HP P3410A HP NetRAID Series User Guide - Page 57

Chapter 3 HP NetRAID Config • The Format option lets your format physical drives. • The Rebuild option lets you rebuild a logical drive in which one physical drive has failed. • The Check Consistency option lets you verify the data in your logical drives. • The Advanced menu lets you reconstruct a logical drive. Configure Menu Choose the Configure option to select a method for configuring arrays and logical drives. Refer to "Configuring Arrays and Logical Drives" in this chapter for instructions. Initialize Option You must initialize your logical drives before they can be used. This option initializes the logical drives by writing zeros to the data fields and generating corresponding parity fields on drives with RAID levels 3, 5, 30, or 50. This option can initialize one or more logical drives. When you choose Initialize from the Management menu, a window appears listing your physical drives. Use the arrow keys to highlight the drive you want to initialize, then press the Spacebar. You can select more than one drive. To select all the drives, press F2. To initialize the selected drive(s), press F10. To cancel initialization once you have started it, press Esc. CAUTION When you initialize logical drives by using the Initialize menu selection, all data on the physical drives is erased. Objects Menu Choose the Objects option to access the adapters, logical drives, physical drives, and SCSI channels individually. You can also change certain settings for each object. 51