Promise Technology 150TX2 user manual Using FastBuild Configuration Utility

Chapter 3: Using FastBuild Configuration Utility

The FastBuild Configuration Utility offers several menu choices to create and manage the drive array on the Promise FastTrak S150 TX2plus RAID Controller card. For purposes of this manual, it is assumed you have already created an array in the previous chapter and now wish to make a change to the array or view other options.

Viewing FastTrak S150 TX2plus BIOS Screen

When you boot your system with the FastTrak S150 TX2plus card and drives installed, the Promise onboard BIOS will detect the drives attached and show the following screen.

FastTrak S150 TXx (tm) BIOS Version 1.xx (Build xxxx)

(c)2002-2005 Promise Technology, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Scanning IDE drives . . . . .

If an array exists already, the BIOS will display the following screen showing the card’s BIOS version and status of the array.

FastTrak S150 TXx (tm) BIOS Version 1.xx (Build xxxx)

(c) 2002-2005 Promise Technology, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

ID	MODE	SIZE	TRACK-MAPPING	STATUS
1 *	2+0 Stripe	160048M	611/128/32	Functional

Press <Ctrl-F> to enter FastBuild (tm) Utility....

The array status consists of five possible conditions: Functional, Synchronizing, Rebuilding, Critical, and Offline.

Functional – The array is operational.

Synchronizing – The process of verifying data integrity by recalculating redundant data and matching the data on the disk drives

Rebuilding – The process of reconstructing an array in Critical mode by placing redundant data on a replacement disk drive.

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