Chapter 3
Preparations
Chapter 3
Preparations
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(Blue)
A damaged hard disk drive. After an original disk is
replaced, its status changed to Damaged HDD.
(Blue)
A locked hard disk drive. This drive is reserved for an
operation on another workstation. If this icon appears,
power off your workstation and wait until the
operation on the other workstation finishes.
A tape device.
(Purple)
A SCSI device other than a tape device.
Note
In addition to the icons explained above, the following
icons may also appear.
• Disk drive and RAID icons with red borders. This
indicates that the block size on the hard disk drive is
different from the normal block size (512 bytes).
Examples:
• Disk drive and RAID icons with a mark. The
mark indicates that you do not have access rights.
Examples:
Creating RAID Drives
To create a RAID drive, proceed as follows.
Note
When using a Fibre Channel Storage Unit in a shared
environment, power off all Digital Media Workstations
except the one you are working on before performing
this operation.
1
Trace down through the tree structure on the left
side of the main window, confirming that there are
free hard disks (Free HDD) under Workstation >
Board > Port > FC-Loop.
2
On the menu bar, select Disk/RAID (D) >
Construct RAID (C).
The Construct RAID dialog appears.
3
Select the icons of the hard disks to use from the
tree structure on the left side of the Disk Utility
main window.
For SDTV system: Select six or more hard disks
for video data and one or more hard disks for
audio data.
For HDTV system: Select six or more hard disks
for video data per fibre channel port (at least 12
drives in total) and one or more hard disks for
audio data.
Notes
• To use the Replace Disk function (see
“Replaceing hard disks” on page 4-8) to
maintain the RAID drives, you will need a spare
disk. It is recommended that you keep more than
one hard disk as a spare in order to be able to use
this function at any time.
• In an HDTV system, select the same number of
hard disks for each fibre channel port.
4
Set the Configuration parameters in the Construct
RAID dialog.
The following parameters are displayed.
RAID Name: Enter the name you want to give to
the RAID drive.
RAID ID: The ID of the RAID drive is displayed.
Total Drives: The total number of hard disks is
displayed.
Total Capacity: The total capacity of all of the
hard disks is displayed.
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