the other unit. Be cautio ...
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Configuring Units 42 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Figure 1 1. Create Disk Ar r ay Di splay , RAI D 0 Ex am p le Figure 12. Cre ate Disk Arra y Display , RAID 5 Example ...
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S pecifying the Unit Configuration www.3ware.com 43 T o select the desired RAID conf iguration 1 Press Enter in the RAID Configuration field to display the available RAID levels for the nu mber of drives you selected. Figure 13. List of Config uration Choices for Four Drives 2 Use the arrow keys to highlight the desired RAID configuration and press ...
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Configuring Units 44 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Note: Striping size is not applicable for RAID 1, because it is a mirrored array without striping. In general, use smaller stripe sizes for sequential access (such as video access) and larger stripe sizes for random access (such as a database). Figure 14. Stripe Si ...
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S pecifying the Unit Configuration www.3ware.com 45 2 If you have additional drives, go ahead and configure an additional RAID unit or designat e a hot spare. Then continue on with the next section. (For details about hot spares, see page 46 .) 3 If you configured more than one unit, and you plan to install the operating system on on e of them, mak ...
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Configuring Units 46 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Depending on the RAID configu ration you are creating, initialization of the unit may begi n immediately . For details, see “Initializing Units” on page 49. Specifying a Hot Spare Y ou can designate one of the A vailable Drives as a hot spare in 3BM . If a hot ...
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S pecifying the Unit Configuration www.3ware.com 47 If a hot spare is already enabled, you can disable it by following the same process. Note: In order to replace a failed drive in a degraded unit, a hot spare drives must have the same or larger storage capacity than the failed drive. Enabling Auto-Car ving for Units Lar ger T han 2 TB If the capac ...
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Configuring Units 48 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 3T a b t o OK and press Enter . After you start your system, you will see multiple volumes available in the operating system : 2 TB each, plus one volume with any remaining storage beyo nd the multiple of 2TB. (In this release, 3BM does not show individual v olu me ...
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Initializing Uni ts www.3ware.com 49 Initializing Units Performance of RAID 5 units with 5 or more disks, and RAID 50 units with 10 or 12 disks configur ed into two subunits will improve after the unit has been initializ ed. For these configurat ions, foreground initialization (als o known as “zeroing”) starts immediately . If you want to begin ...
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Configuring Units 50 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide If you want to use a RAID configuration which has started initializing, press Esc to cancel the progress box. Y ou can then exit 3BM and boot to the operating system before the process of writing zeroes to the drives is complete . Once you have booted to th e opera ...
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Checking the Motherboard Boot Sequence www.3ware.com 51 4 On the Maintain Disk Array screen, Ta b to V erify Array and change the selection to Ye s . 5 Ta b to OK and press Enter . Initialization of the unit begins. Initialization of a RAID 1 unit resu lts in data from one disk (the disk on the lower channel n um be r) being copied to the other dis ...
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Configuring Units 52 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Installing Driv er s a nd Making the Units A vailable F or Use The final steps in setting up your RA ID arrays are to load the 3ware drivers and make the units availa ble to your operating system. W ill the unit you have created be your system's boot devic ...
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www.3ware.com 53 Driv er Installa tion Under Wi n d o w s Note: Before installing the 3war e driver , you must have already installed your 3ware RAID controller in the system. The 3ware RAID controller can be used with Microsoft W indows 2000 (SP3 or newer), W indows XP (SP1 or newer), and W indows Server 2003. W indows 2003 64-bit for AMD Optero n ...
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Driver Installation Under Windows 54 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Materials R equir ed 3ware software CD-ROM Microsoft W indows 2000, XP , or Server 2003 installation CD- ROM. (Not required if W indows is already installed on another drive.). Floppy diskette, to create a driver diskette. If you are ins ...
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Installing the 3ware Driver and Windows on a New Unit www.3ware.com 55 3 In the 3ware Driver & Firmware Images menu, click the appropriate button to create the driver diskette that you need. Note that there are both 32 -bit and 64-bit AMD drivers available for W indows. Be sure to select the corre ct one. 4 When the confirm message appears, ins ...
