User`s guide

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User’s Guide
Creating a New Disk Array
1. From the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server desktop on the PAP unit, launch a
HyperTerminal session with the following parameters:
Parameter Value
Name Disk Rack
Connect using COM1 or COM2
Bits per second 115200
Data bits 8
Parity None
Stop bits 1
Flow control None
Emulation ANSI
Table 23. HyperTerminal parameters
2. Press CTRL–R to refresh the screen and display the initial Disk Array Administrator
screen.
3. Press Enter to display the System Menu.
4. Select Add an Array.
5. Enter the name of the Array: e.g. Data.
6. Enter the RAID level, number of disks and disk ID.
7. When prompted to Create one partition now for entire Array?, select NO to create a
Multiple–Partition Array.
8. Select Array parameters.
9. Select the required number of free drives:
Free Slots
(population order)
SR–0812 SCSI
disk rack
Ch 2 Id 03
Ch 2 Id 04
Ch 1 Id 01
Ch 1 Id 02
SR–1422 SCSI
disk rack
Ch 1 Id 04
Ch 1 Id 03
Ch 1 Id 02
Ch 1 Id 01
Ch 1 Id 00
Ch 2 Id 08
Ch 2 Id 05
Ch 2 Id 04
Ch 2 Id 03
Ch 2 Id 02
10.Select Array Init options: Offline Initialization.
11.When prompted to confirm, enter YES.