IBM Netfinity ServeRAID-4L Ultra160, User Reference

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Note: If you are configuring your startup (boot) ServeRAID controller, you must
install the device driver while installing the operating system.
Using Custom configuration: To use Custom configuration:
Note: If the Express configuration mode or Custom configuration mode buttons do
not display on the right panel, click (
Create arrays
) on the tool bar.
1. In the Main Tree, click the ServeRAID controller that you want to configure.
2. Click the Custom configuration button.
3. Click Next. The Create arrays window opens.
4. Using the right mouse button, click the drive or SCSI channel icons in the Main
Tree to select the drives that you want to add to your arrays, delete from your
arrays, or define as hot-spare drives; then, select a choice from the pop-up list.
If you want to create a spanned array, click the Span Arrays box.
5. After you select the ready drives for your arrays and define your hot-spare
drives, click Next. If you are not creating spanned arrays, the Create logical
drives window opens. Continue with step 8 on page 31.
Figure 8. Create arrays window
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