Acer AT350 F1 User Manual - Page 133

Creating RAID Volume, Initialing a RAID volume, Assigning a hot spare disk, Configuration, READY

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121 Creating RAID Volume 1 Select Configuration from the Management Menu. 2 Select New Configuration from the Configuration menu. An array selection window displays the devices connected to the current controller. 3 Press the arrow keys to choose specific physical drives and press the space bar to associate the selected drive with the current array. The indicator for the selected drive changes from READY to ONLINE. 4 After adding the drives to the current array, press to finish creating the current array. 5 Press again to select an array to configure. 6 Press the space bar to select the array and press to configure the logical drive. 7 Select Accept and press to use the default setting for the RAID volume. 8 Press to end the array configuration. 9 Select YES to save the configuration and press any key to return to the Configuration menu. 10 Press to return to the Management Menu. Initialing a RAID volume 1 Select Initialize from the Management menu. All logical drives should be listed under Logical Drives. 2 Press the space bar to select drives for initialization. The selected drive will be shown in yellow. 3 After selecting the drives, press and select YES to start the initialization process. 4 When initialization is complete, press to continue. 5 Press to return to the Management Menu. Assigning a hot spare disk 1 Select Objects from the Management menu. 2 Select Physical Drive from Objects. All of the HDDs will be listed. 3 Select a drive marked as READY and press . 4 Select Make Hot Spare and press .

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121
Creating RAID Volume
1
Select
Configuration
from the Management Menu.
2
Select
New Configuration
from the Configuration menu. An array
selection window displays the devices connected to the current
controller.
3
Press the arrow keys to choose specific physical drives and press the
space bar to associate the selected drive with the current array.
The indicator for the selected drive changes from
READY
to
ONLINE
.
4
After adding the drives to the current array, press <
Enter
> to finish
creating the current array.
5
Press <
Enter
> again to select an array to configure.
6
Press the space bar to select the array and press <
F10
> to configure
the logical drive.
7
Select
Accept
and press <
Enter
> to use the default setting for the
RAID volume.
8
Press <
Enter
> to end the array configuration.
9
Select
YES
to save the configuration and press any key to return to
the Configuration menu.
10
Press <
Esc
> to return to the Management Menu.
Initialing a RAID volume
1
Select
Initialize
from the Management menu. All logical drives
should be listed under Logical Drives.
2
Press the space bar to select drives for initialization. The selected
drive will be shown in yellow.
3
After selecting the drives, press <
F10
> and select
YES
to start the
initialization process.
4
When initialization is complete, press <
Esc
> to continue.
5
Press <
Esc
> to return to the Management Menu.
Assigning a hot spare disk
1
Select
Objects
from the Management menu.
2
Select
Physical Drive
from Objects. All of the HDDs will be listed.
3
Select a drive marked as READY and press <
Enter
>.
4
Select
Make Hot Spare
and press <
Enter
>.