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read from the master and written to the added logical drive (the slave).
One master may have several slaves.
RAID 4/5 Component As a member of a RAID 4 or RAID 5 array a logical drive can be the
master or a component. Different from RAID 1 arrays, this is only
important for the internal structure of the array.
Change the Name of a Drive
Click the right mouse button on the drive icon. This menu option opens a dialog for entering a new
name for the selected drive (up to 7 characters).
Remove a Host Drive
Click the right mouse button on the host drive icon. By selecting this menu item you can delete a
host drive.
WARNING
When deleting a host drive, all other host drives which are part of the same array drive or logical
drive, the array drive or logical drive itself and all its components are deleted. ALL DATA WILL
BE LOST.
To prevent the operating system from crashing and to hinder the unintentional deletion of drives, all
partitions on the host drive (and its related host drives if it is split into several host drives) must be
deleted before the host drive can be removed.
Create a New Host Drive
Double click on the new host drive icon. Only host drives are “visible” to the operating system.
The structure of the host drives is not known to the operating system. The operating system does
not recognize that a given host drive consists of a number of hard disks forming a disk array. To
the operating system this host drive simply appears as one single hard disk with the capacity of the
disk array. This complete transparency represents the easiest way to operate disk arrays under any
operating system. Neither operating system nor the computer need to be involved in the
administration of these complex disk array configurations. To create a new host drive, you need
one or more physical drives which are not yet part of another host drive. After double clicking on
the new host drive icon a new window opens. See Figure 91.