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BIOS CONFIGURATION

3.4 Designating Drives as Hot Spares

All unused disk drive that is not part of a raid set can be created

as a Hot Spare. The Quick Volume/Raid Setup conﬁguration will

automatically add the spare disk drive with the raid level for user

to select. For the Raid Set Function conﬁguration, user can use the

Create Hot Spare option to deﬁne the hot spare disk drive.

A Hot Spare disk drive can be created when you choose the Cre-

ate Hot Spare option in the Raid Set Function, all unused physical

devices connected to the current controller appear:

Select the target disk by clicking on the appropriate check box.

Press the Enter key to select a disk drive, and press Yes in the

Create Hot Spare to designate it as a hot spare.

• Deﬁne volume set,

• Add physical drive,

• Modify volume set,

• Modify RAID level/stripe size,

• Deﬁne pass-through disk drives,

• Modify system function, and

• Designate drives as hot spares.

3.3 Conﬁguring Raid Sets and Volume Sets

You can conﬁgure raid sets and volume sets with McBIOS RAID

manager using Quick Volume/Raid Setup automatically, or Raid

Set/Volume Set Function manually conﬁguration method. Each

conﬁguration method requires a different level of user input. The

general ﬂow of operations for raid set and volume set conﬁguration

is:

Step Action

1 Designate hot spares/pass-through (optional).

2 Choose a conﬁguration method.

3 Create raid sets using the available physical drives.

4 Deﬁne volume sets using the space in the raid set.

5 Initialize the volume sets (logical drives) and use volume sets in the

host OS.