Gateway S466 Computer Hardware User Manual


 
ADAC Ultra2 S466 Hardware Guide
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Assigning RAID Levels
Only one RAID level can be assigned to each logical drive.
The drives required per RAID level is:
RAID
Level
Minimum Number of
Physical Drives
Maximum Number of Physical
Drives
0 One 32
1Two Two
3 Three Eight
5 Three Eight
10 four Eight
30 Six 32
50 Six 32
Configuring Logical Drives
After you have installed the ADAC Ultra2 S466 controller
in the server and have attached all physical disk drives,
perform the following actions to prepare a RAID disk
array:
Step Action
1 Optimize the ADAC Ultra2 S466 controller options for your system. See
Chapter 6 for additional information.
2 Perform a low-level format the SCSI drives that will be included in the
array and the drives to be used for hot spares.
3 Press <Ctrl> <M> to run the ADAC Configuration Manager.
4 Define and configure one or more logical drives. Select Easy Configuration
in ADAC Configuration Manager or select New Configuration to
customize the RAID array.
5 Create and configure one or more system drives (logical drives). Select the
RAID level, cache policy, read policy, and write policy.
6 Save the configuration.
7 Initialize the system drives. After initialization, you can install the
operating system.