User`s guide

StorageWorks RAID Array 200 Subsystem Family

Using the Automatic Configuration Option

You can use this procedure if you have three to eight drives in your subsystem that

you want to configure as either RAID 5 or JBOD. Use the procedure for automatic

configuration as described below.

If you plan to define one of your drives as a hot spare drive, you must do the

following:

1. Exit the utility.

2. Remove the drive you want to designate as your hot spare drive.

3. Reinvoke the utility.

4. Use the procedure for automatic configuration below.

5. Go to the section of this chapter called, "Adding a Hot Spare after Initial

Configuration."

Step

Action

Result

Select the Automatic Configuration

option from the main menu.

The system displays a warning

message saying that a valid

configuration exists and if you

proceed, you will destroy it. There is

also a confirmation window.

Select Yes if you want to proceed.

If you select No, the system returns

you to the main menu.

The system displays a window with

this message:

Do you want Write

Cache enabled?

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