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 3. First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM
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Specifying a Hot Spare
You can designate one of the Available Drives as a hot spare in 3BM. If a hot
spare is specified and a redundant unit degrades, an event notification will be
generated. The hot spare will automatically replace the failed drive without
user intervention.
To specify a hot spare
1 In the list of Available Drives, highlight the drive to use.
2Type s to specify that the selected drive will be the hot spare.
You’ll see the words “Hot Spare” appear next to the drive in the Available
Drives list.
Figure 17. Hot Spare Indicated
If a hot spare is already enabled, you can disable it by following the same
process.
Leaving Individual Drives as JBODs
By default, if you leave individual drives unconfigured (JBODs), they will not
be available to the operating system. If you want to be able to use individual
drives, configure them as single-disk units.
If you have JBODs attached to an 8000 controller that you want to use with
the 9000 controller, see “Moving Units from an 8000 Controller to a 9000
Controller” on page 126.
Note: In order to replace a failed drive in a degraded unit, a hot spare drive
must have the same or larger storage capacity than the failed drive.