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Marvell RAID Utility User Guide
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CONTENTS
1 GETTING STARTED .................................................................................................................................. 1-1
1.1 P
RODUCT OVERVIEW ......................................................................................................................... 1-2
1.1.1 System Requirements ....................................................................................................... 1-2
1.1.2 Software Components ....................................................................................................... 1-2
1.1.3 Supported RAID Levels ..................................................................................................... 1-3
1.2 S
ETTING UP THE SOFTWARE .............................................................................................................. 1-4
1.2.1 Installing the Disk Drives ................................................................................................... 1-4
1.2.2 Verifying Driver Installation ............................................................................................... 1-4
1.2.3 Installing the Software ....................................................................................................... 1-5
2 USING THE SOFTWARE .......................................................................................................................... 2-9
2.1 GUI O
VERVIEW ................................................................................................................................. 2-10
2.1.1 Logical Drives .................................................................................................................... 2-11
2.1.2 Physical Drives .................................................................................................................. 2-12
2.1.3 Adapters ............................................................................................................................ 2-15
2.1.4 System .............................................................................................................................. 2-16
2.2 V
IEWING AND CREATING A LOGICAL DRIVE ......................................................................................... 2-17
2.3 M
ODIFYING A LOGICAL DRIVE ............................................................................................................. 2-21
2.4 D
ELETING A LOGICAL DRIVE ............................................................................................................... 2-22
2.5 REBUILDING A LOGICAL DRIVE ........................................................................................................... 2-23
2.5.1 Auto-Rebuild ..................................................................................................................... 2-23
2.5.2 Manual Rebuild ................................................................................................................. 2-23
2.6 I
NITIALIZING A LOGICAL DRIVE ............................................................................................................ 2-24
2.7 CHECKING THE INTEGRITY OF A LOGICAL DRIVE .................................................................................. 2-25
3 CONFIGURING RAID USING THE BASIC INPUT/OUTPUT SYSTEM (BIOS) ........................................ 3-27
3.1 ACCESSING THE BIOS ....................................................................................................................... 3-28
3.2 U
SING THE BIOS ............................................................................................................................... 3-30
3.2.1 Adapter .............................................................................................................................. 3-30
3.2.2 Create ............................................................................................................................... 3-30
3.2.3 Delete ................................................................................................................................ 3-33
4 SELECTING A RAID LEVEL ..................................................................................................................... 4-35
4.1 RAID 0 (S
TRIPING) ............................................................................................................................ 4-36
4.2 RAID 1 (M
IRRORING) ........................................................................................................................ 4-37
4.3 RAID 10 (MIRRORING AND STRIPING) ................................................................................................ 4-38
4.4 C
OMPARING RAID LEVELS ................................................................................................................. 4-39
4.4.1 RAID 0 (striping) ................................................................................................................ 4-39
4.4.2 RAID 1 (mirroring) ............................................................................................................. 4-39
4.4.3 RAID 10 (mirroring and striping) ....................................................................................... 4-39
4.4.4 Overview of RAID Levels .................................................................................................. 4-39