Compaq Infortrend manual Maximum Drive Capacity, Spare Drive Assignments, Disk Reserved Space

Maximum Drive Capacity:

Choose “Maximum Drive Capacity,” then press ENT. The maximum drive capacity refers to the maximum capacity that will be used in each member drive.

Use ▼ and ▲ to change the maximum size that will be used on each drive.

Spare Drive Assignments:

Local Spare Drive can also be assigned here. Press ▼ or ▲ to choose “Spare Drive Assignments,” then press ENT.

Available drives will be listed. Use ▼ or ▲ to browse through the drive list, then press ENT to select the drive you wish to use as the Local Spare Drive. Press ENT again for two seconds.

Maximum Drive

Capacity ..

MaxSiz= 1010MB Set to 1010MB?

Spare Drive Assignments ..

C=1 I=15 1010MB *LG=0 SL SEAGATE

Disk Reserved Space:

This menu allows you to change the size of disk reserved space. Default is 256MB. We recommended using the default value.

Disk Rev. Space

256MB ..

Choices are 256MB and 64KB. With 64KB, logical drives are backward compatible to RAID controllers running earlier firmware versions. Press ENT and use the ▼ or ▲ keys to choose the size you prefer. You may also refer to Appendix E for more details about disk reserved space.

Write Policy:

This menu allows you to set the caching mode policy for this specific logical drive. “Default” is a neutral value that is coordinated with the controller’s caching mode setting. Other choices are “Write-Back” and “Write-Through.”

Write Policy

Default ..

Initialization Mode:

This menu allows you to determine if the logical drive is immediately accessible. If the Online method is used, data can be written onto it before the array’s initialization is completed.

Initialization Mode Online..

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