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Step 3 – Summary
Review logical drives you are about to create for your new array. Then do one of the following actions:
• If you agree with the logical drives as specified, highlight Complete Disk Array Creation and press Enter .
• If you specified less than the full capacity for the logical drive in the previous screen, and you want to add
another logical drive now, highlight Create New Logical Drive and press Enter .
• If you do not agree with the logical drives, highlight Return to Previous Screen and press Enter to begin
the process again.
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Caution
When you delete a disk array, you delete all the logical drives and the data they contain.
Back up all important data before deleting a disk array.
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Disk Array Management and press Enter .
2. Highlight the disk array you want to delete and press the spacebar to mark it.
The mark is an asterisk (*) to the left of the listing.
3. Highlight Delete Marked Arrays and press Enter .
4. Press Y to confirm the deletion.
5. Press Y again to reconfirm.
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To make disk array settings:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Disk Array Management and press Enter .
The list of disk arrays appears.
2. Highlight the disk array you want and press the Enter .
3. Make settings changes as required:
• Enter , change or delete the alias in the Alias field
Maximum of 32 characters; letters, numbers, space between characters, and underline.
• Media Patrol – Highlight and press the spacebar to toggle between enable and disable.
• PDM – Highlight and press the spacebar to toggle between enable and disable.
• Power Management – Highlight and press the spacebar to toggle between enable and disable.
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4. Press Control-A to save your settings.
Notes
You can also enable or disable Media Patrol for the entire RAID system. See "Making Background
Activity Settings (CLU)" on page 154.
Power Management must be enabled on the disk array for the HDD Power Saving settings to be
effective. See Making Disk Array Settings (CLU).
Power management is limited to the features your HDDs actually support.
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1. From the Main Menu, highlight Disk Array Management and press Enter .
2. Highlight the disk array you want and press Enter .
The information and settings screen appears.
3. Highlight any of the following and press Enter to view a list of:
• Physical drives in this array
• Logical drives in this array
• Spare drives in this array, dedicated and global
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• OK – This is the normal state of a logical drive. When a logical drive is Functional, it is ready for immediate
use. For RAID Levels other than RAID 0 (Striping), the logical drive has full redundancy.
• Synchronizing – This condition is temporary. Synchronizing is a maintenance function that verifies the
integrity of data and redundancy in the logical drive. When a logical drive is Synchronizing, it functions and
your data is available. However, access is slower due to the synchronizing operation.
• Critical/Degraded – This condition arises as the result of a physical drive failure. A degraded logical drive
still functions and your data is still available. However, the logical drive has lost redundancy (fault tolerance).
You must determine the cause of the problem and correct it.
• Rebuilding – This condition is temporary. When a physical drive has been replaced, the logical drive
automatically begins rebuilding in order to restore redundancy (fault tolerance). When a logical drive is
rebuilding, it functions and your data is available. However, access is slower due to the rebuilding operation.
• Transport Ready – After you perform a successful Prepare for Transport operation, this condition means
you can remove the physical drives of this disk array and move them to another enclosure or different drive
slots. After you relocate the physical drives, the disk array status shows OK.
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