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Chapter 5. 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2) Working in the 3BM Screens The main 3BM screen (Figure 26) shows the current configuration for the drives attached to your controller, and a list of any available drives. Unusable and incomplete drives are also shown. Figure 26. 3BM Main Display You will see one or more of the following sections in the main 3BM screen: „ Available Drives lists any unconfigured, independent drives (JBODs) that are not associated with an array, and hot spares. If this section does not appear, there are no available drives. „ Exportable Units lists the existing units, along with the drives contained in each. 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.) „ Unusable Arrays lists any RAID configuration missing too many drives to construct the unit. For example, a RAID 5 unit with two or more drives missing would appear in this list. „ Incomplete Drives and Others lists drives that are remaining from a unit with missing or failed drives, drives that are not usable, and drives that were part of a unit on a 3ware 7000/8000-series controller, and contain data that needs to be updated before your 3ware 9000 series controller can use them. (If you want to move a unit from a 7/8000 controller to the 9000 controller, you must convert the drives first. For more information, see the section "Replacing an Existing Controller with a New Controller," in the 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller Quick Install Guide.) When some of the drives are remaining from a unit, you can power down and add the missing drives to complete the unit. To use drives that are 58 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide