First-Time Configuration
Manual No. 775029
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Refer to the Disk Array Controller Software Kit Installation
Guide and User Manual or your Mylex controller’s quick
installation guide for further instructions.
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Option 3: Do a Custom Configuration.
Custom Configuration gives you full control over the configuration of your
disk drives. With Custom Configuration, you can:
• Select individual disk drives to add to the configuration
• Build multiple arrays
• Configure logical drives individually
• Select a specific RAID level
• Select the write caching method (Write-Thru or Write-Back)
• Set the stripe size
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• Set logical drive size by physical or logical capacity
• Add capacity to an existing array
• Assign additional spare drives
• Enable spanning to create a configuration of larger drive sets
Once you’ve selected Custom from the Configure RAID Drive screen, the
Custom Configuration main menu is displayed (Figure 1-18).
1. Stripe size can be set for the first logical drive only. Thereafter,
the selected stripe size applies to all logical drives on the
selected controller.
