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3w ar e ® Serial A T A RAID Contr oller PN 720-0138-00 Septembe r 2006 User Guide for the Power Mac ® G5.
www.3ware.com ii Cop yright ©2004-2006 Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC). All rights reserved. This publication may be co pied or reproduced for reference purposes only . All other purposes re quire the express written consent of AMCC, 215 Moffett Park Drive, Sunn yvale, CA 94089.
www.3ware.com iii Table of Contents About this User Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii How this User Guide is Organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Conventions . . . . . .
iv 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Chapter 5. Configuring Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Configuring a New Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
www.3ware.com v Chapter 7. Maintaining Your Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Determining the Current V ersion of Y our 3ware Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Updating the Driver and Firmware . . . . . . .
vi 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5.
www.3ware.com vii About this User Guide This document, 3war e Serial A T A RAID Contro ller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 , provides instructions for configur i ng and maintainin g RAID units on your 3ware 9590SE-4ME RAID controller .
viii 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Con v entions The following co nv en tio ns ar e used through this guide: • 3DM and 3DM 2 bo th refer to the 3ware Disk Manager , version 2.
www.3ware.com 1 1 Getting Star ted with Y our 3w ar e RAID Contr oller Setting up your 3ware RAID contro ller involves these main steps: • Physically Install th e Controller and Drives • Install t.
Chapter 1. Getting S tarted with Y our 3ware RAID Controller 2 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 these features allow y ou to begin using your newly configured units right away .
www.3ware.com 3 Initial Settings for Polic ies and Background T asks The table below lists the default settings for policies. These settings are us ed if you do not explicitly change the policy settings.
4 3ware Serial ATA RAID Co ntroller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 2 Intr oducing the 3war e® 9590SE-4ME RAID Contr oller The 3ware 9590SE-4ME RAID controller is a 4-lane (x4) PCI Express® card. It can be installed in any of the availa ble x 4 or x8 PCI Express slots on your Power Mac® G5 (PowerPC™-based).
System Requirements www.3ware.com 5 System R equirements 3ware 9590SE-4ME RAID contro llers require the following: • Drives Drives must be 3.5" and meet serial A T A 150 (SA T A-1) or serial A T A 300 (SA T A 2) Gb/s standards. SA T A 2 drives will have better performance .
Chapter 2. Introducing the 3ware® 9 590SE-4ME RAID Controller 6 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Under standing RAID Concepts and Le v els 3ware RAID controllers use a.
Understanding RAID Conc ep ts and Levels www.3ware.com 7 A v ailable RAID Configur ations The following RAID levels and config urations are available for drives attached to a 9590SE-4ME 3ware RAID con.
Chapter 2. Introducing the 3ware® 9 590SE-4ME RAID Controller 8 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 preserving the data on one drive if th e other drive fails. Fault tolerance is a basic requirement for critical systems like web and database servers.
Understanding RAID Conc ep ts and Levels www.3ware.com 9 RAID 10 RAID 10 is a combination of striped and mirrored arrays for fault tolerance and high performance. When drives are configured as a striped mirrored array , the disks are configured using both RAID 0 and RAID 1 techniques, thus the name RAID 10 (see Figure 4).
Chapter 2. Introducing the 3ware® 9 590SE-4ME RAID Controller 10 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Deter mining W hat RAID Le vel to Use Y our choice of which type of RAID un it (array) to create will depend on your needs.
3ware T ools for Configuration and Management www.3ware.com 11 Through drive coercion, the capac ity us ed for each drive is rounded down so that drives from dif fering manufacturers ar e more likely to be able to be used as spares for each other .
Chapter 2. Introducing the 3ware® 9 590SE-4ME RAID Controller 12 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Monitoring, Maintenance, and T r oubleshooting F eatures Several 3ware RAID controller fe atures aid in moni toring and troubleshooting your driv es.
Monitoring, Maintenance, and T roubleshooting Features www.3ware.com 13 • Drive Locate. Y ou can is sue drive locate commands that blink the LEDs for particular drives, so that you can quickly identify what drive needs to be checked or re placed. (For more information, see “Locat ing a Drive by Blinking Its LED” on page 81.
14 3ware Serial ATA RAID Co ntroller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 3 3DM 2 (3w ar e Disk Mana ger) Intr oduction 3ware Disk Manager 2 (3DM 2) allo ws yo u to manage and view the status of your 3ware RAID controller a nd associated drives.
