MSI 5500 Master Series, User Manual

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MS-96C8 Server Board
2. Press
Enter
to go to the Adapter Properties screen, shown in Figure 5.1.
3. On the Adapter Properties screen, use the arrow keys to select
RAID Proper-
ties
on the screen and press
Enter
.
4. W hen you are prompted to select a volume type, select
Create IS Volume
.
The Create New Array screen shows a list of disks that can be added to a
volume.
5. Move the cursor to the
“
RAID Disk
”
column. To add a disk to the volume, change
the
“
No
”
to
“
Yes
”
by pressing the + key, . key, or space bar. As disks are
added, the Array Size field changes to reflect the size of the new volume.
There are several limitations when creating an IS (RAID 0) volume:
–
All disks must be either SATA (with extended command set support) or SAS
(with SMART support).
–
Disks must have 512-byte blocks and must not have removable media.
–
There must be at least 2 and no more than 8 drives in a valid IS volume. Hot
spare drives are not allowed.
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