User's Manual

12 Contents
Physical Disk or Physical Device Tasks. . . . . . 199
Blink and Unblink (Physical Disk)
. . . . . . . . . . . 200
Remove Dead Segments
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Prepare to Remove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Initialize
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Rebuild
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Cancel Rebuild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Assign and Unassign Global Hot Spare
. . . . . . . . 203
Online and Offline
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Clear Physical Disk and Cancel Clear. . . . . . . . . 205
Revertible Hot Spare
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Instant Encrypt Erase
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Full Initialization
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Convert to RAID Capable Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Convert to Non-RAID Disk
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
12 Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Considerations Before Creating Virtual Disks . . . . 211
Virtual Disk Considerations for Controllers
. . . . 212
Virtual Disk Considerations for CERC SATA1.5/6ch,
and CERC SATA1.5/2s Controllers
. . . . . . . . . 214
Virtual Disk Considerations for PERC S100, S110,
and S300 Controllers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Virtual Disk Considerations on Linux
. . . . . . . 215