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Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide
Click the drive icons you want to remove and then click
■
Remove Drive.
During the drive selection process some drives might be
displayed in a blue color. This indicates that these drives cannot
be included in the array unless you change the configuration.
You must either select more drives for the array or remove one
or more drives from the array. See
for rules regarding the number of drives that can be included in
arrays.
7 When you finish selecting the drives to be included in the new
array group, click Done. The icon for the array group appears
with a black flag until you start the build process by saving
your changes.
8 When you are finished creating arrays, exit Storage Manager.
You are prompted to save the configuration changes. If you save
the configuration, the build operation starts automatically. If
you have created multiple arrays, they are built one at a time in
the order created. You can also start the build without exiting
Storage Manager by selecting File–Set System Configuration.
Note: Depending on the size of the array, the initialization
process can take several hours to complete. You can exit
Storage Manager and perform other activities on the system
while the build continues. Arrays can be accessed while the
initialization occurs as a background task.
Furthermore, redundant arrays provide redundancy
immediately although the performance of the array will be
less than optimal until the initialization is complete.
RAID 1 arrays are created by copying the data on one drive of the
mirrored pair to the other. If you have specified a RAID 1 array,
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Array Groups on page 3-12
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