Accusys RAID Controller ACS-77100 - Manual (Page 14)

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3.2. Creating an Array
3.2.1 Enable/Disable Over 2TB capacity
ACS-77100 supports over 2TB capacity. The steps below will guide you to enable/disable over
2TB capacity.
1. Select scroll button to find the capacity setting item on LCD panel. (P.18, 4.1.2. Set over
2TB capacity Messages )
2. Press the ENT button, and select (YES) or (NO) by the scroll buttons.
Note
If you want to create the array with over 2TB capacity, the
setting must be finished before to create an array.
3. Press the ENT button to confirm the setting.
3.2.2 Creating an Array
The steps below will guide you to create an array on the ACS-77100.
1. Configure RAID level.
2. Power on the ACS-77100 without disks installed.
3. Install 4 disks on ACS-77100.
4. After ACS-77100 recognized all disks. A message「Create New RAID?」will be displayed
on the LCD panel.
5. Select 「YES」by the scroll buttons and press the ENT button to create array.
Note
During the RAID-creating procedure, the percentage of RAID
initialization progress will be displayed on the LCD panel.
Note
The initialization process is a time-intensive process and is
dependent upon the size of the disks. For example, four 400GB
disks in a RAID 5 array could take over about two hours.