Promise Technology 15110 user manual Create a Disk Array Manually

Chapter 3: Setup

SMART check: enabled

Initialization: full

Create Logical Drive now(y/n)?>y

4.If you agree with the specifications, press Y and Enter.

If you disagree, press N and Enter. Then select Create New Disk Array (below) and input your own settings.

This completes disk array creation. Go on to logical drive creation.

Create a Disk Array Manually

Use this feature to manually build a logical drive to meet your own requirements or to use less than the full number of available disk drives. See page 214 for a discussion of RAID Levels, the number of drives each supports and an explanation of the available options.

1.From the Main menu, press 3 and Enter to access Disk Array Management.

2.Press 2 and Enter to access the Create New Disk Array.

**************Define New Logical Drive************** Total 8 Physical Drives

*********Physical Drives Selection*********

ID NameCapacity

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1	Maxtor 5A250J0	251 GB
3	WDC WD2000JB-00FUA0	200 GB
4	WDC WD2000JB-00FUA0	200 GB
7	ST380013AS	80 GB
9	WDC WD1200JD-00FYB0	120 GB
11	ST380013AS	80 GB
12	WDC WD1200JD-00FYB0	120 GB
15	Maxtor 6Y080M0	82 GB

Enter Physical Drive IDs and/or ID ranges separated by commas. For example: 1,5,8-15. Press R to continue after you have finished selecting Physical Drives.

Your input?>1,3,4,5,9

3.Choose the physical drives for your logical drive and press Enter.

*********Physical Drives Selection*********

ID NameCapacity

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