beautypg.com

Raid user’s guide – Foxconn 925XE7AA-8EKRS2-RAID User Manual

Page 22

background image

RAID User’s Guide

20

Creating Spare Drive

If there is a RAID 1 set, spare driver can be created. The spare drive can be

allocated to the RAID 1 set in the event of a failure of one of the drives in the RAID1

set.

1. To create a spare drive for RAID 1 set, Select “Create RAID set”

2. Select “Spare Drive” and press Enter.

3. Select spare drive from the physical drive list and press Enter.

4. Select spare drive size with

and

keys.

5. After the spare drive size is set, the message “Are You Sure (Y/N)?” will display

before completing the configuration. Answer “N” to abort the creation of the spare

drive, or “Y” to proceed with the spare drive creation.

Creating JBOD

Since BIOS no longer reports non-RAID drives to the system BIOS, if a non-RAID

boot drive or data drive is desired, a JBOD can be created so BIOS will report it to

the system BIOS.

1. To create a JBOD, Select ”Create RAID set”.

2. Select “JBOD” and press Enter.

3. Select JBOD drive from the physical drive list and press Enter.

4. Select JBOD size with

and

keys.

5. After the JBOD size is set, the message “Are You Sure?” will display before

completing the configuration. Answer “N” to abort the creation of the JBOD, or “Y” to

proceed with the JBOD creation.

RAID Manual.p65

2005-1-21, 10:29

20

This manual is related to the following products: