Working In The 3Bm Screens - 3Ware 9550SXU-12 User Manual

Working in the 3BM Screens

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Exception:
Changes made to controller policies are saved when you leave the
F8
Policy screen. Pressing
changing policies, see "Setting the Auto Rebuild Policy" on page 91.
The main screen (Figure 29) shows the current configuration for the
3BM
drives attached to your controller, and a list of any available drives. Unusable
and incomplete drives are also shown.
Figure 29. 3BM Main Display
You will see one or more of the following sections in the main 3BM screen:
• Available Drives lists any unconfigured drives that are not associated
with an array, and hot spares. If this section does not appear, there are no
available drives.
lists the drives directly attached to the controller.
Direct Attached
lists the drives attached through an enclosure.
Enclosure
• Exportable Units lists the existing units and the drives contained in each
unit. These are the units that will be available to the operating system
when you boot your computer. If this section does not appear, no units
have been configured.
If you have more than one unit, the boot unit is the one at the top of the
list. (You can change the order by highlighting a unit and pressing the
PgUp or PgDn key.)
• lists any RAID configuration missing too many drives
Unusable Arrays
to construct the unit. For example, a RAID 5 unit with two or more drives
missing would appear in this list.
Working in the 3BM Screens
is not required to save those changes. For more about
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