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Moving Units from an 8000 Controller to a 9000 Controller
It is possible to move your RAID units from a 3ware 8000 series RAID controller to a 3ware 9000 series controller. You will then have the advantages of the 9000 series controller.
The drive units must be in normal mode before moving the units. Incomplete, degraded, rebuilding, or initializing units cannot be converted. In addition, RAID 0, 10, and 5 units must use a standard 64 KB stripe size.
The procedure used to move units from the 8000 to the 9000 series depends on the type of storage unit that you have. For most units, follow the steps below. For units using JBOD, see Moving Legacy JBOD Units to a 9000 Controller.

| Note: In order to preserve the data that is on the units attached to the 8000, you will need to run a special utility to convert the units to a format that the 9000 controller can use. Contact Technical Support to obtain the utility. (This utility is not required for legacy JBOD units.) Do not remove the 8000 board from your system until you have converted the units. The units must be attached to the 8000 controller when you run the utility.

To move units under Windows

1 | Install the 9000 controller in your system, while leaving the 8000 controller installed.

2 | Install the Windows driver. (For details, see “Driver Installation Under Windows” in 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide.)

3 | Run the conversion utility to convert the units.

4 | Power down the system, disconnect the drives from the 7/8000 controller and remove that controller from the system.

5 | Attach the drives to the 9000 board.

To move units under Linux or FreeBSD

1 | Upgrade your driver to the 9000 series driver.

2 | Run the conversion utility to convert the units.

3 | Power down the system, disconnect the drives from the 8000 controller and remove the controller from the system.

4 | Install the 9000 controller and attach the drives to the 9000 board, as described earlier in this section.

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