3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide
volumes, and, consequently, they cannot be designated as spares at a later time. If a spare is designated in the BIOS screen, the designa- tion and configuration is in effect from this point on. The spare drive will be displayed as a Hot Spare in the 3DM configuration page.
3DM Configure Page
In order to designate an available drive as a spare from the 3DM configure page, you must ensure that the drive is not a JBOD drive or part of an existing array. To designate a drive as a Hot Spare from this page, you must use one of the two following methods:
Replacing a Defective Drive with a Spare
Replace the drive at the operating system level while the system is powered. This should only be done with an approved and recog- nized hot swap
Adding a Spare Drive to an Available Port
To add a new spare, follow the same steps except you will not be required to remove a drive.
Invoking the 3ware BIOS tool
Power up or reboot your system. Before the boot phase, wait until you see a screen similar to Figure 4.
3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility
Figure 4. 3ware BIOS Tool
Press
Note: If drives are attached and you do not want to install the 3ware BIOS, press
Exiting the 3ware BIOS tool
To save your configuration modifications hit the F8 key. After you have hit the F8 key to commit your changes, a list of affected drives will be displayed and you will be asked to confirm your configura- tion. The booting process will resume.
To exit the 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility without saving your changes hit Esc.
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