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Contents Before You Begin 7 Features 7 Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA Family (includes 7000-2, 7500-4, 7500-4LP, 7500-8, 7500-12 7 Escalade 8000 Serial ATA Family (includes 8500-4, 8500-8, 8500-12 8 Package Contents 9 Escalade 7000 series Parallel ATA RAID Controller 9 Escalade 8000 series Serial ATA RAID Controller 9 CBL-P-SATA (Parallel to Serial Drive Converter Kit) . . . . . 10 Tools Required 10 System Requirements 10 Personal Safety 11 Protecting Equipment and Data 11 ESD Precautions 11 Mechanical Concerns 12 Hardware Installation 13 To remove an existing Escalade ATA RAID Controller . . . . . 13 Installing a Parallel ATA RAID Controller 14 Connect the interface cables to the Escalade ATA RAID Controller 14 Install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller in the computer . 15 Connect the drives to the interface cables 16 Installing a Serial ATA RAID Controller 18 Connect the interface cables to the Escalade Serial ATA RAID Controller 18 Connect the drives to the interface cables 20 Check your installation and close the case 22 Check motherboard boot sequence 22 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility 23 Hot spare and hot swap 23 BIOS Screen 23 3DM Configure Page 24 Invoking the 3ware BIOS tool 24 Exiting the 3ware BIOS tool 25 iii

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Before You Begin
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Escalade 7000 Parallel ATA Family (includes 7000-2, 7500-4,
7500-4LP, 7500-8, 7500-12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Escalade 8000 Serial ATA Family (includes 8500-4, 8500-8,
8500-12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Package Contents
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Escalade 7000 series Parallel ATA RAID Controller . . . . . . . 9
Escalade 8000 series Serial ATA RAID Controller
. . . . . . . .9
CBL-P-SATA (Parallel to Serial Drive Converter Kit) . . . . . 10
Tools Required
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Personal Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Protecting Equipment and Data
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
ESD Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Mechanical Concerns
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Hardware Installation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
To remove an existing Escalade ATA RAID Controller
. . . . . 13
Installing a Parallel ATA RAID Controller
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Connect the interface cables to the Escalade ATA RAID Con-
troller
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Install the Escalade ATA RAID Controller in the computer . 15
Connect the drives to the interface cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Installing a Serial ATA RAID Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connect the interface cables to the Escalade Serial ATA RAID
Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connect the drives to the interface cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Check your installation and close the case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Check motherboard boot sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Hot spare and hot swap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
BIOS Screen
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3DM Configure Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Invoking the 3ware BIOS tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Exiting the 3ware BIOS tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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