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Chapter 5: The FastTrak 100 RIAD Card (370DDE)
Creating Multiple Disk Arrays
1. If you plan to create multiple arrays, attach only the drives neces-
sary to create the first disk array and complete the <1> Auto
Setup.
2. Install the additional drives needed for the second array and again
use the <1> Auto Setup.
NOTE: If you wish to customize the settings of individual disk arrays (such
as block size), you must manually create disk arrays with the Define Array
<3> option from the Main Menu.
Viewing Drive Assignments
The View Drive Assignments <2> option in the Main Menu displays
whether drives are assigned to a disk arrays or are unassigned.
Under the “Assignment” column, drives are labeled with their assigned disk
array or shown as “Free” if unassigned. Such “Free” drives can be used
for a future array or used as a spare drive when a drive fails in a mirrored
array. Unassigned drives are not accessible by the OS. The menu also
displays the data transfer mode that relates to speed used by each drive
(U5 refers to 100MB/sec transfers, U4 refers to 66MB/sec transfers, etc...)
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[ View Drive Assignments ]
Channel:ID Drive Model
Capacity(MB) Assignment Mode
1 : Master QUANTUMCR8.4A 8063 Array 1 U5
1 : Slave QUANTUMCR8.4A 8063 Free U5
2 : Master QUANTUMCR8.4A 8063 Array 1 U5
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Manually Creating an Array
The Define Array <3> option from the Main Menu allows users to begin the
process of manually defining the drive elements and RAID levels for one or
multiple disk arrays attached to FastTrak100. Users will commonly create
one or two drive arrays with FastTrak100, though the card will support a
maximum of four arrays
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1. A user may use a single drive in either striping or spanning mode with FastTrak100.
In this rare scenario, the card will create an individual array ID but will offer conventional
controller performance, depending on the drive type. At a later time, a second drive can
be added to the array and the array re-created to support RAID 1 mirroring.