Promise Technology FASTTRAK SX4300 - Manual (Page 64)

FastTrak SX4300, SX8300 User Manual
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How do I partition/format my FastTrak SX Series RAID logical drive?
The FastTrak Controller represents the logical drive as a single disk drive to
your system. Therefore, anything that you can do to a single disk drive you
can do to a FastTrak logical drive.
For example, you should use the FDISK and FORMAT utilities to partition
and format the logical drive. You can format the logical drive with any file
system you wish.
Installation Issues (Capacity, Booting)
How can I change the system boot sequence in order to boot from the
FastTrak SX Series logical drive?
The boot sequence is controlled by the system BIOS. As far as the system
BIOS is concerned, the FastTrak Controller and defined logical drives are
categorized as a SCSI device. This allows you to set the boot sequence in
your BIOS setup utility to boot from SCSI first, rather than IDE.
If there are multiple SCSI add-in controllers in the system, then the boot
sequence among them will be determined exclusively by their PCI/PCI-X slot
priority. PCI slot #1 will be first, slot #2 second, etc. Put the FastTrak
Controller in the PCI-X slot where it will be accessed ahead of other SCSI
controllers if you want to boot from the logical drive.
How can I change the boot sequence between a PCI SCSI card and the
FastTrak SX Series RAID logical drive?
Since all PCI and PCI-X devices are PnP, it is difficult to determine which
device is addressed first. Most motherboard BIOSes have advanced options
that identify devices and allow you to select which device will be assigned
resources first. Otherwise you may have to physically switch the device
cards on the PCI/PCI-X slots so that the boot device is in the highest priority
slot number (see previous question).
Post-Installation
Why can’t I see the drives on the FastTrak SX Series under FDISK?
You have not created a logical drive yet. Without a logical drive, the system
will not recognize the disk drives attached to the FastTrak Controller.
How can I obtain the latest FastTrak drivers?
Download the latest drivers from the Promise Technology website at
www.promise.com. Click on Support, then on Download.