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Amcc 3WARE 9500S User's Guide (302 pages)

Brand: Amcc | Category: RAID controllers | Size: 7.77 MB |

English

Table of contents

User Guide

1

Copyright

2

Trademarks

2

Disclaimer

2

Table of Contents

3

About this User Guide

7

Conventions

9

Screenshots

9

Click the Show Navigation

10

Contents

10

Introducing the 3ware

11

RAID Controller

11

System Requirements

12

Drive Requirements

13

Operating System

13

Other Requirements

13

RAID Concepts

14

Available RAID Configurations

15

Single Disk

20

Hot Spare

20

Management

23

Monitoring, Maintenance, and

24

Troubleshooting Features

24

Getting Started with Your

26

3ware RAID Controller

26

Using 3BM

30

Figure 8. 3ware BIOS Screen

31

Specifying a Hot Spare

38

What Next?

39

Driver Installation

40

Materials Required

41

Different Device

43

Available to Windows

48

Obtaining 3ware Linux Drivers

50

Fedora Core 5

51

Instructions

54

3w-9xxx.big

55

3w-9xxx.hug

55

3w-9xxx.i32

55

Materials required

57

Device” on page 48

58

/sys/modules/twa

66

3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2)

67

Introduction

67

Working in the 3BM Screens

70

Table 7: Working in 3BM 2

72

BIOS Loading Options

73

Getting Help While Using 3BM

75

3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager)

76

Browser Requirements for 3DM

77

Installing 3DM

78

Starting 3DM and Logging In

78

Start/Play icon

80

Working with the 3DM Screens

81

3DM Menus

82

Refreshing the Screen

84

Table 8: List of 3DM Pages

85

Setting Up 3DM Preferences

86

Setting the Incoming Port #

89

Configuring Your Controller

90

About Controller Policies

92

Viewing Controller Policies

93

• Choose

94

from the menu bar

94

Auto-Carving

98

Exporting JBOD Disks

100

Configuring Units

101

Chapter 8. Configuring Units

102

Name of the unit (optional)

103

Unit policies

103

Creating a Unit through 3DM

104

Creating a Unit through 3BM

107

Ordering Units in 3BM

110

Creating a Hot Spare

113

Naming a Unit

115

Setting Unit Policies

116

About StorSave Profile Levels

122

Migrating

125

Changing RAID Level

127

Expanding Unit Capacity

128

Configuration

129

Deleting a Unit

130

Deleting a Unit through 3DM

131

Deleting a Unit through 3BM

132

Removing a Unit

133

Removing a Unit Through 3DM

134

Removing a Unit Through 3BM

135

Controller

136

9650SE Controller

138

Adding a Drive

139

Removing a Drive

140

Rescanning the Controller

141

Management > Maintenance

142

Rescan Controller

142

Maintenance page

142

Maintaining Units

143

Chapter 9. Maintaining Units

144

Unit Statuses

145

Drive Statuses

147

About Inoperable Units

148

Downloading an Error Log

151

Background Tasks

152

About Initialization

153

About Verification

156

What Verification Does

157

Starting a Verify Manually

158

Rebuilding Units

160

Rebuilding a Unit Through 3DM

161

Rebuilding Units through 3BM

162

Different Drive

164

Setting Background Task Rate

165

Scheduling Background Tasks

166

Scheduled Task Duration

167

Removing a Task Schedule

169

Identify box

172

Identify column

172

Maintaining Your Controller

173

Begin Update

176

Under Windows

177

Have Disk… button

184

Fedora Core

188

Viewing Battery Information

193

Testing Battery Capacity

193

3DM 2 Reference

196

Controller Summary page

197

Controller Details page

198

Unit Information page

199

Unit Details page

200

Drive Information page

202

Drive Details window

203

SMART Data

204

Controller Settings page

205

Unit Policies

206

Unit Names

207

Other Controller Settings

207

Update Firmware

208

Scheduling page

209

Task Schedules

210

Self-test Schedules

210

Unit Maintenance

213

Unit Information

214

Maintenance Task Buttons

215

Create Unit

218

Alarms page

220

Battery Backup page

221

Enclosure Summary page

223

Enclosure Details page

224

3DM 2 Settings page

225

E-mail Notification

226

Password

226

Page Refresh

227

Remote Access

227

HTTP Settings

227

Troubleshooting

228

http://

229

Command Logging

230

Problems and Solutions

230

Enclosure-Related Problems

231

Chapter 12. Troubleshooting

232

Problems in 3DM and 3BM

233

0002 Degraded unit

238

0004 Rebuild failed

239

0005 Rebuild completed

239

0006 Incomplete unit detected

240

0007 Initialize completed

240

0009 Drive timeout detected

241

000A Drive error detected

242

000B Rebuild started

242

000C Initialize started

243

000E Initialize failed

243

000F SMART threshold exceeded

244

0019 Drive removed

245

001A Drive inserted

245

001E Unit inoperable

245

001F Unit Operational

246

0021 Downgrade UDMA mode

246

0022 Upgrade UDMA mode

247

0023 Sector repair completed

247

0026 Drive ECC error reported

249

0028 DCB version unsupported

250

0029 Verify started

251

002A Verify failed

251

002B Verify completed

252

. If you have more than one

253

0030 Drive not supported

255

0032 Spare capacity too small

255

0033 Migration started

256

0034 Migration failed

256

0035 Migration completed

257

0037 SO-DIMM not compatible

257

0038 SO-DIMM not detected

258

003B Rebuild paused

259

003C Initialize paused

260

003D Verify paused

260

003E Migration paused

261

0045 Battery voltage is low

263

0046 Battery voltage is high

264

0055 Battery charging started

269

0057 Battery charging fault

270

005A Battery is present

271

005B Battery is not present

271

005C Battery is weak

272

Appendices

274

Glossary

275

Software Installation

281

Uninstalling Software

289

Compliance and Conformity

290

Statements

290

Warranty, Technical Support

292

Exclusions

293

State Law Provisions

293

Feedback on this manual

294

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