Promise Technology EX8650 Manual De Usuario

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In order for your operating system to recognize and work with the physical drives 
attached to your SuperTrak EX Controller card, the drives must be partitioned 
and formatted. 
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If your drives were previously partitioned and formatted they are ready to use 
and you can skip this procedure

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If your drives have not been partitioned and formatted, you must do that job 
before you can use them 

The actions of partitioning and formatting create a file structure on the physical 
drives with which your operating system can work. In the example below, we 
show how this is done in Windows. A similar procedure is required for Linux PCs. 
However, partitioning and formatting in Linux is not automated, therefore please 
refer to your system documentation for the exact procedure. 

1.

From the desktop, right-click the My Computer icon and choose Manage 
from the popup menu. The Computer Management window opens.

2.

From the left menu, click Disk Management. The Disk Management window 
opens with your new logical disk identified as Disk 1. The Initialize Wizard 
appears automatically.

If you plan to boot your computer from this logical drive, you will 
perform partitioning and formatting during the OS installation. The 
instructions here are for data logical drives only.