Initializing Or Erasing A Drive - Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 User Manual

12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide
March 2014
The Unassign Hotspare Drive warning message appears.
3. Highlight Confirm and press the spacebar to confirm the operation.
4. Highlight Yes and press Enter.
A confirmation message appears.
5. Click OK to return to the Drive Management menu.
The drive that was formerly a hotspare now appears as Unconfigured Good.
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Initializing or Erasing a Drive

Follow these steps to initialize or erase the currently selected drive. An initialize operation fills the drive with zeroes.
An erase operation initializes the drive with a pattern of zeros and ones.
1. Open the popup drive operations menu, highlight Initialize Drive or Erase Drive, and press Enter.
2. If you select Drive Erase, highlight the Erase Mode field and press Enter.
3. Select Simple, Normal, or Thorough from the pop-up menu and press Enter.
4. Highlight Go and press Enter.
The Initialize Virtual Drive message appears. (The message is similar to that of erasing a drive.)
5. Highlight Confirm and press the spacebar to confirm the operation.
6. Highlight Yes and press Enter.
A message appears indicating that the initialization or erase operation has started.
7. Highlight Yes and press Enter to return to the previous window.
This dialog now displays a progress field and a Stop command, as shown in the following figure.
Figure 107 Initialize Progress Indicator
NOTE To refresh the status of the drive displayed in the dialog, exit back to
the Main Menu and then re-enter the Drive Management dialog.
CAUTION All data on the drive is lost when you initialize it or erase it. Before
starting these operations, back up any data that you want to keep.
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