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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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    Copy right ©2003 3ware, In c. A ll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any mean s, el ectr onic, mec hani cal , p hotocop ying , reco rding or othe rwise, with out the pro per wr itten con sent o f 3ware , In c., 455 W est Maude Ave., Sunnyv ale, CA 940 85. T r[...]

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    iii Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA Family ( includes 7000-2, 7500-4, 7500-4LP, 7500-8, 7500-12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Escalade 8000 [...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide iv Dete rmin ing your c onfi gura tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Displaying advance deta ils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Creating a disk array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Dete rmin ing your c onfi gu[...]

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    v Figure 1. 8-Port Escalade 7500- 8 ATA RAID Controller La yout 14 Figure 2. 12-Port Es calade 8500-12 Serial ATA RAID Controller with CBL-P- SA TA (Parall el to Serial ATA Conve rter) 18 Figure 3. P a rallel AT A Drive with Serial A TA Converter In- stalled 22 Figure 4. 3ware BIOS Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Figur[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide vi[...]

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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 RA ID data storage and management system. This user guide gives simple, st ep-b y -step instructions for installing and configuring your Escalade A T A RA ID Controller . T o ensure your personal safe ty and protect your equip[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 8 www.3w are. com • Field Upgrades . Field Upgradeable Fi rmware, BIOS, 3DM and Drivers • Data Inte grity . A T A Command Rea dback, SMAR T Monitoring, Dynamic Sector Repa ir, Rebuild Pacing, Rebuild Scheduling, Background Media Scan, Hot Swap, Hot Spare, H ardware Health Monitoring, Sched[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller 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 Adapter ( one per port) • Jumper(s) fo r converter (if not a lready installed) • 3ware In stallation Guide Tools Requir ed • An ESD grounding strap or mat[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 12 www.3w are. com • Handle the A T A RAID Controller by its edge s or by the black rail and me tal bracket at its two ends. • Don’t t ouch any pin, contact, lead or component on the A T A RAID Cont roller . Mechanical Co ncerns Be careful when installing the Escalade A TA RAID Controlle[...]

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    Hardwa re Insta llation www .3ware.co m 13 Hardware Installat ion Warning: Befor e proceeding with ha rdware inst alla- tion, read the Before Y ou Begin section that c ompletely describes persona l and system pr ecautions. Failing to do so may result in personal injury or damage t o your com- puter or the Esc alade A T A RAID Controller . T o r emo[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 14 www. 3ware.com Installing a Para llel A T A RAID Controller Note: If you are not installing a Parallel A TA RAID Controller , continue to page18 “Installing a Serial A TA RAID Control ler”. Figure 1. 8-Port Escalade 7500-8 ATA RAID Controller Lay out Connec t the interf ace cab les to t[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 16 www. 3ware.com Hint: W hile the A T A RAID Controller runs prop erly in any PCI slot, not a ll slots giv e equ al pe rforman ce due to the a rchitecture of the PCI bus. In our laboratories, we have noticed that the slots closest t o the Accel e rat ed Graphics Port (AGP) or in the 64-bit PC[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller 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 (Parallel to Serial ATA Converter) Connect t he interf ace cables to the E scalade S erial A T A RAID Con troller 1 Connect the interface cables s upplied w[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 20 www. 3ware.com Escalade A T A RAID Controller is keyed to ensure proper instal- lation into a full-sized PCI slot. 6 Ensure t h at the cont acts will mate w ith both grooves in the slot. Press down gently on the edge of the A TA RAID Controller directly above the slot until it is fully seat[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 22 www. 3ware.com Figure 3. Pa r allel ATA Driv e with Serial ATA Converter Installed Check your installation and close the case 1 After all of the drives are connected to the A T A RAID Contr oller and it is instal led in its sl ot, verify t hat the cables do not i nterfere with the operation[...]

