Before Contacting Customer Support
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Before Contacting Customer Support
Three screens in 3DM 2 provide controller version and status information that
can be helpful when contacting 3ware Customer Support with questions or for
troubleshooting: Controller Summary, Unit Details, and Unit Information.
You can copy and paste the information from these screens into an email
using the system clipboard. When each page is displayed on the screen,
highlight it using your mouse (or press Ctrl-A to select all text), press Ctrl-C
to copy it to the clipboard, and then Ctrl-V to paste it into an e-mail.
You may also want to take a screen capture of these pages so that you can
respond to questions about your system configuration to the Customer
Support representative.
Additional useful information can be gathered from the error logs.For
instructions for collecting error logs, see knowledgebase article 12278:
http://
www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=12278.
Basic Troubleshooting: Check This First
Many error messages can be traced to improperly connected hardware.
Hardware can appear to be connected, yet not be in full contact. This can
cause intermittent errors that are hard to identify.
Reseat the following items to make sure they are in full contact and are not
loose:
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Cables
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Power cords and power connectors
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BBU connectors
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RAID controller
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Hard drives
If you have insured that all connections are secure and the errors still occur,
one strategy to confirm or rule out hardware problems is to swap suspected
bad drives, cables or power cords with known good ones. You can also:
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Move the drive to a different port on the controller.
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In the case of a controller, try a different slot (being sure to use a slot of
the correct type for your controller), or even a different computer.
