StorCase Technology Fibre-to-SCSI Single RAID - Manual (Page 37)

S10C100 User's Guide - Rev. A01 StorCase Technology, Inc.
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7. Enter the number of spares to be added and press Enter.
This creates dedicated spares that can only be used in this array. A dedicated spare
drive will not be available for any other use (refer to section "Managing Spares" for
further information).
If no spare is desired, simply enter 0.
The Select Drives screen should now display (Figure 14).
8. Select the drive to be used as a dedicated spare and press Enter.
NOTES: Only available drives (drives that aren't members of an array and are not assigned
as dedicated or pool spares) will be displayed. A drive is selected by highlighting
it and then pressing Enter. Each selected drive turns gray in the drive list. To skip
a drive, use the é or ê key.
A dedicated spare can be deleted from the array at any time (refer to section
"Deleting a Dedicated Spare" for further information).
If the array created is RAID 3, RAID 4, RAID 5, or RAID 50, the Chunk Size screen will
display (Figure 15).
9. Select the chunk size and press Enter.
The chunk size is the amount of contiguous data that is written to an array member
before moving to the next member of the array. To determine the appropriate chunk
size, refer to the operating system's documentation (for example, the default chunk
size for Windows NT and many other operating systems is 64KB.
The system will now confirm your request to create the array.
10. Select Yes and press Enter.
A message will notify you that the array is being created and will show the progress
of the initialization process. The array initialization process takes from several minutes
to more than an hour depending on the array type (RAID 0, RAID 1, and Volume are
the quickest), array size, drive speed, and other processes running the controller.
Press Esc to return to the Disk Array Administrator menus and perform other functions.
To check the progress of the array initialization, select Array Menu from the System
Menu. The status of the initialization will display in the list of arrays.
The array initialization process can be stopped (refer to section "Stopping the Array
Initialization Process" for further information).