Gigabyte GA-F2A88X-UP4 User Manual page 58

Checking Disk Information
To see the hard drive information, enter the following commands and press <Enter>. You will see CONTROLLER
LIST and DISK LIST displayed on the screen.
rcadm -M -qa (Figure 4)
fs0:\> rcadm -M -qa
Creating a RAID Array
To create a RAID array, refer to the following examples to enter the commands and press <Enter>. When
succeeded, the message which says "created sucessfully" will appear.
Example 1: Create a RAID 0 array with Drive 0 and Drive 1 and the array size is 40 GB.
rcadm -C -r0 -d 0 1 -s 40000 (Figure 5)
("C"=Create a array, "r0"=RAID 0, d 0 1=Drive 0 and Drive 1, "s 40000"=Size of 40 GB; to use the maximum
size allowed, do not enter "s x0000")
fs0:\>rcadm -C -r0 -d 0 1 -s 40000
created successfully
fs0:\>
Example 2: Create a RAID 5 array with Drive 1~4 and the array size is 75 GB.
rcadm -C -r5 -d 1 2 3 4 -s 75000 (Figure 6)
("C"=Create a array, "r5"=RAID 5, d 1 2 3 4=Drive 1~4, "s 75000"=Size of 75 GB)
fs0:\>rcadm -C -r5 -d 1 2 3 4 -s 75000
created successfully
fs0:\>
After you create the array, you can enter the "rcadm -M -qa" commands to see the array information. In addition
to the CONTROLLER LIST and DISK LIST information, you will see ARRAY LIST information displayed on the
screen, too.
Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s)
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