RAID User’s Guide
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Reserved Drive and Setting Size for RAID Set, Spare Drive, or JBOD
Once a physical drive has been used to create a RAID set, spare drive, or JBOD by
BIOS utility, BIOS saves user selected set or drive size in the reserved area of the
physical drive. There is no way to remove the reserved area information even after
the user deletes the set or drive. For this reason, after a set or drive is deleted,
BIOS recognizes the physical drive as a reserved logical drive and it will not report
the drive to the system BIOS.
When user selects to create a RAID set, spare drive, or JBOD, he or she has to
select size for the set or drive. BIOS will set a default size for it and user can use the
and
keys to change the size. If the physical drive has never been used to
create a set or drive by the BIOS before, the full size of the physical drive will be set
as default size. Otherwise, BIOS will set default size to the size it saved in the
reserved area of the physical drive before.
If the user wants to increase the default size, BIOS will display a warning message
in the help window and for user’s response before changing the default size.
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