System Requirements
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Drive Requirements
Depending on the particular model, the 3ware RAID controller may be
connected to two, four, eight, twelve, sixteen, or twenty-four SATA drives
using the supplied interface cables.
Drives must meet SATA-1 (1.5 GB/s) or SATA-2 (3.0 Gb/s) standards.
A list of drives that have been tested is available at
http://www.3ware.com/products/compatibility_sata2.asp
Drives may be of any capacity or physical form factor.
The length of shielded and unshielded interface cables may not exceed 1M
(39”) for Serial ATA controllers.
Operating System
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3ware RAID controllers may be used with:
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Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, both 32-bit and 64-
bit x86
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Red Hat Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit x86
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SuSE Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit x86
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Fedora Core, 32-bit and 64-bit x86
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Other versions of Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit x86, using the open source
Linux 2.4 or 2.6 kernel driver
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FreeBSD, 32-bit and 64-bit x86
For the latest driver versions for all operating systems, see the current Release
Notes at
http://www.3ware.com/support/
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Other Requirements
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Adequate air flow and cooling
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Adequate power supply for drives
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3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) displays information in a browser. It
requires one of the following browsers:
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Internet Explorer 5.5 and later
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Mozilla Firefox 1.2 and later
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Netscape 7 and later
In addition:
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JavaScript must be enabled
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Cookies must be enabled
