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Contents
1. Introduction .............................................................. 10
1.1 Overview .......................................................................10
1.2 Features ........................................................................12
1.3 RAID Concept .................................................................15
1.3.1 RAID Set ...................................................................15
1.3.2 Volume Set ................................................................15
1.3.3 Ease of Use Features .................................................16
1.3.3.1 Foreground Availability/Background Initialization ....... 16
1.3.3.2 Array Roaming ..................................................... 16
1.3.3.3 Online Capacity Expansion ..................................... 17
1.3.3.4 Online RAID Level and Stripe Size Migration ............. 19
1.3.3.5 Online Volume Expansion ........................................19
1.4 High availability .............................................................. 20
1.4.1 Global Hot Spares ......................................................20
1.4.2 Hot-Swap Disk Drive Support .......................................21
1.4.3 Auto Declare Hot-Spare ..............................................21
1.4.4 Auto Rebuilding .........................................................21
1.4.5 Adjustable Rebuild Priority ...........................................22
1.5.1 Hard Drive Failure Prediction ........................................23
1.5.2 Auto Reassign Sector .................................................. 23
1.5.3 Consistency Check ...................................................... 24
1.6 Data Protection ...............................................................24
1.6.1 BATTERY BACKUP ...................................................... 24
1.6.2 RECOVERY ROM ......................................................... 25
1.7 Understanding RAID ........................................................ 25
1.7.1 RAID 0 ...................................................................... 25
1.7.2 RAID 1 ...................................................................... 26
1.7.3 RAID 1E ....................................................................27
1.7.4 RAID 3 ...................................................................... 27
1.7.5 RAID 5 ...................................................................... 28
1.7.6 RAID 6 ...................................................................... 29
2. Hardware Installation ............................................... 32
2.1 Before Your begin Installation ........................................... 32
2.2 Board Layout ..................................................................33
2.3 Installation .....................................................................39
3. McBIOS RAID Manager .............................................. 56
3.1 Starting the McBIOS RAID Manager ...................................56