Lenovo ThinkStation C20 - Chapter 7. Troubleshooting and Diagnostic Programs; Basic Troubleshooting

InstallingSATAorSASharddiskdrives
YourcomputermusthavetheminimumnumberofSATAorSASharddiskdrivesinstalledforthesupported
levelofRAIDbelow:
•RAIDLevel0–Stripeddiskarray
–Twoharddiskdrivesminimum
–Betterperformancewithoutfaulttolerance
•RAIDLevel1–Mirroreddiskarray
–Twoharddiskdrivesminimum
–Improvedreadperformanceand100%redundancy
•RAIDLevel5–Block-levelstripeddiskarraywithdistributedparity
–Threeharddiskdrivesminimum
–Datastripedatthebytelevel
–Stripeerrorcorrectioninformation
–Betterperformanceandfaulttolerance
ToinstallanewSATAorSASharddiskdrive,see“Installinganewharddiskdrive”onpage23.
EnteringtheMarvellBIOSSetuptocongureSATAorSASRAID
ThissectiondescribeshowtoentertheMarvellBIOSSetuptocongureaSATAorSASRAID.
1.TurnonthecomputerafteryouhaveinstalledtherequirednumberofSATAorSASharddiskdrives.
2.PressCtrl+MwhenpromptedtoentertheMarvellBIOSSetuptocongureSATA/SASRAID.
ConguringtheMarvellBIOSSetuptoenableSATA/SASRAID0,1,or5
functionality
ThissectionprovidesinstructionsonhowtoenableSATA/SASRAIDfunctionality.
ToenableSATA/SASRAIDfunctionality,usetheMarvellBIOSSetupcongurationutilityastheSATA/SAS
congurationutility.Thisutilityassumesthatthesystemhastherequirednumberofharddiskdrivesinstalled.
1.TurnonyourcomputerandpressCtrl+MwhenpromptedtoentertheMarvellBIOSSetup.
2.OntheMarvellBIOSSetupscreen,usethearrowkeystoselectRAIDandpressEnter.TheRAID
Congmenuopens.
3.FromtheRAIDCongmenu,selectCreatearray.
4.UsethearrowkeysandtheEnterkeytoselecteachfreeharddiskdrivethatyouwanttoinclude
inthearray.
5.SelectNextandpressEnter.
6.FromtheCreatearraymenu,selectRAIDlevelandpressEnter.
Note:OnlythevalidRAIDlevelswillbeactive.
7.SelectyourdesiredRAIDlevel(RAID0,RAID1,orRAID5)andpressEnter.
8.FromtheStripeSizemenu,youcanchangethestripesizeorkeepitasdefault.
9.TypeaproperarraynameintheArrayNameeld.
10.SelectNextandpressEnter.
11.Whenprompted,pressYtocompletethearraycreationandRAIDconguration.
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