AMCC 720-0138-00 manual Rescanning the Controller, To rescan the controller

Chapter 5. Configuring Units

Rescanning the Controller

When you make a change by physically adding or removing drives or units, you can have 3DM rescan the controller to update the list of units and available drives shown on the Maintenance page.

This is useful in a variety of circumstances. For example, if you add new drives to the controller, you can make them available by rescanning the controller. Or if you turn on the 3ware Sidecar after turning on your Power Mac G5, you can use rescan to make the computer see the drives.

Rescanning checks all ports on the controller. It then updates the status of all ports, so if error conditions have been fixed, the status is updated to reflect that.

For more details about how the Rescan feature works, see the information in the 3DM Reference section, under “Maintenance page” on page 99.

To rescan the controller

1In 3DM, choose Management > Maintenance.

2On the Maintenance page, click Rescan Controller.

3DM scans the controller for information about units and drives, and updates the information shown on the Maintenance page.

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