User Manual
BC4000 Series RAID Controllers
02/13/06
B ro ad c om C o r p or at i on
Document
BC4000-UM100-R
Index
Page 163
D
Dedicated spares
adding and removing, from bcadm 118
adding and removing, from RAIDConsole 49
Array List element 67
sparing options 47
Deleting
arrays while leaving existing data intact, from bcadm
133
arrays while leaving existing data intact, from RAID-
Console 91
arrays, from bcadm 118, 133
arrays, from RAIDConsole 91
arrays, from the BIOS 54
Destination view 84
Device 67
Dirty Cache Buffer 68
Disk dialog 69
Disk List 65, 68, 84
changing the view 70
elements 67
Disk management 72
Disk menu 69
Disk properties 69
Disk read ahead 69
Disk state 44, 67
Disk write back 69
Diskpart.exe 5, 90
Disks
adding spares, from bcadm 118
affecting time it takes to boot 17
bringing online, from RAIDConsole 69
cache settings 69
detecting new or removed, from the BIOS 57
expanding capacity online 3
failing during transform 84
initializing, from bcadm 118
initializing, from RAIDConsole 69
initializing, from the BIOS 19, 51
installing 17
managing, from bcadm 118
minimum requirements 3, 43
offline 69
performance considerations 4
querying, from bcadm 118
traffic 68
understanding states 44
using LEDs to identify, from the BIOS 56
using legacy 35, 43
viewing details, from the BIOS 56
Distributed spares
adding and removing, from RAIDConsole 47
Array List elements 67
enabling, from bcadm 130, 134
sparing options 47
Drive Event dialog box 47
Drive roaming 6
Drivers
installing for Linux 29
installing for Windows 22
transferring to floppy disk 22
Dynamic disks 72
E
Event Notifications
Audible Alarm 104
Event Log 104
Mail 104
Popup 104
setting priorities 104
viewing event logs 113
Existing 24
Expanding
arrays 72
file system 90
Expansion Considerations 5
Extending NTFS 5
F
Failed
array 44, 92
disk 44, 47
FAT32 90
File system 90
Finding new or removed disks, from RAIDConsole 69
First Time Run dialog 62
Flexibility Considerations 5
Floppy disk 22
Following arrays 141
Formatting Arrays 72
Found New Hardware wizard 24
Free space 67
G
Global spares
adding and removing, from bcadm 118
adding and removing, from RAIDConsole 49, 70
Disk List elements 67
sparing options 47
H
Help
from the command-line 115
menu for, within RAIDConsole 64
Hiding arrays
from bcadm 118
from RAIDConsole 90
from the BIOS 56
preparing to hide, from RAIDConsole 91
Host traffic 68
