Technical information

4-2 RAID EzAssist User’s Manual

Here is a list of the tasks that you can accomplish:

DISK ARRAY TASKS:

• View a list of the physical drives that make up the selected disk array,

capacity and status of the drives, and the amount of unused space in the

disk array.

• Physically locate (with blinking LEDs) the physical drives that

comprise the selected array.

LOGICAL DRIVE TASKS:

• View properties of the selected logical drive, such as status, capacity,

RAID level, stripe size.

• Optionally change Stripe Block Size and Write Cache settings.

• View a list of the physical drives that comprise the logical drive, and

capacity and status of the physical drives.

• View a table of any bad data sequence numbers and addresses on the

logical drive.

• Physically locate (with blinking LEDs) the physical drives that

comprise the selected logical drive.

• Check consistency (with error repair if requested) of the selected

logical drive.

• Manually request logical drive initialization.

Note that all existing data

on the logical drive will be lost.

• Rebuild redundancy data on the selected logical drive.

• Cancel an ongoing background task, such as a consistency check,

initialization, or rebuild.

• Delete the most recently configured logical drive.

1. Logical drives are initialized automatically as a background task

after they have been configured allowing their immediate use.

This is called Immediate RAID Availability. The Initialize Drive

option is not necessary unless you have a specific reason to

request manual initialization.