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    3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility www .3ware.com 23 3ware Disk Array Configura tion Utility The 3ware Disk Array Configura t ion Utility allows you to create disk arrays by combining disks, deleting disks or breaking disk arrays back into their member disks. Y ou can also specify a n avail- able drive a s a hot spare. If an array be comes degr[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 24 www.3ware.com volumes, and, c ons eque ntly , they c anno t be designated as spares at a later time. If a spa re is designated in the BIOS scr een, the designa- tion and configuration is in ef fect from this point on. The spare drive will be displaye d as a H o t Spare in the 3DM configurat[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 26 www.3ware.com Determining your configuration Caut ion: Config uring a disk array writes format-type data onto it s member disks and ove rwrites all the files on those disks. Be sure to ba ck up data that requires retention. • All supported RAID levels (0,1 ,5,10) can be c reated based on [...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 28 www.3ware.com Displaying advance details Selecting Shif t-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 Ar ray Config uration screen. Figu re 6. Di sk Arra y Advanc e Detai ls Scree[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 30 www.3ware.com Determining your configuration Hint: T he capac ity of each drive is limited to the capacity of the smal lest drive in the arr a y. The total array capacity is defined as follows: RAID 0: (the number of drives) X (the capacity of the smallest drive) RAID 1: the capacity of the[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 32 www.3ware.com a single disk. RAID 5 a rrays requi re a mi n imum of t hree drives. Configurations consist of at l east 3 drives and up to 12 drives. Figure 10. BIOS Init ialization Screen fo r RAID 5 Select striping size For a RAID 0 or RAID 10 configu ration selec t the striping siz e. Siz[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 34 www.3ware.com the array to be fully redundant, as it takes longer to in itialize an array than it takes to w rite zeros to the arr ay. Caution: When r unning in initializing mode the array is not redundant. Y ou cannot remove any drive . For RAID 1 or 10 Arrays RAID 1 and 10 arrays are not [...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 36 www.3ware.com Figure 1 1. Delete Disk Array Disp lay Navigate to th e Delete Array button and hit Enter to bring up the Delete Disk Arr ay displa y. Check that the corr ect drives are listed. Sele ct the OK key to co n firm deleting the ar ray or Cancel to reject it. Recall that the array i[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 38 www.3ware.com array is removed, unplugged or fails on read or write reque sts, the array is marked as DE GRAD ED and the drive is mar ked as Not In Use or is not displayed if no longe r availab le. (see Figure 13 and Figure 14). Y ou can still re ad and write data from a degraded disk ar ra[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 40 www.3ware.com that is distributed on all drives. I f one of the drives is removed, unplugged or f ails on read or writ e req u ests, the array is marked as DEGRADED and the drive is marked as Not In Use or is not dis- played if no longe r available (see Figure 15). When r unning in Degrade [...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 42 www.3ware.com Figure 16 . Select Availab le Dri ve to Re place Fa ulted Drive, RAID 1 Example 8 Navigate to the Re build Array button and press Enter (s ee Figure 17). A status screen will be displayed with your requested a rray and member drives. 9 Selec t OK to continue. Restore Initial V[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 44 www.3ware.com 10 Press F8 to rebuild . The rebuild confirmation screen wi ll be dis- played (see Figure 18) . Figure 18. Rebuild Co nfirmati on Display 11 E n t e r Y to update configurations and exit. Auto rebuild of a mirrored or RAID 5 array If a hot spare is specifi ed and the mirrored [...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 46 www.3ware.com 6 Press F8 to star t a rebuild with this drive. Note: If t he rebuil d is not st arted i n th e 3ware BIOS, the new drive cannot be used to reb uild the degraded array . Booting with the dr ive attached will make the drive appea r as a single disk (JBOD) to the operating syste[...]

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    www.3war e.com 47 Additional Proc e dures Addit iona l Proc edures After completing t he steps describe d in “Hardware Installa tion” and “3ware Disk Array Configurati on Utility” , the operating system, disk drivers, an d 3DM disk management application must be installed next. The Escalade User Guide describes these procedures in detail fo[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 48 www.3w are. com[...]

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    T roubleshooting www.3war e.com 49 T roubles hooting: Problems and Solutions Note: For more troubleshooting tips and freque ntly asked questions, refe r to 3war e’s support web page at http://www .3ware.com/support. Note: More troubleshoo ting problems and solutions can be found on the 3ware we b site at http://www .3ware.com/NewFaq/3ware .htm. H[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 50 www.3w are. com Q3: The 3 ware BIOS screen never appears . The A T A RAID c ontroller is not installed proper ly. Rei nstall the hardware and re boot. There may also be a problem with the mother- board. Please check the Motherboard Compatib ility List on the 3ware website at htt p://www .3w[...]

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    www.3w are. com 51 Appendix Appendix A Compliance a nd Conformity Statemen ts Federal Commun ications Commiss ion Rad io Frequency Interfe rence State ment This equi pment has been teste d and found to comply w ith the limits for a Class B digital de vice, pursuant to Pa rt 15 of th e FCC Rules. These limits are designe d to provide r easonable pro[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 52 www.3ware.com Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Lab ( WHQL) 3ware, I nc. is committed to Mic r osoft W indows Har dware Qualit y Labs (W HQL) certific ation for all i ts product s. However , a produc t’ s software drive rs are typi- cal ly submi tted for ce rtif ica tion a t ne arl y the[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 54 www.3ware.com ARE T HE SOL E WARRANTIE S AND ARE IN LI EU OF A LL OTHER W AR- RANTI ES, EXP RE SSE D OR IMP L I E D, IN CL UD IN G W ARRANTI E S OR FI T- NESS FO R P A R TICULAR PURPOS E AND ME RCH ANT ABILIT Y . State Law Provisions This warranty gives you speci fi c legal rights and yo u [...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 56 www.3ware.com[...]

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    www.3ware.com www.3war e.com 57 Index A Accelerate d Graphics Port (AGP) 16, 1 9 Array Configuration Utility 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, 15, 17, 1 9, 20, 21 Auto rebuild 44, 45 Auto rebuild of a mirrored array 44 B BIOS 25, 49 BIOS tool 24 C Cancelling rebuild 45 Compliance and Conformity[...]

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    3ware Escalade A T A RAID Controller Installation Guide 58 www.3w are. com Rebuilding a mirrored array with no hot spare 40 Rebuilding a mirrored disk array 39 Rebuil ding RAID 5 39 Rebuilding with Hot Spare 40, 44 S System requirements 10 T T echnical S upport 53 T ools required 10 T roubl eshooting 49 U Ultra A T A 16 V V erify Array 36 W W arran[...]