Create The Raid Driver Installation Diskette; Preferred Method; Pre-Installation Worksheet (Creating A Host Drive For The Operating System) - Adaptec 2074700-R Manual

Caution: The size of the host drive cannot be changed (decreased, increased, or expanded)
once the host drive has been created.
Table 2-1. Pre-installation Worksheet (Creating a Host Drive for the Operating System)
RAID Level
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 4
RAID 5
RAID 10
Notes and Cautions
2.2

Create the RAID Driver Installation Diskette

For more information about Linux drivers and updates, see
Linux Drivers and
2.2.1

Preferred Method

The RAID Software Suite CD-ROM is self-booting, assuming that your system supports
booting from the CD-ROM drive.
1. Change your computer's system BIOS setting so that your system boots from the CD-
ROM. Insert the CD-ROM into the system CD-ROM drive and power up the system.
The Main appears
Software Installation and User's Guide
# of disk drives supported
for this RAID level
(minimum to maximum)
2 to 15 per Channel
2
3 to 15 per Channel
3 to 15 per Channel
4 to 15 per Channel
1. The number of disk drives can not be decreased (only increased via the array
expansion feature) once the host drive is created.
2. RAID 10 only supports an even total number of disk drives. Additional drives are
added in pairs, up to a total of 30 drives over 2 channels.
Updates.
(Figure 2-7).
1
# of disk drives
include in new host
drive
2
2
Table 5-3
Getting Started
to
Physical drive
capacity (MB)
in Section 5.1.1,
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