Security array with new drives, Creating a security array with new drives – Promise Technology FastTrak S150 User Manual

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Chapter 2: Installation

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Creating a Security Array with New Drives

Use this setting to create a Mirrored (RAID 1) array with two new hard drives. If
one of the drives has data on it, follow the Creating a Security Array with an
Existing Data Drive
procedure on the next page.

Note

When creating a Security array with new drives, a feature called
Gigabyte Boundary will automatically be set to ON. For a
description of this feature, see page 23 in the User Manual.

To create an array for data protection using new hard drives, follow these steps:

1. Press the Spacebar to choose Security under the Optimize Array for

section.

2. Press Ctrl-Y to Save your selection.
3. The window below will appear.

Do you want the disk image to be
duplicated to another or do quick
initialize or create only?
Y - Create and Duplicate
N - Create Only
I - Create and Quick Initialize

4. Press N for the Create Only option.
5. A window will appear almost immediately confirming that your Security array

has been created. Press any key to reboot the system.

Array has been created.
<Press Any Key to Reboot>

6. Proceed with normal FDISK and format procedures as if you had just

installed a new hard drive.

7. Once the arrayed drives have been formatted, proceed to Chapter 4 of this

Manual to install your operating system and/or FastTrak driver.

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