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Working in the 3BM Screens

The main

3BM

screen (Figure 29) 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 29. 3BM Main Display

You will see one or more of the following sections in the main 3BM screen:

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.

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.)

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.

Exception:

Changes made to controller policies are saved when you leave the

Policy screen. Pressing

F8

is not required to save those changes. For more about

changing policies, see “Setting the Auto Rebuild Policy” on page 91.