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Using the Logical Drives Window
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ASUS GUI RAID Manager: Basic Operations at Startup 3.6.4 Using the Logical Drives Window The Logical Drives window is where you perform management on the logical drives of the disk array system. Logical drives are combinations of physical drives, which are used to create logical volumes. These volumes (or their partitions) can then be mapped to various host LUNs. The Logical Drives window allows you to create logical drives, delete existing ones, and rebuild failed drives. It uses unique colors to distinguish between logical drives. When a physical drive within a logical drive fails, the system notifies you by darkening the color of the affected logical drive. The logical drive will remain in this state until either a spare is detected and rebuilding is automatically started, or the drive is replaced and rebuilding is manually initiated. While rebuilding a logical drive, the GUI RAID Manager reports the progress of the rebuilding process by filling in the color of the logical drive accordingly. After rebuilding is complete, the logical drive will display its normal color, signifying on-line condition. To facilitate management of the Logical Drives window, the GUI RAID Manager supports drag-and-drop operations to establish certain associations. For example, to assign a particular physical drive as a spare to a logical drive, just drag the desired physical drive over to the logical drive window and drop it into the target logical drive. To display the Logical Drives window, you can either click on the Logical Drives command button or select the Logical Drives command from the Open menu. A window similar to the following will appear on the screen: 3.6 Working with Windows 3-31