User manual

BIOS CONFIGURATION
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This password option allows user to set or clear the RAID control-
ler’s password protection feature. Once the password has been
set, the user can only monitor and congure the raid controller by
providing the correct password. The password is used to protect
the internal RAID controller from unauthorized entry. The control-
ler will only prompt for the password when entering the main menu
from the initial screen. The SATA RAID controller will automatically
return to the initial screen when it does not receive any command
in twenty seconds.
3.7.1 Quick Volume/RAID Setup
“Quick Volume/RAID Setup” is the fastest way to prepare a RAID
set and volume set. It requires only a few keystrokes to com-
plete. Although disk drives of different capacity may be used in
the RAID set, it will use the capacity of the smallest disk drive as
the capacity of all disk drives in the RAID set. The “Quick Vol-
ume/RAID Setup” option creates a RAID set with the following
properties:
1. All of the physical drives are contained in one RAID set.
2. The RAID level, hot spare, capacity, and stripe size options
are selected during the conguration process.
3. When a single volume set is created, it can consume all or a
portion of the available disk capacity in this RAID set.
4. If you need to add an additional volume set, use the main
menu “Create Volume Set” function.
The total number of physical drives in a specic RAID set deter-
mine the RAID levels that can be implemented within the RAID
Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System
ArrowKey Or AZ:Move Cursor, Enter: Select, ESC: Escape, L:Line Draw, X: Redraw
Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller
Main Menu
Raid Set Function
Volume Set Function
Physical Drives
Raid System Function
Ethernet Conguration
View System Events
Clear Event Buffer
Hardware Monitor
System Information
Quick Volume/Raid Setup
Total 4 Drives
Raid 0
Raid 1 + 0
Raid 1 + 0 + Spare
Raid 3
Raid 5
Raid 3 + Spare
Raid 5 + Spare
Raid 6