Configuring Units
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3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide
Specifying the Unit Configuration
You can implement one or more units of supported RAID levels on
a single controller, depending on the number of drives that the
specific 3ware RAID controller supports and the number of drives
attached.
Basic Steps for Creating a Unit
The process of configuring your RAID units includes these main
steps, which are detailed in the step-by-step example:
Select the drives to be included and indicate that you want to
create a disk unit
Choose the desired RAID configuration
Set other parameters, depending on the type of RAID
configuration
Confirm the unit configuration
Save your changes
To select the drives and create a disk unit
1
Select the drives to be included by highlighting each one and
pressing
Enter
to select it.
When you select a drive, an asterisk appears next to it in the
left-most column (see Figure 10).
Exit the utility and save or abandon
all changes.
Esc
Exit the utility and save all changes
F8
Table 4: Working in 3BM
To do this
Use these keys
