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About This Guide
3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide provides instructions for
configuring and maintaining your 3ware 9000 series controller.
This guide assumes that you have already installed your controller in your
system. If you have not yet done so, see the installation guide that came with
your controller. You can download the installation guide from You can
download that guide from: http://www.3ware.com/support/userdocs.asp.
(Note that there are different installation guides for the 9590SE, the 9550SX,
and the 9500S.)
How this Guide is Organized
There are often multiple ways to accomplish the same configuration and
maintenance tasks for your 3ware RAID controller. This manual includes
instructions for performing tasks using two tools: one at the BIOS level
(3ware BIOS Manager 2, or 3BM 2) and one that runs in a browser (3ware
Disk Manager 2, or 3DM 2). You can also perform many tasks at the
command line, using 3ware’s Command Line Interface (CLI). The CLI is
described in a separate manual, available from the 3ware software CD and
from 3ware’s website: 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI
Guide.
Basic information about using the two tools (3BM 2 and 3DM 2), such as
starting the tool, navigating between screens, and so forth, is described in sec-
tions about each of those tools: “3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2)” on
page 55 and “3ware Disk Manager (3DM 2)” on page 65.
Step-by-step instructions for performing specific tasks are organized by tasks
throughout other sections of this guide. For example, the instructions for
“Configuring a New Unit” on page 128 include information about how to
create a unit from 3DM, followed by how to create a unit from 3BM.
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