Individual Initialization

1Choose Objects—>Logical Drive option from the Management Menu.

2Select the logical drive to be initialized.

3Choose Initialize from the action menu.

Initialization progress appears as a bar graph on the screen.

4When initialization completes, press any key to display the previous menu.

Deleting Logical Drives (Random Array Deletion)

This RAID controller supports random array deletion. Random array deletion is the ability to delete any unwanted logical drives and use that space for a new logical drive.

The main benefit of random array deletion on the configuration module is that you are not restricted to sequential or contiguous logical drives when you create logical drives. You can use non-contiguous segments to create logical drives.

After you delete a logical drive, you can create a new one. You can use the configuration utilities to create the next logical drive from the non- contiguous free space (‘holes’), and from the newly created arrays. The configuration utility provides a list of configurable arrays where there is a space to configure.

NOTICE: The deletion of the logical drive can fail under certain conditions. Deletion can fail during a rebuild, initialization or check consistency of a logical drive, if that drive has a higher logical drive number than the drive you want to delete.

Perform the following steps to delete logical drives:

1Choose Objects—>Logical Drive from the Management Menu. The logical drives display.

2Use the arrow key to highlight the logical drive you want to delete.

3Press <F5> to delete the logical drive.

NOTE: For more information about random array deletion, refer to page 99.

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