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AOC-USAS2-L8i/L8e Add-on Card User’s Manual
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7-3 Creating a RAID 1E or RAID 10 Volume
Integrated Mirroring Enhanced volumes can have from three-to-ten physical disks. Data
is written to a disk and mirrored on an adjacent disk. Integrated Mirroring and Striping
volumes can have a minimum of four and a maximum of ten physical disks, in even
numbers. In an Integrated Mirroring Enhanced or Integrated Mirroring and Striping
volume, the data is both mirrored and striped.
Follow these steps to create an Integrated Mirroring Enhanced (RAID 1E) or Integrated
Mirroring and Striping (RAID 10) volume with the SAS2 BIOS Configuration Utility.
1. On the A
DAPTER LIST screen, use the arrow keys to select a SAS adapter and then
press E
NTER.
The A
DAPTER PROPERTIES screen appears (see Figure 7-2).
2. Use the arrow keys to select RAID PROPERTIES, and then press ENTER.
The SELECT NEW VOLUME TYPE screen appears (see Figure 7-3).
3. Select CREATE RAID 1E/10 VOLUME.
The CREATE NEW VOLUME screen appears (Figure 7-7).
4. Move the cursor to the RAID D
ISK column and select a line that has a No entry in
this column, indicating that the disk is not already part of the volume being created.
To add the disk to the new volume, change the N
O to Yes by pressing the space bar.
Figure 7-7. Create New Volume Screen – RAID 10