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ICP RAID Console
A drive of a given level of hierarchy is composed of the drive(s) of the next lower level.
The OS recognizes only host drives, with the lower drive levels completely transparent to
it. For more information about drive levels, see
Section 1.3.6, Levels of Drive Hierarchy
Within the ICP RAID Firmware .
Table 10-7 lists the host drive types that ICPCON can configure.
ICPCON can run in one of two methods:
•
By pressing <Ctrl>+<G> at system boot time
•
By launching the application from within an OS
After launching ICPCON, navigate within the application in the following ways:
•
Use the up arrow and down arrow keys, or type a (highlighted) character when
applicable, to select an item.
•
Press the <Enter> key to accept a selection
•
Press the <Esc> key to return to a previous menu or exit ICPCON
After launching the OS version of ICPCON, the screen in Figure 10-36 appears.
After launching the XROM version of ICPCON, the Select Controller screen
(
Figure 10-38 ) appears. Refer to Section 10.3.2 for more details about the Select
Controller screen.
Table 10-7. Host Drive Types
Type of Host
Drive
Description of Host Drive
Minimum
Number of Hard
Disks Required
Disk
1:1 assignment: host drive to hard disk (sometimes
also called JBOD)
1
Chain Concatenation of several hard disks 2
RAID 1 Mirroring 2
RAID 0 Data Striping 2
RAID 4 Data Striping with parity drive 3
RAID 5 Data Striping with striped parity 3
RAID 10 Combined RAID 0 and 1 4