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Finish the selection by pressing ENTER.
ICPCON displays a security message pointing out that all existing data on the selected hard
disks will be destroyed after confirming with Yes.
After pressing "Y" the user may limit the capacity per hard disk which will be used for the
Host Drive. This can be very helpful for the procurement of future spare hard disks. After
that, ICPCON automatically creates and configures thew new Host Drive and adds it to the
list. All SCSI parameters are adjusted to optimum values.
After leaving ICPCON or after pressing F10 (for refresh) the ICP Controller starts the build
process on this Host Drive. In our example it calculates the parity information and writes it
to the hard disks. The status during this process is build. When the build is successfully
finished the status changes into ready.
If you press ENTER on a Host Drive the following options
become available:
"Change Drive Name" allows you to change the name of a
Host Drive. The name serves to identify a Host Drive with
ICPCON. E.g., you could name the boot Host Drive "Boot"
and the data Host Drive "Data".
"Swap Host Drives". When the PCI computer is switched
on, the Host Drives are initialized in the order of the Host