Browser Requirement s for 3DM www.3ware.com 15 Br o w ser R equir ements for 3DM 3DM runs in most current web brow sers. T ested and supported browsers include: • Safari 2.
Chapter 3. 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) In troduction 16 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Uninstalling 3DM on the Macintosh Y ou can remove 3DM from your Macin t os h by using the uninstall com mand located in the AMCC folder .
S t arting 3DM and Logging In www.3ware.com 17 Logging In to the 3DM We b A pplication When the 3DM process is running in the backgrou nd, you can log into th e 3DM applic ation pages usin g a b rowser . T wo levels of access are provided: • Users can check the status of the cont roller , units, and attached drives.
Chapter 3. 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) In troduction 18 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 (Y ou can also click Continue , in which case you will see this message the next time you start 3DM.) 3 When the 3DM logon screen appears, select whethe r you are a User or Administrator .
S t arting 3DM and Logging In www.3ware.com 19 5 If the process is still running, cont act AMCC/3ware T echnical Support for assistance. T o start the 3DM proc ess manually 1 Open a T e rminal window and type: sudo /usr/sbin/3dm2 2 Enter your administrator passw ord, when prompted for it.
Chapter 3. 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) In troduction 20 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 W or king with the 3DM Scr eens 3DM’ s feature s are organized on a seri es of pages y ou view in your browser .
Working with the 3DM Screens www.3ware.com 21 3DM Menus The 3DM menu bar groups access to a nu mber of 3DM pages on menus, and provides direct link access to others. Figure 7. 3DM Menu Bar Status information i s available from the Information menu . Y ou can view controller , unit, and drive informat ion for a particular controller .
Chapter 3. 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) In troduction 22 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Viewing Infor mation About Dif f er ent Contr oller s If you have more than on e 3ware RAID controller in the system, you select the one you want to see de tails about from the drop-down list at the right of the menu bar .
Working with the 3DM Screens www.3ware.com 23 T able 5: List of 3DM Pages 3DM Page Description Controller Summary pag e Provides basic information about each 3ware RAID controller in your system. T o see this page, click Summary in the menu bar . Controller Details pag e Provides detailed information about the current controller .
Chapter 3. 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) In troduction 24 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Setting Up 3DM Prefer ences The 3DM 2 Settings page lets you define preference settings that af fect the overall operation of 3DM. Most of the se settings are specified initially during installation of 3DM.
Setting Up 3DM Preferences www.3ware.com 25 Setting and Changing 3DM P ass words 3DM provides different access levels for users and administrators. The Administrator access level allows th e user to fully configure 3DM. The User access level allows the user to view pages within 3DM.
Chapter 3. 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) In troduction 26 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 • Information will send e-mails for all events • Wa r n i n g will send e-mail for events with severity of W arning and Error .
Setting Up 3DM Preferences www.3ware.com 27 T o enable or disable remote access 1 Click 3DM 2 Settings on the menu bar . 2I n t h e Remote Access section of the 3DM 2 Settin gs page, select either Enabled or Disabled in the Allow Remote Connections field.
28 3ware Serial ATA RAID Co ntroller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 4 Configuring Y our Contr oller This section describes how to view de tails about the controller , check its status, and change configur ation settings that affect the controller and all of the drives connected to it.
Viewing Infor mation About a Controller www.3ware.com 29 Figure 9. Controller Summary Page 2 T o see more details about a particular controller , click the ID link for that controller to display the Controller Details page.
Chapter 4. Conf igu r ing Y our Controller 30 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 V iewing Contr oller P olicies Y ou can view the current state of controller policies in 3DM, in the Other Controller Settings section at the bottom of t he Co ntroller Settings page (See Figure 1 1.
About Controller Policies www.3ware.com 31 About Contr oller P olicies The following policies af fect all units an d drives on a controller and can be adjusted as appropriate for your equi pment. Controller policies are shown at the bottom of the Controller S ettings page.
Chapter 4. Conf igu r ing Y our Controller 32 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 T o enable Auto Rebuild through 3DM 1 Choose Management > Controlle r Settings from the menu bar in 3DM. 2 In the Other Controller Settings section at the bottom of the screen, select the Enable d option for Auto Rebuil d .
Setting the Size of V olume s Created with Auto -C ar ving www.3ware.com 33 2 Create a new unit or migrate an ex isting unit to include the drives you want to use. If the combined capacity of the drives exceeds the carve size, a number of volumes will be created.
34 3ware Serial ATA RAID Co ntroller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 5 Configuring Units This section includes in formation and procedures on configuring units attached to your 3war e RA ID controller .
