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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
[ Keys Available ]
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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 arrays1.
NOTE:
For most installations, Promise recommends the <1> Auto
Setup for easy disk array creation.
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[Define Array Menu]
Array No RAID Mode Total Drv Capacity(MB) Status
Array 1 Stripe 2 16126 Functional
Array 2 —— —— —— ——
Array 3 —— —— —— ——
Array 4 —— —— —— ——
[ Keys Available ]
Note: * — Bootable Array
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1. To manually create an array from the Define Array Menu, use the
arrow keys to highlight the array number you wish to define, and
press [Enter] to select.
2. The Define Array Definition Menu will next appear that allows drive
assignments to the disk array (see next page).
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Users 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.
