Specifications

MaxPac Single/Dual/Triple-Screen 8230 Training and Maintenance Guide 23
situations where you need to replace a degraded/failed drive or you wish to rebuild the RAID system
from the ground up.
Your MaxPac system can contain up to four SATA hot-swappable hard disk drives presented in a
4-drive disk caddy. This caddy is located on the lower left-hand side of the main chassis under the
"Baghdad Filter" assembly as shown to the left of Figure 3-44 (the numbering of the disks is as shown
to the right of Figure 3-44). The main array – including the system partition – occupies disks 00, 01,
and 02, leaving disk 03 as the hot-spare (note that this is the initial/default configuration; once the hot-
spare disk has been deployed as discussed below, the failed-and-replaced disk will assume the role
of the new hot-spare).
Figure 3-44
Establishing the Array and Reloading the System Image
These discussions assume that you are reestablishing a system from the ground up, and that you
have four new disks in your disk caddy.
1) Start to power-up the system. When you see the BIOS message "<Alt-3> to access 3ware BIOS
Manager" (Figure 3-45) press and hold the <ALT> (alternate) key and – while still holding this key
– press the number "3" key. This will invoke the 3ware BIOS manager; in most cases, you will be
presented with a warning screen as shown in Figure 3-46.
Figure 3-45
Figure 3-46
2) Press any key to continue, which will take you fully into the 3ware BIOS Manager. Observe that
the four disks are shown on the screen, but no drives are initially selected (Figure 3-47).