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Create New Array Drive

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ICP RAID Console • Select the Build/Rebuild Progress option and press Enter. Whenever an array drive is in the build or rebuild state, you can select Build/Rebuild Progress to get progress information and estimates for the required time to build or rebuild. 10.5.4.2 Create New Array Drive From the Advanced Setup menu, select the Configure Array Drives option and press Enter to display the Select Array Drive menu, then select the Create new Array Drive option and press Enter. ICPCON lists all logical drives which are free (see Figure 10-88). The selection bar is moved with the arrow up/down keys and a logical drive is selected/deselected with the space bar. Figure 10-88. Create New Array Drive For a striping array (RAID 0, 4, 5, 10), the master drive (indicated by 'M') is the first logical drive in the array (see Figure 10-88). For a RAID 1 array (mirroring) the master drive is the first logical drive in the array that contains the valid data copied to the second logical drive. After you press Enter, ICPCON displays a list of possible RAID levels. See Figure 10-89. Then ICPCON prompts you for the stripe size. This is the size of the stripes into which the data is divided. Valid values are 16KB, 32KB, 64KB or 128KB. The default is 128KB. See Figure 10-90. Figure 10-89. Choose Type Software Installation and User's Guide 139

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ICP RAID Console
Select the
Build/Rebuild Progress
option and press Enter.
Whenever an array drive is in the
build
or
rebuild
state, you can select
Build/Rebuild
Progress
to get progress information and estimates for the required time to build or
rebuild.
10.5.4.2
Create New Array Drive
From the Advanced Setup menu, select the
Configure Array Drives
option and press Enter
to display the Select Array Drive menu, then select the
Create new Array Drive
option and
press Enter.
ICPCON lists all logical drives which are free (see
Figure 10-88
). The selection bar is
moved with the arrow up/down keys and a logical drive is selected/deselected with the
space bar.
Figure 10-88. Create New Array Drive
For a striping array (RAID 0, 4, 5, 10), the master drive (indicated by ‘M’) is the first
logical drive in the array (see
Figure 10-88
). For a RAID 1 array (mirroring) the master
drive is the first logical drive in the array that contains the valid data copied to the second
logical drive.
After you press Enter, ICPCON displays a list of possible RAID levels. See
Figure 10-89
.
Then ICPCON prompts you for the stripe size. This is the size of the stripes into which the
data is divided. Valid values are 16KB, 32KB, 64KB or 128KB. The default is 128KB.
See
Figure 10-90
.
Figure 10-89. Choose Type