Moving a Unit from One Controller to Anotherwww.3ware.com 1334 Attach the drives to the 9000 board.5 Reboot the system and enter the 3ware 9000 series BIOS (3BM) bypressing Alt-3. Enable the Export JBOD policy on the Policy screen.6 Press the F8 or Esc key to save and exit.To move legacy JBOD units under Linux or FreeBSD1 Upgrade your driver to the 9000 series driver.2 Power down the system, disconnect the drives from the 8000 controllerand remove the controller from the system.3 Install the 9000 controller and attach the drives to the 9000 board, asdescribed earlier in this section.4 Reboot the system and enter the 3ware 9000 series BIOS (3BM) bypressing Alt-3. Enable the Export JBOD policy on the Policy screen.5 Press the F8 or Esc key to save and exit.Moving Units from a 9500S to a 9550SX, 9590SE, or9650SE ControllerIt is fairly straightforward to move units from a 9500S controller to a 9550SX,9590SE, or 9650SE controller. The steps you follow depend on whether youare booting from the drives attached to the 9500S, or whether they are beingused for secondary storage.To move a bootable unit from a 9500S to a 9550SX, 9590SE, or9650SE controller1 If you are working with a Linux system, skip to step 2.If you are working with a Windows system:a Power down the computer.b Install the 9550SX, 9590SE, or 9650SE controller in the computer,leaving the 9500S installed and its drives attached.c Boot to the operating system.2 Install the driver for the 9550SX, 9590SE, or 9650SE.If you are using Linux, you will also need to update the initial RAM diskwith the mkinitrd command.3 Power down the computer.4 Remove the 9500S controller.
