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Setting Preferences and Changing Views......................................................... 54
Sorting Systems in the Enterprise View..................................................... 54
Setting the Standard Unit of Measure ....................................................... 55
Changing the Main Window Appearance ................................................. 55
Customizing the Adaptec Storage Manager Agent ......................................... 56
Broadcasting Event Alerts from a System.................................................. 56
Changing a System's Event Log Setting ..................................................... 56
Changing a System's Audible Alarm Settings............................................ 57
Changing a System's Agent Base Port Number ........................................ 58
Part II: Using Adaptec Storage Manager
Managing Logical Drives and Hot Spares
Understanding Logical Drives.......................................................................... 61
Creating Logical Drives..................................................................................... 62
Setting the Size of a Logical Drive.............................................................. 62
Including Different-sized Disk Drives in a Logical Drive......................... 63
Creating a Logical Drive Using Available Space........................................ 64
Fine-tuning Logical Drives ............................................................................... 65
Changing the Stripe Size............................................................................. 65
Changing the Write Cache Setting............................................................. 66
Changing the Read Cache Setting.............................................................. 66
Changing the Initialize Priority.................................................................. 66
Changing the Initialize Method ................................................................. 67
Verifying Logical Drives ................................................................................... 67
Verifying and Fixing a Logical Drive ......................................................... 68
Verifying a Logical Drive (Without Fix) ................................................... 69
Enabling/Disabling Background Consistency Check ............................... 69
Increasing the Capacity of a Logical Drive ...................................................... 70
Extending a Partition on a Logical Drive .................................................. 71
Changing the RAID Level of a Logical Drive................................................... 72
Deleting a Logical Drive.................................................................................... 73
Working with Hot Spares ................................................................................. 74
Hot Spare Limitations ................................................................................ 74
Dedicated Spare or Global Spare? .............................................................. 74
Designating a Global Hot Spare................................................................. 74
Assigning a Dedicated Hot Spare............................................................... 75
What Do the Hot Spare Icons Mean? ........................................................ 76
Removing a Hot Spare................................................................................ 76
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