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3Ware Escalade 7000 Series Installation Manual

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Manual is about: ATA RAID Controller

Summary of Escalade 7000 Series

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    Ata raid controller supports the 7000 and 8000 series pn 720-0038-04, revision a april 29, 2003 escalade tm installation guide.

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    Copyright ©2003 3ware, inc. 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 otherwise, without the proper written consent of 3ware, inc., 455 west maude ave.,...

  • Page 3: Contents

    Iii before you begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 escalade 7000 parallel ata family (includes 7000-2, 7500-4, 7500-4lp, 7500-8, 7500-12) . . . . . . . . . ....

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide iv determining your configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 displaying advance details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 creating a disk array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

  • Page 5: List Of Figures

    V figure 1. 8-port escalade 7500-8 ata raid controller layout 14 figure 2. 12-port escalade 8500-12 serial ata raid controller with cbl-p-sata (parallel to serial ata converter) 18 figure 3. Parallel ata drive with serial ata converter in- stalled 22 figure 4. 3ware bios tool . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide vi.

  • Page 7: Before You Begin

    Before you begin www.3ware.Com 7 before you begin congratulations on selecting the escalade ata raid controller as your raid data storage and management system. This user guide gives simple, step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring your escalade ata raid controller. To ensure your pe...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 8 www.3ware.Com • field upgrades. Field upgradeable firmware, bios, 3dm and drivers • data integrity. Ata command readback, smart monitoring, dynamic sector repair, rebuild pacing, rebuild scheduling, background media scan, hot swap, hot spare, h...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 10 www.3ware.Com cbl-p-sata (parallel to serial drive converter kit) • escalade cbl-p-sata (one per port) • power converter adapter (one per port) • jumper(s) for converter (if not already installed) • 3ware installation guide tools required • an...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 12 www.3ware.Com • handle the ata raid controller by its edges or by the black rail and metal bracket at its two ends. • don’t touch any pin, contact, lead or component on the ata raid controller. Mechanical concerns be careful when installing th...

  • Page 11: Hardware Installation

    Hardware installation www.3ware.Com 13 hardware installation warning: before proceeding with hardware installa- tion, read the before you beginsection that completely describes personal and system precautions. Failing to do so may result in personal injury or damage to your com- puter or the escalad...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 14 www.3ware.Com installing a parallel ata raid controller note: if you are not installing a parallel ata raid controller, continue to page18 “installing a serial ata raid controller”. Figure 1. 8-port escalade 7500-8 ata raid controller layout c...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 16 www.3ware.Com hint: while the ata raid controller runs properly in any pci slot, not all slots give equal performance due to the architecture of the pci bus. In our laboratories, we have noticed that the slots closest to the accelerated graphi...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 18 www.3ware.Com installing a serial ata raid controller figure 2. 12-port escalade 8500-12 serial ata raid controller with cbl-p-sata (parallel to serial ata converter) connect the interface cables to the escalade serial ata raid controller 1 co...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 20 www.3ware.Com escalade ata raid controller is keyed to ensure proper instal- lation into a full-sized pci slot. 6 ensure that the contacts will mate with both grooves in the slot. Press down gently on the edge of the ata raid controller direct...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 22 www.3ware.Com figure 3. Parallel ata drive with serial ata converter installed check your installation and close the case 1 after all of the drives are connected to the ata raid controller and it is installed in its slot, verify that the cable...

