SOYO SY-K7V DRAGON Plus! User Manual page 112

Under the "Assignment" column, drives are labeled with their assigned disk array or
shown as "Free" if unassigned. Such "Free" drives can be used for a future array or
used as a spare drive when a drive fails in a mirrored array. Unassigned drives are not
accessible by the OS. The menu also displays the data transfer mode that relates to
speed used by each drive (U5 refers to 100MB/sec transfers, U4 refers to 66MB/sec
transfers, etc...)
FastBuild (tm) Utility 1.xx (c) 1995-2000 Promise Technology, Inc.
Channel:ID Drive Model
1 : Master QUANTUMCR8.4A
1 : Slave QUANTUMCR8.4A
2 : Master QUANTUMCR8.4A
[↑] Up [↓] Down [ESC] Exit Mode (U=UDMA, P=PIO, D=DMA)
MANUALLY CREATING AN ARRAY
The Define Array <3> option from the Main Menu allows users to begin the process
of manually defining the drive elements and RAID levels for one or multiple disk
arrays attached to FastTrak100-Lite. Users will commonly create one or two drive
arrays with FastTrak100-Lite, though this can support a maximum of four arrays
NOTE: For most installations, Promise recommends the <1> Auto Setup for easy
disk array creation.
1
A user may use a single drive in either striping or spanning mode
with FastTrak100. In this rare scenario, the card will create an
individual array ID but will offer conventional controller performance,
depending on the drive type. At a later time, a second drive can be
added to the array and the array re-created to support RAID 1
mirroring.
[ View Drive Assignments ]
Capacity(MB) Assignment Mode
8063
8063
8063
[ Keys Available ]
108
Array 1 U5
Free
Array 1
U5
U5
1
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