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Windows Installation When prompted to Select a Device Driver, click the Have Disk... button, insert your 3ware driver diskette, and enter the path to the driver in the Install From Disk dialog box. Reboot the machine Log in as system administrator when you reboot the system. You should see a brief splash screen, followed immediately by an "Installation Complete" notification. Continue with the following steps to make any new disk arrays or independent disks accessible to Windows 2000/XP/2003. 1 Remove the driver diskette, then select Yes to restart the system. The system may not boot if you don't remove the diskette. 2 Partition and format the new arrays or disks using Disk Administrator: a Choose Administrative Tools from the Start menu. b Choose Computer Management from the Administrative Tools menu. c Select Storage. d Select Disk Management. 4 Follow the steps the appear on-screen to write a signature to the drive. 5 Right click on the drive and select Create Volume. 6 Follow the steps the appear on-screen to create a volume and to assign a drive letter. RAID array initialization RAID 0 arrays do not need to be initialized and are immediately available for use with full performance when created. RAID 1 and 10 arrays are not initialized when created and are immediately available for use with full performance when created. The first time the array is verified (via the BIOS or 3ware 3DM), the array is initialized. Initialization results in data from one disk (the disk on the lower channel number) being copied to the other drive. In RAID 10 arrays, data from one half of the array is copied to the other half. After the initial verification, subsequent verifies to a RAID 1 or 10 array result in the data from one drive (or set of drives) being compared to the other drive (or set of drives). RAID 5 arrays are immediately initialized after being created in the BIOS by writing zeroes to all array members. The user can reboot the system before this is complete in order to use the RAID 5 array immediately. Once booted to the operating system, the RAID 5 array goes into initialization mode after a delay of up to ten minutes. The advantage of this procedure is that the RAID 5 array can be used immediately, but it will not be fault tolerant until the initialization is complete. The disadvantage of this is that it takes longer for the 50 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide

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Windows Installation
50
3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide
When prompted to
Select a Device Driver
, click the
Have Disk...
button,
insert your 3ware driver diskette, and enter the path to the driver in the
Install
From Disk
dialog box.
Reboot the machine
Log in as system administrator when you reboot the system. You should see a
brief splash screen, followed immediately by an “Installation Complete”
notification. Continue with the following steps to make any new disk arrays or
independent disks accessible to Windows 2000/XP/2003.
1
Remove the driver diskette, then select
Yes
to restart the system. The sys-
tem may not boot if you don’t remove the diskette.
2
Partition and format the new arrays or disks using
Disk Administrator
:
a
Choose
Administrative Tools
from the
Start
menu.
b
Choose
Computer Management
from the
Administrative Tools
menu.
c
Select
Storage.
d
Select
Disk Management.
4
Follow the steps the appear on-screen to write a signature to the drive.
5
Right click on the drive and select
Create Volume
.
6
Follow the steps the appear on-screen to create a volume and to assign a
drive letter.
RAID array initialization
RAID 0 arrays do not need to be initialized and are immediately available for
use with full performance when created.
RAID 1 and 10 arrays are not initialized when created and are immediately
available for use with full performance when created. The first time the array
is verified (via the BIOS or 3ware 3DM), the array is initialized. Initialization
results in data from one disk (the disk on the lower channel number) being
copied to the other drive. In RAID 10 arrays, data from one half of the array is
copied to the other half. After the initial verification, subsequent verifies to a
RAID 1 or 10 array result in the data from one drive (or set of drives) being
compared to the other drive (or set of drives).
RAID 5 arrays are immediately initialized after being created in the BIOS by
writing zeroes to all array members. The user can reboot the system before
this is complete in order to use the RAID 5 array immediately. Once booted to
the operating system, the RAID 5 array goes into initialization mode after a
delay of up to ten minutes. The advantage of this procedure is that the RAID 5
array can be used immediately, but it will not be fault tolerant until the initial-
ization is complete. The disadvantage of this is that it takes longer for the