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Chapter 4 HP NetRAID Express Tools 1. Choose Initialize from the HP NetRAID Express Tools Management menu. A list of the current logical drives appears. 2. Press the arrow keys to highlight the drives you want to initialize. Press the Spacebar to select the highlighted logical drive for initialization. Press F2 to select/deselect all logical drives. 3. When you finish selecting logical drives, press F10 and choose Yes at the confirmation prompt. Initialization progress is displayed for each drive. 4. When initialization is complete, press any key to continue. Press Esc to return to the Tools Management menu. Individual Initialization To initialize logical drives by using the individual initialization procedure, follow these steps: 1. Choose Objects from the HP NetRAID Express Tools Management menu. Choose Logical Drive from the Objects menu. 2. Select the logical drive to be initialized. 3. Choose Initialize from the action menu. The progress of the initialization appears as a bar graph. 4. When initialization completes, press any key to return to the previous menu. D Formatting Physical Drives Since most SCSI disk drives are low-level formatted at the factory, this step is usually not necessary. Usually, you must format a disk only if: • The disk drive was not low-level formatted at the factory. • There is an excessive number of media errors detected on the disk drive. NOTE Formatting a physical drive deletes all information on the disk. Media Errors Check the Physical Drive Information window for the drive to be formatted. You can view this window by following these steps: 1. Choose Objects from the Management menu. 95

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Chapter 4
HP NetRAID Express Tools
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1.
Choose
Initialize
from the HP NetRAID Express Tools Management
menu. A list of the current logical drives appears.
2.
Press the arrow keys to highlight the drives you want to initialize. Press the
Spacebar
to select the highlighted logical drive for initialization. Press
F2
to select/deselect all logical drives.
3.
When you finish selecting logical drives, press
F10
and choose
Yes
at the
confirmation prompt. Initialization progress is displayed for each drive.
4.
When initialization is complete, press any key to continue. Press
Esc
to
return to the Tools Management menu.
Individual Initialization
To initialize logical drives by using the individual initialization procedure, follow
these steps:
1.
Choose
Objects
from the HP NetRAID Express Tools Management menu.
Choose
Logical Drive
from the Objects menu.
2.
Select the logical drive to be initialized.
3.
Choose
Initialize
from the action menu. The progress of the initialization
appears as a bar graph.
4.
When initialization completes, press any key to return to the previous
menu.
D
Formatting Physical Drives
Since most SCSI disk drives are low-level formatted at the factory, this step is
usually not necessary. Usually, you must format a disk only if:
•
The disk drive was not low-level formatted at the factory.
•
There is an excessive number of media errors detected on the disk drive.
NOTE
Formatting a physical drive deletes all information on the disk.
Media Errors
Check the Physical Drive Information window for the drive to be formatted. You
can view this window by following these steps:
1.
Choose
Objects
from the Management menu.