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AAA-130U2 Series Installation and Hardware Guide 9 Select array members. When the next screen appears, press Tab to highlight a channel (if more than one SCSI channel is available). Select drives for the array by pressing the ↑ and ↓ keys until the drive name is highlighted, and then press Ins or Enter. The names of selected drives appear in the Adaptec Array # box. To select drives on a different channel press Tab to select another channel and then select the drives from the SCSI IDs on the Channel menu. To deselect the drive you most recently added, press Del. Caution: A warning appears if you select a disk that has partitions. Do not select a partitioned disk if it contains data you want to keep, because any existing data will be erased when the disk becomes part of an array. When you have selected the number of drives you specified in Step 8, the next screen appears automatically. If you are creating a RAID 1, RAID 0/1, or RAID 5 array, and if there are any unassigned drives, the screen prompts you to define dedicated spare drives for the array. (We recommend that you use a spare pool instead of dedicated spares.) Note: A spare must have at least the capacity of the smallest drive in the array. 10 Select spares. If you do not want a spare, type n and continue with Step 12. If you want to select dedicated spares, follow these steps: a At the prompt, type y. b At the next prompt, type 1 or 2. c Select one or two spares, using the same method you used to select disks for the array. 3-6

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AAA-130U2 Series Installation and Hardware Guide
9
Select array members. When the next screen appears, press
Tab
to highlight a channel (if more than one SCSI channel is avail-
able). Select drives for the array by pressing the
↑
and
↓
keys
until the drive name is highlighted, and then press
Ins
or
Enter
. The names of selected drives appear in the Adaptec
Array # box.
To select drives on a different channel press
Tab
to select
another channel and then select the drives from the SCSI IDs
on the Channel menu. To deselect the drive you most recently
added, press
Del
.
Caution:
A warning appears if you select a disk that
has partitions.
Do not
select a partitioned disk if it con-
tains data you want to keep, because any existing data
will be erased when the disk becomes part of an array.
When you have selected the number of drives you specified in
Step 8, the next screen appears automatically. If you are creat-
ing a RAID 1, RAID 0/1, or RAID 5 array, and if there are any
unassigned drives, the screen prompts you to define dedicated
spare drives for the array. (We recommend that you use a
spare
pool
instead of dedicated spares.)
Note:
A spare must have at least the capacity of the
smallest drive in the array.
10
Select spares. If you do not want a spare, type
n
and continue
with Step 12. If you want to select dedicated spares, follow
these steps:
a
At the prompt, type
y
.
b
At the next prompt, type
1
or
2
.
c
Select one or two spares, using the same method you used
to select disks for the array.