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Note:
The capacity of the replacement drives must be at least
as
large as the capacity of the other drives in the raid set.
Drives of insufficient capacity will be failed immediately by
the RAID controller without starting the “Automatic Data
Rebuild”.
2.6 Summary of the installation
The flow chart below describes the installation procedures for
6Gb/s SAS RAID controllers. These procedures include hardware
installation, the creation and configuration of a RAID volume
through the McBIOS/McRAID manager, OS installation and installa-
tion of 6Gb/s SAS RAID controller software.
2.5.2 Replacing a Failed Drive
With RAID subsystem drive tray, you can replace a defective
physical drive while your computer is still operating. When a new
drive has been installed, data reconstruction will be automatically
started to rebuild the contents of the disk drive. The controller
always uses the smallest hotspare that “fits”. If a hotspare is used
and the defective drive is exchanged on-line, the new inserted
HDD will automatically assign as a hotsapre HDD.
The table below shows the software components that configure and
monitor the 6Gb/s SAS RAID controllers.
