AMCC 9000 manual Enabling Auto-Carving for Units Larger Than 2 TB

Specifying the Unit Configuration

If a hot spare is already enabled, you can disable it by following the same process.

Note: In order to replace a failed drive in a degraded unit, a hot spare drives must have the same or larger storage capacity than the failed drive.

Enabling Auto-Carving for Units Larger Than 2 TB

If the capacity of your unit exceeds 2TB and you are using one of the following operating systems, you will need to enable auto- carving in order to make use of the full capacity:

„Windows 2000

„Windows XP

„Linux 2.4

„FreeBSD 4.x

You must turn on the 2TB Auto-Carving policy before creating the unit. Units created with this policy turned off will not be affected. If the policy is turned off later, units that have been carved into volumes will retain their individual volumes; existing data is not affected.

To enable auto-carving

1At the main 3BM screen, tab to Policy and press Enter.

2On the Policy screen, tab to 2TB Auto-Carving, and change the setting to “Enabled.”

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