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7.1
Power on RAID Enclosure
Hardware installation should be completed before powering on
your RAID enclosure. Drives must be configured and the controller
properly initialized before host computer can access the storage
capacity. The configuration and administration utility resides in
controller's firmware.
Open the initial terminal screen: use arrow keys to move cursor bar
through menu items, then press [ENTER] to choose the terminal
emulation mode, and [ESC] to return to the previous menu/screen.
7.2
Caching Parameters
Optimization Modes
Mass storage applications can be roughly categorized into two as
database
characteristics. To optimize the controller for these two categories,
the controller has two embedded optimization modes with
controller behaviors adjusted to different read/write parameters.
They
"Optimization for Sequential I/O."
Terminal Operation
Terminal Operation
and
video/imaging,
are
the
"Optimization
according
to
its
for
Random
I/O"
read/write
and
the
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