BIOS CONFIGURATION
Set. Select “Quick Volume/RAID Setup” from the main menu; all possible RAID level will be displayed on the screen.
If volume capacity will exceed 2TB, controller will show the “Greater 2 TB volume Support”
Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System
Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller
Main Menu |
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Quick Volume/Raid Setup |
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Raid Set Function |
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Volume Set Function | Total 4 Drives | |||
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Physical Drives |
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Raid System FunctionRaid 0 |
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Ethernet ConfigurationRaid 1 | + 0 |
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View System Events | Raid 1 | + 0 + Spare | ||
Clear Event Buffer | Raid 3 |
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Hardware Monitor | Raid 5 |
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System information | Raid 3 | + Spare |
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| Raid 5 | + Spare |
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ArrowKey Or AZ:Move Cursor, Enter: Select, ESC: Escape, L:Line Draw, X: Redraw
•No
It keeps the volume size with max. 2TB limitation.
•LBA 64
This option use 16 bytes CDB instead of 10 bytes. The maximum volume capacity up to 512TB.
This option works on different OS which supports 16 bytes CDB. such as :
Windows 2003 with SP1 Linux kernel 2.6.x or latter
•For Windows
It change the sector size from default 512 Bytes to 4k Bytes. the maximum volume capacity up to 16TB.
This option works under Windows platform only. And it CAN NOT be converted to Dynamic Disk, because 4k sector size is not a standard format.
For more details please download PDF file from ftp://ftp.areca. com.tw/RaidCards/Documents/Manual_Spec/Over2TB_ 050721.zip
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