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

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The Confirm pop-up window appears.
Attention
When you select Yes in the Confirm pop-up
window, information in the logical drive will be
overwritten with zeros. All existing data is lost.
4. Select Yes to initialize the logical drive or drives;
then, press Enter.
The initialization process begins. You can see the
progress in the Pct. Int. (percent initialized) column of
the Logical Drive list.
You can pause the initialization at any time by
pressing Esc. Press Esc to stop the initialization and
return to the previous menu. Press Enter to continue
initializing the drive.
Note
You do not need to synchronize RAID level 0 or 1
logical drives before storing data.
5. You must synchronize all RAID level 5 logical drives
before storing data. If you just initialized RAID level 5
logical drives, continue with “Synchronizing logical
drives.” Otherwise, continue with step 6.
6. If you have completed initializing the logical drives
and do not have to synchronize any RAID level 5
logical drives, then you have completed the required
steps for creating a ServeRAID configuration.
7. When the initialization process completes, 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.
Synchronizing logical drives:
The purpose of
synchronizing logical drives is to compute and, if
necessary, write the parity data on the selected RAID
level 5 logical drive. Synchronizing a RAID level 1 logical
drive copies the data from the primary disk to the mirrored
disk.
RAID level 5 logical drives are automatically synchronized
when you define them. You do not need to synchronize
RAID level 0 or 1 logical drives before storing data. Also,
the
data scrubbing feature of the ServeRAID controller
continuously reads all sections of RAID level 1 and RAID
level 5 logical drives “in the background” while the system
is running. If a defective sector is found, it is automatically
repaired. As a result, you no longer have to synchronize
RAID level 1 and RAID level 5 logical drives on a weekly
basis.
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