Promise Technology VTRAK M610p, Product Manual

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Chapter 5: Management with the CLU
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3. To set write cache policy for this disk array, highlight WritePolicy and press
the spacebar to toggle between WriteBack and WriteThru (write though).
4. Press Ctrl-A to save your settings.
Setting Read Cache Policy
To set read cache policy on a logical drive:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Logical Drive Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the logical drive you want and press Enter.
3. To set read cache policy for this disk array, highlight ReadPolicy and press
the spacebar to toggle though ReadCache , ReadAhead and None .
4. Press Ctrl-A to save your settings.
Initializing a Logical Drive
This function sets all data bits in the logical drive to zero.
To initialize a logical drive:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Logical Drive Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the logical drive you want and press Enter.
3. Highlight Background Activity and press Enter.
4. Highlight Start Initialization and press Enter.
The initialization parameters appear.
• Initialization pattern. The default 00000000 is best for most applications
• Quick Initialization – Yes means only the disk data format of the logical
drives are initialized.
• Quick Initialization Rate – Enter a value or use the default 64 bits.
To change a parameter, highlight it and press the backspace key to erase
the current value, then type the new value.
5. Highlight Start and press Enter.
If necessary, you can pause and resume or stop and restart the Initialization.
You cannot access the logical drive until Initialization has finished.
Caution
When you initialize a logical drive, you delete all the data it
contains. Back up all important data before initializing a logical
drive.