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
130 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
To add a drive
1 Insert the drive into the hot-swap carrier or into your 3ware Sidecar.
2 In 3DM, choose
Management > Maintenance.
3 On the Maintenance page, click Rescan Controller.
The drive will appear in the list of available drives. You can now use it in
a new RAID configuration, as part of an existing configuration, or as a
replacement drive in the event that another drive degrades.
If you want to use this drive as a spare, see “Creating a Hot Spare” on
page 103.
Removing a Drive
If you have a hot-swap carrier or 3ware Sidecar and want to physically
remove a drive from your system without powering it down, you should first
remove it through the 3ware software.
This is useful if you know that a drive is developing a problem and you want
to replace it, or to replace a drive which has already failed.
Note: When you add a drive to your system and connect it to the controller, it is
automatically detected and listed in 3DM. If it does not immediately display, or if it is
part of a unit, you can use the rescan feature, as described below.
Warnings:
Physically removing a drive that is not in a hot swap carrier or that is part of a non-
redundant unit, can result in a system hang or may even damage the system and
the drive.
The steps below will destroy any information that identifies this drive as part of a
RAID unit.
Existing data on this drive will no longer be available.
Notes:
If you want to remove a unit from your system and reassemble it in another system,
do not follow these steps. Instead, turn to “Removing a Unit” on page 123.
If you physically remove a drive on a controller without first removing it in 3DM, it will
be listed as removed, however it will not be completely removed unless you Rescan
the controller.
Drives that are part of a non-redundant or degraded unit cannot be removed.