Instruction Manual

Contents 7
Creating Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Initializing Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Checking Data Consistency
. . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Importing or Clearing Foreign Configurations
Using the VD Mgmt Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Importing or Clearing Foreign Configurations
Using the Foreign Configuration View Screen
. . . . 93
Managing Preserved Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Managing Dedicated Hot Spares
. . . . . . . . . . 97
Deleting Virtual Disks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Deleting Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Clearing the Configuration
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
BIOS Configuration Utility Menu Options
. . . . . . 99
Physical Disk Management
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Setting LED Blinking
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Creating Global Hot Spares
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Removing Global or Dedicated Hot Spares . . . . 109
Replacing an Online Physical Disk
. . . . . . . . . 110
Stopping Background Initialization. . . . . . . . . 111
Performing a Manual Rebuild of an
Individual Physical Disk
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Controller Management
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Enabling Boot Support
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Enabling BIOS Stop on Error
. . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Enabling Auto Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Restoring Factory Default Settings
. . . . . . . . . 114
7 CacheCade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
CacheCade Virtual Disk Characteristics . . . . . . . . 115
Configuring and Managing
CacheCade Virtual Disks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
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