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Adaptec Storage Management Software User's Guide
Note: If the drives are not in hot-pluggable carriers, power
down the system before adding drives to the peripheral bus.
2 Start Storage Manager and click Switch View to change to the
Logical Configuration View.
3 Select the array group to which you want to add drives by
clicking on the corresponding RAID 0 or RAID 5 icon.
4 Select Expand Array Group.
5 Mark the drives to be added to the array by clicking on them. A
green check mark indicates that a drive is selected.
6 Select Include Drive. This causes the marked drives to join the
existing array group. The drives to be added are now marked
New.
7 When you are finished choosing drives, select Done. The icon
for the array group appears with a black flag until the
expansion process is started.
8 Select File–Set System Configuration to start the array
expansion. The status flag on the array group turns blue and the
flags on the components turn white during the expansion
process. You can perform other activity on the system while the
expansion continues, because the array is fully functional
during the expansion process.
For large arrays, the expansion can take several hours to
complete. Host I/O activity can prolong the expansion process.
If you want to monitor the progress of the expansion operation,
you can use Storage Manager to view the Array Group
Information window. Status is Expanding during the expansion
process, Optimal when it has completed.
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