3Ware 9500S-4LP Installation Manual

Also see for 9000 Series: Guide User guide Specification Release notes

Contents

3Ware 9500S-4LP Installation Manual Manual pdf 4 page image

ii 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation GuideWorking with the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Starting 3BM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Exiting 3BM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Working in the 3BM Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Specifying the Unit Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Basic Steps for Creating a Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Specifying a Hot Spare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Enabling Auto-Carving for Units Larger Than 2 TB . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Leaving Individual Drives as JBODs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Initializing Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49RAID 0 Units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49For RAID 5 and RAID 50 Units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49For RAID 1 and RAID 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Checking the Motherboard Boot Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Installing Drivers and Making the Units Available For Use . . . . . . . . . . . 52Driver Installation Under Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53Materials Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Creating a 3ware Driver Diskette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Installing the 3ware Driver and Windows on a New Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Installing the Driver on a System that Boots from a Different Device . . . 56Making Units Managed by a 3ware Controller Available to Windows . . . 63Finishing Up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Driver Installation Under Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65Obtaining 3ware Linux Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Be Sure to Use the Correct Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Determining the Current Version of your 3ware Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68Driver Installation Under Red Hat Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68Materials Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68Creating a Red Hat Linux Driver Diskette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Installing the 3ware Driver and Red Hat Linux on a New Unit . . . . . 69Installing the 3ware Driver on a Red HatLinux System that Boots From a Different Device . . . . . . . . . . 70Compiling a 3ware Driver for Red Hat Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Driver Installation Under SuSE Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80Creating a SuSE Linux Driver Diskette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80Installing the 3ware Driver and SuSELinux with YaST2 on a New Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81Installing the 3ware Driver on a SuSE LinuxSystem that Boots from a Different Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81Compiling a 3ware Driver for SuSE Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83