IBM 86601RU Hardware Maintenance Manual - Page 116

Note To ensure that the server operates correctly, you must initialize the new logical drive. A quick initialization of a logical drive erases the first 1024 sectors on the drive. 7. When the Confirm pop-up window appears, you have two choices: Select Yes to perform a quick initialization; then, press Enter. When the quick initialization is complete, go to step 8. Select No and if the drive is a RAID level 5 drive, it will be automatically synchronized in the background. Go to "Initializing logical drives" on page 109 to perform a complete initialization. 8. If you just performed a quick initialization of a RAID level 5 logical drive, a message appears, stating that the logical drive that you just created is being synchronized in the background and is ready for data storage. You have now completed the required steps for creating a ServeRAID configuration. Continue with the next step in this procedure. 9. Back up the disk-array configuration information to diskette. See "Backing up the disk-array configuration" on page 126 for instructions. If you have not already done so, use the information provided in the ServerGuide package to install the operating system. Initializing/Synchronizing logical drives at the same time: Initializing a logical drive sets the drive to a predetermined state. The initialization process overwrites any data on the drive with zeros, and all existing data is lost. The purpose of synchronizing logical drives is to compute and, if necessary, write the parity data on the selected RAID level 5 logical drive. If you did not initialize the logical drives when you defined them, you can now initialize multiple logical drives at the same time. However you can still initialize and synchronize multiple logical drives in separate steps (see "Initializing logical drives" on page 109 and "Synchronizing logical drives" on page 110 for instructions). To initialize/synchronize logical drives: 1. Select Initialize/Synchronize Log Drive from the Main Menu; then, press Enter. 2. Select Initialize/Synchronize Log Drive from the next menu; then, press Enter. 3. Use the Up Arrow (↑) or Down Arrow (↓) key to highlight the logical drive that you want to initialize/synchronize; then, press the Spacebar to select the drive. Continue doing this until you have 108 Netfinity Server HMM