SUPER MICRO Computer AOC-USAS-L4i - Manual (Page 23)

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Safety Information and Technical Specifications
3. Select an unconfigured drive or Ready drive from the list, and press Enter.
4. When the Physical Drive Property menu appears, select Make Hot Spare and
press Enter.
5. Select Yes from the pop-up menu to create the hotspare drive.
Note: To remove a hotspare drive, perform steps 1 and 2 above, select the
HOTSP disk, press Enter, select Force Offline, and press Enter. The status of the
drive changes to READY, and it can then be used in another new array.
Initializing Logical Drives
Caution: When you initialize a logical drive all existing data on the logical drive
is erased.
This section explains the two methods of initializing a logical drive with the Mega-
RAID BIOS CU. If the Fast Init property is enabled, fast initialization will be used.
In fast initialization, the MegaRAID BIOS CU quickly writes zeroes to the first and
last 8 Mbyte regions of the new logical drive. If the Fast Init property is not enabled,
the MegaRAID BIOS CU performs a complete initialization on the logical drive. This
may take a long time if the physical disk drives are large.
(First Initialization Method) Follow these steps to initialize a logical drive using the
Initialize menu:
1. On the Management Menu, select Initialize.
2. Use the spacebar to highlight the logical drive to initialize. The logical drive name
is highlighted in yellow. To deselect it, highlight the logical drive and press the
spacebar again.
3. Press F10.
4. Select Yes at the prompt and press Enter to begin the initialization.
A graph shows the progress of the initialization until it is complete.