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Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another Unlocking Drives Configured on a 9500S Controller When drives are configured into a unit on a 9500S controller, they become locked for use with 9500S series controllers. If you want to use these drives on an older 3ware controller, a non-3ware controller, or connect them directly to a motherboard ATA controller, you must first unlock them. You can unlock drives in the following ways: „ In 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager), highlight the unit you want to unlock, and press the r key (for remove). Then shut down the system. „ In either 3BM or 3DM, delete the unit, as described under "Deleting a Unit" on page 150. All data on the drives will be permanently deleted, and the drives will be unlocked. „ Boot to the operating system. Put a file system on the unit by formatting and partitioning it. Shut down the operating system cleanly. The drives will be unlocked. Moving Units from an 8000 Controller to a 9000 Controller It is possible to move your 8000 storage units to a 9000 series controller. You will then have the advantages of the 9000 series controller. The drive units must be in normal mode before moving the units. Incomplete, degraded, rebuilding, or initializing units cannot be converted. In addition, RAID 0, 10, and 5 units must use a standard 64 KB stripe size. The procedure used to move units from the 8000 to the 9000 series depends on the type of storage unit that you have. For most units, follow the steps below. For units using JBOD, see "Moving Legacy JBOD Units to a 9000 Controller" on page 158. Note: In order to preserve the data that is on the units attached to the 8000, you will need to run a special utility, available from 3ware Technical Support, to convert the units to a format that the 9000 controller can use. Contact Technical Support to obtain the utility. (This utility is not required for legacy JBOD units.) Do not remove the 8000 board from your system until you have converted the units. The units must be attached to the 8000 controller when you run the utility. www.3ware.com 157

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Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another
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Unlocking Drives Configured on a 9500S Controller
When drives are configured into a unit on a 9500S controller, they become
locked for use with 9500S series controllers.
If you want to use these drives on an older 3ware controller, a non-3ware
controller, or connect them directly to a motherboard ATA controller, you
must first unlock them.
You can unlock drives in the following ways:
In 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager), highlight the unit you want to unlock,
and press the
r
key (for remove). Then shut down the system.
In either 3BM or 3DM, delete the unit, as described under “Deleting a
Unit” on page 150. All data on the drives will be permanently deleted,
and the drives will be unlocked.
Boot to the operating system. Put a file system on the unit by formatting
and partitioning it. Shut down the operating system cleanly. The drives
will be unlocked.
Moving Units from an 8000 Controller to a 9000
Controller
It is possible to move your 8000 storage units to a 9000 series controller. You
will then have the advantages of the 9000 series controller.
The drive units must be in normal mode before moving the units. Incomplete,
degraded, rebuilding, or initializing units cannot be converted. In addition,
RAID 0, 10, and 5 units must use a standard 64 KB stripe size.
The procedure used to move units from the 8000 to the 9000 series depends
on the type of storage unit that you have. For most units, follow the steps
below. For units using JBOD, see “Moving Legacy JBOD Units to a 9000
Controller” on page 158.
Note:
In order to preserve the data that is on the units attached to
the 8000, you will need to run a special utility, available from
3ware Technical Support, to convert the units to a format that the
9000 controller can use. Contact Technical Support to obtain the
utility. (This utility is not required for legacy JBOD units.)
Do not remove the 8000 board from your system until you have
converted the units. The units must be attached to the 8000
controller when you run the utility.