User guide
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- About this User Guide
- Introducing the 3ware® SATA RAID Controller
- Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller
- First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM
- Driver Installation
- Driver Installation Under Windows
- Driver Installation Under Linux
- Obtaining 3ware Linux Drivers
- Driver Installation Under Red Hat Linux or Fedora Core 5
- Materials required
- Creating a Red Hat Linux Driver Diskette
- Installing the 3ware Kernel Driver Module while Installing Red Hat Linux on a New Unit
- Installing the 3ware Kernel Driver Module on a Red Hat or Fedora Core Linux System that Boots From a Different Device
- About Variables In the Kernel Driver Module Installation Instructions
- Driver Installation Under SuSE Linux
- Compiling a 3ware Driver for Linux
- Driver Installation Under FreeBSD
- 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2) Introduction
- 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) Introduction
- Configuring Your Controller
- Configuring Units
- Configuring a New Unit
- Creating a Hot Spare
- Naming a Unit
- Setting Unit Policies
- Changing An Existing Configuration by Migrating
- Deleting a Unit
- Removing a Unit
- Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another
- Adding a Drive
- Removing a Drive
- Rescanning the Controller
- Maintaining Units
- Checking Unit and Drive Status through 3DM
- 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
- Determining the Current Version of Your 3ware Driver
- Updating the Firmware and Driver
- Downloading the Driver and Firmware
- Updating the Firmware Through 3DM 2
- Updating the 3ware Driver and Firmware Under Windows
- Using the Update Utility With Multiple Controllers
- Updating the 3ware Driver Under Windows XP
- Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat or Fedora Core
- Updating the 3ware Driver Under SuSE
- Updating the 3ware Driver Under FreeBSD
- Updating the Firmware Under Linux and FreeBSD
- Viewing Battery Information
- Testing Battery Capacity
- 3DM 2 Reference
- Troubleshooting
- Appendices
- Index
Chapter 8. Configuring Units
100 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
12 When you are finished making configuration changes, press F8 to save
the changes and exit 3BM.
A warning message tells you that all existing data on the drives will be
deleted, and asks you to confirm that you want to proceed.
Figure 50. Confirmation Message when Saving and Exiting
If you made changes to units on more than one controller, the details
about changes about to be made may extend beyond one screen. In this
case, you use the
PgUp and PgDn keys to bring more information into
view.
13 Type
Y to continue, delete any existing data on the drives, and create the
unit.
14 Partition and format the units, as described under “Partitioning,
Formatting, and Mounting Units” on page 101.
Ordering Units in 3BM
If you configure multiple units in 3BM and you want to install the OS on one
of them so that you can boot from that unit, that unit must be the first unit.
You can change the order of the units in 3BM.
To change the order of units in 3BM
1 At the main 3BM screen, in the list of exportable units, highlight the unit
you want to move.
Note: For RAID 5 and RAID 6units with 5 or more disks, and RAID
50 units with a subunit of 5 or more disks, initialization of the unit
begins immediately. You can postpone initialization if you want to
begin using the units right away, however initialization from the BIOS
is faster than it is under the operating system, so it will be a longer
period of time until the unit has optimal performance. For more
information, see “About Initialization” on page 143.