Promise Technology 150TX2 - Manual (Page 23)

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Chapter 3: Using FastBuild Configuration
Utility
The FastBuild Configuration Utility offers several menu choices to create and
manage the drive array on the Promise FastTrak S150 TX2plus RAID Controller
card. For purposes of this manual, it is assumed you have already created an
array in the previous chapter and now wish to make a change to the array or
view other options.
Viewing FastTrak S150 TX2plus BIOS Screen
When you boot your system with the FastTrak S150 TX2plus card and drives
installed, the Promise onboard BIOS will detect the drives attached and show
the following screen.
FastTrak S150 TXx (tm) BIOS Version 1.xx (Build xxxx)
(c) 2002-2005 Promise Technology, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Scanning IDE drives . . . . .
If an array exists already, the BIOS will display the following screen showing the
card’s BIOS version and status of the array.
FastTrak S150 TXx (tm) BIOS Version 1.xx (Build xxxx)
(c) 2002-2005 Promise Technology, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
ID MODE SIZE TRACK-MAPPING
STATUS
1 *
2+0 Stripe 160048M 611/128/32 Functional
Press <Ctrl-F> to enter FastBuild (tm) Utility....
The array status consists of five possible conditions: Functional, Synchronizing,
Rebuilding, Critical, and Offline.
Functional – The array is operational.
Synchronizing – The process of verifying data integrity by recalculating
redundant data and matching the data on the disk drives
Rebuilding – The process of reconstructing an array in Critical mode by placing
redundant data on a replacement disk drive.