Creating The Partitions - Silicon Image SATA RAID FOR Manual

In the physical connection window, every disk should report as:
Basic
Disk Size (the actual available disk space will be reported here)
Online
Instead of "Basic," a disk may also report as either "Unknown" or "Dynamic." If the disk reports as "Unknown" right-click on the
disk icon and click "Write Signature." A window will appear with the disk in question (all "Unknown" disks may appear in this
window). Make sure the box next to each disk is checked, then click OK. The disk should now report as "Basic."
If a disk reports as "Dynamic," right-click on the icon of that disk, and click on "Convert to Basic Disk..." Within seconds the disk
should report as Basic.

7.1.1 Creating the Partitions

In the Report of physical connection of disks/RAID Sets section, the order in which the drives are displayed corresponds
directly to the order the Sets appear in the BIOS. Therefore, the first Unallocated Partition represents Set 1, and so on.
1. In this example, there are two disks with unallocated partitions. Right-click on the partition of the first disk and click on
"New Partition."
2. The "Create Partition Wizard" should appear. The first window is an introductory window to the Wizard. Click Next.
3. The second window designates the partition type. Choose primary partition and click Next.
4. The third window designates the partition size. Since this is a Striped RAID set utilizing 2 disk drives, the size of the
partition will be approximately twice the size of the smallest single disk drive. Click Next.
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