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Working in the 3BM Screens
The main 3BM screen 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.
Show 3BM Main Display
You will see one or more of the following sections in the main 3BM screen:
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Available Drives lists any unconfigured drives that are not associated with an array, and hot spares. If this section does not appear, there are no available drives.
Direct Attached lists the drives directly attached to the controller.
Enclosure lists the drives attached through an enclosure.
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Exportable Units lists the existing units and the drives contained in each unit. 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.)
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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.
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Incomplete Drives and Others lists drives that are remaining from a unit with missing or failed drives and drives that are not usable.
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 listed here in other units, you must first delete them. For more information, see Deleting a Unit.
If any of the sections are not shown, it means that there are no items of that type connected to the controller.
The table below lists how to move around and select information in the 3BM screens. When these commands are available in 3BM, they appear at the bottom of the 3BM screen.
Move between units or drives in a list, between fields, and between buttons
A selection may be a drive in a list of drives, a button at the bottom of the screen, or a field in the middle of the screen.
In the list of units, expand a selected unit to see any subunits and drives in the unit, or contract it to see only the heading again.
In the list of available drives these keys also work to show or hide the drives in each enclosure.
F4, from the Drive Information screen (requires use of a supported enclosure)
Note: F6 cannot bring back previous policy settings; they are saved when you exit the Policy screen.
Rescan the controller and update the status of units and drives
Return to the main 3ware BIOS Manager screen, from the Advanced Details screen
(The top-most unit will become the bootable unit, if you install the OS.)
(Available only when there are multiple units and a unit is highlighted.)
If you have multiple 3ware controllers in your system, return to the board selection screen.

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