IBM 866011U - Netfinity 5500 - 8660, Hardware Maintenance Manual

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selected all of the drives that you want to
initialize/synchronize; then, press Enter.
4. When the Confirm pop-up window appears, select
Yes to initialize/synchronize the logical drive or drives;
then, press Enter.
The initialization/synchronization process begins. You
can see the progress in the Pct. I/S. (percent
initialized/synchronized) column of the Logical Drive
list.
Note
Once the synchronization process begins, it
cannot be interrupted.
5. Once you have completed initializing/synchronizing
the logical drives, then you have completed the
required steps for creating a ServeRAID configuration.
6. Back up the disk-array configuration information to
diskette. See “Backing up the disk-array
configuration” on page 126 for instructions.
If you have not already done so, use the information
provided in the ServerGuide package to install the
operating system. then you have completed the
required steps for creating a ServeRAID configuration.
Initializing logical drives:
Initializing a logical drive
sets the drive to a predetermined state. You can initialize
multiple logical drives at the same time.
Note
The initialization process overwrites any data on the
drive with zeros, and all existing data is lost.
If you did not initialize the logical drives when you defined
them, you must use the following instructions to initialize
the drives
before storing data.
To initialize logical drives:
1. Select Initialize/Synchronize Log Drive from the
Main Menu; then, press Enter.
2. Select Initialize Logical Drive from the next menu;
then, press Enter.
3. Use the Up Arrow (
↑
) or Down Arrow (
↓
) key to
highlight the logical drive that you want to initialize;
then, press the Spacebar to select the drive.
Continue doing this until you have selected all of the
drives that you want to initialize; then, press Enter.
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