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<div class="Chapter-Title"><a name="1094964">Maintaining Units</a></div>
<div class="BodyAfterHead"><a name="1305564">3ware RAID controllers include a number of features in the firmware that </a>help maintain the integrity of your drives, check for errors, repair bad sectors, and rebuild units when drives degrade. In addition, 3ware Disk Manager 2 (3DM2) provides tools to let you check unit and drive status, and manually start background maintenance tasks.</div>
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<div class="CellBody"><span class="NoteHeading"><a name="1610740">Mac User Note:</a></span> The 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) tool is not available for Mac OS X users. Mac users need to use the 3DM2 tool.</div>
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<div class="Body"><a name="1610731">3DM2 also lets you review alarms and errors and schedule background </a>maintenance tasks. On Windows systems, the WinAVAlarm utility monitors the controller and will display a message window and give an audible alarm when events occur at or above the threshold you select for it. </div>
<div class="Body"><a name="1080930">Details about these features are described in this section, which is organized </a>into the following topics:</div>
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