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To make Logical Drive settings:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Logical Drive Management and press Enter .
2. Highlight the logical drive you want and press Enter .
3. For the following items, accept the existing setting choose a new one:
• Highlight Alias and type an alias into the field provided.
• Maximum of 32 characters. Use letters, numbers, space between
words and underscore. An alias is optional.
• Highlight WritePolicy and press the spacebar to toggle between
WriteBack and WriteThru (write though).
• Highlight ReadPolicy and press the spacebar to toggle though ReadCache , ReadAhead and None .
• Highlight Preferred Controller ID and press the spacebar to toggle between 1 and 2 .
• Highlight PerfectRebuild and press the spacebar to toggle between Enable and
Disable. Note that once PerfectRebuild is disbaled it can not be enabled again.
4. Press Control-A to save your settings.
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This function sets all data bits in the logical drive to zero.
Warning
When you initialize a logical drive, all the data on the logical drive is lost.
Backup any important data before you initialize a logical drive.
To initialize a logical drive:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Logical Drive Management and press Enter .
2. Highlight the logical drive you want and press Enter .
3. Highlight Background Activities and press Enter .
4. Highlight Start Initialization and press Enter .
The initialization parameters appear.
• Initialization pattern – The default 00000000 is best for most applications
• Quick Initialization – Yes means only the first and last sections of the logical
drives are initialized. No means the entire logical drive is initialized.
To change a parameter, highlight it and press the backspace key to erase the current value, then type the
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new value.
5. Highlight Start and press Enter .
If necessary, you can pause and resume or stop and restart the Initialization. You cannot access the
logical drive until Initialization has finished.
For initialization rate, see "Making Background Activity Settings (CLU)" on page 154.
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Redundancy Check is a maintenance procedure for logical drives in fault-tolerant disk arrays that ensures all
the data matches exactly.
To run Redundancy Check:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Logical Drive Management and press Enter .
2. Highlight the logical drive you want and press Enter .
3. Highlight Background Activities and press Enter .
4. Highlight Start Redundancy Check and press Enter .
The redundancy check parameters appear.
• Auto Fix – Corrects inconsistencies automatically
• Pause On Error – Pauses the Redundancy Check when an error is found
To change a parameter, highlight it and press the backspace toggle between Yes and No .
5. Highlight Start and press Enter .
If necessary, you can pause and resume or stop and restart the Redundancy Check. You can use the
logical drive while Redundancy Check is running.
For Redundancy Check rate, see "Making Background Activity Settings (CLU)" on page 154.
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This feature helps you identify the physical drives assigned to the logical drive you are working with in the CLU.
To locate a logical drive:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Logical Drive Management and press Enter .
2. Highlight the logical drive you want and press Enter .
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