December 30, 200619 yr A suggestion and a question. First, the suggestion. Is it possible to modify the existing "Add one or more disks" section to add some additional information? I didn't realize until I'd been poking around the Server Management Utility (SMU) for about 10-15 minutes that I needed to: a) stop the array (Command Area/Stop), b) assign the disk devices (Devices/Disk Devices) for both parity and disk1 (disk2 being unassigned), c) start the array (Command Area/Start), and then d) format the array (Command Area/Format). I make this suggestion because the current documentation fails to mention the process of assigning devices (that I could find) and it implies -- at least to me -- that the drives will be formatted automatically on startup, which my system did not do (i.e, I had to explicitly command SMU to format disk1). Now the question. In my two drive setup, I explicitly assigned both the parity and disk1 devices. But after starting the array, SMU would only allow me to format disk1 (i.e., there was no menu choice). So...should I have formatted the parity device, and if so, how? Thanks.
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