Promise Technology M310p Computer Hardware User Manual


 
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Transition
Transition is the process of replacing a revertible spare drive that is currently part
of a disk array with an unconfigured physical drive or a non-revertible spare drive.
The revertible spare drive will return to its original status. For more information,
see “Transition” on page 200.
In order to run Transition, the spare drive must be Revertible. In addition, you
must specify an unconfigured physical drive of the same or larger capacity to
replace the revertible spare drive.
1. Highlight Transition and press Enter.
2. Specify the source and target physical drives.
3. Highlight Start and press Enter.
Accept Incomplete Array
This function appears when a physical drive was missing at startup.
Highlight Accept Incomplete Array and press Enter to enable a Rebuild of the
disk array.
Do not use this function if the physical drive was manually removed from the
enclosure.
Locate Disk Array
This feature helps you identify the physical drives assigned to the disk array you
are working with in the CLU.
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Disk Array Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the disk array you want and press Enter.
3. Highlight Locate Disk Array and press Enter.
The drive carrier LEDs pertaining to this disk array will blink for one minute.
Create a Logical Drive
You can create logical drives on existing disk arrays if there is available space in
the array. For more information on the choices below, see “Chapter 7:
Technology Background” on page 179.
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Disk Array Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the disk array in which you want to create a logical drive and press
Enter.
3. Highlight Create New Logical Drive and press Enter.
The Disk Array ID number and Maximum capacity available for the new
logical drive are displayed.