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Driver Installation Under Windows 56 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 5T y p e S if you h ave additional devices to add. Otherwise, press Enter . 6 If the “Digital Signature Not Found” message appears, click Ye s to continue the installation. (If there are multiple controllers in the system, yo u will see this mes ...
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Installing the Driver on a System t hat Boots from a Different Device www.3ware.com 57 T o inst all the 3war e driver under Windows 2000 When you start W indows after inst alling a 3ware RAID controller , W indows recognizes it as a Plug and Play device, and brin gs up the Found New Hardwar e Wizard. This wizard guides you through installing the 3w ...
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Driver Installation Under Windows 58 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 4 When the Completing the Found New Hardware W izard screen appears ( Figure 18 ), click Finish . Figure 18. Completing Found New Hardware Wizard 5 If the “Completing” screen similar to Figure 18 indicates that you should restart your computer , ...
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Installing the Driver on a System t hat Boots from a Different Device www.3ware.com 59 6 When the Install Hardware Device Drivers screen appears ( Figure 19 ), click Next and follow the prompts on the screen to install the second driver . Figure 19. Install Hardware Device Drivers 7 When the second Completing the Found New Ha rdware screen appears, ...
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Driver Installation Under Windows 60 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide After the driver has been installed, continue with the instructions under “Making Units Managed by a 3ware Controller A vailable to W indows” on page 63 . T o inst all the 3ware drive r under Windows XP or 2003 When you start W indows after inst ...
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Installing the Driver on a System t hat Boots from a Different Device www.3ware.com 61 4 When the Completing the Found New Hardware W izard screen appears ( Figure 22 ), click Finish . Figure 22. Completing Fo und New Hardware Wizard 5 If the “Completing” screen similar to Figure 22 indicates that you should restart your computer , do so now . ...
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Driver Installation Under Windows 62 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Figure 23. Welcome to the Fo und New Hardw are Wizard 7 When the second Completing the Found New Ha rdware screen appears, click Finish . Figure 24. Completing Found New Hardware Wizard After the driver has been installed, continue with the instruct ...
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Making Units Managed by a 3ware Controller Available to Windows www.3ware.com 63 Making Units Managed by a 3war e Controller Available to W indows After the 3ware driver has been in stalled, you need to partition and format the new units or disks. 1 Remove the driver diskette or CD , reboot the system, and log in as the system administrator . 2U s ...
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Driver Installation Under Windows 64 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Finishing Up Y our RAID unit is now ready for use. Y ou may also want to install 3ware’ s browser-based Disk Management tool, 3DM 2, or the 3ware Command Line Interface (CLI). W ith 3DM 2 and CLI, you can maintain your RAID un its while running W ...
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www.3ware.com 65 Driv er Installa tion Under Linux Note: Before installing the 3war e driver , you must have already installed your 3ware RAID controller in the system. A drive or unit managed b y the 3ware RAID controller may be configured to be your system’ s bo ot device. Or , you can use another device as your boo t dev ice, su ch as a disk a ...
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Driver Installation Under Linux 66 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide If you are using a Linux distribu tion for which th ere is no t a compiled driver available from 3ware, you can copy the source from the 3ware software CD or download the source from the 3ware website and compile a new dr iver . For more in formation, ...
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Obtaining 3ware Linux Drivers www.3ware.com 67 refer only to the 9000 series driv er . For information about using the 7/8000 driver an d controller , refer to the user guide or installation procedure for the 7/8 000-series controller . W arning: Be sure to use the correct driver for your processor . Be sure you load the correct driver on your syst ...
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Driver Installation Under Linux 68 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Deter mining the Cur rent V er sion of y our 3war e Driv er If you already have a 3ware co ntroller installed, you can check the current driver version. If you have a 2.4 kernel or e arlier , type the follo wing command: cat /proc/scsi/3w-9xxx/* where ...
