Adaptec 2074700-R - ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ RAID Controller, Руководство пользователя

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Software Installation and User’s Guide 25
Getting Started
Caution: The size of the host drive cannot be changed (decreased, increased, or expanded)
once the host drive has been created.
2.2 Create the RAID Driver Installation Diskette
For more information about Linux drivers and updates, see Table 5-3 in Section 5.1.1,
Linux Drivers and Updates .
2.2.1 Preferred Method
The RAID Software Suite CD-ROM is self-booting, assuming that your system supports
booting from the CD-ROM drive.
1. Change your computer’s system BIOS setting so that your system boots from the CD-
ROM. Insert the CD-ROM into the system CD-ROM drive and power up the system.
The
Main appears ( Figure 2-7 ).
Table 2-1. Pre-installation Worksheet (Creating a Host Drive for the Operating System)
RAID Level
# of disk drives supported
for this RAID level
(minimum to maximum)
# of disk drives
1
to
include in new host
drive
Physical drive
capacity (MB)
RAID 0 2 to 15 per Channel
RAID 1 2 2
RAID 4 3 to 15 per Channel
RAID 5 3 to 15 per Channel
RAID 10 4 to 15 per Channel
2
Notes and Cautions
1. The number of disk drives can not be decreased (only increased via the array
expansion feature) once the host drive is created.
2. RAID 10 only supports an
even
total number of disk drives. Additional drives are
added in pairs, up to a total of 30 drives over 2 channels.