Promise Technology S150 user manual Creating a Security Array with Quick Initialization

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FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual

Creating a Security Array with Quick Initialization

Use this setting to create a Mirrored (RAID 1) array with one or two existing hard drives containing data that you do not want to keep. This method creates a mirrored array and erases the first data block from your existing drives.

Warning

Using the Quick Initialization option on existing drives will result in the loss of all data on those drives.

Note

When creating a Security array with new drives, a feature called Gigabyte Boundary will automatically be set to ON. For a description of this feature, see page 23 in the User Manual.

Follow these steps:

1.Press the Spacebar to choose Security under the Optimize Array for section.

2.Press Ctrl-Y to Save your selection.

3.The window below will appear.

Do you want the disk image to be duplicated to another or do quick initialize or create only?

Y - Create and Duplicate N - Create Only

I- Create and Quick Initialize

4.Press I for the Create and Quick Initialize

5.A window will appear almost immediately confirming that your Security array has been created. Press any key to reboot the system.

Array has been created.

<Press Any Key to Reboot>

6.Proceed with normal FDISK and format procedures as if you had just installed a new hard drive.

7.Once the arrayed drives have been formatted, proceed to Chapter 4 of this Manual to install your operating system and/or FastTrak driver.

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