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Logical Drive Information

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Rebuilding an Array: Rebuilding is the process of restoring data to a hard drive from other drives in the array. Rebuilding applies only to fault-tolerant arrays such as RAID 1, RAID 5, or RAID 10. To replace the old drive, make sure to use a new drive of equal or greater capacity. The procedures below assume a new drive is added to replace a failed drive to rebuild a RAID 1 array. While in the operating system, make sure the chipset drivers have been installed from the motherboard driver disk. Then launch the AMD RAIDXpert from All Programs in the Start Menu. Step 1: Enter the login ID and password (default: "admin"), and then click Sign in to launch AMD RAIDXpert. Step 2: Select the RAID array to be rebuilt under Logical Drive View and click the Rebuild tab in the Logical Drive Information pane. Step 3: Select one available drive and click Start Now to start the rebuilding process. Step 4: The rebuilding progress is displayed on the screen and you can select Pause/Resume/Abort during the rebuilding process. Appendix Step 5: When done, the array's status on the Information page in the Logical Drive Information pane will display as Functional. - 84 -

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Appendix
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Rebuilding an Array:
Rebuilding is the process of restoring data to a hard drive from other drives in the array. Rebuilding applies
only to fault-tolerant arrays such as RAID 1, RAID 5, or RAID 10. To replace the old drive, make sure to use a
new drive of equal or greater capacity. The procedures below assume a new drive is added to replace a failed
drive to rebuild a RAID 1 array.
While in the operating system, make sure the chipset drivers have been installed from the motherboard driver
disk. Then launch the
AMD RAIDXpert
from
All Programs
in the
Start Menu
.
Step 1:
Enter the login ID and password (default: "admin"),
and then click
Sign in
to launch
AMD RAIDXpert
.
Step 2:
Select the RAID array to be rebuilt under
Logical
Drive View
and click the
Rebuild
tab in the
Logi-
cal Drive Information
pane.
Step 3:
Select one available drive and click
Start Now
to
start the rebuilding process.
Step 4:
The rebuilding progress is displayed on the
screen and you can select
Pause
/
Resume
/
Abort
during the rebuilding process.
Step 5:
When done, the array's status on the
Information
page
in the
Logical Drive Information
pane will display as
Functional
.