Configuring a New Unit www.3ware.com 35 Configur a tion Options W hen Cr eating a Unit This section provides an overview of the choices you have when configuring a new unit.
Chapter 5. Conf iguring Units 36 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Name of the unit (optional) Units can be given na mes.
Configuring a New Unit www.3ware.com 37 Cr ea ting a Unit In 3DM, creating a unit starts from the Manage ment > Maintenance page (Figure 12). Figure 12.
Chapter 5. Conf iguring Units 38 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 4I n t h e Ty p e field, select the RAID configuration you want. 5 If stripe size applies to the RAID type you select, select a St rip e S iz e . (Stripe size does not apply to RAID 1.
Configuring a New Unit www.3ware.com 39 T o initialize and partition your unit 1 In the Mac OS message, click Initiali ze . Figure 14. Disk Insertion Message from the Ma c OS 2 When the Macintosh Disk Utility wind ow opens, find and select the drive that represents your RAID unit.
Chapter 5. Conf iguring Units 40 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 3 In the Disk Utility W indow , select the Partition tab.
Configuring a New Unit www.3ware.com 41 5 On the right, specify a vo lume name and then click Partition . Figure 18. Defining the V olume in the Macintosh Disk Utility 6 When a message asks you to confirm you want to partition the disk, click Partition .
Chapter 5. Conf iguring Units 42 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Figure 20. Macintosh Disk Utility Showing Partitioning Progress When the partitioning is complete, icons for e ach new volume appear on your desktop. They are now ready for use.
Naming a Unit www.3ware.com 43 If you need to add a drive to be used as the hot spare, follow the instructions under “Adding a Drive” on page 58. T o specify a hot spare 1 In 3DM, choo se Management > Maintenance.
Chapter 5. Conf iguring Units 44 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 4 In the text box, en ter or type over the name shown. A name can be up to 21 characters, and can include dashes and underscores. 5 Click the Save Names button.
Setting Unit Policies www.3ware.com 45 • StorSave Profile. Determines what StorSave pr ofile is used for the unit. Three profiles are available: Protection, Balanced, a nd Performa nc e. For details, see “Setting the StorSave Profile for a Unit” on page 48.
Chapter 5. Conf iguring Units 46 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 T o enable or disable unit write cache through 3DM 1 Choose Management > Controlle r Settings from the menu bar in 3DM.
Setting Unit Policies www.3ware.com 47 Setting Continue on So urce Er r or During Re build The Continue on Source Er ror During Rebuild policy is available for units which are redundant. (For units which are not redundant, this option is not shown on the screen.
Chapter 5. Conf iguring Units 48 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 T o enable or disable queuing for a unit through 3DM 1 Choose Management > Controlle r Settings from the menu bar in 3DM.
Setting Unit Policies www.3ware.com 49 • FUA (Force Unit Access) . FUA commands are a way that the RAID controller or a program (such as a database program) can ensure that data is actually written to the disk drive media, and is not stored in cache.
Chapter 5. Conf iguring Units 50 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Changing An Existing Configur a tion Y ou can convert one RAID configuration into another while the unit is online. This process is known as RAID Level Migration (RLM).
Changing An Existing Configuration www.3ware.com 51 Figure 22. RAID Level Migration Example T ypically , a unit is reconfigured with the same or more storage capacity . Sometimes additional driv es are added. The followi ng table shows valid reconfigurations, some of which will require the addition of more d rives.
Chapter 5. Conf iguring Units 52 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Changing RAID Le v el Y ou can use migrate to change the RAID level of an existing unit while the unit is online, without experiencing an y data loss. When you change a RAID level, you may also add o ne or more driv es to the unit.
Changing An Existing Configuration www.3ware.com 53 Expanding Unit Capacity Y ou can expand a un it's capacity by adding one or more dr ives to it without changing the RAID level, except for si ngles and RAID 1 units.
Chapter 5. Conf iguring Units 54 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 T o inform the operating system that a unit has been changed 1 Unmount the file system from the unit.
Deleting a Unit www.3ware.com 55 2 Backup any data you want to keep. 3 Unmount the unit. Launch the Macintosh Disk Utility , sel ect the unit, and click the Unmount button the toolbar , or select the icon fo r the unit on the desktop and drag it to the trash.
Chapter 5. Conf iguring Units 56 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Figure 24. Unit Successfully Dele ted through 3DM R emo ving a Unit Removing a unit allows you to safely remove drives from a controller in order to move the unit to anoth er controller or to st ore the drives for safekeeping purposes.
Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another www.3ware.com 57 Launch the Macintosh Disk Utility , select the unit, and click the Unmount button the toolbar , or select the icon for the unit on the desktop and drag it to the trash. This step is very impor tant .
Chapter 5. Conf iguring Units 58 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Adding a Driv e Y ou can add a drive to your 3ware Si decar and make it available through 3DM without powering down the system. T o add a drive 1 Insert the drive in your 3ware Sidecar .
Removing a Drive www.3ware.com 59 3 When 3DM asks you to confirm that you wan t to remove the drive, click OK . Figure 25. Removing a Drive in 3DM Y ou can now remove the drive from your system. If you removed a drive that was part of a unit, the unit may become degraded, as shown in (Figure 26).
Chapter 5. Conf iguring Units 60 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 R escanning the Controller When you make a change by physically adding or remo ving drives or units, you can have 3DM rescan t he controlle r to update the li st of units and available drives shown on the Maintenance page.
www.3ware.com 61 6 Maintaining Units 3ware RAID controllers include a number of features in the firmware that help maintain the integrity of your driv es, check for errors, repair bad sectors, and rebuild units when drives degrade.
Chapter 6. Main taining Units 62 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Figure 27. Drilling Down to Check St atus Information For details about specific pages with summary an.
Checking Unit and Drive S tatus www.3ware.com 63 Enc losur e LED Stat us Indicators The LEDs on yo ur enclosure also provide status in formation about your drives and units. Unit Statuses The following is a list of unit statuses you may see in 3DM: • OK.
Chapter 6. Main taining Units 64 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 • Initializing. The unit is in the process of wr iting to all of the disks in the unit in order to make the array fault tolerant. For more information, see “About Initializatio n” on page 69.
About Degraded Unit s www.3ware.com 65 About Deg r aded Units Fault tolerant RAID units provid e data redundancy by duplicating information on multiple drives. These RAID units make it possible to continue use even if one of th e drives in the unit has failed.
Chapter 6. Main taining Units 66 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Alar ms, Error s, and Other Ev ents 3DM provides several levels of detail about alarms, errors, and ot.
Alarms, Errors, and Other Eve nts www.3ware.com 67 Do wnloading an Er r or Log Y ou can downlo ad an error log co ntaini ng information from the firmware log. This can be useful when troub leshoo ting certain types of problems. For example, you might want to sen d the saved file to 3ware Customer Support for assistance when troubleshooting.
Chapter 6. Main taining Units 68 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Bac kg r ound T asks Background tasks are maintenance tasks that help maintain the integrity of your drives and data.
Background T asks www.3ware.com 69 About Initialization For 3ware SA T A RAID controllers, initialize means to put the redundant data on the drives o f redundan t units into a known state so that data can be recovered in the event of a disk driv e failure.
Chapter 6. Main taining Units 70 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Initialization of RAID 1 and RAID 10 Un its RAID 1 and RAID 10 units do not need to be initialized when they are created to be fault tolerant and are imme diately available for use with full performance when created.
Background T asks www.3ware.com 71 What V erification Does For a RAID 1 or RAID 10 unit, a verify compares the data of one mirror with the other . For RAID 5, a verify calcu lates RAID 5 parity and compares it to what is written on the disk drive. V erification checks each sector on a driv e.
Chapter 6. Main taining Units 72 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 How Errors Are Handled V erification makes use of the same error checking and error repair techniques used during ordinary use of drives configured through 3ware RAID controllers.
Background T asks www.3ware.com 73 T o verify a unit through 3DM 1 In 3DM, choo se Management > Maintenance . 2I n t h e Unit Maintenance section of the Maintenance page, select the unit you want to verify and click Ve r i f y U n i t . 3DM puts the selected unit in verifyi ng mode.
Chapter 6. Main taining Units 74 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 T o rebuild a unit through 3DM 1 If necessary , add a new drive to replace the failed drive. (For details, see “Adding a Drive” on page 58.) 2 In 3DM, choo se Management > Maintenance .
Background T asks www.3ware.com 75 Cancelling a R ebuild and R estar ting It with a Dif ferent Driv e Y ou can cancel a rebuild by using the Remove D rive link on the Maintenance page.
Chapter 6. Main taining Units 76 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Bac kg r ound T ask Prioritization Although migration tasks follow th e same schedule as rebuild and initialization tasks, they ar e always given the highest priority because of the controller and disk resources required during migration.
