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Using Adaptec Storage Manager – Browser Edition
Any part of a drive used in an array is shown as a gray segment
within the bar. Selecting any gray segment will highlight it in
amber and, in the Logical Devices view, highlight the array of
which this segment is a member.
In either the Full Size Capacity View or the Relative Size Capacity
View
, a small portion at each end of the drive may be shown in
dark gray.
The segment at the end of the drive may vary in size from drive to
drive because, in addition to the RAID signature, the controller
may also limit the usable capacity of each drive.
This is done because hard disk drives of apparently the same
capacity from different manufacturers, or even different models
from the same manufacturer, actually vary slightly in the true
capacity available. Although, in normal operation this is not an
issue, it can be when assigning hot spares or replacing a failed drive.
If the controller used the maximum capacity of each drive and a
hot spare or replacement drive was just a few megabytes smaller, it
would not be able to replace the failed drive. By rounding drive
capacities down to the nearest 2 MB, this possibility is effectively
eliminated.
Logical Devices
As described earlier, when Adaptec Storage Manager loads, the
Logical Devices
view is expanded and you can see the arrays
present on the controller.
At the top of this view are the following buttons: Create, Modify,
and Delete. Each button opens a wizard for the corresponding
function.
Modify allows you to:
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Change an array from one RAID level to another
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Expand an array
■
Change the stripe size for a RAID 0
For detailed instructions on using these buttons, see the sections
Creating an Array on page 5-11
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