Initializing Disk Drives; Rescanning Disk Drives; Secure Erasing Disk Drives; Stopping A Secure Erase - Adaptec ASR-6805Q User Manual

Initializing Disk Drives

If a disk drive appears grayed-out (unavailable for use in a new array), it may need to be initialized.
To begin initializing a disk drive, select Initialize Drives from the Logical Device Configuration menu.
You can initialize one drive or multiple drives. If an error occurs during initialization, the message
"Initializing drives...FAILED x of n" is displayed. Press
Press to continue.
Esc
Caution: Do not initialize a disk drive that is part of an array. Initializing a disk drive
that's part of an array may make the array unusable. Back up all data from your disk
drive before you initialize it.

Rescanning Disk Drives

To begin rescanning a disk drive, select Rescan Drives from the Logical Device Configuration menu.

Secure Erasing Disk Drives

When you perform a secure erase on a disk drive, all data on that disk drive is completely and irretrievably
eradicated. Secure erase performs three distinct writing passes to the disk drive being erased—it does
not just write zeros.
Performing a secure erase takes up to six times longer than clearing (or zeroing) a disk drive; on a 2TB
or 3TB drive, often it takes hours, possibly as long as a day! You may want to perform a secure erase
only on disk drives that contain confidential or classified information.
Note: To erase (or zero) a disk drive with non-classified information, you may choose
to format it (see Formatting and Verifying Disk Drives
it using maxView Storage Manager—both options take much less time than the secure
erase option.
To begin a secure erase, select Secure Erase from the Logical Device Configuration menu, then select
(yes). To return to the main Logical Device Configuration menu once the secure erase has begun, press
Y
.
Esc
Note: For newer SATA drives, you can choose to perform a Secure ATA Erase, which
implements the secure erase feature at the drive firmware level. To start a Secure
ATA Erase, select a SATA drive, then type
You will see this dialog only if the drive supports Secure ATA Erase.
The selected disk drive(s) cannot be used until the erase is complete.

Stopping a Secure Erase

To stop a secure erase in progress:
1. In the Logical Device Configuration menu, select Secure Erase.
2. Select the disk drive being secure erased, then press
The secure erase stops and you return to the main Logical Device Configuration menu.

Uninitializing Disk Drives

Note: This option is available on Adaptec Series 7 controllers only.
Uninitializes one or more physical drives so that they can be used in HBA mode (see
Settings on page 87). This option clears Adaptec meta-data and any OS partitions from a drive. Drives
can uninitialized only if they are not part of any array.
To begin uninitializing a disk drive, select Uninitialize Drives from the Logical Device Configuration menu,
then type to continue.
Y

Managing Global Hot Spares

Note: This option is available on Adaptec Series 6 controllers only.
A hot spare is a disk drive that automatically replaces any failed drive in a logical drive. A global hot
spare is not assigned to a specific logical drive. It protects any logical drive on the controller (except
RAID 0 logical drives). You can create and delete global hot spares even if no arrays exist.
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to see a list of drives that failed to initialize.
Enter
on page 89) instead, or initialize
to open the Secure ATA Erase dialog.
Ctrl-S
.
Ctrl+Q
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