Promise Technology 2-Year Extended Warranty for VessR2000 RAID Head User Manual
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Step 2 – Logical Drive Creation
1. If you want to specify an alias to the logical drive, highlight
Alias
and type a name.
Maximum of 32 characters. Use letters, numbers, space between words and underscore.
2. Highlight
RAID Level
and press the spacebar to toggle though a list of available RAID levels.
3. If you want to create multiple logical drives, highlight
Capacity
, press the backspace key to remove the
current value, then type a new smaller value.
4. RAID 30, 50 and 60 only. Highlight N
umber of Axles
and press the spacebar to choose the number of
axles.
See "
RAID 60 Axles
" and "
RAID 50 Axles
".
5. For the following items, accept the default value or highlight and press the spacebar to choose a new
value:
• Highlight
Stripe
and press the spacebar to toggle through stripe
sizes and choose 64 KB, 128 KB, 256 KB, 512 KB, or 1 MB.
• Highlight
Sector
and press the spacebar to toggle through
sector sizes and choose 512 B, 1 KB, 2 KB, or 4 KB.
• Highlight
W
rite Policy
and press the spacebar to toggle write cache
policy between
WriteBack
and
WriteThru
(write though).
• Highlight
R
ead Policy
and press the spacebar to toggle read cache
policy though
ReadCache
,
ReadAhead
, and
NoCache
.
• Highlight
P
referred Controller ID
and press the spacebar
to toggle among
1
,
2
, or
Automatic
.
• Highlight PerfectRebuild and press the spacebar to toggle Enable or disable.
6. Highlight
Save Logical Drive
and press
Enter
.