Scheduling Background T asks www.3ware.com 77 Y ou can also set the rate at which ba ckground tasks are performed compared to I/O tasks. For more information, see “Setting Background T ask Rate” on page 75.
Chapter 6. Main taining Units 78 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Figure 29. Selecting T ask Schedules to V iew T ur ning On or Of f Use of a T ask Sc hedule T urning o.
Scheduling Background T asks www.3ware.com 79 3 In the Schedule Rebuild T asks secti on, select the appropriate setting: Follow Schedule or Ignore Schedule .
Chapter 6. Main taining Units 80 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 T o add a task schedu le slot 1 Choose Management > Sche dule from the menu bar . The Scheduling page appears, showin g the schedule for Rebuild/Migrate T asks.
Locating a Drive by Blink ing Its LED www.3ware.com 81 3 Check the boxes next to the self-t ests you want to be perform ed. T o disable self-tests Unlike scheduling of rebuilds and verifi es, scheduling of self-tests is always enabled.
Chapter 6. Main taining Units 82 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 T o blink the LEDs for all drives in a unit 1 Choose from the main menu in 3DM. 2 On the list of units, locate the unit you want to identify . 3 Check the box in the Identify column.
www.3ware.com 83 7 Maintaining Y our Contr oller This section contains instructions for how to perform tasks that help you maintain your controller , including: • Determining the Current V ersion of.
Chapter 7. Maintain ing Y our Co ntroller 84 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Upda ting the Driv er and Fir mware Y ou can download the latest drivers and firmware from the 3ware website, at http://www .3ware.com/support .
www.3ware.com 85 8 3DM 2 R ef er ence This section includes details about the fields and features available on the pages you work with through out 3DM 2.
Chapter 8. 3DM 2 Refe rence 86 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Contr oller Summar y pa ge Figure 31. Controller Summary Page The Summary page appears after you first logon to 3DM, and when you click the Summary link in the menu bar .
Controller Details p age www.3ware.com 87 Contr oller Details pa ge Figure 32. Controller Det ails Page The Controller Details page appears when you choose Information > Controller Det ails from the menu bar . This page provides detaile d information about the co ntroller specified in the drop-down list on the menu bar .
Chapter 8. 3DM 2 Refe rence 88 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 # of Driv es. The number of drives connected to the controller . Download Error Log: Click on this link to down load the firmware error log to your computer .
Unit Details page www.3ware.com 89 Identify . Check this box to cause the LED fo r the drives associated with this unit to blink in the 3ware Sidecar. Unit Details page Figure 34. Unit Det ails Page The Unit Details page appears when yo u click an ID number on the Unit Information page.
Chapter 8. 3DM 2 Refe rence 90 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 T o see details about a particular drive, c lick the Port #.
Drive Information page www.3ware.com 91 The Drive Information page appears when you choose Infor mation > Drive Information from the menu bar, o r when you click a port # on the Unit Details page. If you arri ve at this page from the port # hyperlink on the Unit Information page, the line showing the po rt # you clicked on is highlighted .
Chapter 8. 3DM 2 Refe rence 92 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Drive Details windo w Figure 36. S.M.A.R.T . Dat a Page The Drive Details window appears when you click a Port # on the Drive Information page.
Controller Settings page www.3ware.com 93 SMART Dat a SMAR T data is displayed as hex values. Consult your disk drive manu factu rer fo r information on how to interpret the SMAR T data. The SMAR T data meaning varies by disk drive manufacturer and model.
Chapter 8. 3DM 2 Refe rence 94 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Bac kg r ound T ask Rate The Background T ask Rate fields let you chan ge the balance of backgrou nd tasks and I/O (reading and writing to disk) performed by the controller .
Controller Settings page www.3ware.com 95 option to start a rebuild manually . It is recommended that you ex ec u te a file system check when the rebuild complet es. On Mac OS X, you can do this using the First Aid tab in the Disk Utility —select the disk on the left and then click Ve r i f y D i s k .
Chapter 8. 3DM 2 Refe rence 96 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 • Smallest usable spare. • Smallest usable unconfig ured (available) drive. • Smallest usable failed drive. For additional information, see “Setting the Auto Re build Policy” on page 31.
Scheduling p age www.3ware.com 97 Sc heduling pa ge Figure 38. Scheduling Page The Scheduling page appears when you choose Manag ement > Scheduling from the menu bar . The Scheduling page lets you set up a schedule for when b ackground tasks (rebuild, migrate, init ialize, verify , and self-test) should occu r .
