User`s manual

3.6 INSTALLING ON WINDOWS VISTA.......................................................................................................54
3.6.1 INSTALLING SATA RAID HOST BUS ADAPTER .................................................................................54
3.6.2 INSTALLING SATARAID5 UTILITY ......................................................................................................55
3.6.3 DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP ......................................................................................................................59
3.6.4 ALLOCATING PARTITIONS ....................................................................................................................59
3.7 INSTALLING ON MACINTOSH OS X .....................................................................................................64
3.7.1 RELEASE NOTES ......................................................................................................................................64
3.7.2 INSTALLING SATA RAID HOST BUS ADAPTER AND SATARAID5 UTILITY ................................64
3.7.3 DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP ......................................................................................................................68
3.7.4 ALLOCATING PARTITIONS ....................................................................................................................68
4 SATARAID5 ARRAY MANAGER................................................................................................................73
4.1 OVERVIEW ..................................................................................................................................................73
4.2 CREATING RAID GROUPS .......................................................................................................................74
4.2.1 CONTIGUOUS RAID GROUPS.................................................................................................................74
4.2.2 CONCATENATED RAID GROUPS ..........................................................................................................74
4.2.3 STRIPED RAID GROUPS ..........................................................................................................................75
4.2.4 MIRRORED RAID GROUPS......................................................................................................................75
4.2.5 MIRRORED STRIPED RAID GROUPS.....................................................................................................76
4.2.6 PARITY RAID GROUPS ............................................................................................................................76
4.2.7 RAID GROUPS OVERVIEW .....................................................................................................................77
4.3 ADDITIONAL MENU COMMANDS.........................................................................................................78
4.3.1 CONFIGURATION .....................................................................................................................................79
4.3.2 EXIT.............................................................................................................................................................81
4.3.3 CREATE SPARE .........................................................................................................................................82
4.3.4 DELETE SPARE .........................................................................................................................................82
4.3.5 DELETE MEMBER ....................................................................................................................................83
4.3.6 DELETE ORPHAN .....................................................................................................................................83
4.3.7 MAKE PASS-THRU ...................................................................................................................................83
4.3.8 DEVICE SUMMARY..................................................................................................................................84
4.3.9 CREATE RAID GROUP .............................................................................................................................85
4.3.10 REBUILD RAID GROUP..........................................................................................................................85
4.3.11 DELETE RAID GROUP............................................................................................................................86
4.3.12 BRING RAID GROUP ONLINE...............................................................................................................86
4.3.13 RAID GROUP SUMMARY ......................................................................................................................86
4.3.14 TASK MANAGER ....................................................................................................................................87
4.3.15 EVENT LOG..............................................................................................................................................89
4.3.16 RESOURCES.............................................................................................................................................90
4.3.17 CREATE LEGACY RAID GROUP ..........................................................................................................91
4.3.18 HELP TOPICS ...........................................................................................................................................91
4.3.19 ABOUT ......................................................................................................................................................91
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