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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) . . . . . . . . . ....
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 7 - Before You Begin; Features; True Hardware RAID. Low CPU Utilization
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...
Page 8 - True Hardware RAID. Low CPU utilization; Package Contents; Escalade 7000 series Parallel ATA RAID Controller
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...
Page 9 - ware Installation Guide; Tools Required; An ESD grounding strap or mat; System Requirements; 000 board requires one full size PCI slot.; Personal Safety; High voltages may be found inside computer; Protecting Equipment and Data; Creating or deleting disk arrays; ESD Precautions
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...
Page 10 - Mechanical Concerns
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 Begin section 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...
Page 12 - Installing a Parallel ATA RAID Controller; Controller Layout; Install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller in the computer
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...
Page 13 - Connect the drives to the interface cables
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...
Page 14 - Installing a Serial ATA RAID Controller; Serial ATA Converter)
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...
Page 15 - Using native serial ATA drives
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 directl...
Page 16 - Figure 3. Parallel ATA Drive with Serial ATA; Check your installation and close the case; After all of the drives are connected to the ATA RAID Controller; Check motherboard boot sequence
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 - The BIOS will not be installed if no drives are; Hot spare and hot swap; BIOS Screen
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 drive...
Page 18 - DM Configure Page; Replacing a Defective Drive with a Spare; Invoking the 3ware BIOS tool; Figure 4. 3ware BIOS Tool; If drives are attached and you do not want to; Exiting the 3ware BIOS tool
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 a...
Page 19 - Determining your configuration; Configuring a disk array writes format-type
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...
Page 20 - Displaying advance details; Figure 6. Disk Array Advance Details Screen; Creating a disk array; Accelerate keys. Anywhere in the BIOS config-; Figure 7. Selecting Drives for a Mirrored Array
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. Figu...
Page 21 - The capacity of each drive is limited to the; Figure 8. Create Disk Array Display, RAID 0 Example
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 ...
Page 22 - Figure 10. BIOS Initialization Screen for RAID 5; Confirm array configuration; The current limitation is 2 TB for any physical; For RAID 5 Arrays
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...
Page 23 - For RAID 1 or 10 Arrays; Specifying a Hot Spare; Changing an existing configuration
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...
Page 24 - Figure 11. Delete Disk Array Display; How to maintain or verify a disk array; Figure 12. Maintain Disk Array Display; Fault tolerant arrays can not be verified until; Rebuilding a mirrored disk array
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...
Page 25 - Figure 13. Degraded RAID 1 Array Drive When Not in Use; Figure 14. Degraded RAID 10 Array Drive When Not in Use; A RAID 10 array can be configured with either; Rebuilding a RAID 5 disk array
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...
Page 26 - Figure 15. Degraded RAID 5 Array Drive When Not in Use; Rebuild confirmation display.
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 or is not dis-played if no longer available (...
Page 27 - Select Available Drive to Replace Faulted Drive,; Navigate to the Rebuild Array button and press Enter (see; Figure 17. Rebuild Array Status Display, RAID 1 Example
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 ...
Page 28 - Figure 18. Rebuild Confirmation Display; Auto rebuild on power failure; If your system has hot swap carriers:
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...
Page 29 - Press F8 to start a rebuild with this drive.; If the rebuild is not started in the 3ware
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...
Page 32 - For more troubleshooting tips and frequently; Hardware installation
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...
Page 35 - Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Lab (WHQL); EN 60950 Safety of information technology equipment, including; Limited Warranty
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 certi...
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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 righ...
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...
