Product specifications

Replacing System Drives in the Chassis

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6. A window opens that offers a choice of drives to add to the array. Click on the one drive that

needs to be added to the RAID set. The rebuild operation begins immediately.

You can use the Status line to monitor the status of the rebuild. The top of the screen says

Manage Volume, and the status line says “Rebuilding x% complete.”

You can perform other work while the rebuild completes.

To replace both system drives:

1. If both system drives fail, shut down the system, and unplug the power cords.

2. Remove both system drives.

3. Install new system drives into the two drive carriers and insert them into the two system

drive slots.

4. Replace the power cords and restart the system.

5. Enter the Intel RAID BIOS by pressing CTRL+I when the text MATRIX RAID BIOS

appears on the screen.

6. Choose Create the new RAID set. This will create the system drive mirror.

a. Change RAID type from RAID 0 Stripe to RAID 1 Mirror (volume name and capacity

can be left at the defaults).

b. Select Create RAID, answer yes to the “are you sure” messages.

c. The RAID set (Volume 0) should be shown as online with the two physical disks (port 0

and 1) listed below as array members.

d. Exit the RAID BIOS and allow the system to restart.

7. Turn on your AirSpeed 5000 server and re-image your system drives which includes loading

the Windows operating system, see the topic “Reimaging Your System” in the AirSpeed

5000 Setup Guide.

Use the same IP address previously assigned.

8. Install the Avid AirSpeed 5000 software on the new system drives, see “Installing the

Software” in the AirSpeed 5000 Setup Guide.

9. Configure your system.