Glyph ForteRAID - Manual (Page 12)

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Note: After changing drive mode, it is necessary to utilize the Windows Control Panel/Administrative Tools/
Computer Management/Disk Management to format the drives in their new configuration before they will
be usable.
The Glyph Manager menu options are as follows:
“File” contains the method to close the program.
“Tools” contains Options with four settings involving the starting and stopping of Glyph Manager.
“Help” contains About Glyph Manager information as well as help files.
Glyph Manager also tells you the Windows policy settings for your ForteRAID. If the line reads “quick removal
– BAD”, then you may experience slow write speeds to the Glyph drive. This setting only applies when us-
ing FireWire 800. The default Windows settings for FireWire-connected drives can reduce your Glyph drive
performance by as much as 90%. This problem is easily corrected, just follow the instructions in the Glyph
document 630012_WinXP_Vista_write_performance.pdf. This document is available on the support pages
of our website and also on the Glyph Manager CD.
Known Restrictions in Glyph Manager 4: Windows Vista requires Service Pack 1.
Select the desired configuration on the fol-
lowing screen and click the Select button.
In the example shown, we are changing
from RAID 0 to RAID 5. Note that the top-left
selection (single disk) is not selectable at
this time.
Confirm the changed configuration by clicking Con-
tinue on the following screen.
Finally, click Initialize to initialize the drive array with
the new configuration.