IBM 32H3816 manual SSA RAID Adapter Installation and Users Guide, Creating an Array

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SSA RAID Adapter Installation and User's Guide.

Creating an Array

3.3 Creating an Array

This section describes how to create an array from the free disk drives in the SSA subsystem.

It is recommended that you define one or more hot spares (refer to "Defining a Hot Spare" in topic 5.1 for how to do this) before creating the first array on an adapter.

To create an array:

1.From the Main Menu screen, select SSA Adapter List.

2.The SSA Adapter List window opens:

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Select the adapter that is to control the array. The disk drives that you define as members of the array must be connected to this adapter.

3. The Adapter Menu window opens:

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