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B.3.1 Changing the Screen Display ......................................................................................... 102
B.3.2 Disk Array Administrator Menu Tree .............................................................................. 103
C Creating and Managing Arrays & Partitions ............................................................................. 105
C.1 Creating Arrays ....................................................................................................................... 105
C.1.1 Creating a Single-Partition Array .................................................................................... 106
C.1.2 Creating a Multiple-Partition Array ................................................................................. 111
C.2 Managing Arrays ..................................................................................................................... 116
C.2.1 Viewing Array and Drive Status Information................................................................... 117
C.2.2 Stopping the Array Initialization Process ........................................................................ 120
C.2.3 Adding a Partition ........................................................................................................... 121
C.2.4 Verifying an Array ........................................................................................................... 123
C.2.5 Reconstructing an Array ................................................................................................. 126
C.2.6 Expanding Array Capacity .............................................................................................. 126
C.2.7 Changing an Array Name ............................................................................................... 129
C.2.8 Changing Array Ownership ............................................................................................ 130
C.2.9 Trusting an Array ............................................................................................................ 130
C.2.10 Deleting an Array ............................................................................................................ 131
C.3 Managing Partitions................................................................................................................. 133
C.3.1 Understanding Partitions ................................................................................................ 133
C.3.2 Viewing Partition Status Information .............................................................................. 134
C.3.3 Expanding a Partition ..................................................................................................... 139
C.3.4 Changing a Partition Name ............................................................................................ 140
C.3.5 Changing a Partition LUN .............................................................................................. 141
C.3.6 Changing the Read-Ahead Cache Size ......................................................................... 142
C.3.7 Enabling or Disabling Write-back Cache ........................................................................ 143
C.3.8 Controlling Partition Access ........................................................................................... 144
C.3.9 Deleting a Partition ......................................................................................................... 151
D Monitoring System Status .......................................................................................................... 153
D.1 Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 153
D.2 Displaying the Event Log......................................................................................................... 154
D.2.1 Viewing the Most Recent Event ..................................................................................... 154
D.2.2 Viewing One Event at a Time ......................................................................................... 155
D.2.3 Viewing a Whole Screen of Events ................................................................................ 156
D.2.4 Capturing the Event Log ................................................................................................ 157
D.3 Displaying Module Status Information..................................................................................... 158
D.4 Displaying Hardware and Configuration Information............................................................... 159
D.5 Capturing the Event Log, Hardware, and Configuration Information....................................... 164
D.6 Displaying Drive Errors and Resetting Error Statistics............................................................ 164
D.7 Displaying Overall Statistics.................................................................................................... 165
D.7.1 Resetting Overall Statistics ............................................................................................ 166
E Managing Spares ........................................................................................................................ 167
E.1 Managing Dedicated Spares ................................................................................................... 168
E.1.1 Adding a Dedicated Spare ............................................................................................. 168
E.1.2 Deleting a Dedicated Spare ........................................................................................... 168
E.2 Enabling Dynamic Spares ....................................................................................................... 169
E.3 Managing the Spare Pool ........................................................................................................ 170
E.3.1 Adding a Spare to the Spare Pool .................................................................................. 171
E.3.2 Deleting a Spare from the Spare Pool ............................................................................ 171