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Vess R2000 Series Product Manual Promise Technologies
MakiNg logiCal driVe settiNgs (Clu)
To make Logical Drive settings:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Logical Drive Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the logical drive you want and press Enter.
3. For the following items, accept the existing setting choose a new one:
• HighlightAliasandtypeanaliasintotheeldprovided.
• Maximumof32characters.Useletters,numbers,space
betweenwordsandunderscore.Analiasisoptional.
• HighlightWritePolicyandpressthespacebartotoggle
betweenWriteBackandWriteThru(writethough).
• HighlightReadPolicyandpressthespacebartotoggle
thoughReadCache,ReadAheadandNone.
•
HighlightPreferred Controller IDandpressthespacebartotogglebetween1and2.
•
HighlightPerfectRebuild andpressthespacebartotogglebetweenEnableand
Disable.NotethatoncePerfectRebuildisdisbaleditcannotbeenabledagain.
4. Press
Control-A
to save your settings.
iNitializiNg a logiCal driVe (Clu)
This function sets all data bits in the logical drive to zero.
Warning
When you initialize a logical drive, all the data on the logical
drive is lost. Backup any important data before you initialize a
logical drive.
To initialize a logical drive:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Logical Drive Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the logical drive you want and press Enter.
3. Highlight Background Activities and press Enter.
4. Highlight Start Initialization and press Enter.
The initialization parameters appear.