Dell 3 - Manual (Page 200)

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The progress of the initialization for each drive displays in bar graph
format.
6 When initialization is complete, press any key to continue.
7 Press <Esc> to display the Management Menu.
Individual Initialization
Perform the following steps to initialize one logical drive.
1 Select Objects—> Logical Drive.
2 Select the logical drive to be initialized.
3 Choose Initialize from the action menu.
The progress of the initialization displays as a graph on the screen.
4 When initialization completes, press any key to display the previous
menu.
Deleting Logical Drives (Random Array
Deletion)
This RAID controller supports random array deletion. Random array
deletion is the ability to delete any unwanted logical drives and use that
space for a new logical drive.
NOTE: For more
information about
random array deletion,
refer to page 99.
The main benefit of random array deletion on the configuration module is
that you are not restricted to sequential or contiguous logical drives when
you create logical drives. You can use non-contiguous segments to create
logical drives.
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.
NOTICE: The deletion of the logical drive can fail under certain conditions.
You cannot delete a logical drive during a reconstruction. Deletion can fail
during a rebuild, initialization or check consistency of a logical drive, if that
drive has a higher logical drive number than the drive you want to delete.