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2 Backup any data you want to keep.
3 Unmount the unit.
Launch the Macintosh Disk Utility, select the unit, and click the Unmount
button the toolbar, or select the icon for the unit on the desktop and drag it
to the trash.
This step is very important. If a unit is not unmounted and you delete it,
it is the equivalent of physically yanking a hard drive out from under the
operating system. You could lose data, the system could hang, or the
controller could reset.
4 In 3DM, choose
Management > Maintenance.
5 In the Unit Maintenance section of the Maintenance page, select the unit
you want to remove and click
Delete Unit (Figure 23).
Figure 23. Deleting a Unit Through 3DM
6 When a message asks you to confirm, click OK.
Configuration information associating the drives with the unit is deleted,
and the individual drives appear in the Available Drives list (Figure 24).
You can now use them as part of another unit, or designate them as
Spares, for use in a rebuild.