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A T A 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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iii Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA Family (i ncludes 7000-2, 7500-4, 7500-4LP, 7500-8, 7500-12) .
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide iv Determ ining your c onfigu ration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Displaying advance details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Creating a disk array .
v Figure 1. 8-Port Escalade 7500- 8 A TA RAID Controller Layout 14 Figure 2. 12-Port Esca lade 8500-12 Serial ATA RAID Controller with CBL-P-SATA (P arallel to Serial ATA Converter) 18 Figure 3. P ar allel ATA Drive with Serial ATA Converter In- stalled 22 Figure 4.
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Before you Begin www.3war e.com 7 Before Y ou Begin Congratulations on selecting the Escalade A T A RAID Controller as your RAID data storage and management system. This user guide gives simple, step-b y -step instructions for installing and configuring your Escalade A T A RA ID Controller .
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide 8 www.3w are.com • Field Upgrades . Field Upgradeable Fi rmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers • Data I ntegri ty .
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide 10 www.3w are.com CBL-P-SA T A (Parallel to Serial Drive Converter Kit) • Escalade CBL-P-SA T A (one per port) • Power Converter A dapter (.
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide 12 www.3w are.com • Handle the A T A RAID Contr oller by its edges or by the black rail and metal brac ket at its t wo ends. • Don’t t o uch any pin, contact, lead or component on the A T A RAID Controll er .
Hardware In stallation www .3ware.com 13 Hardware Installation Warning: Befor e proceeding with hardware installa- tion, read the Before Y ou Begin section that completely describes personal and system prec autions. Failing to do so may result in personal injury or damage to your com- puter or the Esc alade A T A RAID Contr oller .
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide 14 www.3ware.com Installing a Parallel A T A RA ID Controller Note: If you are not installing a Parallel A TA RAID Controller , continue to page18 “Installin g a Serial A TA RAID Controll er”.
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide 16 www.3ware.com Hint: While the A T A RAID Controller runs properly in any PCI slot, not all s lots give eq ual perfo rmance due to the archite cture of the PCI bus.
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide 18 www.3ware.com Installing a Serial A T A RAID Controller Figure 2. 12-Port Escalade 8500-12 Serial ATA RAID Controller with CBL-P-SATA (Paral.
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide 20 www.3ware.com Escalade A T A RAID Controller is keyed to ensure proper instal- lation into a f u ll- sized PCI slot.
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide 22 www.3ware.com Figure 3. Pa rallel ATA Drive with Serial ATA Converter Installed Check your installation and close the case 1 After all of th.
3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility www .3ware.com 23 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility The 3ware Disk Array Configurat ion Utility allows you to create disk arrays by combining disks, deleting disks or breaking disk arrays back into their member disks.
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide 24 www.3ware.com volumes, and, conseque ntly , they c anno t be designated as spares at a later t ime. If a spare i s de signated in the BI OS scree n, the designa - tion and configuration is in ef fect from this point on.
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide 26 www.3ware.com Determining your configuration Caut ion: Configuring a disk a rray writes format-type data onto its member disks and overwrites a ll the files on those disks. Be sure to back up data t hat requires retention.
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide 28 www.3ware.com Displaying advance details Selecting Shift -F5 will show the software ver sions (BIOS, Firm- ware, monitor) and slot # of the 3ware card (see Fig u re6). Press Escape to return to the main 3ware Disk Arr ay Configuration screen.
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller 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 th e arr ay.
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide 32 www.3ware.com a single disk. RAID 5 arr ays re quire a minimum of t hree drives. Configurations consist of at least 3 drives and up to 12 drives. Figure 10 . BIOS Initialization Screen fo r RAID 5 Select s triping size For a RAID 0 or RAID 10 co nfigu ration select t he striping size .
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide 34 www.3ware.com the array to be fully redundant, as it takes longer to initialize an array than it takes to w rite zeros to the arr ay. Caution: When running in initializing mode the array is not redundant.
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide 36 www.3ware.com Figure 1 1. Delete Disk Array Display Navigate to the Delete Array button and hit Enter to bring up the Delete Disk Array displa y. Check that the correct drives are listed. Select the OK key to con firm deleting the arr ay or Can cel to reject it.
