Removing a Drive
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Removing a Drive
If you have a hot-swap carrier and want to physically remove a drive from
your system without powering it down, you must first remove it through the
3ware software. This is required for 3ware controllers before the 9550SX
model, and recommended for the 9550SX and 9590SE models.
This is useful if you know that a drive is developing a problem and you want
to replace it, or to replace a drive which has already failed.
Warnings:
Physically removing a drive that is not in a hot swap carrier can
result in a system hang or may even damage the system and the
drive.
The steps below will destroy any information that identifies this
drive as part of a RAID unit. Existing data on this drive will no
longer be available.
Notes:
If you want to remove a unit from your system and reassemble it in
another system, do not follow these steps. Instead, turn to
“Removing a Unit” on page 161.
If you unplug a drive on a 9500S controller without first removing
it through 3DM or 3BM, the controller will not recognize it as
gone. Always use the
Remove Drive command to remove a drive
before unplugging it.
If you unplug a drive on a 9550SX or 9590SE controller without
first removing it in 3DM, it will be listed as removed, however it
will not be completely removed unless you Rescan the controller.
To remove a drive
1 In 3DM, choose
Management > Maintenance.
On the Maintenance Page, remove Drive links appear next to all drives
that can be removed from units, and next to drives in the Available Drives
list.
2 Locate the drive you want to remove and click the
Remove Drive link
(Figure 68).
(You can remove a drive that is part of a redundant unit, or that is shown
in the list of Available Drives.)
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