Assign Hot Spare Disk; Initialize Raid Volume; Save And Exit Megaraid Configuration Utility - Acer Altos G310 MK2 Series Manual

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Assign hot spare disk

1 Select Add/View Configuration from Configuration menu.
2 Press arrow keys to choose specific physical drives and press <F4>
to set the drive as Hot Spare disk. Select YES to confirm and the
indicator for selected drive change from READY to HOTSP.
3 Press <Esc> to end the array configuration.
4 Select YES to Save Configuration and press any key to return to the
Configure menu.

Initialize RAID volume

1 Press <Esc> to return to the Management Menu.
2 Select Initialize from Management menu. All logical drives should
be listed under Logical Drives.
3 Press <Spacebar> to select drives for initialization. The selected
drive will be shown in yellow.
4 After selecting the drives, press <F10> and select YES to start the
initialization process.
5 When initialization is complete, press any key to continue.
6 Press <Esc> to return to the Management Menu.

Save and exit MegaRAID configuration utility

1 When RAID configuration and initialization is complete, press
<Esc> in the Management Menu and select YES to exit the
MegaRAID Configuration Utility.
2 Press <Ctrl> + <Alt> + <Del> to reboot the server. Now you can
start installing an OS on the RAID array.
Appendix B: Configuring SCSI/SCSI RAID HBA