Acer Altos G310 MK2 User Manual - Page 134

Assign hot spare disk, Initialize RAID volume, Save and exit MegaRAID configuration utility

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122 Appendix B: Configuring SCSI/SCSI RAID HBA Assign hot spare disk 1 Select Add/View Configuration from Configuration menu. 2 Press arrow keys to choose specific physical drives and press to set the drive as Hot Spare disk. Select YES to confirm and the indicator for selected drive change from READY to HOTSP. 3 Press to end the array configuration. 4 Select YES to Save Configuration and press any key to return to the Configure menu. Initialize RAID volume 1 Press to return to the Management Menu. 2 Select Initialize from Management menu. All logical drives should be listed under Logical Drives. 3 Press to select drives for initialization. The selected drive will be shown in yellow. 4 After selecting the drives, press and select YES to start the initialization process. 5 When initialization is complete, press any key to continue. 6 Press to return to the Management Menu. Save and exit MegaRAID configuration utility 1 When RAID configuration and initialization is complete, press in the Management Menu and select YES to exit the MegaRAID Configuration Utility. 2 Press + + to reboot the server. Now you can start installing an OS on the RAID array.

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Appendix B: Configuring SCSI/SCSI RAID HBA
122
Assign hot spare disk
1
Select Add/View Configuration from Configuration menu.
2
Press arrow keys to choose specific physical drives and press <F4>
to set the drive as Hot Spare disk. Select YES to confirm and the
indicator for selected drive change from READY to HOTSP.
3
Press <Esc> to end the array configuration.
4
Select YES to Save Configuration and press any key to return to the
Configure menu.
Initialize RAID volume
1
Press <Esc> to return to the Management Menu.
2
Select Initialize from Management menu. All logical drives should
be listed under Logical Drives.
3
Press <Spacebar> to select drives for initialization. The selected
drive will be shown in yellow.
4
After selecting the drives, press <F10> and select YES to start the
initialization process.
5
When initialization is complete, press any key to continue.
6
Press <Esc> to return to the Management Menu.
Save and exit MegaRAID configuration utility
1
When RAID configuration and initialization is complete, press
<Esc> in the Management Menu and select YES to exit the
MegaRAID Configuration Utility.
2
Press <Ctrl> + <Alt> + <Del> to reboot the server. Now you can
start installing an OS on the RAID array.