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3.4 Designating Drives as Hot Spares

Any unused disk drive that is not part of a RAID set can be desig-

nated as a hot spare. The “Quick Volume/Raid Setup” conguration

will add the spare disk drive and automatically display the appro-

priate RAID level from which the user can select. For the “Raid Set

Function” conguration option, the user can use the “Create Hot

Spare” option to dene the hot spare disk drive.

When a hot spare disk drive is being created using the “Create Hot

Spare” option (in the “Raid Set Function”), all unused physical de-

vices connected to the current controller appear:

Choose the target disk by selecting 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.

• Modify volume sets,

• Modify RAID level/stripe size,

• Dene pass-through disk drives,

• Modify system functions, and

• Designate drives as hot spares.

3.3 Conguring Raid Sets and Volume Sets

You can congure RAID sets and volume sets with McBIOS RAID

manager automatically using “Quick Volume/Raid Setup” or manu-

ally using “Raid Set/Volume Set Function”. Each conguration

method requires a different level of user input. The general ow of

operations for RAID set and volume set conguration is:

Step Action

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

2 Choose a conguration method.

3 Create RAID sets using the available physical drives.

4 Dene volume sets using the space available in the RAID Set.

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

host OS.