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Install the SCSI drive into the sixth drive bay by following the instructions in
“Installing a hard drive” on page 64 .
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Reinstall the bezel, if required, by snapping it into place on the front of the chassis.
Configuring your onboard RAID solutions
Your server comes equipped with an onboard, chipset SCSI RAID solution, which supports
RAID levels 0 (striping) and 1 (mirroring). The onboard RAID solutions can be enabled in
the BIOS (
page 160 ) and configured by launching the appropriate RAID BIOS console
during the boot process.
Configuring the onboard SCSI RAID solution
To launch the SCSI RAID BIOS console:
1
Restart your server.
2
Press F2 when the Gateway logo screen appears during startup. The BIOS Setup utility
opens.
3
From the
Main
BIOS menu, select the
Advanced
menu.
4
Select the
PCI Configuration
sub-menu.
5
For the
Onboard SCSI
option, click
Enabled
.
6
Exit the BIOS Setup utility.
7
Restart your server.
Level Description and use Pros Cons Number
of drives Fault
Tolerant
0 Data divided into blocks and
distributed sequentially (pure
striping). Use for non-critical data
that requires high performance High data
throughput for
large files No fault tolerance.
Data is lost if a drive
fails. One or
two (this
server
only) No
1 Data duplicated on another disk
(mirroring). Use for
read-intensive, fault-tolerant
systems. 100 percent
data
redundancy,
providing fault
tolerance. More disk space
required. Reduces
usable disk space
to the size of the
smallest drive.
Reduced
performance during
rebuilds. Two Yes