Installation guide

Chapter 5. McBIOS & Terminal Configuration
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RAID 0 requires one or more physical drives per RAID set.
RAID 1 requires at least 2 physical drives per RAID set.
RAID 1 + Spare requires at least 3 physical drives per RAID set.
RAID 3 requires at least 3 physical drives per RAID set.
RAID 5 requires at least 3 physical drives per RAID set.
RAID 6 requires at least 4 physical drives per RAID set.
RAID 3 + Spare requires at least 4 physical drives per RAID set.
RAID 5 + Spare requires at least 4 physical drives per RAID set.
RAID 6 + Spare requires at least 5 physical drives per RAID set.
RAID 30 requires at least 6 physical drives,
RAID 50 requires at least 6 physical drives,
RAID 60 requires at least 8 physical drives,
RAID 30+ Spare requires at least 8 physical drives, and
RAID 50 + Spare requires at least 8 physical drives.
RAID 60 + Spare requires at least 9 physical drives
A
fter adding the desired physical drives to the current RAID set, press the
Enter to confirm the “Create Raid Set” function
An “Edit The Raid Set Name” dialog box appears. Enter 1 to 15 alphanumeric
characters to define a unique identifier for this new RAID set. The default RAID
set name will always appear as Raid Set. #. Press Enter
to finish the name
editing.
Press the Enter key when yo
u are finished creating the current RAID set. To
continue defining another RAID set, repeat step 3. To begin volume set con-
figuration, go to step 8
Choose the “Volume Set Function” from the main menu. Select “Create
Volume Set” and press the Enter key.
Choose a RAID set from the “Create Volume From Raid Set” window. Press
the Yes key to confirm the selection.
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