Intel SRCMR, User Manual

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94 Intel RAID Controller SRCMR User’s Guide
After pressing <Y> the user may limit the capacity of each hard disk selected for the new host drive
(Figure 28). This can be helpful when procuring future spare hard drives. StorCon then creates and
configures the new host drive and adds it to the list. All SCSI parameters are adjusted to optimum
values.
Figure 28. Hard Disk Capacity
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NOTE
If the entire hard disk capacity is not used when configuring a RAID 1 host drive, you cannot use
the remaining capacity to expand the array drive in the future.
Figure 29. Drive Status
After leaving StorCon or after pressing <F10> (for refresh) the Intel RAID Controller SRCMR
begins the build process on the new host drive. In our example it calculates the parity information
and writes it to the hard disks. The status during this process is build. When the build is
successfully finished the status changes to ready.