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide 38 www.3ware.com array is removed, unplugged or fails on re ad or write reque sts, the array is marked as DEG RADED and the drive is mar ked as Not In Use or is not displaye d if no longe r availab le.
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide 40 www.3ware.com that is distributed on all drives. I f one of th e drives is removed, unplugged or fails on read or writ e requ ests, the array is marked as DEGRADED and the drive is marked as Not In Use or is not dis- played if no longer a vailable (see Figure 15).
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide 42 www.3ware.com Figure 16 . Select Availabl e Dri ve to Re place Fau lted Dr ive, RAID 1 Example 8 Navigate to the Re build Array button and press Enter (se e Figure 17). A status screen will be displayed with your requested arra y and member drives.
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller 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 Conf irmation Disp lay 11 E n t e r Y to update configurations and exit.
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide 46 www.3ware.com 6 Press F8 to start a r ebuild with this drive. Note: If t he rebuild is n ot starte d i n th e 3ware BIOS, the new drive cannot be used to reb uild the degraded array .
www.3war e.com 47 Additional Proc e dur es Additi onal Proc edures After completing th e steps describe d in “Hardware Installa tion” and “3ware Disk Array Configurati on Utility”, the oper ating system, disk drivers, and 3DM disk management application must be installed next.
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T roubleshooting www.3war e.com 49 T roubleshoo ting: 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 proble ms and solutions can be found on the 3ware web site at http://www .
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide 50 www.3w are.com Q3: The 3 ware BIOS screen never a ppears. The A T A RAID cont roller is not installed proper ly. Reinst all the hardware and reboot. There may also be a problem with the mother- board.
www.3w are.com 51 Appendix Appendix A Compliance and Conformity Statements Federal Communicat ions Commission Ra dio Frequency Interfer ence Statement This equipment has been teste d and found to comply with the lim its for a Class B digital de vice , pursuant to Part 15 of th e FCC Rules.
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide 52 www.3ware.com Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Lab (WHQ L) 3ware, Inc. is co mmitted to Mic rosoft W indows Har dware Quality Labs (W HQL) certificatio n for all its product s.
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www.3ware.com www.3war e.com 57 Index A Accelerated G ra phics Port (AGP) 16, 19 Array Configuration Uti lity 23 Array Creation 28 A T A cables 50 ATA / 1 0 0 15, 16 ATA / 1 3 3 15, 16 ATA / 6 6 14, 1.
3ware Escalade A T A RAID Co ntroller Installation Guide 58 www.3w are.com Rebuilding a mirrored array with no hot spare 40 Rebuilding a mirrored disk array 39 Rebuildin g RAID 5 39 Rebuilding with Ho.
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Se non hai ancora comprato il 3Ware Escalade 7000 Series è un buon momento per familiarizzare con i dati di base del prodotto. Prime consultare le pagine iniziali del manuale d’uso, che si trova al di sopra. Dovresti trovare lì i dati tecnici più importanti del 3Ware Escalade 7000 Series - in questo modo è possibile verificare se l’apparecchio soddisfa le tue esigenze. Esplorando le pagine segenti del manuali d’uso 3Ware Escalade 7000 Series imparerai tutte le caratteristiche del prodotto e le informazioni sul suo funzionamento. Le informazioni sul 3Ware Escalade 7000 Series ti aiuteranno sicuramente a prendere una decisione relativa all’acquisto.
In una situazione in cui hai già il 3Ware Escalade 7000 Series, ma non hai ancora letto il manuale d’uso, dovresti farlo per le ragioni sopra descritte. Saprai quindi se hai correttamente usato le funzioni disponibili, e se hai commesso errori che possono ridurre la durata di vita del 3Ware Escalade 7000 Series.
Tuttavia, uno dei ruoli più importanti per l’utente svolti dal manuale d’uso è quello di aiutare a risolvere i problemi con il 3Ware Escalade 7000 Series. Quasi sempre, ci troverai Troubleshooting, cioè i guasti più frequenti e malfunzionamenti del dispositivo 3Ware Escalade 7000 Series insieme con le istruzioni su come risolverli. Anche se non si riesci a risolvere il problema, il manuale d’uso ti mostrerà il percorso di ulteriori procedimenti – il contatto con il centro servizio clienti o il servizio più vicino.
