User Guide

Contents

4.5 Server menu ....................................................................... 4-32

4.6 Security .............................................................................. 4-34

4.7 Boot menu .......................................................................... 4-37

4.7.1 Boot Device Priority .............................................. 4-37

4.7.2 Boot Settings Configuration ................................. 4-38

4.8 Exit menu ........................................................................... 4-40

Chapter 5:Chapter 5:

Chapter 5:

RAID configurationRAID configuration

RAID configuration

5.1 Setting up RAID .................................................................... 5-1

5.1.1 RAID definitions ...................................................... 5-1

5.1.2 Installing hard disk drives ....................................... 5-2

5.1.3 Setting the RAID item in BIOS ................................ 5-2

5.1.4 RAID configuration utilities ..................................... 5-3

5.2 LSI Logic Embedded SATA RAID Setup Utility ...................... 5-4

5.2.1 Creating a RAID set ................................................ 5-5

5.2.2 Adding or viewing a RAID configuration ............... 5-11

5.2.3 Initializing the logical drives .................................. 5-14

5.2.4 Rebuilding failed drives ......................................... 5-19

5.2.5 Checking the drives for data consistency ............ 5-21

5.2.6 Deleting a RAID configuration ............................... 5-24

5.2.7 Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set ............. 5-25

5.2.8 Enabling the WriteCache ...................................... 5-26

5.3 Global Array Manager ......................................................... 5-26

5.4 Adaptec SCSISelect(TM) Utility!

(NCL-DE/SCSI model only) ................................................. 5-27

5.4.1 Configuring the SCSI controller ............................ 5-28

5.4.2 Enabling the HostRAID controller ......................... 5-28

5.4.3 Creating a RAID 0 set (Stripe).............................. 5-29

5.4.4 Creating a RAID 1 set (Mirror) .............................. 5-33

5.4.5 Creating a RAID 10 set (Stripe+Mirror) ................ 5-36

5.4.6 Adding a spare drive to a RAID 10 set ................. 5-40

5.4.7 Deleting a RAID 10 set spare drive ...................... 5-41

5.4.8 Deleting a RAID set............................................... 5-43

5.4.9 Rebuilding a RAID set ........................................... 5-44

5.4.10 Verifying a RAID set hard disk drive ..................... 5-45

5.4.11 Making a RAID set bootable .................................. 5-46