Adding/Deleting Hotspares; Configuring Disk Drives - Adaptec 1420SA Installation And User Manual

3 In the Array Properties dialog box, select Delete, then press
Enter. A warning message appears. Press Yes or No.
Note: If you are deleting a RAID 0, you will not get a
warning message first. When you press Enter, you will
immediatly delete your RAID 0.
4 If you press Yes, select the member when the following prompt
is displayed:
To delete the partition table, choose which member:
member #0, member #1, both, none
5 Press Esc to return to the previous menu.

Adding/Deleting Hotspares

To add, delete, or view hot spares:
1 From the ACU Main menu, select Add/Delete Hotspares.
2 Use the up and down arrow keys to highlight the disk you want
to designate as a Hotspare, then select Insert>Enter.
3 Press Yes when the following prompt is displayed:
Do you want to create spare? (Yes/No)
The Spare you have selected appears in the Selected Drive
menu.

Configuring Disk Drives

!
Caution:
If the drive is already used in an array, configuring it may
make the array unusable.
Do not configure a drive that is part of a boot array. To
determine which drives are associated with a particular
array, see
You will not be able to configure drives already used in an
array (even if it is a broken array with missing members).
You must delete the array before you can configure the
drives.
Viewing Array Properties on page
Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
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