Promise Technology 150TX2 user manual Creating a Security Array with New Drives

Chapter 2: Installation

Creating a Security Array with New Drives

Caution

With some models of hard drives, if the Master hard drive fails, it may cause the Slave hard drive to be unrecognized by the computer's operating system. Where a RAID 1 (Mirroring) array exists on the Master/Slave pair, this condition may cause the operating system to freeze.

Do NOT create a RAID 1 (Mirroring) array with two Parallel ATA hard drives using the Master/Slave arrangement on Channel 3 (the Parallel ATA port).

You can create a RAID 1 (Mirroring) array by combining hard drives on:

•Channels 1 and 2 (Serial ATA only)

•Channels 1 and 3 (one Serial, one Parallel)

•Channels 2 and 3 (one Serial, one Parallel)

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.

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.

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