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Creating and Managing Arrays

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– The AHA-3980 or AHA-3985 menu—This lists the host

adapter channels. An AHA-3980 has two channels (A and

B), and an AHA-3985 has three channels (A, B, and C).

– The SCSI IDs on Channel menu—This lists the manufacturer,

model number, and capacity of drives on the highlighted

host adapter channel.

– The Adaptec Array # box—This box is initially empty when

the screen appears. As you select drives for the array, as

described next, the names of the selected drives appear in

the Adaptec Array # box.

Follow these steps to select the drives for an array:

Press

Ta b

to highlight a host adapter channel you want to

use for the array. The disks on the highlighted channel

appear in the SCSI IDs on Channel menu.

Select each drive for the array by pressing the ↑ and ↓ keys

until the disk name is highlighted, and then pressing the

Insert

Enter

key. Selected disk names are grayed.

Caution:

If you choose disks that contain data, all

the data will be lost when you format the array.

Do not choose your boot disk, therefore, as part of

an array. Also, do not choose disks that contain

NetWare volumes you want to keep, such as the

sys

volume.

To cancel the last selection, press the

Delete

key. To cancel

an earlier selection, press the

Delete

key until the disk

name no longer appears in the Adaptec Array # box (this

cancels all disk selections back to that point, so you must

reselect those disks you still want in the array).

To select disks on a different channel, repeat steps a and b.

When you have selected the number of disks you specified in

step 7, the next screen appears automatically. The screen that

appears depends on the array type and the number of non-

array disks remaining on the host adapter.

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