HP Workstation xw6000 Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S: Installation Guide - Page 27

Controller Setup, Use of the Quick Quick Init

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Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S/2200S Installation Guide Controller Setup On the controller setup you need to enable the following: 1 Enter the ARC utility by pressing Ctrl+A when the Adaptec message appears. 2 Use the Disk Utilities menu item to examine the drives showing as available to the system. If any seem to be missing, power the system down and inspect the hardware connections. 3 Use the SCSISelect Utility menu item to inspect the hardware configuration of the controller and the drives. Verify that all peripheral devices and controllers are shown. If any devices are missing from the display, exit the utility and check your hardware connections. 4 If the boot device will be an array, create that array now. You can create or modify other arrays later. See Creating a RAID 5 Without an Operating System on page 2-9 for more details. 5 Exit the Configuration Utility. The system begins building newly created or modified arrays. For large arrays using the Clear option, this process may take several hours. When using the Build With Verify option, you can perform other activities on the system while the build operation continues. Perfromance of the array will be decreased until the initialization is complete. Use of the Quick (Quick Init) option will allow use of the new array as soon as it has been created, but write performance on RAID 5s and RAID 50s will be reduced. This will be true until a Verify with Fix is performed on that array. When the RAID has finished building proceed to install the operating system to the bootable array. 2-8

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Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S/2200S Installation Guide
Controller Setup
On the controller setup you need to enable the following:
1
Enter the ARC utility by pressing
Ctrl+A
when the
Adaptec
message appears.
2
Use the
Disk Utilities
menu item to examine the drives showing
as available to the system. If any seem to be missing, power the
system down and inspect the hardware connections.
3
Use the
SCSISelect Utility
menu item to inspect the hardware
configuration of the controller and the drives.
Verify that all peripheral devices and controllers are shown. If
any devices are missing from the display, exit the utility and
check your hardware connections.
4
If the boot device will be an array, create that array now. You
can create or modify other arrays later. See
Creating a RAID 5
Without an Operating System
on page 2-9
for more details.
5
Exit the Configuration Utility.
The system begins building newly created or modified arrays.
For large arrays using the Clear option, this process may take
several hours. When using the Build With Verify option, you
can perform other activities on the system while the build
operation continues. Perfromance of the array will be decreased
until the initialization is complete.
Use of the Quick (Quick Init)
option will allow use of the new
array as soon as it has been created, but write performance on
RAID 5s and RAID 50s will be reduced. This will be true until a
Verify with Fix is performed on that array.
When the RAID has finished building proceed to install the
operating system to the bootable array.