Removing A Unit - 3Ware 9550SXU-12 User Manual

Configuring Units

Removing a Unit

136
Figure 59. Deleting a Unit in 3BM
4 to the button and press
Tab OK
You return to the main 3BM screen, and the drives associated with the
unit now appear in the list of Available Drives.
Remember:
overwritten until you press the
Esc
and select
5 to save your changes, or press
Press F8
Removing a unit through software (also known as 'array roaming') keeps the
data intact on the unit. It allows you to move the unit to another controller or
to store the drives for safekeeping purposes.
Removing a unit is different than deleting a unit. Deleting a unit will destroy
the data on the unit.
Warning:
It is important to remove the unit through software, before removing it
physically. Failure to do so could result in a system crash or hang and may even
corrupt the data and the unit configuration from being reassembled later.
Power-down your system before physically removing any drive that is not in a hot
swap bay.
Note:
You can also remove a drive, if you want to force a degrade on a redundant
unit, or if you want to remove a drive from the "Available Drives" list so that you can
then remove it from the system. For more information, see "Removing a Drive" on
page 143.
3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1
.
Enter
The unit is not actually deleted and no data is
F8
key to save your changes, or press
Yes
when asked if you want to save.
and then
Esc
.
Yes