Using The Logical Devices View - Adaptec RAID 3085 User Manual

Hold your cursor over any disk drive to see its status, port/connector/ID number, and
maximum speed. You can also click the arrow, shown at right, to see this same
information for all the disk drives at the same time. To reveal further information, use the
View buttons to change how the disk drives are displayed, as described in
Drive Information on page
A disk drive shaded in light blue is not part of any logical drive. A disk drive shaded half
light/half dark blue (as shown at right) has some space allocated to a logical drive, and
some space available.
To view the logical drives associated with a particular disk drive, see
View on page 41.
If your storage space includes an enclosure, its enclosure management device is
represented by the icon shown at right.

Using the Logical Devices View

When you select a controller in the Enterprise View, information about the logical drives and
arrays associated with that controller appear in the Logical Devices View. (A logical drive is a
group of physical disk drives that your operating system recognizes as a single drive. For more
information, see
Controller 2 is connected to...
The RAID level of a logical drive is indicated by the number inside the logical drive's icon.
For instance, the logical drive shown at right has RAID 1. Logical drives protected by hot
spares have plus signs (+) beside them, as shown at right.
Hold your cursor over any logical drive to see its name, status, and size. You can also click
the arrow, shown at right, to view this same information for all the logical drives at once.
Getting Started Step 3: Exploring Adaptec Storage Manager
42.
Understanding Logical Drives on page
...28 disk drives...
Revealing More Disk
Using the Logical Devices
68.)
...from which 3 logical drives
have been created.
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