AOC-USAS-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual
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Viewing and Changing Adapter Properties...........................................4-12
Viewing and Changing Virtual Drive Properties....................................4-13
Viewing Physical Drive Properties........................................................4-13
4-8 Forcing Drives Online or Offline....................................................4-13
4-9 Configuring a Bootable Virtual Drive............................................4-14
4-10 Deleting a Virtual Drive................................................................4-14
4-11 Clearing a Storage Configuration...............................................4-14
Chapter 5 MegaRAID Overview and Installation............... 5-1
5-1 Overview.............................................................................................5-1
Creating Storage Configurations.............................................................5-1
5-2 Hardware and Software Requirements..........................................5-2
5-3 Installing for Windows.......................................................................5-2
5-4 Installing for Linux.............................................................................5-5
Linux Error Messages.............................................................................5-5
Chapter 6 MegaRAID Window and Menus............................ 6-1
6-1 Starting MegaRAID Storage Manager Software...........................6-1
6-2 MegaRAID Storage Manager Window...........................................6-4
Physical/Logical View Panel...................................................................6-4
Properties/Operations/Graphical View Panel..........................................6-5
Event Log Panel......................................................................................6-5
Menu Bar................................................................................................ 6-5
File Menu.............................................................................................6-6
Operations Menu..................................................................................6-6
Group Operations Menu.......................................................................6-6
Log Menu.............................................................................................6-6
Help Menu............................................................................................6-6
6-3 Creating a New Storage Configuration..........................................6-6
Understanding Virtual Disk Parameters..................................................6-8
Using Auto Configuration........................................................................6-8
Using Guided Configuration..................................................................6-10
Using Manual Configuration: RAID 0....................................................6-13
Using Manual Configuration: RAID 1....................................................6-15
Using Manual Configuration: RAID 5....................................................6-16
Using Manual Configuration: RAID 10..................................................6-17
6-4 Adding or Deleting a Hotspare Disks...........................................6-18
6-5 Changing Adjustable Task Rates..................................................6-19
6-6 Changing Virtual Disk Properties..................................................6-20