Promise Technology M500p, M500i, M500f, M300p, M300i, M300f, M200i, M200p, M200f manual Setup

Chapter 3: Setup

If you are uncertain about choosing parameters for your disk array, use the Express or Automatic option to create your disk array.

To create a new disk array:

1.Enter a name for the disk array in the field provided.

2.Check the box to enable the following features.

•Media Patrol – A routine maintenance procedure that checks the magnetic media on each disk drive. Media Patrol is concerned with the condition of the media itself, not the data recorded on the media.

•PDM – Predictive Data Migration (PDM) scans the bad sector remapping table of the disk drives assigned to a logical drive. When the table fills to a specified percentage of its capacity, PDM triggers a migration of data from the suspect drive (the disk drive with the bad sectors) to a spare disk drive.

3.Highlight physical drives you want in the disk array from the Available list and press the >> button to move them to the Selected list.

You can also double-click them to move them.

4.When you are done, click the Next button.

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