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I-4 Appendix I
RAID Troubleshooting
Q & A:
Q: May I use hard drives with different capacity or transfer mode?
A: In order to get optimized performance, we suggest using hard drives with the same model.
Q: How to assign a booting device?
A: You may press < Ctrl > < H > to assign a booting device in RAID BIOS (See Chapter 4 for detailed
information).
Q: Why can’t I see correct capacity in FDISK utility?
A: It's a well-known issue of Windows
®
95/98's FDISK utility. If an IBM 75GB hard disk DTLA 307075
only gets 7768MB in Windows
®
95/98’s FDISK utility, please contact Microsoft
®
for a latest version
of FDISK utility or download IBM's Disk Manager DiskGo! 2.5 to fix it. For windows
®
2000, there is
no such a 64GB issue.
http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.htm
Q: How to create a striping and mirror array (RAID 0+1)?
A: You need four HDD drives, every two of them on the same channel/cable build a striping array. Then
create a mirror array by these two striping arrays (See Chapter 4 for detailed information).
1. Press < Ctrl > < H > to setup configuration
2.
Choose item 1 to Create RAID.
3.
Choose item 1 to set Array Mode as Striping and Mirror (RAID 0+1).
4. Choose item 2 to Select Disk Drives. There are two striping arrays built automatically and you
only have to enter twice.
5.
Choose item 4 to Start Creation Process.
6. Press < Esc > to finish setting and leave RAID BIOS.
Q: How to rebuild a mirror array when one of the drives corrupts?
A: You need to delete previous array setting, duplicate the data, then rebuild a new array setting (See
Chapter 4 for detailed information).
1. Press < Ctrl > < H > to setup configuration
2.
Choose item 2 to Delete Array.
3.
Choose item 3 to Rebuild Mirror Array.
4. Choose sub item 1 to Select Source Disk, the one with data on it.
5.
Choose sub item 2 to Select Target Disk, the brand new and empty one.
6.
Choose sub item 3 to Start Duplication Process.
7. After duplication process completes, press < Esc > to leave RAID BIOS.
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