Logical Drive Initialization; Logical Drive Activation; Logical Drive Critical / Offline - Promise Technology FastTrak TX4310 User Manual

3. Click on the Synchronization tab in Management View.
4. Click on the Disable radio button.

Logical Drive Initialization

When logical drive is first created, you can select one of three choices for
initialization:
• Quick Initialization – Erases the reserve and master boot sectors of the
physical drives being added to the logical drive.
• Full Initialization – Erases all sectors of the physical drives being added to
the logical drive.
• None – No initialization. This choice is not recommended.
When you select full initialization, the process takes some time, depending on the
size of the physical drives selected for the logical drive. The Initialization tab
enables you to pause the initialization process so that more of FastTrak's
resources are available for other operations. When the other operations are
done, you can resume the initialization of your new logical drive.
1. Click on the Logical Drive View
2. Click on the Logical Drive
want to pause.
3. Click on the Initialization tab in Management View.
4. Click the Pause button.
The initialization process stops.
5. Click the Resume button.
The initialization resumes from the point where you paused it.

Logical Drive Activation

This feature enables you to designate a hot plug-and-play logical drive. It will
become available in a future release of the FastTrak Controller card.

Logical Drive Critical / Offline

A fault-tolerant logical drive—RAID 1, 5 or 10—goes critical when a disk drive is
removed or fails. Due to the fault tolerance of the logical drive, the data is still
available and online. However, once the logical drive goes critical, it has lost its
fault tolerance and performance may be adversely affected.
If the fault was caused by a failed disk drive that was removed, the drive must be
replaced by another drive, either identical or larger, in order for the RAID system
to rebuild and restore optimal configuration.
icon in Tree View.
icon of the logical drive whose initialization you
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