  • Page 17: 3Ware Disk Array

    3ware disk array configuration utility www.3ware.Com 23 3ware disk array configuration utility the 3ware disk array configuration utility allows you to create disk arrays by combining disks, deleting disks or breaking disk arrays back into their member disks. You can also specify an avail- able driv...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 24 www.3ware.Com volumes, and, consequently, they cannot be designated as spares at a later time. If a spare is designated in the bios screen, the designa- tion and configuration is in effect from this point on. The spare drive will be displayed ...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 26 www.3ware.Com determining your configuration caution: configuring a disk array writes format-type data onto its member disks and overwrites all the files on those disks. Be sure to back up data that requires retention. • all supported raid lev...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 28 www.3ware.Com displaying advance details selecting shift-f5 will show the software versions (bios, firm- ware, monitor) and slot # of the 3ware card (see fig u re6). Press escape to return to the main 3ware disk array configuration screen. Fig...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 30 www.3ware.Com determining your configuration hint: the capacity of each drive is limited to the capacity of the smallest drive in the array. The total array capacity is defined as follows: raid 0: (the number of drives) x (the capacity of the ...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 32 www.3ware.Com a single disk. Raid 5 arrays require a minimum of three drives. Configurations consist of at least 3 drives and up to 12 drives. Figure 10. Bios initialization screen for raid 5 select striping size for a raid 0 or raid 10 config...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 34 www.3ware.Com the array to be fully redundant, as it takes longer to initialize an array than it takes to write zeros to the array. Caution: when running in initializing mode the array is not redundant. You cannot remove any drive . For raid 1...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 36 www.3ware.Com figure 11. Delete disk array display navigate to the delete array button and hit enter to bring up the delete disk array display. Check that the correct drives are listed. Select the ok key to confirm deleting the array or cancel...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 38 www.3ware.Com array is removed, unplugged or fails on read or write requests, the array is marked as degraded and the drive is marked as not in use or is not displayed if no longer available. (see figure 13 and figure 14). You can still read a...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 40 www.3ware.Com that is distributed on all drives. If one of the drives is removed, unplugged or fails on read or write requests, the array is marked as degraded and the drive is marked as not in use oris not dis- played if no longer available(s...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 42 www.3ware.Com figure 16 . Select available drive to replace faulted drive, raid 1 example 8 navigate to the rebuild array button and press enter (see figure 17). A status screen will be displayed with your requested array and member drives. 9 ...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 44 www.3ware.Com 10 press f8 to rebuild. The rebuild confirmation screen will be dis- played (see figure 18). Figure 18. Rebuild confirmation display 11 enter y to update configurations and exit. Auto rebuild of a mirrored or raid 5 array if a ho...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 46 www.3ware.Com 6 press f8 to start a rebuild with this drive. Note: if the rebuild is not started in the 3ware bios, the new drive cannot be used to rebuild the degraded array. Booting with the drive attached will make the drive appear as a sin...

  • Page 30: Additional Procedures

    Www.3ware.Com 47 additional proce dures additional procedures after completing the steps described in “hardware installation” and “3ware disk array configuration utility”, the operating system, disk drivers, and 3dm disk management application must be installed next. The escalade user guide describe...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 48 www.3ware.Com.

  • Page 32: Troubleshooting:

    Troubleshooting www.3ware.Com 49 troubleshooting: problems and solutions note: for more troubleshooting tips and frequently asked questions, refer to 3ware’s support web page at http://www.3ware.Com/support. Note: more troubleshooting problems and solutions can be found on the 3ware web site at http...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 50 www.3ware.Com q3: the 3ware bios screen never appears. The ata raid controller is not installed properly. Reinstall the hardware and reboot. There may also be a problem with the mother- board. Please check the motherboard compatibility list on...

  • Page 34: Appendix A

    Www.3ware.Com 51 appendix appendix a compliance and conformity statements federal communications commission radio frequency interference statement this equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class b digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the fcc rules. These limits are d...

  • Page 35: Appendix B

    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 52 www.3ware.Com microsoft windows hardware quality lab (whql) 3ware, inc. Is committed to microsoft windows hardware quality labs (whql) certification for all its products. However, a product’s software drivers are typi- cally submitted for cert...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 54 www.3ware.Com are the sole warranties and are in lieu of all other war- ranties, expressed or implied, including warranties or fit- ness for particular purpose and merchantability. State law provisions this warranty gives you specific legal ri...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 56 www.3ware.Com.

  • Page 38: Index

    Www.3ware.Com www.3ware.Com 57 index a accelerated graphics port (agp) 16, 19 array configuration utility 23 array creation 28 ata cables 50 ata/100 15, 16 ata/133 15, 16 ata/66 14, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21 auto rebuild 44, 45 auto rebuild of a mirrored array 44 b bios 25, 49 bios tool 24 c cancelling reb...

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    3ware escalade ata raid controller installation guide 58 www.3ware.Com rebuilding a mirrored array with no hot spare 40 rebuilding a mirrored disk array 39 rebuilding raid 5 39 rebuilding with hot spare 40, 44 s system requirements 10 t technical support 53 tools required 10 troubleshooting 49 u ult...