Acer Series 520 Chapter, Chapter, Hardware Installation, Configuring Physical Drives, Arrays, and Logical Drives

	4.10.4	MegaRAID Manager	4-8
4.11	Compatibility		4-9
	4.11.1	Server Management	4-9
	4.11.2	SCSI Device Compatibility	4-9
	4.11.3	Software	4-9
Chapter 5
Configuring Physical Drives, Arrays, and Logical Drives
5.1	Configuring SCSI Physical Drives		5-1
	5.1.1	Basic Configuration Rules	5-1
	5.1.2	Current Physical Device Configuration	5-2
	5.1.3	Logical Drive Configuration	5-3
	5.1.4	Physical Device Layout	5-5
5.2	Configuring Arrays		5-8
	5.2.1	Arranging Arrays	5-8
	5.2.2	Creating Hot Spares	5-8
5.3	Creating Logical Drives		5-9
	5.3.1	Configuration Strategies	5-9
	5.3.2	Assigning RAID Levels	5-11
5.4	Configuring Logical Drives		5-12
	5.4.1	Optimizing Data Storage	5-12
5.5	Planning the Array Configuration		5-13
	5.5.1	Using the Array Configuration Planner	5-13
Chapter 6
Hardware Installation
6.1	Hardware Requirements		6-1
6.2	Installation Steps		6-2
	6.2.1	Step 1: Unpack	6-2
	6.2.2	Step 2: Power Down	6-3
	6.2.3	Step 3: Set Jumpers	6-3
	6.2.4	Step 4: Install MegaRAID SCSI 320-0	6-5
	6.2.5	Step 5: Power Up	6-6
	6.2.6	Step 6: Run the MegaRAID BIOS Configuration
		Utility	6-7
	6.2.7	Step 7: Install the Operating System Driver	6-7
6.3	Summary		6-8

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