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Chapter 8
Drive Management
Using Altos RAIDWatch Manager, you can make and delete Logical Drives (LDs) and Logical
Volumes (LVs). Both LDs and LVs can be partitioned. This chapter describes the following drive
management features:
• Scanning in drives, 8.1 on page 89.
• Creating and deleting logical drives, 8.2 on page 90.
• Creating and deleting logical volumes, 8.3 on page 108.
• Creating and deleting volume partitions, 8.4 on page 116.
8.1 Scanning in Drives
Disk scanning is a process in which a newly installed drive is introduced to the disk array system. You
need to scan in a drive when:
• The drive is a new one. A drive is considered a new drive if it is not yet displayed in the Physical
View display of the RAID View window.
• The drive is a replacement for a failed drive which is installed on a different channel or has a
different SCSI ID.
If you do not scan in the drive on such occasions, the system will not be able to see the drive,
rendering it useless.
8.1.1 Scanning in a Drive
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Display Physical View under the RAID View window by clicking on the Physical View command
button under the introduction or selecting Physical View from the Navigation Panel.
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