Rebuilding a Mirror Drive

When one of the disks in a RAID 1 (Mirror) configuration is unplugged from the system, then plugged in again, a dialogue box appears to ask you to rebuild the Mirror drive. Press <Y> to confirm; otherwise, press <N>.

This option allows you to rebuild the Mirror drive later and synchronize the data between two hard disks.

To rebuild a Mirror drive:

1.In the main JMB363 RAID BIOS menu, highlight Rebuild Mirror Drive using the up/down arrow key then press <Enter>.

[Main Menu]

Create RAID Disk Drive Delete RAID Disk Drive Revert HDD to Non-RAID Solve Mirror Conflict Rebuild Mirror Drive Save and Exit Setup Exit Without Saving

2.Using the <TAB>, move to the RAID Disk Drive List menu and highlight the RAID set that you want to rebuild. Press <Del> to begin rebuilding the Mirror configuration.

A status bar at the bottom of the screen shows the progress of the rebuilding.

JMicron Technology Corp. PCI-to-SATA II/IDE RAID Controller BIOS v0.97

[Main Menu]

Create RAID Disk Drive Delete RAID Disk Drive Revert HDD to Non-RAID Solve Mirror Conflict Rebuild Mirror Drive Save and Exit Setup Exit Without Saving

[RAID Disk Drive List]

Model Name

Members(HDDx)

RDD0: JRAID

 

[Hard Disk Drive List]

 

 

 

 

Model Name

Capacity

Type/Status

 

HDD0: HDS722516VLSA80

164

GB

RAID Inside

 

HDD1: HDS722516DLA380

164

GB

RAID Inside

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RAID Level

Capacity

Status

 

1-Mirror

XXX GB

Rebuild

01

Rebuilding... 01%, please wait...

Saving the settings and exiting setup

When you have finished, highlight Save & Exit Setup using the up/down arrow key then press <Enter> to save the current RAID configuration and exit the JMB363 RAID BOS utility.

A dialogue box appears to confirm the action. Press <Y> to confirm; otherwise, press <N> to return to the JMB RAID BIOS menu.

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Asus Z7S WS manual Rebuilding a Mirror Drive, Saving the settings and exiting setup

Z7S WS specifications

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