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Verifying Logical Drives, Automatic verification, Properties, Manual verification

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Chapter 6: Managing Logical Drives and Hot Spares ● 74 Verifying Logical Drives To ensure that there are no data problems on your logical drives, it is important to verify them. When you verify a logical drive, Adaptec Storage Manager checks it for inconsistent or bad data and then fixes any problems. (You can also choose to verify a logical drive without fixing it.) Logical drives with no redundancy (for instance, RAID 0 logical drives) do not need to be verified. In Adaptec Storage Manager, logical drive verification can occur in different ways, depending on your controller: ● Automatic verification-If your controller supports build initialization, Adaptec Storage Manager automatically verifies all new redundant logical drives. No manual verification is required. To see if your controller supports build initialization, right-click the controller in the Enterprise View and click Properties. ● Manual verification-If your controller doesn't support build initialization, a Warninglevel event notice appears in the Event Viewer prompting you to verify a logical drive before you begin to use it. To verify a logical drive manually, see Verifying and Fixing a Logical Drive on page 75. ● Background verification-If your controller supports background consistency check, Adaptec Storage Manager continually and automatically checks your logical drives once they're in use. To see if your controller supports background consistency check, right-click the controller in the Enterprise View, then click Properties. To enable or disable background consistency check, see page 76. Note: If your controller doesn't support background consistency check, Adaptec highly recommends that you verify your logical drives weekly, following the instructions in Verifying and Fixing a Logical Drive on page 75.

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Chapter 6: Managing Logical Drives and Hot Spares
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74
Verifying Logical Drives
To ensure that there are no data problems on your logical drives, it is important to
verify
them.
When you verify a logical drive, Adaptec
Storage Manager checks it for inconsistent or bad data
and then fixes any problems. (You can also choose to verify a logical drive without fixing it.)
Logical drives with no redundancy (for instance, RAID 0 logical drives) do not need to be
verified.
In Adaptec Storage Manager, logical drive verification can occur in different ways, depending
on your controller:
●
Automatic verification
—If your controller supports build initialization, Adaptec Storage
Manager automatically verifies all new redundant logical drives. No manual verification is
required.
To see if your controller supports build initialization, right-click the controller in the
Enterprise View and click
Properties
.
●
Manual verification
—If your controller doesn’t support build initialization, a Warning-
level event notice appears in the Event Viewer prompting you to verify a logical drive
before you begin to use it. To verify a logical drive manually, see
Verifying and Fixing a
Logical Drive
on page 75
.
●
Background verification
—If your controller supports background consistency check,
Adaptec Storage Manager continually and automatically checks your logical drives once
they’re in use.
To see if your controller supports background consistency check, right-click the controller
in the Enterprise View, then click
Properties
. To enable or disable background consistency
check, see
page 76
.
Note:
If your controller doesn’t support background consistency check, Adaptec highly
recommends that you verify your logical drives weekly, following the instructions in
Verifying
and Fixing a Logical Drive
on page 75
.