Drive roaming, Initializing logical drives, Deleting logical drives – Dell PERC 4/DC User Manual
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Drive Roaming
Drive roaming (also known as configuration on disk) occurs when the hard drives are changed to different channels on the same controller. When the drives
are placed on different channels, the controller detects the RAID configuration from the configuration data on the drives. See
Drive Roaming
in the
RAID
Controller Features
section for more information. Perform the following steps to add support for drive roaming:
1.
Press <Ctrl><M> during system boot to run the BIOS Configuration Utility.
2.
Select Configure—> View/Add Configuration.
3.
Select Disk when asked to use Disk or NVRAM.
4.
Select Save.
5.
Press <Esc> to exit the BIOS Configuration Utility.
6.
Reboot the computer.
Initializing Logical Drives
Initialize each new logical drive you configure. You can initialize the logical drives individually or in batches (up to 40 simultaneously).
Batch Initialization
1.
Select Initialize from the Management Menu.
A list of the current logical drives appears.
2.
Press the spacebar to select the desired logical drive for initialization.
3.
Press <F2> to select/deselect all logical drives.
4.
After you finish selecting logical drives, press <F10> and select Yes from the confirmation prompt.
The progress of the initialization for each drive is shown in bar graph format.
5.
When initialization is complete, press any key to continue or press <Esc> to display the Management Menu.
Individual Initialization
1.
Select the Objects—> Logical Drive from the Management Menu.
2.
Select the logical drive to be initialized.
3.
Select Initialize from the action menu.
Initialization progress appears as a bar graph on the screen.
4.
When initialization completes, press any key to display the previous menu.
Deleting Logical Drives
This RAID controller supports the ability to delete any unwanted logical drives and use that space for a new logical drive. You can have an array with multiple
logical drives and delete a logical drive without the whole array.
After you delete a logical drive, you can create a new one. You can use the configuration utilities to create the next logical drive from the non-contiguous free
space (`holes'), and from the newly created arrays. The configuration utility provides a list of configurable arrays where there is a space to configure.