Maximum Drive Capacity; Spare Drive Assignments; Disk Reserved Space; Write Policy - Compaq External RAID Controller & Subsystem Infortrend Operation Manual

Maximum Drive Capacity:

Choose "Maximum Drive Capacity,"
then press ENT. The maximum drive
capacity
capacity that will be used in each
member drive.
Use
size that will be used on each drive.

Spare Drive Assignments:

Local Spare Drive can also be assigned
here. Press
Drive Assignments," then press ENT.
Available drives will be listed. Use
or
then press ENT to select the drive you
wish to use as the Local Spare Drive.
Press ENT again for two seconds.

Disk Reserved Space:

This menu allows you to change the
size of disk reserved space. Default is
256MB. We recommended using the
default value.
Choices are 256MB and 64KB.
backward compatible to RAID controllers running earlier firmware
versions. Press ENT and use the
prefer. You may also refer to Appendix E for more details about
disk reserved space.

Write Policy:

This menu allows you to set the
caching mode policy for this specific
logical drive.
value that is coordinated with the
controller's
Other choices are "Write-Back" and
"Write-Through."

Initialization Mode:

This menu allows you to determine if
the
accessible.
used, data can be written onto it before
the array's initialization is completed.
Front Panel Operation
refers to the
and to change the maximum
or to choose "Spare
to browse through the drive list,
"Default" is a neutral
caching mode
logical drive is
If the Online method is
Maximum Drive
Capacity
maximum
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Set to
Spare Drive
Assignments
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Disk Rev. Space
With 64KB, logical drives are
or keys to choose the size you
Write Policy
Default
setting.
Initialization
Mode
immediately
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