Addonics Technologies ADSA4R5 Creating a Spare Drive, Deleting RAID Sets, Resolving Conflict

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3.4 Creating a Spare Drive

1.As the BIOS boots, press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility.

2.Select Create RAID set. Press Enter.

3.Select RAID 1 set then press Enter.

4.Select Auto configuration or manually select the drives. Press Enter.

5.After the Raid 1 set is created then click on Create Raid Set again.

6.Press Create the spare drive. Select the drive to be the spare.

7.Press Y to save your settings.

8.Press Ctrl-E then Y to exit the setup.

9.Your RAID configuration is complete. Please proceed to software installation section.

Note: Raid 1 must be created first before spare drive can be created.

3.5 Deleting RAID Sets

1.As the BIOS boots, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility.

2.Select Delete RAID set. Press Enter.

3.Answer Y to remove the RAID set. If the RAID set being deleted is a Striped set, then all of the data will be lost. If the set being deleted is a Mirrored set, then the data will remain intact and accessible on both drives.

3.6 Rebuilding Mirrored Sets

1.After replacing the failed hard drives boot the BIOS, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility.

2.Select rebuilding Mirrored set. Press Enter.

3.Select Online rebuild or Offline rebuild.

4.Answer Y to rebuild the Mirrored set of hard drive.

3.7 Resolving Conflict

When a RAID set is created, the metadata written to the disk includes drive connection information (Primary and Secondary). If, after a disk failure, the replacement disk was previously part of a RAID set (or used in another system), it may have conflictin g metada ta, specifically in reference to the

dr ive connection information. If so, this will prohi bit the RAID set from being either created or rebuilt, In order for the RAID set to function properly, this old metadata must be first overwritten with the new metadata. To resolve this, select Resolve Conflicts, and the correct metadata, including the correct drive connection information; will be written to the replacement disk.

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ADSA4R5 specifications

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