Areca ARC-1280ML - Configuring Raid Sets and Volume Sets; Designating Drives as Hot Spares

BIOS CONFIGURATION
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3.4 Designating Drives as Hot Spares
Any unused disk drive that is not part of a RAID Set can be des-
ignated as a Hot Spare. The Quick Volume/Raid Setup congura-
tion will add the spare disk drive and automatically display the
appropriate raid level from which the user can select. For the Raid
Set Function conguration option, the user can use the Create Hot
Spare option to dene the hot spare disk drive.
When a Hot Spare disk drive is being created using the Create Hot
Spare option (in the Raid Set Function), all unused physical devices
connected to the current controller appear:
Choose the target disk by selecting the appropriate check box.
Press the Enter key to select a disk drive, and press Yes in the
Create Hot Spare to designate it as a hot spare.
• Add physical drives,
• Dene volume sets,
• Modify volume sets,
• Modify RAID level/stripe size,
• Dene pass-through disk drives,
• Modify system functions, and
• Designate drives as hot spares.
3.3 Conguring Raid Sets and Volume Sets
You can congure RAID sets and volume sets with McBIOS RAID
manager automatically using Quick Volume/Raid Setup or manually
using Raid Set/Volume Set Function. Each conguration method re-
quires a different level of user input. The general ow of operations
for RAID Set and Volume Set conguration is:
Step Action
1 Designate hot spares/pass-through drives (optional).
2 Choose a conguration method.
3 Create RAID sets using the available physical drives.
4 Dene Volume Sets using the space available in the RAID Set.
5 Initialize the Volume Sets and use Volume Sets (as logical drives) in the
host OS.