Assigning A Hot Spare Disk - Acer Altos G530 Series User Manual

Creating a RAID 1 volume
1 After rebooting the server, press Ctrl+M to enter the MegaRAID
Configuration screen. The Management menu appears.
2 Select Configuration. The Configuration menu appears.
3 Select New Configuration, then select YES. An array selection
window displays the devices connected to the current controller.
4 Use the arrow keys to select a specific drive, then press the
spacebar to associate the selected drive with the current array.
In the menu, the selected drive's indicator will change from READY
to ONLINE A[array number]-[drive number].
For example ONLINE A1-2 means disk drive 2 in array 1.
5 Add two drives to the current array, then press Enter.
6 Press F10 to configure the logical drives. The default RAID level for
2 disk drives is RAID 1.
7 Select Accept to use the default setting, then press Enter.
8 Press Enter again to end the array configuration.
9 Select YES to Save Configuration, and press any key to return to
the Configuration menu.

Assigning a hot spare disk

1 In the Configuration menu, select Add/View Configuration.
2 Use the arrow keys to select a specific drive, then press F4 to set
the drive as a hot spare disk.
3 Select YES. In the menu, the selected drive's indicator will change
from READY to HOTSP.
4 Press Esc to end the array configuration.
5 Select YES to Save Configuration, then press any key to return
to the Configuration menu.
Initializing a RAID volume
1 Press Esc to return to the Management menu.
2 Select Initialize. All logical drives will appear under Logical Drives.
3 Using the spacebar, select the drive that you want to initialize. The
selected drive becomes yellow.
4 Press F10, then select YES to start initialization.
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