80 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide7Configuring Your ControllerThis section describes how to view details about the controller, check itsstatus, and change configuration settings that affect the controller and all ofthe drives connected to it. It is organized into the following sections:• Viewing Information About a Controller• Viewing Controller Policies• Setting the Auto Rebuild Policy• Using Auto-Carving for Multi LUN Support• Setting the Size of Volumes Created with Auto-Carving• Enabling and Setting Up Staggered Spin-up• Exporting JBOD DisksViewing Information About a ControllerYou can check the controller model, serial number, firmware and driverversions, and the status of the 3ware RAID controller in your computer.If you have more than one controller in your system, you can easily viewinformation about each one using 3DM. If you are working at the BIOS level,you access 3BM for each controller separately.To see details about a controller in 3DM1 Start 3DM and log in as an administrator.The 3DM Controller Summary page appears, listing all the 3warecontrollers installed in your system.The right-most column of the list shows the status of each controller.Note: Background task rate is also set for all units on a controller. For informationabout setting the task rate, see “Setting Background Task Rate” on page 155.
