Change The Name Of A Drive; Remove A Host Drive; Create A New Host Drive - ICP RS Series User Manual

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K.5.4 Change the name of a Drive
Click the right mouse button on the drive icon.
This menu option opens a dialog where you can enter a new name for the selected drive
(up to 7 characters).
K.5.5 Remove a Host Drive
Click the right mouse button on the Host Drive icon. By selecting this menu item you can
delete a Host Drive.
CAUTION !
By deleting a Host Drive, all other Host Drives which are part of the same Array Drive
or Logical Drive, the Array Drive or Logical Drive itself and all its components are de-
leted ! ALL DATA WILL BE LOST.
To prevent the operating system from crashing and to hinder the unintentional deletion of
drives all partitions on the Host Drive (and it's related Host Drives if it is split into several
Host Drives) must be deleted before the Host Drive can be removed.
K.5.6 Create a new Host Drive
Double click on the new Host Drive icon. Only the Host Drives are "visible" for the operating
system.
The structure of the Host Drives is not known to the operating system i.e., the operating
system does not recognize that a given Host Drive consists of a number of hard disks
forming a disk array. To the operating system this Host Drive simply appears as one single
hard disk with the capacity of the disk array. This complete transparency represents the
easiest way to operate disk arrays under any operating system, neither operating system
nor the computer need to be involved in the administration of these complex disk array
configurations. To create a new Host Drive, you need one or more Physical Drives which are
not yet part of another Host Drive. After double clicking on the New Host Drive icon a new
window opens.
On the left side you see a box with the available Physical Drives, under the drives you can
see their physical coordinates (channel/ID/LUN), the manufacturer and the vendor-unique
name. On the right side you see a list of all possible Host Drive types which can be config-
ured. When there is no Physical Drive selected in the left box, all possibilities are disabled