LSI ICH6R, D815-000319-00 manual Manageability/Disk Console

1.2.4Manageability/Disk Console

The features you can use to manage the logical and physical disks in the system include

•configuration information display (in BIOS Configuration Utility and Hyper Configuration Utility)

•support for RAID levels 0, 1, and 10

•online mirror rebuilding (in BIOS Configuration Utility)

•online consistency checks (in BIOS Configuration Utility)

•array management software

•error logging and notification

•support for power management features

•support for hot device insertion and removal

•automatic resume of rebuilding on restart

•support for manual rebuild

•physical drive roaming

•independent stripe size configuration per logical drive

•ability to create up to eight logical drives per array

•auto-configuration support of newly added physical drive

•support for hotspares

•support for disk coercion

•array initialization support (fast and normal)

•offline data (RAID 1) verfication with auto-recovery mechanism

•ability to prioritize configurable tasks (for online rebuild, check consistency, migration, and expansion)

•logical drive availability immediately after creation

•variable stripe size options from 8 Kbyte to 128 Kbyte

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