Dell 745N manual Disk Commands

Blink Virtual Disk

This command allows you to locate the array disks included in a virtual disk by blinking the LEDs on the array disks. This command automatically cancels after a short duration such as 30 or 60 seconds.

NOTE: This procedure only applies to drives on an external SCSI enclosure.

Unblink Virtual Disk

This command allows you to cancel the Blink Virtual Disk command before the 30- or 60-second time limit has been reached.

NOTE: This procedure only applies to drives on an external SCSI enclosure connected to an external storage configuration system.

Disk Commands

Initialize

Initialize any array disk before you use it.

Perform the following procedure on any array disk on a supported RAID controller.

NOTICE: All data on the virtual disk is lost when the disk is initialized.

1.Right-click the array disk that you want to initialize.

2.Click Initialize.

The status of the disk displays Initializing in the right pane until the operation is finished.

Format

The Format command performs a low-level formatting of the array disk. To format the array disk, perform the following steps:

1.Right-click the disk that you want to format.

2.Click Format.

The right pane shows the status of the format. The status displays Formatting until the operation is finished.

Rebuild

The Rebuild command is enabled only when a disk has failed. You can rebuild only on failed disks in redundant arrays (RAID 1 or RAID 5) by performing the following steps:

1.Right-click the failed disk that you want to rebuild.

2.Click Rebuild.

In the right pane, the status of the disk is Rebuilding and a progress bar shows the percentage of completion.

NOTE: This process may take several hours.