Adding a Drive

Note: If you have a 9550SX or 9590SE controller, when you add a drive to your system and connect it to the controller, it is automatically detected and listed in 3DM and the CLI.
If you have a 9500S or 7/8000 controller, follow the steps below to make a new drive available.

If you have a hot-swap carrier, you can add a drive to your system and make it available through 3DM without powering down the system.

Without hot swap carriers, you should not add a drive via 3DM. Instead, power down the system and add the applicable drives.

Warning: Physically adding a drive without a hotswap carrier and without powering down your system can result in a system hang or may even damage the system and the drive.

To add a drive when you have hot-swap carriers

Connect the drive physically to the controller.
In 3DM, choose Management > Maintenance.
On the Maintenance Page, click Rescan Controller.

The drive will appear in the list of available drives. You can now use it in a new RAID configuration, or as a replacement drive in the event that another drive degrades.

If you want to use this drive as a spare, see Creating a Hot Spare.

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