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Glossary
• 3BM 2. 3ware BIOS Manager. The 3ware BIOS (Basic Input Output
System) manager is a basic interface used to view, maintain, and manage
3ware controllers, disks, and units, without having to boot the operating
system. 3BM is included with the controller and is updated when the
controller firmware is flash-upgraded. For 9550SX and 9590SE
controllers, the tw_update utility is used to update the firmware. The
latest firmware and code set is available for download from the 3ware
web site: http://www.3ware.com/support/
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3DM 2. 3ware Disk Manager. The 3ware disk manager is a web-based
graphical user interface that can be used to view, maintain, and manage
3ware controllers, disks, and units. It is available for download from
http://www.3ware.com/downloads.
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3ware. Named after the 3 computer wares: hardware, software and
firmware. A leading brand of high-performance, high-capacity Serial
ATA (SATA) RAID storage solutions.
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A-Chip. AccerATA chip. Automated data port to handle asynchronous
ATA disk drive interface.
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AMCC. Applied Micro Circuits Corporation provides the essential
building blocks for the processing, moving and storing of information
worldwide.
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Array. One or more disk drives that appear to the operating system as a
single unit. Within 3ware software (3BM and 3DM) arrays are typically
referred to as units.
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Array Roaming. The process of swapping out or adding in a configured
unit without having to shut down the system. This is useful if you need to
move the unit to another controller.
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Background rebuild rate. The rate at which a particular controller
initializes, rebuilds, and verifies redundant units (RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID
10, RAID 50).
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Boot volume size. The size to be assigned to volume 0 when creating a
unit through 3BM. Note that the resulting volume does not have to be
used as a boot volume. However, if the operating system is installed on
the unit, it is installed in volume 0.
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