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10. When you are finished defining the current logical drive, highlight Accept and press Enter. If
there is space remaining in the arrays, the next logical drive ready to be configured appears.
Repeat steps 6 to 9 to configure another logical drive. If the array space has been used up, a
list of the existing logical drives appears. Press any key to continue. Respond to the Save
prompt.
11. Initialize the logical drives you have just configured. See Initializing Logical Drives below.
D. Designating Drives as Hot Spares
Hot Spares
There are two methods for designating physical drives as hot spares:
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Press F4: While creating arrays in Easy, New or View/Add Configuration mode, press F4.
When you choose any configuration option in the Configure menu, all physical devices
connected to the current adapter are listed. Press the arrow keys to highlight a disk drive that
has a READY indicator and press F4 to designate it as a hot spare. The indicator changes to
HOTSP.
or
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Objects Menu: Highlight a drive using the space bar and press Enter. Select Make Hot
Spare. Select Objects from the Configure menu, then select physical drive. A physical drive
selection screen will appear. Press the space bar to select a disk drive and press Enter to
display the action menu for the drive. Press the arrow keys to select Make Hot Spare and
press Enter. The indicator for the selected drive changes to HOTSP.
E. Initializing Logical Drives
You should initialize each new logical drive you configure. You can initialize the logical drives in
two ways:
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Batch Initialization lets you initialize up to eight logical drives simultaneously
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Individual Initialization lets you initialize an individual logical drive
NOTE A 5-drive RAID 5 array typically takes 620 seconds to initialize 10 GB of logical
capacity.
Batch Initialization
To initialize multiple logical drives, perform the following steps:
1. Choose Initialize from the HP NetRAID Config Management Menu. A list of the current
logical drives appears.
2. Press the arrow keys to highlight all drives to be initialized. Press the spacebar to select the
highlighted logical drive for initialization. Press F2 to select or deselect all the logical drives.
3. When you have selected the logical drives, press F10 and choose Yes at the confirmation
prompt. The progress of the initialization for each drive is shown in bar graph format.
4. When initialization is complete, press any key to continue. Press Esc to return to the
Management Menu.