Contents

4.6

Security

..............................................................................

4-32

4.7

Boot menu ..........................................................................

4-35

 

4.7.1

Boot Device Priority..............................................

4-35

 

4.7.2

Boot Settings Configuration .................................

4-36

4.8

Exit menu ...........................................................................

4-37

Chapter 5: RAID configuration

5.1

Setting up RAID ....................................................................

5-1

 

5.1.1

RAID definitions ......................................................

5-1

 

5.1.2

Installing hard disk drives .......................................

5-2

 

5.1.3

Setting the RAID item in BIOS ................................

5-2

 

5.1.4

RAID configuration utilities .....................................

5-3

5.2 LSI Logic Embedded SATA RAID Setup Utility ......................

5-4

 

5.2.1

Creating a RAID set ................................................

5-5

 

5.2.2

Adding or viewing a RAID configuration ...............

5-11

 

5.2.3

Initializing the logical drives ..................................

5-14

 

5.2.4

Rebuilding failed drives .........................................

5-19

 

5.2.5

Checking the drives for data consistency ............

5-21

 

5.2.6

Deleting a RAID configuration ...............................

5-24

 

5.2.7

Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set.............

5-25

 

5.2.8

Enabling the WriteCache ......................................

5-26

5.3

Global Array Manager .........................................................

5-26

5.4 Adaptec SCSISelect(TM) Utility (NCLV-DS2 model only) ...

5-27

 

5.4.1

Configuring the SCSI controller ............................

5-28

 

5.4.2

Enabling the HostRAID controller .........................

5-28

 

5.4.3

Creating a RAID 0 set (Stripe)..............................

5-29

 

5.4.4

Creating a RAID 1 set (Mirror) ..............................

5-33

 

5.4.5

Creating a RAID 10 set (Stripe+Mirror) ................

5-36

 

5.4.6

Adding a spare drive to a RAID 10 set .................

5-40

 

5.4.7

Deleting a RAID 10 set spare drive ......................

5-41

 

5.4.8

Deleting a RAID set...............................................

5-43

 

5.4.9

Rebuilding a RAID set ...........................................

5-44

 

5.4.10

Verifying a RAID set hard disk drive .....................

5-45

 

5.4.11

Making a RAID set bootable ..................................

5-46

5.5Adaptec® RAID Configuration Utility

(NCLV-D2/SATA model only).............................................

5-48

5.5.1 Configuring the hard disk drive(s) ........................

5-49

5.5.2 Creating a RAID 0 set (Striped)............................

5-50

5.5.3

Creating a RAID 0 set via Migrate ........................

5-54

5.5.4

Creating a RAID 1 set (Mirrored) ..........................

5-56

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