3DM 2 Online Help

Welcome to the 3DM® 2 Help System
This online help for 3DM 2 provides instructions for using 3DM 2 to configure and maintain your 3ware 9000 series RAID controller.
Finding What You Need in 3DM 2 Help
When you click Help on the 3DM menu bar, the Help opens to information about the page you have in view. (On the Controller Summary page, clicking Help brings you to this “Welcome” topic about the Help system. For details about the Controller Summary page, click here.)
To find information about other topics, use the TOC and Index links at the top of the Help page.

For information about | See
First time setup and RAID configuration | Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller
Creating a RAID unit | Configuring a New Unit
Error messages | Error and Notification Messages
3DM 2 overview and setup | Starting 3DM and Logging In Working with the 3DM Screens Setting Up 3DM Preferences

Conventions
The following conventions are used throughout the online help:

| 3DM and 3DM 2 both refer to the 3ware Disk Manager, version 2.

| Current controller is used to refer to the controller which is currently selected in the drop-down list at the top of the 3DM page.

| Unit refers to one or more disks configured through 3ware to be treated by the operating system as a single drive. Also known as an array. Array and unit are used interchangeably throughout this manual.

| Boldface is used for buttons, fields, and settings that appear on the screen.

| Monospace font is used for code and to indicate things you type.

Other Documentation
In PDF format, on the CD that came with your controller, and available through the 3ware website at http://www.3ware.com/support/userdocs.asp:

| 3ware 9650SE Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide

You will find several versions of this guide, one for each specific version of the 3ware Serial ATA RAID controller. Be sure to use the one for your model number--9650SE, 9590SE, 9550SX, 9500S, and so forth.

| 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide

| 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide

In HTML format, the 3ware HTML Bookshelf includes the content of both the user guide and CLI guide. It is available in the Docs folder on your 3ware CD.
Additional support information is available in the 3ware Knowledgebase, at this website: http://www.3ware.com/KBContent Last updated: 10.16.06 (PC 4.0 Release)

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