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<div class="Chapter-Title"><a name="1040536">Welcome to the 3DM2 Help </a>System</div>
<div class="BodyAfterHead"><a name="1040433">This online help for 3DM2™ provides instructions for using 3DM2 to </a>configure and maintain your LSI<span style="vertical-align: super;"></span> 3ware<span style="vertical-align: super;">®</span> SATA+SAS RAID controller card. </div>
<div class="Heading3"><a name="1040434">Finding What You Need in 3DM2 Help</a></div>
<div class="BodyAfterHead"><a name="1038761">When you click </a><span class="UI-Element">Help</span> on the 3DM2 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, <a href="Controller_Summary.html#1223220">click here</a>.)</div>
<div class="Body"><a name="1038853">To find information about other topics, use the </a><span class="UI-Element">TOC</span> (Table of Contents) and <span class="UI-Element">Index</span> links at the top of the Help page. </div>
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<div class="CellBody"><a href="GetStart.html#1103258" name="1038423">Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller</a></div>
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<div class="CellBody"><a href="3ware_Intro.2.1.html#1338419" name="1039989">Introducing the LSI 3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card</a></div>
<div class="CellBody"><a name="1039993">and</a></div>
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<div class="CellBody"><a href="3DM-Intro.4.3.html#1242469" name="1038435">Starting 3DM2 and Logging In</a></div>
<div class="CellBody"><a href="3DM-Intro.4.8.html#1368891" name="1038484">Working with the 3DM2 Screens</a></div>
<div class="CellBody"><a href="3DM-Intro.4.13.html#1038505" name="1038492">Setting Up 3DM2 Preferences</a></div>
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<div class="Heading3"><a name="1036772">Conventions</a></div>
<div class="BodyAfterHead"><a name="1036261">The following conventions are used throughout the online help:</a></div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><a name="1032930">3DM and 3DM2 both refer to the 3ware Disk Manager, version 2.</a></div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="Emphasis"><a name="1032938">Current controller</a></span> is used to refer to the controller which is currently selected in the drop-down list at the top of the 3DM2 page. </div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="Emphasis"><a name="1035896">Unit</a></span> 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.</div>
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<div class="Heading3"><a name="1036844">Other Documentation</a></div>
<div class="BodyAfterHead"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1037905">In PDF format</a></span>, on the CD that came with your controller, and available through the LSI website at <br /><span class="link"><a href="http://www.lsi.com/channel/ChannelDownloads" target="_blank">http://www.lsi.com/channel/ChannelDownloads</a></span>:</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="Emphasis"><a name="1040059">3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card Software Users Guide, Version </a></span><span class="Emphasis">10.02</span></div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="Emphasis"><a name="1040063">3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card CLI Guide, Version 10.2</a></span></div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><span class="Emphasis"><a name="1040345">3ware 9750 SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card Installation Guide </a></span></div>
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<div class="Body"><a name="1040064">In HTML format, the 3ware HTML Bookshelf includes the content of both </a>the user guide and CLI guide, version 10.2. It is available in the Docs folder on your 3ware CD. </div>
<div class="Body"><a name="1040223">Additional support information is available in the LSI 3ware Knowledge </a>Base, at this website:<span class="link"><a href="http://kb.lsi.com" target="_blank"> http://kb.lsi.com</a></span></div>
<div class="Body"><a name="1040226">Content last updated: 5.07.10 (10.2)</a></div>
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