Acer Altos RAIDWatch, Manual

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Drive Management
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Important Deleting a logical drive irretrievably wipes all data currently stored on the logical drive.
2 From the list shown in Figure 8–30, select the degraded LD that you wish to rebuild. 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 8–31, will appear. Select
the “Operation” tab.
3 After selecting the “Operation” tab, an “Expand Logical Drive” window will appear in the content
panel. If the drive you selected was a degraded drive then a “Rebuild” tab would appear at the top
of the “Expand Logical Drive” window. To rebuild the LD the Rebuild sub-tab must be selected.
4 The Rebuild in Progress window will appear and show the percentage of rebuild progress until
complete.
5 Once the logical drive has been rebuilt, the logical drive icon will return to its normal color and the
Rebuild tab will no longer be available under Operation.
8.2.7 Deleting a LD
If you want to delete an LD from you RAID subsystem, follow the steps outlined below. Remember
that deleting a LD results in all the data on the LD being deleted and any data that was previously
stored on the LD will be irretrievable.
Important Deleting a logical drive irretrievably wipes all data currently stored on the logical drive.
8.2.7.1 To Delete a LD
1 Select the “Logical Drive” icon from the Logical View Navigation Panel shown in Figure 8–1. As
shown in Figure 8–32, all the LDs that have been created will appear below the “Logical Drive” icon.
Important Deleting a logical drive irretrievably wipes all data currently stored on the logical drive.
Figure 8–30 List of LDs
Figure 8–31 : Select Operation