Adaptec AAA-133U2 - AAA 133 RAID Controller Hardware Manual page 40

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AAA-130U2 Series Installation and Hardware Guide
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Select array members. When the next screen appears, press Tab
to highlight a channel (if more than one SCSI channel is avail-
able). Select drives for the array by pressing the
until the drive name is highlighted, and then press Ins or
Enter. The names of selected drives appear in the Adaptec
Array # box.
To select drives on a different channel press Tab to select
another channel and then select the drives from the SCSI IDs
on the Channel menu. To deselect the drive you most recently
added, press Del.
Caution:
A warning appears if you select a disk that
has partitions. Do not select a partitioned disk if it con-
tains data you want to keep, because any existing data
will be erased when the disk becomes part of an array.
When you have selected the number of drives you specified in
Step 8, the next screen appears automatically. If you are creat-
ing a RAID 1, RAID 0/1, or RAID 5 array, and if there are any
unassigned drives, the screen prompts you to define dedicated
spare drives for the array. (We recommend that you use a spare
pool instead of dedicated spares.)
Note:
A spare must have at least the capacity of the
smallest drive in the array.
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Select spares. If you do not want a spare, type n and continue
with Step 12. If you want to select dedicated spares, follow
these steps:
a
At the prompt, type y.
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.
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