Contents
1. Introduction | 10 | |
1.1 Overview | 10 | |
1.2 Features | 12 | |
1.3 RAID Concept | 15 | |
1.3.1 RAID Set | 15 | |
1.3.2 Volume Set | 15 | |
1.3.3 Ease of Use Features | 16 | |
1.3.3.1 | Foreground Availability/Background Initialization | 16 |
1.3.3.2 | Array Roaming | 16 |
1.3.3.3 | Online Capacity Expansion | 17 |
1.3.3.4 | Online RAID Level and Stripe Size Migration | 19 |
1.3.3.5 Online Volume Expansion | 19 | |
1.4 High availability | 20 | |
1.4.1 Global Hot Spares | 20 | |
1.4.2 | 21 | |
1.4.3 Auto Declare | 21 | |
1.4.4 Auto Rebuilding | 21 | |
1.4.5 Adjustable Rebuild Priority | 22 | |
1.5.1 Hard Drive Failure Prediction | 23 | |
1.5.2 Auto Reassign Sector | 23 | |
1.5.3 Consistency Check | 24 | |
1.6 Data Protection | 24 | |
1.6.1 BATTERY BACKUP | 24 | |
1.6.2 RECOVERY ROM | 25 | |
1.7 Understanding RAID | 25 | |
1.7.1 RAID 0 | 25 | |
1.7.2 RAID 1 | 26 | |
1.7.3 RAID 1E | 27 | |
1.7.4 RAID 3 | 27 | |
1.7.5 RAID 5 | 28 | |
1.7.6 RAID 6 | 29 | |
2. Hardware Installation | 32 | |
2.1 | Before Your begin Installation | 32 |
2.2 | Board Layout | 33 |
2.3 | Installation | 39 |
3. McBIOS RAID Manager | 56 | |
3.1 Starting the McBIOS RAID Manager | 56 |
