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Configure Host Drives
The Configure Host Drives option (Figure 66) allows you to configure host drives (level of
hierarchy 4). These are the drives the the host computer is aware of. Host drives can consist of a
single hard disk, or of many hard disks built to create a RAID 5 array drive. The menus
Split/Merge Host Drives and Partition Host Drive are only available if StorCon is loaded with
<Ctrl>+<g> from the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR’s Flash-RAM. The additional capacity
resulting from an online capacity expansion is shown as another host drive. If you expanded the
capacity of the array drive a second time, there would be three host drives belonging to the same
array drive. Since there is currently no operating system which supports “growing hard disks”, this
expansion method is the only safe way to introduce new capacity.
Figure 66. Host Drive Configuration
Change Drive Name
Use this command to change the name of a host drive. The host drive name serves to identify a
host drive within StorCon and .
Swap Host Drives
When the PCI computer is switched on, the host drives are initialized in the order of the host drive
list, which means that the operating system is booted from the host drive having the lowest number.
For reasons of flexibility, a host drive’s position in the list can be changed. However, the position
of the host drive from which the operating system is booted and the position of the host drive from
which StorCon (disk version) was started (both can be the same), cannot be changed. To change
the position of these drives, you have to boot the operating system and StorCon from a floppy disk
or use the StorCon loadable from the Flash-RAM of the controller. To change the position of a
host drive in the host drive list, highlight the host drive and confirm with <Enter>. Then, type in
the new position and press <Enter>.