IBM 86624RY Maintenance Manual - Page 95

Actions - Basic: This is the default setting. When this mode is Enabled, the configuration program automatically initializes each new logical drive and prevents access to the manual initialization and synchronization functions. This choice also forces the synchronization of all new RAID level-5 logical drives attached to older ServeRAID adapter or controller models that do not support the auto-synchronization feature. - Advanced: When Enabled, this choice lets you select to automatically initialize new logical drives and force the synchronization of all new RAID level-5 logical drives before exiting the ServeRAID Configuration Program. Attention If you disable Automatic Initialization, the ServeRAID Configuration Program will not initialize each logical drive (by writing zeros to the first 1024 sectors of the logical drive) when it is created. You still must initialize all newly defined logical drives before storing data. If you disable the synchronization feature and the level of firmware being used by the ServeRAID adapter or controller does not support the auto-synchronization feature, you still must synchronize all RAID level-5 logical drives before storing data. All choices available from the Actions pull-down menu also are available from the pop-up lists that appear when you use the right mouse button and select the object in the Main Tree. The following choices appear on the Actions pull-down menu when you select a ServeRAID controller from the Main Tree: Configure the ServeRAID Controller: This choice is available in the Information mode only. It appears on the pull-down menu when there are Netfinity 5500 M20 - Type 8662 87