Chapter 8. 3DM 2 Refe rence 98 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Mac G5 Follow Schedule/Igno re Schedule. Y ou can enable or disable the schedule for the Rebuild/Migrate and V eri fy tasks by selecting either Follow Schedule or Ig nore Schedu le .
Maintenance p age www.3ware.com 99 Check SMART Thresholds. This test checks to see whe ther SMAR T thresholds have been e xceeded. The SMAR T thresholds indicate when a dr ive is l ikely to fail, based on the number of errors that have been r ecorded through SMAR T (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting T echnology).
Chapter 8. 3DM 2 Refe rence 100 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 R escan Controller The Rescan Co ntroller button scans the ports on the controller . Rescanning updates the list of available drives show n and updates the status of all ports.
Maintenance p age www.3ware.com 101 # Drives. Number of drives in the unit. Ty p e o f U n i t . T ype of unit: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, Single Disk, or Spare. If the unit has been given a unique name, it shows beneath the RAID type. Name of Unit .
Chapter 8. 3DM 2 Refe rence 102 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 V erify Unit. Puts the se lected unit in verify ing mode. If verify scheduling is enabled on the Scheduling page, the unit will not start actively verifying until the scheduled time, and th e status will indicate “V er ify-Paused.
Maintenance p age www.3ware.com 103 When you select a unit and click Migrate Unit , a dialog box appears which lists the drives in the uni t and any additional ava ilable drives. In the dialog box are two drop-down menus, one for choosing the RAID level and one for choosing stripe size.
Chapter 8. 3DM 2 Refe rence 104 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 After deletion, the opera ting system is notified th at the unit was deleted. A vaila ble Driv es (to Create Units) This section lists the drives on th e controller which are not currently configured as part of a unit.
Maintenance p age www.3ware.com 105 Figure 40. Configuration Wind ow in 3DM For more detailed instructions, see “Configuring a New Unit” on pa ge 34. Ty p e . The drop-down list lists the possible RAID configurations for the drives selected in the list of A vailable Drives .
Chapter 8. 3DM 2 Refe rence 106 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 Alar ms page Figure 41. Alarms Page The Alarms page appears when you click Monitor > Alarms on the menu bar .
Battery Backup page www.3ware.com 107 Ba tter y Backup page The Battery Backup feature is not supported for t he 9590SE-4ME. Enc losure Summar y pa ge Figure 42. Enclosure Summary Page The Enclosure Summary page appears when you choose Enclosure > Enclosure Summary from the menu bar .
Chapter 8. 3DM 2 Refe rence 108 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 Enc losure Details page Figure 43. Enclosure Det ails Page The Enclosure Details page appears when you click the ID of the enclosure on the Enclosure Summary page.
3DM 2 Settings page www.3ware.com 109 3DM 2 Settings pa ge Figure 44. 3DM 2 Settings Page The 3DM 2 Settings page appears when you click 3DM 2 Settings on the menu bar .
Chapter 8. 3DM 2 Refe rence 110 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 Send E-mail. This field determines whet her e-mail notification is Enabled or Disabled . It is a good idea to enable this feature, so that you receive e mail when your units or drives have p roblems.
3DM 2 Settings page www.3ware.com 111 Remote Access Allow Remote Access. This field enables or disables the ability for users and administrators to access 3DM from a remote computer . HTTP Settings Listening Port. This field specifies the HT TP: port to be used by 3DM when listening for communications.
112 3ware Serial ATA RAID Contro ller User Guide for the Po wer Mac G5 9 T r oubleshooting This troubleshooting section in cludes the following sections: • “W eb Resources ” on page 1 12 • “.
Enclosure-Related Prob lems www.3ware.com 113 highlight it using your mouse, copy it to the clipboard, and then paste it i nto an e-mail. Y ou may also want to take a snapshot of these pages so that you can respond to questions about yo ur system conf iguration to the Customer Support representative.
Chapter 9. Troubleshooting 114 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 T able 9: Error and Notification Message List V alue Message 0001 Controller reset occurred 0002 Degrad.
Error and Notification Messages www.3ware.com 115 002A V erify failed 002B V erify completed 002C Source drive ECC error overwritten 002D Source drive error occurred 002E Replacement drive capacity to.
Chapter 9. Troubleshooting 116 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 0049 Battery temperature is normal 004A Battery temperature is l ow 004B Battery temperature is h igh 0.
Error and Notification Messages www.3ware.com 117 Er r or and Notification Message Details 0001 Controller reset occurred The 3ware RAID controller has detected a soft reset from the device driver .
