Create a Hardware RAID Volume

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Select the controller that will handle a new RAID volume.
See Prepare to Create a RAID Hardware Volume (FCode-based RAID Utility). At this point you have obtained the OpenBoot prompt and have selected an on-board disk controller.

List the physical drives on the selected controller.

Note the target name of each disk you will use in the RAID. In this example, the targets are named 9, a, b, and c.

ok show-children
...
Target 9
  Unit 0   Disk   HITACHI H109030SESUN300G A31A 585937500 Blocks, 300 GB
  SASDeviceName 5000cca01622ac64 SASAddress 5000cca01622ac65 PhyNum 0
Target a
  Unit 0   Disk   HITACHI H109030SESUN300G A31A 585937500 Blocks, 300 GB
  SASDeviceName 5000cca01622b1f4 SASAddress 5000cca01622b1f5 PhyNum 1
ok

Select one of these commands to create a logical drive from several physical disks:
- create-raid0-volume
- create-raid1-volume
- create-raid1e-volume
- create-raid10-volume
For example, to create a RAID 0 volume with targets 9 and a, type the targets first then type the command name:
```
ok 9 a create-raid0-volume
```
To create a RAID 1e volume with three targets (a, b, and c), type:
```
ok a b c create-raid1e-volume
```
To create a RAID 10 volume with four targets (9, a, b, and c), type:
```
ok 9 a b c create-raid10-volume
```

Verify creation of the RAID volume.
```
ok show-volumes
```

(Optional) Create a second RAID volume to be handled by the present controller.
To do so, enter another command as described in Step 3.

Unselect the controller.
```
ok unselect-dev
```

Create a Hardware RAID Volume

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