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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 LCD Screen Messages
1.1 The Initial Screen..........................................................................................1-1
1.2 Quick Installation Screen ............................................................................1-1
1.3 Logical Drive Status.....................................................................................1-2
1.4 Logical Volume Status.................................................................................1-4
1.5 Drive Status...................................................................................................1-4
1.6 Channel Status .............................................................................................1-5
1.7 Controller Voltage and Temperature..........................................................1-6
1.8 View and Edit Event Logs............................................................................1-7
Chapter 2 LCD Keypad Operation
2.1 Power On the RAID Enclosure...................................................................2-1
2.2 Caching Parameters....................................................................................2-1
2.2.1 Optimization Modes ...............................................................................2-1
2.2.2 Optimization Mode and Stripe Size........................................................2-3
2.2.3 Optimization for Random or Sequential I/Os .........................................2-3
2.2.4 Write-back/Write-through Cache Enable/Disable ..................................2-4
2.2.5 Periodic Cache Flush .............................................................................2-4
2.3 View Connected Drives: .............................................................................2-5
2.4 Creating a Logical Drive .............................................................................2-6
2.4.1 Choosing a RAID Level..........................................................................2-6
2.4.2 Choosing Member Drives.......................................................................2-6
2.4.3 Logical Drive Preferences......................................................................2-7
2.4.4 Maximum Drive Capacity .......................................................................2-7
2.4.5 Spare Drive Assignments.......................................................................2-7
2.4.6 Disk Reserved Space.............................................................................2-7
2.4.7 Write Policy ............................................................................................2-7
2.4.8 Initialization Mode ..................................................................................2-8
2.4.9 Stripe Size ..............................................................................................2-8
2.4.10 Beginning Initialization .........................................................................2-8
2.5 Creating a Logical Volume .........................................................................2-9
2.5.1 Initialization Mode ................................................................................2-10
2.5.2 Write Policy ..........................................................................................2-10
2.6 Partitioning a Logical Drive/Logical Volume ...........................................2-11
2.7 Mapping a Logical Volume/Logical Drive to Host LUN ..........................2-12
2.8 Assigning Spare Drive and Rebuild Settings ..........................................2-13
2.8.1 Adding a Local Spare Drive .................................................................2-13
2.8.2 Adding a Global Spare Drive ...............................................................2-14
2.8.3 Rebuild Settings ...................................................................................2-14
2.9 Viewing and Editing Logical Drives and Drive Members .......................2-15
2.9.1 Deleting a Logical Drive .......................................................................2-15
2.9.2 Deleting a Partition of a Logical Drive..................................................2-16
2.9.3 Assigning a Name to a Logical Drive ...................................................2-17
2.9.4 Rebuilding a Logical Drive (Manual Rebuild).......................................2-18
2.9.5 Regenerating Logical Drive Parity .......................................................2-19
2.9.6 Media Scan ..........................................................................................2-19
2.9.7 Write Policy ..........................................................................................2-20