Table 1: Chapters and Appendices in this User Guide

Chapter/Appendix

Description

 

 

 

5.

Configuring Units

Describes how to configure new units and spares, change existing configurations,

 

 

and set unit policies.

 

 

 

6.

Maintaining Units

Describes how to check unit and drive status, review alarms and errors, schedule

 

 

background maintenance tasks, and manually start them, when necessary or

 

 

desirable. Includes explanations of initialization, verify, rebuild, and self-tests.

 

 

 

7.

Maintaining Your

Describes how to update the driver, move a unit from one controller to another, and

 

Controller

replace an existing 3ware controller with a new one.

 

 

 

8.

3DM 2 Reference

Describes the features and functions on each of the pages in 3DM.

 

 

 

9.

Troubleshooting

Provides common problems and solutions, and explains error messages.

 

 

A. Glossary

Includes definitions for terms used throughout this guide.

 

 

B. Driver and Disk

Describes how to install the driver for the 3ware controller and other 3ware software

 

Management Tool

tools.

 

Installation

 

 

 

C. Compliance and

Provides compliance and conformity statement.

 

Conformity

 

 

Statements

 

 

 

D. Warranty, Technical

Provides warranty information and tells you how to contact technical support.

 

Support, and Service

 

 

 

 

Conventions

The following conventions are used through this guide:

3DM and 3DM 2 both refer to the 3ware Disk Manager, version 2.

In the sections that describe using 3DM, current controller is used to refer to the controller which is currently selected in this drop-down list.

Unit refers to one or more disks configured through 3ware to be treated by the operating system as a single drive. Also known as an array. Array and unit are used interchangeably throughout this manual.

Boldface is used for buttons, fields, and settings that appear on the screen.

Monospace font is used for code and to indicate things you type.

Screenshots

The screenshots in this documentation are examples only, and may not exactly reflect the operating system and browser you are using. 3ware software works on a number of different operating systems, including Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows®, Linux®, and FreeBSD®, and runs in a number of different browsers. In addition, the version shown in screenshots may not match your version. For the current released and tested version number, see the latest release notes.

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