Viewing Your Configuration - IBM ServeRAID User Reference

3. Select the new stripe-unit size for your installation.
Write-cache mode
If you are preparing to install Novell NetWare 5.x from the startable Novell NetWare
5.x CD, set the write-cache mode to write through for the logical drive to which you
will install the operating system. To accomplish this, complete the following steps:
1. In the ServeRAID Manager tree, click the logical drive.
2. Click Actions → Change write-cache mode to write through.

Viewing your configuration

You can use ServeRAID Manager to view information about RAID controllers and
the RAID subsystem (such as arrays, logical drives, hot-spare drives, and physical
drives).
To view information, expand the ServeRAID Manager tree; then, click the relevant
tree object. Detailed information about the selected device appears in the right
pane.
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Note: Consider your server application environment when you select the
controller stripe-unit size setting.
Environment
Groupware (such as Lotus
Transaction processing database
Decision support database
Thin client environments
File server (Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Novell NetWare)
File server (other)
Web server
Other
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Notes or Exchange)
Stripe-unit size
16 KB
16 KB
16 KB
8 KB
16 KB
8 KB
8 KB
8 KB