Sun Microsystems X6250 manual Additional Information

4.Select Initialize Drives.

5.Select the boot drive (at the top of the list, typically: Dev01).

6.Press the Insert key and press Enter.

7.At the warning dialog box, press Y. The drive is initialized.

8.At the main menu, select Create Array and press Enter.

9.Select the boot drive.

10.Press the Insert key and press Enter.

11.At the Array Properties screen, set boot drive properties as appropriate for your setup (or choose the defaults).

Press F1 help for details on available properties.

12.Select Done and press Enter.

Note that in order for Windows to see other the hard disk drives in your server, you will need to first initialize them and create an array volume or RAID using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility. Each volume created by the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility will be seen by the operating system and the server’s BIOS as a single disk drive.

13.At the main menu, press ESC, and then press ESC again.

14.Select Yes to exit the utility.

The system will reboot. The disk is now ready to be used by Windows.

Additional Information

For more information on using your Adaptec-based integrated RAID controller, refer to the following documents on the Sun documentation web site:

■Sun Intel/Adaptec BIOS RAID Utility User’s Manual (820-4708)

■Sun StorageTek SAS RAID HBA Installation Guide (820-1847)

■Sun StorageTek RAID Manager Software User’s Guide (820-1177)

To obtain these documents, navigate to:

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/dsk-cntrl

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