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3. Click the logical drive you want, then click the Locate button.
The drive carrier status LEDs of the disk carriers making up the logical drive flash for one minute.
Figure 4 - 7: Drive carrier status LED
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Initialization is normally done to logical drives after they are created from a disk array.
Warning
When you initialize a logical drive, all the data on the logical drive is
lost. Backup any important data before you initialize a logical drive.
To initialize a logical drive:
1. Click the Administration tab.
2. Click the Background Activities icon.
The list of background activities appears.
3. Mouse-over Initialization and click the Start button.
4. Check the box to the left of the logical drive you want to initialize.
5. Choose the initialization option you want:
• Quick Initialization – Check the box and enter a value in the Quick Initialization
Size field. This value is the size of the initialization blocks in MB.
• Full Initialization – Do not check the box. Enter a hexadecimal value in the
Initialization Pattern in Hex field or use the default 00000000 value.
6. Click the Confirm button.
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To stop, pause or resume Initialization:
1. Click the Administration tab.
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2. Click the Background Activities icon.
The list of background activities appears.
3. Mouse-over Initialization and click the Stop , Pause , or Resume button.
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Redundancy Check is a routine maintenance procedure for fault-tolerant disk arrays (those with redundancy)
that ensures all the data matches exactly. Redundancy Check can also correct inconsistencies.
To run Redundancy Check on a logical drive:
1. Click the Administration tab.
2. Click the Background Activities icon.
The list of background activities appears.
3. Mouse-over Redundancy Check and click the Start button.
4. Check the boxes to the left of the logical drives you want to run.
5. Check the options you want:
• Auto Fix – Attempts to repair the problem when it finds an error
• Pause on Error – The process stops when it finds a non-repairable error
6. Click the Confirm button.
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To stop, pause or resume Redundancy Check :
1. Click the Administration tab.
2. Click the Background Activities icon.
The list of background activities appears.
3. Mouse-over Redundancy Check and click the Stop , Pause , or Resume button.
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