Adaptec 133U2 - AAA RAID Controller User Manual page 80

Adaptec CI/O Management Software User's Guide
Caution:
All arrays except RAID 0 arrays must be initialized
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or formatted before you can write data to them. We
recommend that you zero-initialize RAID 0 arrays as well.
All data on the disks is overwritten when you initialize an
array.
Follow these steps to initialize an array to which data has previously
been written or a new array that has been defined but not initialized:
1
Click to open the Storage Configuration window.
2
Click the icon
3
Right-click and select Initialize from the drop-down menu.
(This option is greyed out if the array contains a partition.) A
warning appears if the selected array has a partition:
– If the partition is recognized by the operating system, you
cannot initialize the array.
– If the partition is not recognized by the operating system,
you can initialize the array.
You are prevented from initializing an array with a recognized
partition so you will not accidentally erase the system's boot
array. To find out if an array has a partition, right-click the
icon, and click Check Partition in the drop-down menu.
A small pop-up box displays whether the selected array has a
partition and whether the partition is visible to the operating
system. To initialize an array with a recognized partition, exit
from Adaptec CI/O Management Software, back up any data
you want to keep, and delete the partition from the disk. Then
start Adaptec CI/O Management Software again and initialize
the array.
4
When the confirmation message appears, click Yes to confirm
that you want to initialize the array.
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of the array you want to initialize.