BIOS CONFIGURATION
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Step Action
1 To setup the Hot Spare (option), choose RAID Set Function from the
main menu. Select the Create Hot Spare and press the Enter key to
dene the Hot Spare.
2 Choose RAID Set Function from the main menu. Select Create RAID Set
and press the Enter key.
3 The “Select a Drive For Raid Set” window is displayed showing the SATA
drives connected to the SATA RAID controller.
4 Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select specic physical drives.
Press the Enter key to associate the selected physical drive with the cur-
rent RAID set.
It is recommend that you drives of the same capacity in a specic array.
If you use drives with different capacities in an array, all drives in the
raid set will be set to the capacity of the smallest drive in the raid set.
The numbers of physical drives in a specic array determines which RAID
levels that can be implemented in the array.
RAID 0 requires 1 or more physical drives.
RAID 1 requires at least 2 physical drives.
RAID (1+0) requires at least 4 physical drives.
RAID 3 requires at least 3 physical drives.
RAID 5 requires at least 3 physical drives.
RAID 6 requires at least 4 physical drives.
5 After adding the desired physical drives to the current RAID set, press
Yes to conrm the “Create Raid Set” function.
6 An “Edit The Raid Set Name” dialog box appears. Enter 1 to 15 alphanu-
meric characters to dene a unique identier for this new raid set. The
default raid set name will always appear as Raid Set. #. Press Enter to
nish the name editing.
7 Press the Enter key when you are nished creating the current RAID
Set. To continue dening another RAID set, repeat step 3. To begin vol-
ume set conguration, go to step 8.
8 Choose the Volume Set Function from the Main menu. Select Create
Volume Set and press the Enter key.
9 Choose a RAID set from the “Create Volume From Raid Set” window.
Press the Enter key to conrm the selection.
10 Choosing Foreground (Fast Completion) or Background (Instant Avail-
ability) initiation: during Background Initialization, the initialization
proceeds as a background task and the volume set is fully accessible for
system reads and writes. The operating system can instantly access the
newly created arrays without requiring a reboot and waiting for initializa-
tion complete. In Fast Initialization, the initialization must be completed
before the volume set is ready for system accesses. In Fast Initialization,
initiation is completed more quickly but volume access by the operating
system is delayed.
11 If space remains in the raid set, the next volume set can be congured.
Repeat steps 8 to 10 to congure another volume set.
