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RAID EzAssist User’s Manual
Here is a list of the tasks that you can accomplish:
DISK ARRAY TASKS:
• View a list of the physical drives that make up the selected disk array,
capacity and status of the drives, and the amount of unused space in the
disk array.
LOGICAL DRIVE TASKS:
• View properties of the selected logical drive, such as status, capacity,
RAID level, stripe size.
• Optionally change Read and Write Cache settings.
• View a list of the physical drives that comprise the logical drive, and
capacity and status of the physical drives.
• View a table of any bad data sequence numbers and addresses on the
logical drive.
• Physically locate (with blinking lights) the physical drives that
comprise the selected logical drive.
• Check consistency (with error repair if requested) of the selected
logical drive.
• Manually request logical drive initialization.
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Note that all existing data
on the drive will be lost.
• Rebuild redundancy data on the selected logical drive.
• Cancel an ongoing background task, such as a consistency check,
initialization, or rebuild.
PHYSICAL DEVICE TASKS:
• View properties of the selected physical device, such as vendor, model,
firmware version, capacity, and status.
• Optionally change Read and Write Cache settings.
1. Logical drives are initialized automatically as a background task
after they have been configured allowing their immediate use.
This is called Immediate RAID Availability. The Initialize Drive
option is not necessary unless you have a specific reason to
request manual initialization.
