HP NetRAID-4M Controller - Manual (Page 151)

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Working With Single-level
Containers
This chapter explains how to use the CLI to work with and create
single-level containers. A single-level container is made up of one or
more partitions. The partitions can reside on one or more disks, and
can be equal or unequal in size.
Before you can work with containers, you must have previously
opened the controller. See Opening and Closing a Controller in
Chapter 3 for a description of how to open a controller. In addition,
you must have initialized your disk or disks to prepare them for
container operations. See Working with Disks in Chapter 4 for a
description of how to initialize a disk.
The RAID software supports four types of single-level containers:
■ Volume set
■ Stripe set
■ Mirror set
■ RAID-5 set
The minimum size of a container is 10MB.
Note: On a Windows 2000 (basic disk only) system, a
container is usable only if its size is greater than 16 MB;
otherwise, the container type must be a dynamic disk.