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Specifying a Hot Spare through 3BM, Available Drives

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Configuring Units Specifying a Hot Spare through 3BM 1 On the main 3BM screen, in the list of Available Drives, highlight the drive you want to use. 2 Type s to specify that the selected drive will be the hot spare. You'll see the words "Hot Spare" appear next to the drive in the Available Drives list. Figure 37. Hot Spare Indicated If a hot spare is already enabled, you can disable it by pressing s again. 3 If you are finished making changes in 3BM, press F8 to save the changes and exit. Note: If the drive you designated as a spare is not large enough to replace a failed drive in a fault-tolerant unit, or if there is not a fault-tolerant unit for the spare to support, 3BM will notify you. 94 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide

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Configuring Units
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3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
Specifying a Hot Spare through 3BM
1
On the main 3BM screen, in the list of
Available Drives
, highlight the
drive you want to use
.
2
Type
s
to specify that the selected drive will be the hot spare.
You’ll see the words “Hot Spare” appear next to the drive in the Available
Drives list.
Figure 37. Hot Spare Indicated
If a hot spare is already enabled, you can disable it by pressing
s
again.
3
If you are finished making changes in 3BM, press
F8
to save the changes
and exit.
Note:
If the drive you designated as a spare is not large enough
to replace a failed drive in a fault-tolerant unit, or if there is not
a fault-tolerant unit for the spare to support, 3BM will notify
you.