Software Installation and User’s Guide25Getting StartedCaution: The size of the host drive cannot be changed (decreased, increased, or expanded)once the host drive has been created.2.2 Create the RAID Driver Installation DisketteFor more information about Linux drivers and updates, see Table 5-3 in Section 5.1.1,Linux Drivers and Updates.2.2.1 Preferred MethodThe RAID Software Suite CD-ROM is self-booting, assuming that your system supportsbooting from the CD-ROM drive.1. Change your computer’s system BIOS setting so that your system boots from the CD-ROM. Insert the CD-ROM into the system CD-ROM drive and power up the system.The Main appears (Figure 2-7).Table 2-1. Pre-installation Worksheet (Creating a Host Drive for the Operating System)RAID Level# of disk drives supportedfor this RAID level(minimum to maximum)# of disk drives1 toinclude in new hostdrivePhysical drivecapacity (MB)RAID 0 2 to 15 per ChannelRAID 1 2 2RAID 4 3 to 15 per ChannelRAID 5 3 to 15 per ChannelRAID 10 4 to 15 per Channel 2Notes and Cautions1. The number of disk drives can not be decreased (only increased via thearrayexpansion feature) once the host drive is created.2. RAID 10 only supports aneven total number of disk drives. Additional drives areadded in pairs, up to a total of 30 drives over 2 channels.
