View Drive Assignments - Promise Technology FastTRAK66 User Manual

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Spare Drive Count

An extra drive that is not assigned to a disk array will be recognized as a Spare Drive

for use with mirrored disk arrays. Such a drive is immediately used as a "standby"

replacement. It is automatically added to an array once a disk member of the array

has been detected as "failed." To restore fault tolerance as quickly as possible,

FastTrak66 begins to perform an automatic data rebuild on the "spare" drive in the

background without the need to restart the system. At a later time, the failed drive

can be physically removed from the FastTrak66 card and an extra drive added in its

place to function as the "spare" drive.

Creating Multiple Disk Arrays with Auto Setup

If you plan to create multiple arrays, attach the drives necessary to create the first

disk array and complete the <1> Auto Setup. Second, install the additional drives

for the second array and again use the <1> Auto Setup. Repeat if more disk arrays

need to be created.

You can manually create disk arrays with the <3> Define Array option if necessary.

View Drive Assignments <2>

This option is to display whether drives are assigned to a disk arrays or are free.

Under "Assignment" drives are labeled with their disk array or "Free." Unassigned

"free" drives can be used for a future array or used as a spare drive when a drive

fails in a mirrored array. Unassigned drives are not accessible by the operating

system.

Channel:ID

1 : Master

1 : Slave

2 : Master

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