Adaptec 2110S User Guide - Page 89

Adaptec Storage Manager Pro User's Guide You can assign spares by adding a drive to the spare pool. See Spare Management Guidelines on page 7-4 for important information and suggestions. Managing the Spare Pool You can assign spare disk drives to the spare pool. If a failure occurs, the controller checks the spare pool for a spare drive with sufficient space for one or more arrays on the failing drive. Because of the total flexibility you have in managing spares, you must monitor your spares regularly to ensure that you have the level of spare security that you need. See Spare Management Guidelines on page 7-4 for suggestions. There are two parts to managing the spare pool on the controller: I Adding a drive to the spare pool. See page 7-2. I Removing a drive from the spare pool. See page 7-3. Adding a Drive to the Spare Pool To add a drive to the spare pool: 1 In the System Browser window, select the controller to which you want to add a spare. 2 Click Manage Spare Pool. The Manage Spare Pool dialog box appears. The Available Drives list shows all drives attached to the controller that have free space. The Selected Drives list shows all drives currently assigned to the spare pool on the controller. 7-2