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Creating the First Array With the ArrayConfigCA Program
8
Type the number of drives you want in the array (this does not
include spares) and press Enter. The number of drives avail-
able for assignment is listed on the screen.
Note:
You do not choose a number of drives when cre-
ating a RAID 1 arrays, because RAID 1 arrays have
two drives by definition. A spare is a drive that will be
used automatically as a replacement if one of the array
member drives fails.
9
When the next screen appears, press Tab to highlight a channel
(if your Adaptec array card uses more than one SCSI channel).
Select drives for the array by pressing the
↑
and
↓
keys until
the drive name is highlighted, and then press Ins or Enter. The
names of selected drives appear in the box on the right side of
the screen.
To select drives on a different channel (if necessary) press Tab
to select another channel and then select the drives from the
SCSI IDs on the Channel menu. To deselect the drive you most
recently added, press Del.
Caution:
A warning appears if you select a disk that has
partitions. Do not select disks with partitions if they con-
tain data you want to keep, because any existing data
will be erased when the disk becomes part of the array.
When you have selected the number of drives you specified in
Step 8, the next screen appears automatically. If you are creat-
ing a RAID 1 array, and if there are any unassigned drives, the
screen prompts you to define spare drives for the array.
Note: A spare must have at least the capacity of the
smallest drive in the array.
10
If you do not want a spare, type
n
and continue with Step 12. If
you want to select dedicated spares, follow these steps:
a
At the prompt, type y .