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Step 3. Install system drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Step 4. Install 3DM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Hardware Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
To remove an existing Escalade ATA RAID Controller . . . . . 33
Installing a Parallel ATA RAID Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Connect the interface cables to the Escalade ATA RAID
Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller in the computer 35
Connect the drives to the interface cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Installing a Serial ATA RAID Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Connect the interface cables to the Escalade Serial ATA
RAID Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Connect the drives to the interface cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Check your installation and close the case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Check motherboard boot sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Hot spare and hot swap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
BIOS Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
3DM Configure Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Invoking the 3ware BIOS tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Exiting the 3ware BIOS tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Determining your configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Displaying advance details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Creating a disk array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Determining your configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Specifying a Hot Spare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Changing an existing configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Modifying a disk array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Deleting a disk array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
How to maintain or verify a disk array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Rebuilding a mirrored disk array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Rebuilding a RAID 5 disk array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Windows Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Windows NT®4.0 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
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