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Driver Installation Under Red Hat Linux www.3ware.com 69 Creating a Red Ha t Linux Driv er Disk ette If you are installing Linux on the new drive or unit managed by the 3ware RAID controller , you must create a 3ware driver diskette. If Linux is already installed on an other device, you may install the 3ware driver from either the 3ware software CD ...
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Driver Installation Under Linux 70 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 1 Boot with the Red Hat CD or diskette: a Insert either the Red Hat CD-R OM disk or a Red Hat boot diskette into your computer . b S tart or reboot your co mputer . c When the We l c o m e t o R e d H a t display appears, type expert at the boot p rom ...
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Driver Installation Under Red Hat Linux www.3ware.com 71 About V ariables In th e Driver Installation In struction s These conventions are used for vari able text for kernel strings an d module names in the instructio ns on t he following pages. Kernel S tring Conventions <kernel string> refers to the kernel version. The kernel string will ha ...
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Driver Installation Under Linux 72 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide T o install the 3ware driv er and update the RAM dis k 1 Log in as root and o p en a console window . 2 Mount the CD which conta ins the 3ware driver: T o mount the CD, type: mount /d ev/cdrom and press Enter . 3 Copy the driver: For Redhat workst ati ...
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Driver Installation Under Red Hat Linux www.3ware.com 73 4 If you installed a previous driver when you install ed your operating system, then perform this step to copy the driver into the update directory , as well. Otherwise, go on to S t ep 5. For Redhat workst ation on Intel x86 , type: cp /mnt/cdrom/packages/drivers/linux /redhat/ ws3_us/x86_in ...
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Driver Installation Under Linux 74 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 6 Update the modules.dep file , by issuing the following command: Run /sbin/depmod -a 7 Run mkinitrd by entering the following: /sbin/mkinitrd -v -f /boot/ initrd - <kernel string> .img <kernel string1> where <kernel string1> is th e ...
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Driver Installation Under Red Hat Linux www.3ware.com 75 3 Copy the driver: For Redhat workst ation on Intel x86 , type: cp /mnt/cdrom/packages/drivers/linux /redhat/ ws3_u3/x86_intel/3w-9xxx.* / lib/modules/ <put kernel string here> /kernel/drivers/scsi/ 3w-9xxx.o If prompted to overwrite, type y . For Redhat workst ation on AMD Athlon 32-bi ...
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Driver Installation Under Linux 76 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide For Redhat workst ation on AMD Athlon 32-bit , type: cp /mnt/cdrom/packages/drivers/linux /redhat/ ws3_u3/x86_athlon/3w-9xxx.* /lib/mod ules/ <put kernel string here> /update 3w-9xxx.o If prompted to overwrite, type y . For Redhat workst ation o ...
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Driver Installation Under Red Hat Linux www.3ware.com 77 Compiling a 3ware Driver f or R ed Ha t Linux For Expert s Only If necessary , you can compile the 3ware driver yourself. (For example, if you are running a different kernel version.) Notes: Y ou must have a full Linux kernel source tr ee in /usr/src/linux in order to do the compile. In addit ...
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Driver Installation Under Linux 78 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Note: In the commands below , reme mber that the text you enter is case sensitive. (Be sure to type Makefile.rh , not makefile.rh .) T o build UP module, type: make -f Makefile.rh The file created is 3w-9xxx.o for 2.4 kernels, and 3w-9xxx.ko for 2.6 k ...
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Driver Installation Under Red Hat Linux www.3ware.com 79 T o build IA32E module (this is used when creatin g a driver for the x86_64/EM64T 64-bit driver diskette), type: make ia32e -f Makefile.rh The file created is 3w-9xxx.i 32 6 Copy the module as follows: For 2.4 kernels, copy module to: /lib/modules/ <kernel string> /kernel/drivers /scsi/ ...
