3Ware 9550SXU-16ML User Guide - Page 34
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Chapter 3. First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM 3 If you have additional drives, go ahead and configure an additional RAID unit or designate a hot spare. Then continue on with these steps. (For details about hot spares, see page 25.) 4 If you configured more than one unit, and you plan to install the operating system on one of them, make that unit be the first unit (Unit 0) in the list of Exportable Units. To move a unit up in the list, highlight it and press the Page Up key. You will also want to make sure that the controller is the boot device for your computer. After finalizing the configuration below, be sure to follow the steps under "Checking the Motherboard Boot Sequence" on page 26. 5 When you are finished configuring units, press F8 to save the changes and exit 3BM. A warning message asks you to confirm that all existing data on the drives will be deleted. Figure 12. Confirmation Message when Saving and Exiting 6 Type Y to continue, delete any existing data on the drives, and create the unit. Depending on the RAID configuration you are creating, initialization of the unit may begin immediately. The initialization process can take several hours, depending on the size of your drives. 7 If you want to use a RAID configuration which has started initializing, you can press Esc to cancel the progress box. (Before doing this, be sure to read "Trade-offs to cancelling initialization," below.) You can then exit 3BM and boot to the operating system before the process of writing zeroes to the drives is complete. Once you have booted to the operating system, initialization of the RAID 5 or RAID 50 unit will begin after a delay of up to ten minutes. 24 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide