Acer G300 Series Server User Manual


 
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Configuring Arrays
After you have enabled IDE Software RAID in BIOS and have attached
all physical disk drives, perform the following actions to prepare a
RAID disk array
Creating a Mirrored Array From an Existing Drive
To build a new mirrored array from an existing drive, connect the
current drive and a new drive to the RAID card. Perform the following
steps.
Turn on the computer and Press <CTRL>+<M> to start the IDE
Software RAID manager.
Create an array by using Option F4. Change the array type to
Mirror.
Now include the existing drive and the new drive to this array.
You can identify the existing drive and the new drive by their
connection location.
Start the rebuilding process by pressing <ENTER>. The setup will
prompt for the target drive name. select the newly connected
drive as the target drive by pressing <SPACE> and then <ENTER>.
The rebuilding process will start. If there are any errors during
the building of the array, you will be prompted with a message
box. You can choose to ignore the error and proceed or stop the
building process.
Step Action
1 Press <CTRL>+<M> to run the IDE Software RAID Manager
2 Define and configure one or more logical drives.
3 Create and configure one or more system drives (logical drives).
4 Save the configuration.
5 Initialize the system drives. After initialization, you can install the operating
system.
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