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

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Reserved Drive and Setting Size for RAID Set, Spare Drive, or JBOD

Once a physical drive has been used to create a RAID set, spare drive, or JBOD by

BIOS utility, BIOS saves user selected set or drive size in the reserved area of the

physical drive. There is no way to remove the reserved area information even after

the user deletes the set or drive. For this reason, after a set or drive is deleted,

BIOS recognizes the physical drive as a reserved logical drive and it will not report

the drive to the system BIOS.

When user selects to create a RAID set, spare drive, or JBOD, he or she has to

select size for the set or drive. BIOS will set a default size for it and user can use the

and

keys to change the size. If the physical drive has never been used to

create a set or drive by the BIOS before, the full size of the physical drive will be set

as default size. Otherwise, BIOS will set default size to the size it saved in the

reserved area of the physical drive before.

If the user wants to increase the default size, BIOS will display a warning message

in the help window and for user’s response before changing the default size.

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