Compaq Infortrend manual Creating a Logical Drive

Drives will be listed in the table of “View and Edit SCSI Drives.” Use arrow keys to scroll the table. You may first examine whether there is any drive installed but not listed here. If there is a drive installed but not listed, the drive may be defective or not installed correctly, please contact your RAID supplier.

IMPORTANT!

•Drives of the same brand/model/capacity might not have the same block number.

•The basic read/write unit of a hard drive is block. If members of a logical drive have different block numbers (capacity), the smallest block number will be taken as the maximum capacity to be used in every drive. Therefore, use drives of the same capacity.

•You may assign a Local/Global Spare Drive to a logical drive whose members has a block number equal or smaller than the Local/Global Spare Drive but you should not do the reverse.

7.4Creating a Logical Drive

Browse through the main menu and select “View and Edit Logical Drive.”

For the first logical drive on RAID, simply choose LG 0 and press [ENTER] to proceed. You may create as many as 128 logical drives from drives on any drive channel.

When prompted to “Create Logical Drive?,” select Yes and press [ENTER] to proceed.

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