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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 drive-carrier. If you do not use an approved and rec-
ognized hot swap drive-carrier, connecting interface cables and
power cables can/will crash the system from bus or power supply
issues. Select the checkbox next to the drive to be removed and
click Remove Drive. Select the same checkbox and then click Add
Spare.
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
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Figure 4. 3ware BIOS Tool
Press Alt-3 immediately to bring up the 3ware Disk Array Config-
uration display.
Note:
If drives are attached and you do not want to
install the 3ware BIOS, press Alt-b to bypass the BIOS
installation. This is useful when booting temporarily
from another device.
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.
