Adaptec ARO-1130U2 Installation And Hardware Manual

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4-7Creating an Array With the ArrayConfigU2 Utility8 Select spares. If you do not want a spare, type n and continuewith Step 10. If you want to select dedicated spares, followthese steps:a At the prompt, type y.b At the next prompt, type 1 or 2.c Select one or two spares, using the same method you usedto select disks for the array.9 Initialize array. When the Initialize Mode menu appears, selectInitialize Array to Zero. A graph on the screen shows theprogress of this operation.Caution: If the drives contain data, all the data is lostwhen you initialize the array.Select Low-Level Format only if the drives were previouslyformatted on another computer or if you think they may havesurface defects. Low-level formatting takes a long time forlarge capacity disk drives.10 Select array block size. When the menu of block sizes appears,select a block size. (This menu does not appear if the array is amirrored array with only two drives.)The allowable block sizes are 8, 16, 32, 64 (the default), and128 KBytes. The default block size gives the best overallperformance in most environments.11 Wait for initialization to complete. When you see the messageInitialization of [array name] is complete, press any key toreturn to the Disk Array Operations menu.12 Create additional arrays. You may use ArrayConfigU2 to createadditional arrays (if disks are available), however we recom-mend using Adaptec CI/O Management Software to createadditional arrays. (CI/O is required for array management inorder to provide the proper level of fault tolerance and eventnotification.) See the Adaptec CI/O Management Software User’sGuide for more information.