Windows® 98/ME Installationwww.3ware.com 87Partition and format other devicesNote: If you have disks or disk arrays other than yourboot device on the ATA RAID controller, you must parti-tion and format them before they can be written to orread from.1 If you have other disk units to partition, run fdisk by selectingRun... from the Start menu and typing fdisk in the dialog.2 Restart the system again and format each device.RAID array initializationRAID 0 arrays do not need to be initialized and are immediatelyavailable for use with full performance when created.RAID 1 and 10 arrays are not initialized when created and areimmediately available for use with full performance when created.The first time the array is verified (via the BIOS or 3ware 3DM),the array is initialized. Initialization results in data from one disk(the disk on the lower channel number) being copied to the otherdrive. In RAID 10 arrays, data from one half of the array is copiedto the other half. After the initial verification, subsequent verifies toa RAID 1 or 10 array result in the data from one drive (or set ofdrives) being compared to the other drive (or set of drives).RAID 5 arrays are immediately initialized after being created in theBIOS by writing zeroes to all array members. The user can rebootthe system before this is complete in order to use the RAID 5 arrayimmediately. Once booted to the operating system, the RAID 5array goes into initialization mode after a delay of up to ten min-utes. The advantage of this procedure is that the RAID 5 array canbe used immediately, but it will not be fault tolerant until the initial-ization is complete. The disadvantage of this is that it takes longer
