HP Kayak XU 04xx HP FastRAID - Installation and Configuration Guide - Page 15

on Channel menu. To deselect the drive you most recently added, Select one or two spares

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NOTE CAUTION 8 Type the number of drives you want in the array, not including spare drives, and press . The number of drives available for assignment is listed on the screen. (You will not be prompted for the number of drives if you are creating a RAID 1 array, because RAID 1 arrays have two drives by definition.) When you select a single hard drive for RAID 0, the drive will be striped and optimized using the ARO-1130's cache memory, but no actual array will be created. A single drive optimized in this way, although significantly faster, will not provide the same level of performance as a two-drive RAID 0 array. 9 When the next screen appears, press to highlight a channel. Select drives for the array by pressing the ↑ and ↓ keys until the drive name is highlighted, and then press Ins or . The names of selected drives appear in the box on the right side of the screen. To select drives on a different channel (if necessary) press to select another channel and then select the drives from the SCSI IDs on Channel menu. To deselect the drive you most recently added, press . A warning appears if you select a disk that has partitions. Do not select disks with partitions if they contain data you want to keep, because any existing data will be erased when the disk becomes part of the 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 array and if there are any unassigned drives, the screen prompts you to define spare drives for the array. 10 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. 12 English English

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8
Type the number of drives you want in the array, not including spare
drives, and press
. The number of drives available for
assignment is listed on the screen. (You will not be prompted for the
number of drives if you are creating a RAID 1 array, because RAID 1
arrays have two drives by definition.)
NOTE
When you select a single hard drive for RAID 0, the drive will be striped
and optimized using the ARO-1130’s cache memory, but no actual array
will be created. A single drive optimized in this way, although
significantly faster, will not provide the same level of performance as a
two-drive RAID 0 array.
9
When the next screen appears, press
to highlight a channel.
Select drives for the array by pressing the
↑
and
↓
keys until the drive
name is highlighted, and then press
Ins
or
. The names of
selected drives appear in the box on the right side of the screen. To
select drives on a different channel (if necessary) press
to
select another channel and then select the drives from the SCSI IDs
on Channel menu. To deselect the drive you most recently added,
press
.
CAUTION
A warning appears if you select a disk that has partitions. Do not select
disks with partitions if they contain data you want to keep, because any
existing data will be erased when the disk becomes part of the 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 array and if there are any unassigned drives, the screen
prompts you to define spare drives for the array.
10
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.