Asus PCI-DA2100 User Manual - Page 259

ASUS GUI RAID Manager: Basic Operations at Startup 3. When a link is established, connect to the disk array system. For information on how to connect, see the Connecting and Disconnecting from a Disk Array System section of this chapter. 3.2 Connecting and Disconnecting from a Disk Array The GUI RAID Manager provides a feature that facilitates connection and disconnection from disk array systems. Before management can be performed on a particular disk array system, you need to establish first a connection between your GUI RAID Manager station and the target system. Once a connection is established successfully, management can be started. Disconnection is used for breaking the link between the GUI RAID Manager station and the array system. This option is particularly useful in cases where multiple disk array systems are being managed at the same time − instead of restarting the GUI RAID Manager every time you need to switch to another system, you just need to disconnect from the current system and then connect to a new one. The following discusses the various ways of connecting to a disk array system. Information on disconnection is provided at the latter part of this section. 4 Connecting to a PCI-to-SCSI controller from the local host 1. From the File menu, select Connect. -or- 3-4 3.2 Connecting and Disconnecting from a Disk Array