Adaptec 133U2 - AAA RAID Controller User Manual page 76

Adaptec CI/O Management Software User's Guide
Note:
If you want to distribute cache among arrays, do
not use all of the available cache blocks for only one
array.
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Select the desired optimization option from the Optimize
Performance drop-down list. Refer to Optimizing Array
Performance on page 10-9 for more details.
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Deselect auto-initialize to create the array now but initialize it
at a later time. You can do this to define several arrays, then
initialize them all at the same time.
Caution:
All arrays except RAID 0 arrays must be
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initialized or low-level formatted before you can write
data to them. We recommend that you zero-initialize
RAID 0 arrays as well.
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Select the desired stripe size from the Stripe size drop-down
list.
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Click Finish. The array will be initialized at this point, unless
you deselected auto-initialize. (If you deselected auto-
initialize, skip to Step 18.)
To abort the initialization process (not recommended), open
the Activity View window, select the
and click the Abort icon
box appears. Click Yes to confirm the abort.
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An event notification is generated when the initialization
process starts. An icon
Logical Resources window of the Storage Configuration
window. Another event notification is generated when the
initialization process finishes.
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icon for that array,
. A pop-up confirmation dialog
for the new array appears in the