Promise Technology EX4350 Computer Hardware User Manual


 
Step 4: Create a Logical Drive
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In the popup menu, highlight your choice of RAID Level and press Enter.
The available RAID Levels depend on the number of physical drives you
selected for this logical drive.
8. Press the arrow keys to highlight
Logical Drive Name
. Type a name for your
logical drive and press Enter.
9. To use less than the full physical drive capacity for this logical drive, highlight
Capacity
and press Enter.
Press the Delete or Backspace keys to erase the current capacity. Type the
new capacity in MB to allocate to this logical drive.
Later, you can assign the unused capacity to a second logical drive.
10. To change the Stripe Size, highlight
Stripe Size
and press Enter.
Highlight your choice of 32, 64 or 128 KB and press Enter.
11. To change the Initialization Mode, highlight
Init Mode
and press Enter.
Highlight your choice of No, Quick, or Full initialization and press Enter.
12. To change the Write Cache Policy, highlight
Write Cache Policy
and press
Enter.
Highlight your choice of Write Through or Write Back and press Enter.
13. To change the Gigabyte Boundary feature, highlight
Gigabyte Boundary
and
press Enter.
Highlight your choice of No or Yes and press Enter.
14. Highlight
Save
and press Enter.
The Logical Drive Management screen appears with your new logical drive.
At this point you can create additional logical drives, if there is physical drive
space available.
15. Press the F10 key to exit the SuperBuild utility and press Y to confirm and
restart the computer.
Do not press the Ctrl-Alt-Del keys. Do not press the Esc key.
You have successfully created a new RAID logical drive.