Promise Technology EX8650, EX4650A Locating a Logical Drive, Logical Drive Synchronization

SuperTrak EX Series User Manual

function and your data is available. However, access will be slower due to the rebuilding operation.

To create a logical drive, see “Creating a Logical Drive” on page 136.

To delete a logical drive, see “Deleting a Logical Drive” on page 137.

For a Degraded or Offline logical drive, see “Critical & Offline Logical Drives” on page 189.

Locating a Logical Drive

Virtual or Third Party Enclosures

Support for this feature depends on how your system or enclosure was set up. Direct-connect systems with individual LED connections and SGPIO enclosures support individual physical drive LEDs. Other systems or enclosures might or might not support them.

To locate a logical drive in the enclosure, click the Locate LDx button. The LEDs for the carriers holding the physical drives used by the logical drive will blink for one minute.

Promise Enclosures

To locate a logical drive in the enclosure, click the Locate LDx button. The disk status LEDs will blink for one minute to identify the carriers holding the physical drives used by the logical drive.

Viewing Logical Drive Information

To view information for a single logical drive:

1.Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.

2.Click the Disk Arrays icon.

3.Click the Disk Array icon.

4.Click the Logical Drives icon

5.Click the Logical Drive icon.

To specify an Alias or set the Read and Write Policies, click the Settings tab.

Logical Drive Status

See “Logical Drive Status” on page 143.

Logical Drive Synchronization

Synchronization is an automatic procedure applied to logical drives when they are created. Yes means the logical drive was synchronized.

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