Chapter 9. Troubleshooting 118 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 0006 Incomplete unit detected At power-on initialization time, or duri ng a rescan, the 3w are RAID controller performs a “rollcall” of all drives attach ed to the card.
Error and Notification Messages www.3ware.com 119 controller detects this condition, it notifi e s you, prior to entering the recovery phase, by displayi ng this message. Possible causes of drive time outs (als o known as APOR T time-outs) include a bad or intermittent disk drive, power cable or interface cable.
Chapter 9. Troubleshooting 120 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 000E Initialize failed The 3ware RAID controller was unable to complete the in itialization.
Error and Notification Messages www.3ware.com 121 001E Unit inoperable Drive removal caused a unit to become in operable. This mes sage is sent after offline unit timer expires (20 seconds); if the uni t becomes operational before the timer expires (20 seconds) there w ill be no message since there were no IO errors.
Chapter 9. Troubleshooting 122 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 The fact that a sector repair message h as been sent to you is an indication of the presence of grown defects on a partic ular drive.
Error and Notification Messages www.3ware.com 123 0027 DCB checksum error detected The 3ware RAID controller stores cer tain configuration parameters on a reserved area of each disk drive called the Drive C onfiguration Block (DCB).
Chapter 9. Troubleshooting 124 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 by improper shutdown of the unit. This possibility applies to RAID 1, 10, and 5. A rebuild will re-synchronize the unit When this message is generated, re dundant units will be automatically initialized.
Error and Notification Messages www.3ware.com 125 jumpered in the wrong place. The conv erter must be correctly jumpered to correspond to UDMA 100 o r 13 3 driv es. For a list of compatible drives, see http://www .3ware.com/products/compatibility_sata.
Chapter 9. Troubleshooting 126 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 0038 SO-DIMM not detected This message applies to the 3ware 9 500S controller which has remova ble memory . This message will be sent if there is no SODIMM memory connected to the controller .
Error and Notification Messages www.3ware.com 127 003D V erify paused This message will be sent when the verify operation is paused. V erifies are normally paused for ten minutes after a system first boot s up and during non-schedu led times when scheduling is ena bled.
Chapter 9. Troubleshooting 128 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 0043 Backup DCB read error detected This message will be sent wh en the controller sees a la tent error in the backup Disk Configuration Block (DCB). A scru bbing activity will be started to repair any sector errors on getting this e rror .
Error and Notification Messages www.3ware.com 129 the 3ware RAID controller . This indicat es that the Battery Backup Unit must be replaced . 0049 Battery temperature is normal The Battery Backup U nit measures and evaluates the battery pack temperature on a continuous b asis.
Chapter 9. Troubleshooting 130 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 004E Battery cap acity test st arted This message is posted when the Battery Backup Unit starts a battery test. The test estimates the battery capacity in hours, which is how long the Battery Backup Unit can back up the 3ware RAID controller .
Error and Notification Messages www.3ware.com 131 0055 Battery charging started This message is posted when the Battery Backup Unit starts a battery c harge cycle. 0056 Battery charging completed This message is posted when the Battery Bac kup Unit completes a battery char ge cycle.
Chapter 9. Troubleshooting 132 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 005D Battery health check failed The Battery Backup Unit periodically ev aluates the health of the battery and its ability to backup the 3ware RAID controller in case of a power failure.
www.3ware.com 133 A ppendices The following information is av ailable in the appendices: • Appendix A, “Glossary” on page 135 • Appendix B, “Driver and Software Installation” on page 141 .
134 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5.
www.3ware.com 135 A Glossar y • 3DM 2. 3ware Disk Manager . The 3ware disk manager is a web-based graphical user interface that can be used to view , maintain, and manage 3ware controllers, disks, and units. It is available for download from http://www .
Appendix A. Glossary 136 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 • Controller ID number. Unique number assi gned to every 3ware controller in a system, starting with zero. • Create an array . The process of selecting individual disk drives and selecting a RAID level.
www.3ware.com 137 to another controller . Compar e to Delete, which erases all unit configuration information from the drive. • Export able unit or drive . Exportable units and drives are those that will be available to t he operating system when you b oot your computer .
Appendix A. Glossary 138 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 size of the unit, change the unit from redundant to non-redundant, or to change the unit from non-redu ndant to redundant . • Mirrored disk array (unit). A pair of drives on which the same data is written, so that each provides a backup for the other .
www.3ware.com 139 • Remove a driv e. The process of making a drive unavailable to the controller . • Remove a unit. The process of making a unit unavailable to the controller and the operating system. Af ter a unit is removed it can be hot swapped out of the system.
