User guide

6-10 Compaq Smart Array 431 Controller User Guide
Step 2: Grouping physical drives of the same size into an array
1. Click the Create Array... button. The Create Drive Array screen is
displayed.
Figure 6-6. Create Array screen
2. Select the three drives you want to make up the array from the drives on
the left. Always group physical drives of the same size. The Smart
Array 431 Controller treats all the drives as the same size as the smallest
drive in the same array. If you mix drive sizes, the capacity of the largest
drive is wasted.
For this example select the following drives:
Port 1:SCSI ID 0
Port 1:SCSI ID 1
Port 1:SCSI ID 2
Click the Assign Drive(s) to Array button.
3. Select the drive at Port 1:SCSI ID 3 and click the Assign Spare to Array
button. The right side of the Create Array screen should now look
similar to the following figure.