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situations where you need to replace a degraded/failed drive or you wish to rebuild the RAID system
from the ground up.
Your MaxPac system can contain up to four SATA hot-swappable hard disk drives presented in a
4-drive disk caddy. This caddy is located on the lower left-hand side of the main chassis under the
"Baghdad Filter" assembly as shown to the left of Figure 3-44 (the numbering of the disks is as shown
to the right of Figure 3-44). The main array – including the system partition – occupies disks 00, 01,
and 02, leaving disk 03 as the hot-spare (note that this is the initial/default configuration; once the hot-
spare disk has been deployed as discussed below, the failed-and-replaced disk will assume the role
of the new hot-spare).
Figure 3-44
Establishing the Array and Reloading the System Image
These discussions assume that you are reestablishing a system from the ground up, and that you
have four new disks in your disk caddy.
1) Start to power-up the system. When you see the BIOS message
"<Alt-3> to access 3ware BIOS
Manager"
(Figure 3-45) press and hold the <ALT> (alternate) key and – while still holding this key
– press the number "3" key. This will invoke the 3ware BIOS manager; in most cases, you will be
presented with a warning screen as shown in Figure 3-46.
Figure 3-45
Figure 3-46
2) Press any key to continue, which will take you fully into the
3ware BIOS Manager
. Observe that
the four disks are shown on the screen, but no drives are initially selected (Figure 3-47).
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