Adaptec RAID 2100S Software User's Manual page 35

RAID 0 arrays are comprised of any number of drives greater than 1.
RAID 1 arrays are comprised of multiple pairs of drives. RAID 5
arrays contain three or more drives.
After you create the arrays, one or more arrays of the same RAID
level can be combined into a multilevel RAID (see
Multilevel RAID on page
RAIDs by the controller firmware. All the drives in an array or
multilevel RAID must be attached to the same controller, and appear
to the host as a single Logical Storage Unit (LSU).
Note: Arrays do not start building until a Set System Config
action has been performed.
The Array Information tab displays general array information and
hardware configuration. It is divided into either two or three parts:
Description, SCSI Capabilities (for SCSI based RAID controllers
only), and Status.
The Description section displays a general description of the
highlighted array, as follows:
Description
Revision
Address
Capacity
Removable
Read Only
Block Size
Stripe Size
2-28). Arrays are striped into multilevel
RAID level used for the array.
Firmware revision of the RAID controller.
RAID address in the form
Device Address Syntax on page
much information as necessary to unambiguously
define the address of the device. Controllers always are
assigned the lowest logical address of any device in the
array.
The usable capacity of the array in MB. The available
capacity depends upon the RAID level of that array.
As reported by the devices in the array.
The sector (block) size of the selected device in bytes.
For hard drives, the value should be 512. SCSI only—If
the size is not 512, use SMOR to do a low-level format
and create 512-byte sectors. See
SCSI only on page 2-31
Displays the stripe size used to create the RAID.
Storage Manager on ROM
Creating a
dDbBtTdD
, as described in
4-2. Display contains as
Formatting a Drive –
for more information.
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