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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...)
FastBuild (tm) Utility 1.xx (c) 1995-2000 Promise Technology, Inc.
[ 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-Lite. Users will commonly create one
or two drive arrays with FastTrak100-Lite, though this can support a maximum of
four arrays
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NOTE:
For most installations, Promise recommends the <1> Auto Setup for easy
disk array creation.
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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.
