AMCC 9590SE-4ME manual Supported Operating Systems, Terminology

Chapter 1. Introduction to the 3ware Command Line Interface

Supported Operating Systems

The 3ware CLI is supported under the following operating systems:

•Mac OS X, running in a Power Mac® G5 (PowerPC™-based) with PCI Express®.

•Windows®. Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003, both 32-bit and 64-bit.

•Linux®. Redhat, SuSE, both 32-bit and 64-bit.

•FreeBSD®, both 32-bit and 64-bit.

Terminology

This document (3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide for the Power Mac G5) uses the following terminology:

Logical Units. Usually shortened to “units.” These are block devices presented to the operating system. A logical unit can be a one-tier, two-tier, or three-tier arrangement. Spare and Single logical units are examples of one-tier units. RAID 1 and RAID 5 are examples of two-tier units and as such will have sub-units. RAID 10 is an example of a three-tier unit and as such will have sub-sub-units.

Port. A controller has one or many ports. Each port can be attached to a single disk drive. On a controller such as the 9590SE-4ME, with a multilane serial port connector, one connector supports four ports.

For additional information about 3ware controller concepts and terminology, see the user guide that came with your 3ware RAID controller or the user guide portions of the 3ware HTML Bookshelf.

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