Acer Altos RAIDWatch, Manual

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Note Adding a spare drive can be done automatically by selecting the RAID 1+Spare, RAID 3+Spare or
RAID 5+Spare option from the logical drive RAID Level selection dialog box when creating a logical
drive. These options apply to RAID 1, RAID 3, and RAID 5 levels respectively.
8.2.5.1 Accessing The Spare Drive Management Screen
To open the spare drive management screen please follow these steps:-
1 Select the “Logical Drive” icon from the Logical View Navigation Panel shown in Figure 8–
1, ”Logical View Navigation Panel”, on page 90. As shown in Figure 8–25, all the LDs that have been
created will appear below the “Logical Drive” icon.
2 From the list shown in Figure 8–25, select the LD that you wish to expand. Once this LD has been
selected a “View and Edit LD Partition” table will appear in the content panel. At the top of this
window the two tabs (“Partition” and “Operation”) shown in Figure 8–26, will appear. Select the
“Operation” tab.
3 After selecting the “Operation” tab, an “Expand Logical Drive” window will appear in the content
panel. The tabs shown in Figure 8–16 on page 96 can be seen at the top of the “Expand Logical
Drive” window.
8.2.5.2 Adding a Spare Drive
1 After the “Spare” tab has been selected the “Spare Drive Management” window shown in Figure
8–28 will appear in the content panel. Under the Add tab, if there are drives available to assign as
spares, their channels will be listed under Available. Choose the drive icon for the drive that will
become the new spare.
Figure 8–25 : List of LDs
Figure 8–26 Select Operation
Figure 8–27 Select Spare