Avago Technologies 3ware SAS 9750-16i4e - Manual (Page 35)

Basic Steps for Creating a Unit
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1 Open the Advanced Options screen. (From the Create Disk Array screen,
press
Tab to the Advanced button and press Enter .)
2 In the Boot Volume Size field, press Enter to display a text box.
3 Enter the size in Gigabytes that should be assigned to the boot volume.
4 Press Enter again to accept the size.
To confirm unit configuration
1 If you are on the Advanced Options screen, press Tab to select the OK
button and press Enter to return to the Create Disk Array screen.
2 Press Tab to select the OK button and press Enter to confirm creation of
the unit.
Or, if you want to cancel the creation of the unit, tab to Cancel and press
Enter.
3 If you leave the Unit Write Cache field enabled and do not have a BBU
installed, 3BM asks you to confirm that you want to enable write cache.
The unit is not actually created and no data is overwritten until you have
finished making all of your changes and press F8.
4 If the volume summary screen appears, review the information and press
any key to continue.
Multiple volumes are created if you entered a Boot Volume Size of
greater than zero (0), or if auto-carving is enabled and the combined size
of the drives in your unit is large enough to divide it into multiple
volumes. For more information about auto-carving, see “Using Auto-
Carving for Multi LUN Support” on page 71.
Note: Setting a Boot Volume Size is optional. In addition, if you specify a boot
volume, you do not have to install your operating system onto it. For more
information about creating a boot volume, see “Boot volume size” on page 81. If the
size of your array is 2 TB or greater, you also may want to review the information
about carving the unit into multiple volumes. For details, see “Using Auto-Carving
for Multi LUN Support” on page 71.