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Driver Installation Under Linux 80 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Driv er Installa tion Under SuSE Linux Materials required 3ware software CD-ROM Floppy diskette, if you need to make a driver diskette. SuSE Linux Installation CD-ROM/DVD (Not required if SuSE Linux is already installed on another driv e.) ...
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Driver Installation Under Su SE Linux www.3ware.com 81 Installing the 3ware Driver and SuSE Linux with Y aST2 on a New Unit Note: If SuSE Linux is already installed on another drive, turn to “Installing the 3ware Driver on a SuSE Linux System that Boots from a Different Device” on page 81. 1 Boot directly from the SuSE installation CD #1 or DVD ...
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Driver Installation Under Linux 82 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Note about variables: In the instruction below , replace <kernel string> with the kernel version you are using (i.e. 2.6, etc.), replace *** with your v ersio n o f SuSE. In addition, replace 3w-9xxx.* with the appropriate module file for your k ...
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Driver Installation Under Su SE Linux www.3ware.com 83 7 If you are using the GRUB b oot loader , you are finished. If you are using the LILO boot loader , run LILO to update the boot record on disk by typing the following : /sbin/lilo The output should be similar to: Added linux * Compiling a 3ware Driver f or SuSE Linux For Expert s Only If you w ...
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Driver Installation Under Linux 84 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 5 Copy the config file for the kern el you want to build module for from the appropriate /usr/src/linux /arch directory (li sted below) to /usr/src/linux/.config. 6 Make oldconfig 7 Untar the driver source with this command: tar zxfv 3w-9xxx.tgz The d ...
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Driver Installation Under Su SE Linux www.3ware.com 85 T o compile a 3ware driver for SuSE Linux 2.6 kernels 1 Download the 3ware 2.6 driver source from the 3ware website (www .3ware.com). 2 Copy the driver source into a working directory . (The latest 3ware driver source is bundled wi th the latest firmware and is in the /src sub-directory .) 3 In ...
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Driver Installation Under Linux 86 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 9 Change directory to d river . cd driver 10 T o build the module, type make The 3w-9xxx.ko module will be built and output to the driver directory created when you un tared the 3w-9xxx.tgz file. This will take a while, since the 2.6 build process exp ...
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www.3ware.com 87 Driv er Installa tion Under Fr e e B S D Note: Before installing the 3war e driver , you must have already installed your 3ware RAID controller in the system. A drive or unit managed b y the 3ware RAID controller may be configured to be your system’ s bo ot device. Or , you can use another device as your boo t dev ice, su ch as a ...
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Driver Installation Under FreeBSD 88 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Obtaining 3ware F r eeBSD Drivers FreeBSD 4.10 and later have 9.xxx driver support built in. No driver installation is required. If you are using FreeBSD 4.8 or 4. 9, you will need to install the 3ware FreeBSD driver as describe d below . The 3ware ...
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Installing the Driver While Installing FreeBSD on the 3ware RAID Control ler www.3ware.com 89 T o inst all the driver as a module 1 Boot with the FreeBSD CD-ROM or diskette. 2 In the sysinstall menu, select Configure > Load KLD module. Note: Immediately after the OS starts booting from the CD, insert an MS-DOS floppy with the 3ware driver , twa. ...
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Driver Installation Under FreeBSD 90 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide b Mount the floppy . mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /flo ppy c Copy the driver file to the appropriate directory . For FreeBSD 4.x, copy the files to: cp /floppy/twa.ko /modules/twa.ko For FreeBSD 5.x, copy the files to: cp /floppy/twa.ko /boot/kernel/twa. ...
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Installing the Driver While Installing FreeBSD on the 3ware RAID Control ler www.3ware.com 91 drive. If you do not insert it imme diately , the loader may fail to recognize the floppy drive. 7 At the loader prompt, run ‘lsdev’ to mak e sure th e flop py dri ve has been discovered. 8 Run ‘load disk0:twa.ko’ (assuming disk0 is the floppy driv ...
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Driver Installation Under FreeBSD 92 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide TWA_FIRMWARE_FLASH opt_twa.h and the following line to your kernel configuration file (“custom” in the example above): options TWA_FLASH_FIRMWARE j If you intend to enable pr inting of debug messages in the driver , add t he following line to /s ...
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Installing the 3ware Driver on a FreeBSD System that Boots from a Dif fer- www.3ware.com 93 Note: Since twa.ko behaves like a S CS I driver , the units that it controls are seen as da0, da1 etc. T o make the driver p art of the kernel 1 Create the directory /sys/dev/twa mkdir /sys/dev/twa 2 Copy the 3ware driver source file archive (twa.tgz) to the ...
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Driver Installation Under FreeBSD 94 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide h Add the following lin e to “Makefile.i386’ CFLAGS+=-I/sys/dev/twa i If you intend to bundle the fi rmware image with the driver , add the following line to /sys/conf/options: TWA_FIRMWARE_FLASH opt_twa.h and the following line to your kernel c ...
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Installing the 3ware Driver on a FreeBSD System that Boots from a Dif fer- www.3ware.com 95 3 Unpack the driver source files. cd /sys/dev/twa tar -xzvf twa.tgz 4 Move the Makefile to /sys/modules/twa mv Makefile /sys/modules/twa 5 Change the direc tory to /sys/m od ules/twa/ cd /sys/modules/twa 6 Uncomment or commen t th e foll owing line in Ma kef ...
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Driver Installation Under FreeBSD 96 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide ...
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www.3ware.com 97 T r oubleshooting: Pr oblems and Solutions This chapter includes solutions to problems users sometimes encounter when using 3ware RAID controllers. For support, troubleshooting tip s, frequ en tly asked questions, software releases, and compatibility in formation related to 3ware RAID controllers, refer to: 3ware support page a ...
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T roubleshooting: Problems and Solution s 98 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Use a screwdriver to remove the black end rail. It aligns and secures the 3ware RAID contro ller in the computer chassis but is not critical for operation. Q2: The system doesn’t begin b ooting (no BIOS runs) when the 3ware RAID controller ...
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www.3ware.com 99 A ppendix A. Installing the Ba tter y Bac kup Unit The Battery Backup Unit (BBU) is an ad d-on that ca n be attache d to a 3ware 9000 RAID controller to supply power to the memory module from an attached battery pack in the event of a system power loss. This allows the controller to use write-caching for optimal performance and not ...
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Appendix A. Installing the Battery Backup Unit 100 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide T ools and equipment r equir ed Phillips-head screwdriver Grounding strap Battery Backup Unit (BBU) and battery 3ware 9000 series controller Installation Ov er view The Battery Backup Unit (BBU) attaches to th e control ...
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Installation Overview www.3ware.com 101 Figure 2. Points of connectio n on the full-heig ht controller (top view) Figure 3. Points of c onnection o n the half-he ight contro ller (top view ) Note: If your 9000 series controller does not have the BBU receptacle, cont act technical supp ort for assistance. b) BBU recepta cle c) Hole for post a) Slots ...
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Appendix A. Installing the Battery Backup Unit 102 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Installation Instru ctions 1 For full-height controllers, turn the controller memory-side down on a flat surface. 2 Remove the screws that conn ect the PCI bracket to the controller and set the bracket aside. Figure 4. Removing the scr ...
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Installation Instructions www.3ware.com 103 4 Make sure the battery cable is fastened under the cable management clips, as shown in Figure 5. Figure 5. Battery cable inserted through cable management clips 5 Match the clips on the end of the BBU to the slots on the edge of the controller to create a hinge and rotate the BBU to position it over the ...
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Appendix A. Installing the Battery Backup Unit 104 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 6 Align the Battery Backup Unit to the controller with these connectors: Mate the conn ector on the BBU with the receptacle on the controller . Match the plastic post on th e BBU with the hole on the controller . 7 Press down g ...
