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Removing Hot Spare Drives, Initializing a Hard Drive, Viewing Array Properties

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DOS Utilities 3 Select a drive and press the Insert key to assign the drive as a spare. The specified drive is displayed in the Assigned Hotspares Drives list. 4 Press Enter to save the spare drive assignment. The following prompt is displayed: Have you finished managing Hotspare drives? 5 Press Y (for yes) to return to the Main menu. Removing Hot Spare Drives To remove an assigned spare drive from an array: 1 Select Manage Arrays from the Main menu. 2 From the List of Arrays dialog box, select the array you want to remove the assigned spare drive from and type Ctrl+S. The Hotspare Management for Array dialog box is displayed; it shows which drives can be assigned as spare drives and a list of drives that are already assigned as spare drives. 3 From the Assigned Hotspares drives list, select the drive to be removed and then press Delete to remove the drive as a spare. The specified drive is displayed in the Select Hotspares Drives list. 4 Press Enter to save the removed spare drive assignment. The following prompt is displayed: Have you finished managing Hotspare drives? 5 Press Y (for yes) to return to the Main menu. Initializing a Hard Drive You must initialize a drive before you can use it as part of an array. You can tell a drive is not available (and must be initialized) if it is not listed in the disk selection list or if it is listed but grayed out. ! Caution: Initializing a disk deletes all data on the disk. (Actually, it overwrites the partition table on the disk and makes all the previous data on the disk inaccessible.) If the drive is a member of an existing array, you might not be able to use that array again. Do not initialize a disk that is part of a boot array (numbered 00 in the List of Arrays dialog box). See Viewing Array Properties on page B-15 for information on determining which disks are associated with a particular array. B-16

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B-16
DOS Utilities
3
Select a drive and press the
Insert
key to assign the drive as a spare.
The specified drive is displayed in the Assigned Hotspares
Drives list.
4
Press
Enter
to save the spare drive assignment. The following
prompt is displayed:
Have you finished managing Hotspare drives?
5
Press
Y
(for yes) to return to the
Main
menu.
Removing Hot Spare Drives
To remove an assigned spare drive from an array:
1
Select
Manage Arrays
from the
Main
menu.
2
From the
List of Arrays
dialog box, select the array you want to
remove the assigned spare drive from and type
Ctrl+S
.
The Hotspare Management for Array dialog box is displayed; it
shows which drives can be assigned as spare drives and a list of
drives that are already assigned as spare drives.
3
From the
Assigned Hotspares drives
list, select the drive to be
removed and then press
Delete
to remove the drive as a spare.
The specified drive is displayed in the Select Hotspares Drives list.
4
Press
Enter
to save the removed spare drive assignment. The
following prompt is displayed:
Have you finished managing Hotspare drives?
5
Press
Y
(for yes) to return to the
Main
menu.
Initializing a Hard Drive
You must initialize a drive before you can use it as part of an array.
You can tell a drive is not available (and must be initialized) if it is
not listed in the disk selection list or if it is listed but grayed out.
Caution:
Initializing a disk deletes all data on the disk. (Actually,
it overwrites the partition table on the disk and makes all the
previous data on the disk inaccessible.) If the drive is a member
of an existing array, you might not be able to use that array again.
Do not
initialize a disk that is part of a boot array (numbered 00 in
the List of Arrays dialog box). See
Viewing Array Properties
on
page B-15
for information on determining which disks are
associated with a particular array.
!