User manual

Chapter 4: Management with SuperBuild™

Configuring Physical Drives

Physical drives can be configured for one of two modes:

• RAID Mode – For use in a disk array or as a spare drive. This is the default

setting. An unassigned drive is shown as a Free Disk

• Bypass Mode – For use as an individual drive attached to the Host PC,

similar to a JBOD drive

To configure a physical drive:

1. In the Main Menu, highlight Physical Drive Management and press Enter.

2. Highlight the physical drive whose configuration you want to change and

press Enter.

3. Highlight Config Disk for Bypass Mode or Config Disk for RAID Mode and

press Enter.

4. Press Y to confirm drive configuration.

The selected drive is reconfigured.

Managing Physical Drive Problems

Physical drives can develop problems that make them unsuitable for service in a

logical drive. See “Chapter 8: Troubleshooting” on page 183 for corrective action.

Note

You can configure up to 32 drives for RAID Mode.

Any number of drives greater than 32 configured for RAID Mode

will become either Stale or Bypass Mode.

Warning

When you change a physical drive’s configuration, you will lose all

data on the drive.

If the physical drive belonged to a disk array, you will lose the disk

array, logical drives, and all data they contained.

Be sure to backup any important data before you change drive

configuration!