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3307880 PCI CPU Card
D.4.3 Create JBOD for Integrated Capacity
JBOD is defined as “Just a Bunch of Drives.” JBOD provides neither performance gains
nor data redundancy.
WARNING!
All data previously stored on the member drives of a RAID configuration is
destroyed during the RAID initialization process. If “used” drives are used to
create a RAID array, make sure the data has been moved or backed up
before creating a RAID array out of the disk drives.
Step 1: Select “Create JBOD for Integrated Capacity”. Use the arrow keys to highlight
Create JBOD for Integrated Capacity and press E
NTER
. A flashing ‘J’ appears on
the Drive Menu where the member drives to be included in the JBOD array can
be chosen.
Step 2: Select RAID array drive members. Use the space bar to select members of the
RAID array. The flashing cursor changes to a lower case ‘s’ once any of the
connected disk drives has been selected. Follow the same method to select
another member drive.
Step 3: Confirm. The Create RAID 0 (Y/N) confirm box appears. Press Y.
Step 4: Name the array. Enter a nickname for the created array. Upper and lower case
alphabetic, numeric, space, and underscore characters are all applicable for
naming an array
Step 0:
NOTE:
To reduce the chance of losing data, ALi imposes certain limitations on the
RAID configuration options. Parallel-ATA drives connected on the same IDE
channel cannot be selected as the members of a RAID1 array. Avoid mixing
Parallel-ATA and Serial-ATA disk drives in a RAID1 array.
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