Appendix A. Glossary 140 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 data of one mirror with the other . For RAID 5, a verify will calculate RAID 5 parity and compare it to what is written on the disk drive.
www.3ware.com 141 B Driv er and Softwar e Installa tion This appendix provides detailed instru ctions for installing the 3ware dri ver and software for the 9590SE-4M E on your Power Mac G5. Y ou can install all software at once, or you can use the installer to install specific components.
Appendix B. Driver and Software Installation 142 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 3 From the W elcome scre en, click Next to start the installation process. Figure 46. Welcome Inst allation Scre en 4 On the License Agreement page, accept the agreement and click Next .
www.3ware.com 143 The 3ware Documentation option instal ls the 3ware HTML Bookshelf on your computer . This is an HTML version of the User Guide and CLI Guide. Figure 48. Select Component s to Inst all Screen 6 If you want to change where the 3wa re Disk Management tools 3DM and CLI will be installed, you can ch ange the path and directory .
Appendix B. Driver and Software Installation 144 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 7 T o configure email notification, ch eck the box and co mplete the 3DM 2 Email Configuration screen. This features allows you to receive notification of problems wi th your 3ware RAID controller and units.
www.3ware.com 145 8 [Optional] On the 3DM 2 Security Co nfiguration screen, specify whether you want to restrict acc ess to localhost connections. Enabling this feature prevents people from checking the status and administering the controller from acr oss the internet or intranet.
Appendix B. Driver and Software Installation 146 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 10 If you want the Installation Wizard to launch 3DM 2 after you finish the wizard, check the Connect to 3DM2 box. T his allows you to log into 3DM and configure a RAID un it right away .
www.3ware.com 147 12 When the final installation screen le ts you know that install ation is complete, click Finish . Figure 55. Final Inst allation Screen Y ou will be prompted to restart your computer in order for the driver to be used with your 9590SE-4ME controller .
Appendix B. Driver and Software Installation 148 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5.
www.3ware.com 149 C Compliance and Conf or mity Sta tements This section is organized into the following topics: • FCC Radio Frequency Interference Statement • European Community Conformity S tate.
Appendix C. Compliance and Confor mity S tatement s 150 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 European Community Conf or mity Sta tement The Controller Mo del 9590 SE-4ME i.
www.3ware.com 151 D W ar r anty , T ec hnical Suppor t, and Ser vice This section is organized into the following topics: • Limited W arranty • W arranty Service and RMA Process • AMCC T echnical Support and Services • Sales and ordering information • Feedback on this manual Limited W ar ranty RAID Controller Hardware.
Appendix D. W arranty , T echnical Support, and Service 152 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 Ex c lusions This warranty does not cover an y damage to this product which results from accident, abuse, misuse, natural or pe rsonal disaster , or any unauthorized disassembly , repair or modification.
AMCC T echnical Support and Services www.3ware.com 153 Please use the original packing material contents of the box when exchanging or returning a product.
Appendix D. W arranty , T echnical Support, and Service 154 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5.
www.3ware.com 155 Index Numerics 3DM 3DM menus 21 Alarms page 106 Battery Backup Information page 107 browser requirements 15 Controller Details page 87 Controller Settings page 93 Controller Summary .
156 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 Sector repair completed (0023) 121 SO-DIMM not compat ible (0037) 125 SO-DIMM not detected (0038) 126 Source drive ECC erro r over.
www.3ware.com 157 controller ID number (definition) 136 controller information, viewing 28 controller policies overview 31 viewing 30 definition 135 moving unit to another 57 rescanning 60 status 86 u.
158 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 FUA (Force Unit Access) commands, part of StorSave profile 49 G grown defect, definition 137 H hot spare 9 creating 42 hot spare (.
www.3ware.com 159 initial settings 3 unit 44 units 94 port definition 138 port ID (definition) 138 preferences, 3DM 24 Primary DCB read er ror occurred (0042) 127 Q queuing enabling and disabling for .
160 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide for the Power Ma c G5 definition 139 striping 6 definition 139 subunit definition 139 system requirements 5 T task schedules about, 3DM 98 adding 79 reb.
www.3ware.com 161 write cache 12, 94 disable on degrade, part of Storsave profile 49 enabling in 3DM 45 write journaling, part of StorSave profile 49.
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