User`s guide

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40
6. To proceed with the formatting operation, click on the Erase button. After the volume is formatted,
an icon for the volume will appear on your desktop, and you can begin using that volume.
7. When you are finished creating volumes, close the Disk Utility.
Define a Volume/Partition on Linux
Reload the SATARAID5 driver to show the newly created SATARAID5 volume. The SATARAID5 driver
will show the resulting volume as a block device with prefix “sd”,
/dev/sdx (where x is a, b, c, etc.).
You can then use the fdisk command to partition the volume and the mkfs command to format the partitions
and create a file system on each partition. You can then mount the files system as required.
Note: If an external storage enclosure (such as the SV2000) is connected to the external SATA
ports of the RAID controller, one or more additional disk devices may appear with a name of
“Config Disk SCSI Disk Device”. This is normal behavior, and those disk items should be ignored.
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