Promise Technology S150 user manual Creating a Security Array with New Drives

Chapter 2: Installation

Creating a Security Array with New Drives

Use this setting to create a Mirrored (RAID 1) array with two new hard drives. If one of the drives has data on it, follow the Creating a Security Array with an Existing Data Drive procedure on the next page.

Note

When creating a Security array with new drives, a feature called Gigabyte Boundary will automatically be set to ON. For a description of this feature, see page 23 in the User Manual.

To create an array for data protection using new hard drives, follow these steps:

1.Press the Spacebar to choose Security under the Optimize Array for section.

2.Press Ctrl-Y to Save your selection.

3.The window below will appear.

Do you want the disk image to be duplicated to another or do quick initialize or create only?

Y - Create and Duplicate N - Create Only

I- Create and Quick Initialize

4.Press N for the Create Only option.

5.A window will appear almost immediately confirming that your Security array has been created. Press any key to reboot the system.

Array has been created. <Press Any Key to Reboot>

6.Proceed with normal FDISK and format procedures as if you had just installed a new hard drive.

7.Once the arrayed drives have been formatted, proceed to Chapter 4 of this Manual to install your operating system and/or FastTrak driver.

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