Computer Accessories User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- About this User Guide
- Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller
- Introducing the 3ware® 9590SE-4ME RAID Controller
- 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) Introduction
- Configuring Your Controller
- Configuring Units
- Maintaining Units
- Checking Unit and Drive Status
- About Degraded Units
- About Inoperable Units
- Alarms, Errors, and Other Events
- Background Tasks
- Scheduling Background Tasks
- Locating a Drive by Blinking Its LED
- Maintaining Your Controller
- 3DM 2 Reference
- Troubleshooting
- Appendices
- Index
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Configuring Units
This section includes information and procedures on configuring units
attached to your 3ware RAID controller. It is organized into the following
topics:
• Configuring a New Unit
• Creating a Hot Spare
• Naming a Unit
• Setting Unit Policies
• Enabling and Disabling the Unit Write Cache
• Setting Auto Verify for a Unit
• Setting Continue on Source Error During Rebuild
• Enabling and Disabling Queuing for a Unit
• Setting the StorSave Profile for a Unit
• Changing An Existing Configuration
(RAID Level Migration or Online Capacity Expansion)
• Deleting a Unit
• Removing a Unit
• Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another
• Adding a Drive
• Removing a Drive
• Rescanning the Controller
Configuring a New Unit
When you configure a new unit, you specify some details related to the type
of RAID configuration that you want, and others that enable or disable
features.
This section first provides an overview of the different settings you can
specify during configuration and then provides step-by-step instructions for
creating a unit.