ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac LSI Mega RAID Storage Manager Guide - Page 90

1. Select Manage->Initialize. The Group Initialization dialog appears, as shown in the following figure. Figure 71 Group Initialization 2. Either check the virtual drives on which to run the initialization on or click Select All to select all the virtual drives. 3. Click Start. You can monitor the progress of the group initialization. For more information, see Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes. Running a Consistency Check You should periodically run a consistency check on fault-tolerant virtual drives (RAID 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, or 60 configurations; RAID 0 does not provide data redundancy). A consistency check scans the virtual drive to determine whether the data has become corrupted and needs to be restored. For example, in a system with parity, checking consistency means computing the data on one drive and comparing the results to the contents of the parity drive. You must run a consistency check if you suspect that the data on the virtual drive might be corrupted. Note: Make sure to back up your data before running a consistency check if you think the data might be corrupted. To run a consistency check, first set the consistency check properties and then schedule the consistency check. The following sections explains how to: Page 90 DB09-000202-05 37857-02 Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations Rev. F - May 2011 Copyright © 2011 by LSI Corporation. All rights reserved.