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HAPTER 4
Installing and Using the NVIDIA MediaShield Application
Requirements for Designating a Spare Disk
TheDesignateSpareoptionontheStoragepageappearsonlyifallthefollowing
conditionsaremet.
•Theremustbeatleasttwofaulttolerantarraysalreadycreated.
(SomeOEMSallowadesignatedsparetobecreatedwhenonlyonefaulttolerantarray
exists.)
•Theremustbeatleastonefree
diskwithcapacityequaltoorgreaterthanthesmall est
diskinthegivenfaulttolerantarray.
Forexample,ifamirrorarrayiscreatedwithdiskcapacitiesof40GBand80GB,there
shouldbeatleastonefreediskavailableofcapacityequaltoorgreaterthan40GB
tobe
usedasasparediskforthatarray.
Designating a Spare Disk
1 EnterthesystemBIOSsetupandmakesurethatthedrivethatyouwanttomarkasfree
isRAIDenabled(see“EnablingRAIDintheSystemBIOS”onpage 8).
2 SelecttheRAIDarraythatyouwanttoreceivethesparedisk,thenclickDesignate
Spare.
Figure 4.20
Selecting “Designate Spare Disk” from the Pop Up Menu
Note:IftheDesignateSpareoptionisnotavailable,yoursystemmaynotfulfillthe
requirements.See“AboutSpareDisks”onpage 38.
YoucanalsoselectthetaskfromtheSystemTaskspane.
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