Technical information

How Do I Do a Custom Configuration?
2-20 RAID EzAssist User’s Manual
(return to “Unconfigured” status), see “How Do I Unassign Existing Spare
Drives?” on page 2-50.
If you want to see whether spanning is turned on, OR if you want to enable
or disable spanning, see “How Do I Make Use of the Spanning Feature?” on
page 2-54.
☞ To set up a new disk array, press Enter with the Configure a
New Disk Array option selected in the Custom Configuration
menu.
❑ Build Disk Arrays.
The first step in Custom Configuration is to build at least one disk array. This
is accomplished from the Disk Array Configuration screen (Figure 2-20).
Figure 2-20. Disk Array Configuration Screen
This screen uses the following navigation strategy:
• PgDn and PgUp show you all the available or selected drives if there is
a small down/up-arrow beside the Unused Drives or Disk Array fields.
• Inside Unused Drives, arrow keys select a drive, Enter accepts the
highlighted drive and adds it to the Disk Array box to the right.
• The Tab key shifts control to the buttons, or from the buttons back to
Unused Drives.
• When buttons are in focus, arrow keys select a button and Enter
activates the highlighted button.