Dell PERC 4/SI - Manual (Page 40)

The logical drives you configured need to be initialized to prepare them for use.
23. Select Initialize on the Management Menu.
The configured logical drives display.
24. Use the arrow key to highlight a logical drive, then press the spacebar to select a logical drive or press<F2> to select all the logical drives.
25. Press <F10> to initialize the selected logical drive(s) and select Yes at the prompt.
A progress bar displays.
26. When the initialization is complete, press <Esc> to return to the Management Menu.
Using View/Add Configuration
View/Add Configuration allows you to control the same logical drive parameters as New Configuration without disturbing the existing configuration
information. In addition, you can enable the Configuration on Disk feature.
1. Select Configure—> View/Add Configuration from the Management Menu.
Hot key information appears at the bottom of the screen.
2. Press the arrow keys to highlight specific physical drives.
3. Press the spacebar to associate the selected physical drive with the current array.
The selected drive changes from READY to ONLIN A[array number]-[drive number]. For example, ONLIN A02-03 means array 2 with hard drive 3.
4. Add physical drives to the current array as desired.
Try to use drives of the same capacity in a specific array. If you use drives with different capacities in an array, all drives in the array are treated as if
they have the capacity of the smallest drive in the array.
5. Press <Enter> twice after you finish creating the current array.
The Select Configurable Array(s) window appears. It displays the array and array number, such as A-00.
6. Press the spacebar to select the array.
Span information, such as Span-1, displays in the array box. You can create multiple arrays, then select them to span them.
7. Press <F10> to configure a logical drive.
The logical drive configuration screen appears. Span=Yes displays on this screen if you select two or more arrays to span.
8. Highlight RAID and press <Enter> to set the RAID level for the logical drive.
The available RAID levels for the current logical drive appear.
NOTE: A full initialization will not resume after a power loss; it will start completely over.
NOTE: When you create a logical drive, you can select more than 2 TB of physical hard drive space, but 2 TB is the largest logical drive you can
create. After you select the physical drives, you are prompted to press <Enter> to accept the 2TB logical drive size. You are then prompted to
accept the next logical drive, which will be the remaining amount of physical hard drive space.
NOTE: You can press <F2> to display the number of drives in the array, their channel and ID, and <F3> to display array information, such as the
stripes, slots, and free space.