User Manual
Table Of Contents
- ROMB User Manual
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Installation
- Chapter 3: Installing Drivers
- Chapter 4: RAID Management Utility
- Chapter 5: WebPAM
- Logging into WebPAM
- Logging out of WebPAM
- Managing Users
- Viewing Host Management
- Making Utility Configuration Settings
- Managing the Controller
- Managing Physical Drives
- Managing Logical Drives
- Viewing All Logical Drives
- Creating a Logical Drive
- Creating a JBOD Disk
- Deleting a Logical Drive or JBOD Disk
- Viewing Logical Drive Information
- Making Logical Drive Settings
- Migrating a Logical Drive
- Rebuilding a Logical Drive
- Synchronizing a Logical Drive
- Viewing Logical Drive Initialization
- Activating a Logical Drive
- Responding to a Critical or Offline Logical Drive
- Managing Spare Drives
- Chapter 6: Technology
- Chapter 7: Support
- Appendix A: Partition and Format
- Appendix B: Upgrades
- Index
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Managing Spare Drives
• Viewing Spare Drives (page 94)
• Creating a Spare Drive (page 94)
• Deleting a Spare Drive (page 95)
A spare drive is a physical drive designated to function as a hot spare drive. A hot
spare drive replaces a failed physical drive automatically.
See “Making Controller Settings” on page 59 and “Rebuilding a Logical Drive” on
page 82 for more information.
Viewing Spare Drives
Spare Drive View provides a list of all spare drives currently assigned. To access
Spare Drive View, click the Spare Drive View icon in Tree View.
From this screen, you can use the Create and Delete features.
Creating a Spare Drive
To create a spare drive:
1. Click the Spare Drive View icon.
2. Click the Create tab.
The Spare Drive View screen appears.
Important
The spare drive must be of equal or greater capacity than the
largest physical drive in your logical drive.