
Configuring Units
94 3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card Software User Guide, Version 10.0
A foreground initialization will take place before the system is booted. It can
take up to several hours, depending on the size of the unit.
A background initialization allows you to have immediate use of the unit, but
will take longer and slows down performance of the unit until it completes.
If your unit starts a foreground initialization and you want to use it
immediately, you can press
Esc and the unit will switch to using background
initialization.
Unit policies
Several unit policies are set when you create a new unit:
• Write Cache (enabled, by default)
• Read Cache (Intelligent, by default)
• Drive Queuing (enabled, by default)
• Ignore ECC (Continue on Source Error When Rebuilding (disabled, by
default))
• StorSave Profile (Balanced, by default)
• Auto Verify (enabled, by default)
• Rapid RAID Recovery (enabled, by default)
The particular policies that you can adjust when you create the unit vary,
depending on which program you are using: 3DM, 3BM, or the CLI.
You can change all of these policies after the unit has been created, with one
exception. If Rapid RAID Recovery is disabled, it cannot be enabled later.
For a summary of what these policies do, see the discussion under “Setting
Unit Policies” on page 107. For how to adjust each one, see the procedures
later in this chapter.
urenrjrjkvnm
Med
urenrjrjkvnm
coin
coin
Cinema