HP Workstation xw6000 Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S: Software Reference Guide - Page 342

Adaptec SCSI RAID Software Reference Guide ■ When assigning spare drives to a RAID 10 or a RAID 50, the ACU assigns all the drives in the list to all the arrays within the RAID 10 (or RAID 50). ■ ACU only creates dedicated hot spares. If the same drive is assigned to protect multiple arrays, only the last array that drive is assigned to will be protected. ■ The ACU makes no checks to ensure that the amount of available space on the specified spare drives is sufficient to serve as failover for the given array. Example: HotspareDrives=1:0:0,1:1:0 The InitializeAll Keyword InitializeAll is an optional keyword, indicating that all the drives connected to the controller should be initialized and any existing arrays deleted before creating a new array. This property applies to all drives on all channels of the controller. If InitializeAll is not specified, the value No is used. Possible values are as follows: ■ Yes-Initialize all drives. ■ No-Do not initialize all drives; only those drives specified with the Drives property keyword are initialized. The InitializeAll keyword is both global and positionindependent within a script file. If InitializeAll=Yes appears in any array definition block within the file, all drives connected to the controller are initialized and any existing arrays are deleted before any new arrays are created. If there is no InitializeAll=Yes property specified anywhere in the script, the ACU initializes only those drives specified with the Drives property keyword. See Initializing a Disk Drive on page 13-7 for more details. Note that it is not necessary to specify InitializeAll=Yes in more than one array definition block. If both InitializeAll=Yes and InitializeAll=No are specified within a script file, regardless of their position within the file, InitializeAll=Yes is the overriding value. 13-20