Datasheet

B-28
DOS Utilities
Notes
■ When assigning spare drives to a RAID 10 array, the ACU
assigns all the drives in the list to all the arrays within the
multilevel array.
■ ACU only creates dedicated hot spares. If the same drive is
assigned to protect multiple arrays, only the last array that
drive is assigned to is protected.
■ The ACU makes no checks to ensure that the amount of
available space on the specified spare drives is sufficient to
serve as failover for the given array.
Example
HotspareDrives=0:0:0,0:1:0
InitializeAll Keyword
InitializeAll is an optional keyword, indicating that all the
drives connected to the controller should be initialized and any
existing arrays deleted before creating a new array. This property
applies to all drives on all channels of the controller. The default is
InitializeAll=No .
Possible values are as follows:
■ Yes—Initialize all drives.
■ No—Do not initialize all drives; only those drives specified
with the
Drives property keyword are initialized.
The
InitializeAll keyword is both global and position-
independent within a script file. If
InitializeAll=Yes appears in
any array definition block within the file, all drives connected to
the controller are initialized and any existing arrays are deleted
before any new arrays are created.
If there is no
InitializeAll=Yes property specified anywhere in
the script, the ACU initializes only those drives specified with the
Drives property keyword. See Initializing a Hard Drive on
page B-16 for more details.
Note that it is not necessary to specify
InitializeAll=Yes in more
than one array definition block. If both
InitializeAll=Yes and
InitializeAll=No are specified within a script file, regardless of
their position within the file,
InitializeAll=Yes is the overriding
value.