SSA RAID Adapter Installation and User's Guide.
Attaching Resources
3.4 Attaching Resources
A resource is a disk drive that is to be accessed individually or an array of disk drives.
Before attaching an array, ensure that it has finished the rebuilding process and that no problems occurred during this process. Any problems are shown in the attributes of the array; "Viewing Resources and Their Attributes" in topic 5.3 describes how to see this information.
To attach a resource to your system:
1. From the SSA Main Menu screen, select System Resources.
A list, initially blank, of the resources attached to the system is displayed; the resources are listed in
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To attach a resource:
a. For the first resource, just press Insert.
To add a resource to an existing list, highlight the name of a resource already in the list (the new resource will be added immediately above this one) and press Insert.
To add a resource to the end of the list, highlight the space below the current end of the list and press Insert.
Notes:
1)If you are going to boot from an SSA disk drive, that disk drive must be at the top of the list. For details of the requirements for booting from an SSA disk drive, refer to the README.TXT file on the Device Driver and Utilities diskette for your operating system.
2)At the position in the list that you choose for the new resource, there must be a large enough gap in the sequence of drive addresses. If the gap is not large enough:
For OS/2, the system creates a large enough gap by adjusting downward the drive addresses of resources below the gap.
For Novell NetWare, the system rejects your choice of that position.
For Windows NT, the system gives a warning that you might destroy data by selecting that position. b. A list of candidate resources is displayed:
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