Granite Digital SATA 8 Bay Rack Expandable - Manual (Page 11)

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Drive & Host Adapter Install
Formatting & Partitioning
After the Host Adapter
and drivers have been
installed the next step is to
format and partition your
drive mechanism. This
procedure is different in
every operating system.
The screen on the right is
an example of what the
Macintosh uses... it is
called “Disk Utility”. On a
PC running windows it is
called “Disk Management”.
No matter which operating system you are running the basics are still
the same. The drives will need to be formatted and partitioned before they
can be used.
Many RAID controllers include their own set of utilities for formatting
and controlling the PCI Host Adapter. If this is the case then the standard
formatting process will not be used and the utilities supplied by the host
adapter manufacturer will format, partition and manage the drives.
After you finish this initialization process the drives will then be ready
to use. Again, every system is slightly different especially when it comes to
RAID and RAID levels. Read the documention carefully before putting
important data on your system.