Toshiba Magnia Z300 User Manual

System Configuration Setup
Configuring MegaRAID IDE

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Create Array (F4)

Press the <F2> key to create a disk array. When you create an
array, a default array template is created. You must edit the array
properties to complete the array creation. Use arrow navigation
keys to highlight a property field and press <Enter> to edit that
property. See the following section for information about setting
each property field.

Array Type

By default an array is created in stripe mode. When you select this
field, a pop-up window displays the following options:

Select the intended RAID mode by using the arrow navigation
keys and pressing the <Enter> key. The SPARE POOL option is
not a RAID mode, but a way to assign physical drive(s) as hot
spare to be used in case of a mirror failure. When a mirror config-
ured array has a drive fail, a spare drive can be used to replace the
failed drive and rebuild the array.

NOTE: To rebuild a drive from the SPARE POOL, the size of
the physical drive in SPARE POOL must be greater than or
equal to the smallest drive in the array.

Drive(s)

There is no default setting for this field. You must select the drives
for the configured array. When this field is selected, a pop-up win-
dow will display all the available physical drives with check-
boxes.

RAID MODE

STRIPE

MIRROR

RAID 10

SPARE POOL