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Avago Technologies MegaRAID SATA 150-4 (523) User Manual

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Detailed Configuration Instructions

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Version 2.0

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The logical drive configuration screen appears. It displays the
logical drive number, RAID level, logical drive size, the number
of stripes in the physical array, the stripe size, and the state of
the logical drive.

Note:

The firmware does not support creation of logical drives
greater than 2 Tbytes.

Step 5.

Highlight RAID and press ENTER to set the RAID level for the
logical drive.

The CU displays the available RAID levels for the current
logical drive.

Step 6.

Select a RAID level and press ENTER.

Step 7.

Click Advanced Menu to open the menu for logical drive settings.

Step 8.

Set the Stripe Size.

Step 9.

Set the Write Policy.

Step 10. Set the Read Policy.

Step 11. Set the Cache Policy.

Step 12. Press ESC to exit the Advanced Menu.

Step 13. After you define the current logical drive, select Accept and

press ENTER.

The array selection screen appears if any disk drives remain
unconfigured.

Step 14. Repeat these steps to configure additional logical drives,

if desired.

MegaRAID supports up to 40 logical drives per controller.

Step 15. If you are through configuring logical drives, press ESC to exit

Easy Configuration.

Step 16. Save the configuration when prompted.

Step 17. Initialize the logical drives.

Refer to

Section 3.4.8, “Initializing Logical Drives,” on page 3-26

for detailed instructions.