Initializing A Logical Drive; Running Redundancy Check - Promise Technology VTRAK E310f Product Manual

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11. Click the Submit button.

Initializing a Logical Drive

Initialization is done to logical drives after they are created from a disk array.
Initialization sets all data bits in the logical drive to zero. The action is useful
because there may be residual data the logical drives left behind from earlier
configurations. For this reason, Initialization is recommended for all new logical
drives.
Initialize a Logical Drive:
1. Click the Subsystem
2. Click the Logical Drive Summary
3. Click the
You can also start Initialization from the Subsystem
Activities tab
4. Click the Background Activities tab in Management View.
5. From the Background Activities dropdown menu, select Initialization.
6. To select Quick Initialization, check the box.
If you checked the box, enter a value in the Quick Initialization Size field.
This value is the size of the initialization blocks in MB.
7. If you did not select Quick Initialization, enter a hexidecimal value in the
Initialization Pattern in Hex field or use the default 00000000 value.
8. Click the Submit button.
9. In the confirmation box, type the word confirm in the field provided.
10. Click the OK button.
To view the progress of the Initialization, click the Background Activity tab.
To set Initialization priority, see "Making Background Activity Settings" on
page 59.

Running Redundancy Check

Redundancy Check is a routine maintenance procedure for fault-tolerant logical
drives (those with redundancy) that ensures all the data matches exactly.
When you initialize a logical drive, all the data the logical drive will
be lost. Backup any important data before you initialize a logical
drive.
icon in Tree View.
icon of the logical drive you want to Initialize.
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