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ASUS PCI-DA2200 User’s Manual
Chapter 6
Configuring RAID
6.1
Starting to Build a RAID System Drive
The following figure is a basic flowchart when configuring a RAID
system. Hardware installation must be completed before any
configurations take place.
When power is turned on, the ASUS PCI-DA2200 RAID controller
scans all the hard drives that are on all the drive channels. If a hard
drive was connected after the controller completes initialization, use
the "SCAN SCSI DRIVE" function to let the controller recognize the
newly added hard drive and configure it as a member of a logical
drive or a spare drive.
In accordance to your requirement, configure a logical drive to
contain one or more hard drives based on the desired RAID level,
and partition the logical drive into one or several partitions. Map
each partition as one system drive (LUN). The host SCSI adapter will
recognize the system drives after re-scanning the host SCSI bus.
Since the controller is totally operating system independent, the
operating system of the host computer will not be able to find out
whether the attached devices are physical hard drives or virtual
system drives created by the RAID controller.
Create
Logical Drive
Partition
Logical Drive
Map
Host LUN
(System Drive)