After completing the Raid setup you must activate the drive and create partition. Different Operating Systems have
their own utility for creating partitions. On Mac OS you have to use the Disk Utility. On Windows you have to use
Disk Management.
IMPORTANT
"The Disk Utility on Mac OSx and Disk Management on Windows OS" are applicable to all disk
controller cards / vendors.
Disk Utility on Mac OS X
What is Disk Utility?
Disk Utility is a
free application
to-use tool for working with hard drives and drive images. Disk Utility can erase, format, repair, and partition hard
drives, as well as create RAID arrays.
Where is Disk Utility?
Open up your Applications folder and open the Utilities folder.
The version and features of Disk Utility depend on the version of Mac OS X. The following image demonstrates Disk
Utility in Mac OS X.
The left pane shows the "disks" currently connected to your Mac. You'll see the hard drive that has the "Macintosh
HD" partition. If you have additional internal hard drives or external hard drives connected to your Mac, they too will
be visible.
that's built into OS X that can perform lots of useful actions,
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