Promise Technology 150TX2, User Manual

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Chapter 2: Installation
11
Creating a Security Array with New Drives
Caution
With some models of hard drives, if the Master hard drive fails, it
may cause the Slave hard drive to be unrecognized by the
computer's operating system. Where a RAID 1 (Mirroring) array
exists on the Master/Slave pair, this condition may cause the
operating system to freeze.
Do NOT create a RAID 1 (Mirroring) array with two Parallel ATA
hard drives using the Master/Slave arrangement on Channel 3
(the Parallel ATA port).
You can create a RAID 1 (Mirroring) array by combining hard
drives on:
• Channels 1 and 2 (Serial ATA only)
• Channels 1 and 3 (one Serial, one Parallel)
• Channels 2 and 3 (one Serial, one Parallel)
Use this setting to create a Mirrored (RAID 1) array with two new hard drives. If
one of the drives has data on it, follow the
Creating a Security Array with an
Existing Data Drive procedure on the next page.
Note
When creating a Security array with new drives, a feature called
Gigabyte Boundary will automatically be set to ON. For a
description of this feature, see page 23.
To create an array for data protection using new hard drives, follow these steps:
1. Press the Spacebar to choose Security under the Optimize Array for
section.
2. Press Ctrl-Y to Save your selection.
3. The window below will appear.
Do you want the disk image to be
duplicated to another or do quick
initialize or create only?
Y - Create and Duplicate
N - Create Only
I - Create and Quick Initialize
4. Press N for the Create Only option.