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4Select Enabled to enable Virtual Sizing.

After you have created a logical drive set, the partition of the drive should be as large as the virtual size of the logical drive. After you have created a logical array set, the drive partition can be as large as the full size of the logical drive. However, this is the full virtual drive size, not the actual physical drive size.

Physical Drive

Select Objects—>Physical Drive to select a physical device and to perform the operations listed in the table below. The physical drives in the computer are listed. Move the cursor to the desired device and press <Enter> to display the screen.

Table 11-5 displays the operations you can perform on the physical drives.

Ta b l e 1 1 - 5 . P h y s i c al D r i v e Me n u O p t i on s

Option	Description
Rebuild	Rebuilds the selected physical drive.
Format	Low-level formats the selected disk drive.
Force Online	Changes the state of the selected disk drive to online.
Force Offline/	Changes the state of the selected disk drive to offline.
Remove HSP
Make HotSpare	Designates the selected disk drive as a hot spare.
View Drive	Displays the drive properties for the selected physical device.
Information
View Rebuild	Indicates how much of the rebuild has been completed.
Progress
SCSI Command	Sets the number of queue tags per command. The options
Qtagging	are Disabled Command Tagging, 2 Queue Tags, 3 Queue
	Tags, 4 Queue Tags, or Enhanced QTag Scheduling. The
	default is Enhanced QTag Scheduling.
Transfer Speed	Selects the speed at which data is transferred. Displays a
Option	menu that contains the options Negotiation=Wide, and Set
	Transfer Speed. The maximum transfer speed is 160M.

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