User manual
BIOS CONFIGURATION
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Step Action
1 To setup the hot spare (option), choose “Raid Set Function” from the
main menu. Select the “Create Hot Spare” and press the Enter key to
dene the hot spare.
2 Choose “RAID Set Function” from the main menu. Select “Create Raid
Set” and press the Enter key.
3 The “Select a Drive For Raid Set” window is displayed showing the SATA
drives connected to the SATA RAID controller.
4 Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select specic physical drives.
Press the Enter key to associate the selected physical drive with the cur-
rent RAID set.
It is recommended that you drives of the same capacity in a specic
array. If you use drives with different capacities in an array, all drives in
the RAID set will be set to the capacity of the smallest drive in the RAID
set. The numbers of physical drives in a specic array determines which
RAID levels that can be implemented in the array.
RAID 0 requires 1 or more physical drives.
RAID 1 requires at least 2 physical drives.
RAID 10 requires at least 4 physical drives.
RAID 3 requires at least 3 physical drives.
RAID 5 requires at least 3 physical drives.
RAID 6 requires at least 4 physical drives.
5 After adding the desired physical drives to the current RAID set, press
Yes to conrm the “Create Raid Set” function.
6 An “Edit The Raid Set Name” dialog box appears. Enter 1 to 15 alphanu-
meric characters to dene a unique identier for this new raid set. The
default raid set name will always appear as Raid Set. #. Press Enter to
nish the name editing.
7 Press the Enter key when you are nished creating the current RAID
set. To continue dening another RAID set, repeat step 3. To begin vol-
ume set conguration, go to step 8.
8 Choose the “Volume Set Function” from the main menu. Select “Create
Volume Set” and press the Enter key.
9 Choose a RAID set from the “Create Volume From Raid Set” window.
Press the Enter key to conrm the selection.
10 Choosing Foreground (Fast Completion) or Background (Instant Avail-
ability) initialization or No Init (To Rescue Volume): during Background
Initialization, the initialization proceeds as a background task and the
volume set is fully accessible for system reads and writes. The operating
system can instantly access the newly created arrays without requiring
a reboot and waiting for initialization complete. In Foreground Initializa-
tion, the initialization must be completed before the volume set is ready
for system accesses. In Fast Initialization, initiation is completed more
quickly but volume access by the operating system is delayed. When No
Init, there is no initialization on this volume.