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Installation Instructions www.3ware.com 105 9 Insert the battery power connector into the power receptacle on the BBU. Figure 9. Battery power c onnector and power receptacle The controller is now re ady to install in your system. Figures 10 and 1 1 show the BBU fully in stalled on 3ware controllers. Y ou can check the status of the battery , and r ...
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Appendix A. Installing the Battery Backup Unit 106 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Figure 10. BBU installed on controllers ...
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Replacing the Battery www.3ware.com 107 R eplacing the Ba tter y The Battery Backup Unit (BBU) w ill last for many years. T he battery has an expected life span of one to two years depending on usage. Y ou can check the current status of the battery , and test it. For details, see instructions in 3war e 9000 Series Serial A T A RAID Contr oller Use ...
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Appendix A. Installing the Battery Backup Unit 108 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide 3 Disconnect the battery power cable from the BBU. T o do so , press down on the leve r -like clip on the battery power connector and slide it out of the slot. Figure 1 1. Power cable from the battery to t he BBU 4 Slide the battery ou ...
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www.3ware.com 109 A ppendix B . Compliance and Conf or mity Sta tements F eder al Communications Commission Radio F r equency Interf er ence Sta tement This equipment has been tested an d found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection aga ...
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Appendix B. Compliance and Con formity St atements 110 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Consult the dealer or an experienc ed radio/TV technician for help. T o maintain compliance with FCC radio frequen cy emission limits, use shielded cables and connectors between all parts of the computer system. Microsoft W ind ...
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European Community Conformity S tatement www.3ware.com 111 EN 61000-4-2 Electromagnetic compatibil ity (EMC ) Part 4: T esting and measurement techniques Section 2: Electrostatic discharge immunity test EN 61000-4-3 Electromagnetic compatibil ity (EMC ) Part 4: T esting and measurement techniques Sect ion 3: Radiated , Radio- Frequency , Electromag ...
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Appendix C. W arranty , T echni cal Support, and Service 112 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide A ppendix C . War r anty , T ec h nical Suppor t, and Ser vice Limited W ar r anty RAID Controller Hardware. 3-Y ear Hardware W arranty: AMCC warrants this product against defe cts in material and wor kmanship for a period of ...
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Exclusions www.3ware.com 113 For detailed terms and conditions, please see the Limited Hardware W arranty and Software Licens e Agreement at our website: http://www .3ware.com/support/rma_form.asp AMCC warranty service is provid ed by returning the defective product to AMCC. Exc lusions This warranty does not cover an y damage to this prod uct whic ...
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Appendix C. W arranty , T echni cal Support, and Service 114 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide Obtaining War r anty Pr otection T o obtain warranty service during the warranty period call AMCC toll free at (800)-945-7273 or (408) 523-1 145 (direct) as soon as you have identified a problem with your AMCC 3ware Serial A ...
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Sales and Ordering Informa tio n www.3ware.com 115 The 3ware software library is accessible at: http://www .3ware.com/supp ort/download.asp W eb-based software download s feature upgrading multiple switches simultaneously . For specific answers to questions or to give feedb ac k about the product, visit our W eb site at http://www .3ware.com/suppor ...
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Appendix C. W arranty , T echni cal Support, and Service 116 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide ...
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www.3ware.com 117 www.3ware.com 117 Inde x Numerics 3BM BIOS Manager 34 configuration util ity 34 navigating 38 shortcut keys while working in 38 A Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) 8 auto-carving 33, 47 B backplane, using w ith multi-lane connectors 19 BBU (battery backup unit) installati on 99 replacing the battery 99 BIOS Manager 34 C cable length ...
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Index 118 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide driver under Linux 65 driver under Red Hat Linux 68 driver under SuSE Linux 80 driver , W ind ows 53 formatting 63 hardware 7 LED status connectors 9 making units avail able 63 overview 5 partitioning 63 RAID controller 7 safety 10 serial A T A RAID con troller 12 serial A T ...
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