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4 Technical Information
Using the ArrayConfig Program
When you select a single hard drive for RAID 0, the drive will be striped
and optimized using the ARO-1130's cache memory, but no actual array
will be created. A single drive optimized in this way, although
significantly faster, will not provide the same level of performance as a
two-drive RAID 0 array.
9 When the next screen appears, press
Select drives for the array by pressing the and keys until the drive
name is highlighted, and then press Ins or
selected drives appear in the box on the right side of the screen. To
select drives on a different channel (if necessary) press
select another channel and then select the drives from the SCSI IDs
on Channel menu. To deselect the drive you most recently added,
press .
A warning appears if you select a disk that has partitions. Do not select
disks with partitions if they contain data you want to keep, because any
existing data will be erased when the disk becomes part of the array.
When you have selected the number of drives you specified in
Step 8, the next screen appears automatically. If you are creating a
RAID 1 array and if there are any unassigned drives, the screen
prompts you to define spare drives for the array.
10 If you do not want a spare, type
want to select dedicated spares, follow these steps:
a At the prompt, type
b At the next prompt, type 1 or 2.
c Select one or two spares, using the same method you used to
select disks for the array.
11 When the Initialize Mode menu appears, select
This operation begins immediately. A graph on the screen shows the
progress of this operation.
If the drives contain data, all the data is lost when you initialize
the array.
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to highlight a channel.
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Initialize Array to Zero
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