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

Exiting the 3BM Configuration Utility
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Exiting the 3BM Configuration Utility
When you are ready to exit the 3BM configuration utility, you have the option
to save the configuration changes you have made, or to discard the changes.
To save your configuration modifications
1 Press the
F8 or Esc key.
A list of affected drives appears, and a messages ask you to confirm the
configuration.
2Type
Y.
The booting process resumes.
To exit without saving changes
1 Press
Esc.
2 If you have unsaved changes, 3BM will ask you whether you want to save
the changes and exit, or exit without saving the changes.
If you want to exit without saving changes, type
N.
If you change your mind and want to save the changes, type
Y.
Note: If you have a combination of 7000/8000-series and 9000-series controllers in
your system, the 7000/8000-series controllers are not listed on the selection screen
shown in Figure 28. Instead, an additional BIOS summary will appear for the 7000/
8000-series controller, similar to Figure 27. To access the BIOS utility for the 7000/
8000-series board, press
Alt-3 when the information for that controller appears.
Although similar to 3BM, some screens and features are different for the 7000/
8000-series. For detailed information, see the version of the 3ware Escalade ATA
RAID Controller User Guide that supports the 7000 and 8000 series controllers.
If you have two 9000 series controllers that have different versions of the BIOS
installed, they will also appear in different BIOS summaries, and will launch different
versions of 3BM.
Exception: Changes made to controller policies are saved when you leave the
Policy screen. Pressing
F8 is not required to save those changes. For more about
changing policies, see “Setting the Auto Rebuild Policy” on page 85.










