Initializing A Logical Drive - Promise Technology VTrak M610i Product Manual

5. Click the Logical Drive
6. Click the Settings tab in Management View.
7. Optional. Enter an alias in the Logical Drive Alias field.
Maximum of 32 characters. Use letters, numbers, space between words,
and underscore. An alias is optional.
8. From the Read Policy dropdown menu, select a Read Cache policy.
The choices are Read Cache, Read Ahead, and No Cache.
9. From the Write Policy dropdown menu, select a Write Cache policy.
The choices are Write Back and Write Through (Thru). If you select No Read
Cache, Write policy is automatically Write Through.
10. Click the Submit button.

Initializing a Logical Drive

Initialization is done to logical drives after they are created from a disk array.
Initialization sets all data bits in the logical drive to zero. The action is useful
because there may be residual data the logical drives left behind from earlier
configurations. For this reason, Initialization is recommended for all new logical
drives.
Initialize a Logical Drive:
1. Click the Subsystem
2. Click the Logical Drive Summary
3. Click the
You can also start Initialization from the Subsystem
Activities tab
4. Click the Background Activities tab in Management View.
5. From the Background Activities dropdown menu, select Initialization.
6. To select Quick Initialization, check the box.
If you checked the box, enter a value in the Quick Initialization Size field.
This value is the size of the initialization blocks in MB.
7. If you did not select Quick Initialization, enter a hexidecimal value in the
Initialization Pattern in Hex field or use the default 00000000 value.
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When you initialize a logical drive, all the data the logical drive will
be lost. Backup any important data before you initialize a logical
drive.
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