Areca 24/4 Internal/External Port Pcie 3.0 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA Raid Controller 2Gb Cache - Manual (Page 46)

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3.2 McBIOS RAID manager
The McBIOS RAID manager is firmware-based and is used to con -
figure RAID sets and volume sets. Because the utility resides in
the SAS RAID controller firmware, operation is independent of any
operating systems on your computer. This utility can be used to:
• Create RAID sets,
• Expand RAID sets,
• Add physical drives,
• Define volume sets,
• Modify volume sets,
• Modify RAID level/stripe size,
• Define pass-through disk drives,
• Modify system functions and
• Designate drives as hot spares.
3.3 Configuring Raid Sets and Volume Sets
You can configure RAID sets and volume sets with McBIOS RAID
manager automatically. Using “Quick Volume/Raid Setup” or manu-
ally using “Raid Set/Volume Set Function”. Each configuration
method requires a different level of user input. The general flow of
operations for RAID set and volume set configuration is:
Step Action
1 Designate hot spares/pass-through drives (optional).
2 Choose a configuration method.
3 Create RAID sets using the available physical drives.
4 Define volume sets using the space available in the RAID set.
5 Initialize the volume sets and use volume sets (as logical drives) in the
host OS.