The ServeRAID Adapter Main Menu

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The ServeRAID Adapter Main Menu

The ServeRAID Adapter Main Menu

If more than one ServeRAID adapter is installed in the server, you will get an adapter selection screen similar to the following before the Main Menu appears.

Note:

The version numbers on the screens might be different. Some menus might differ slightly, depending on the version that was shipped with the server.
The primary diskette drive is the first diskette drive that the system tries to start from.

Menu Navigation Keys

Note: You can select HELP from any menu.

/ To select a menu item, use the keys to highlight the item or press the number of the item then Enter

Esc key Returns you to the previous screen or to the previous work area of a screen.

The Main Menu contains the following choices:

Help Provides additional information.
View Configuration Displays the existing disk array configuration.
Create/Delete Array/Log Drive Allows you to select the drives to create an array, or to delete an existing array. It also allows you to define and delete a logical drive.
Whenever you make changes to the disk-array configuration and select Exit, the Confirm pop-up window will appear. You must select Yes to save and activate the changes.
Initialize/Synchronize Log Drive Select this choice after creating an array:
- Initialize Logical Drive You must select this choice to set the logical drive to a predetermined value. Any data existing on the drive is overwritten with zeros.
  You can choose to initialize more than one logical drive at a time. You can interrupt the initialization process at any time by pressing Esc, Then You can either restart the initialization process by pressing Enter, or you can end the process by pressing Esc again.
- Synchronize Logical Drive You must select this choice to recompute and rewrite the parity data on the selected drive for RAID level 5 before storing data. This selection does not alter data on the drive. It's a good practice to synchronize logical drives with RAID level 1 and 5 weekly
  For more details see >> RAID HDD and Synchronization
Rebuild/Device Management Select to rebuild logical drives. The rebuild operation is supported only for RAID levels 1 and 5. You also use this option to define or change the state of a drive, display drive information, and clear the device error table.
Advanced Functions Select this choice to change the write policy (the way data is written to the drive), to savethe configuration information to a diskette, to restore it from a diskette, or to change ServeRAID parameters. This choice also allows you to perform a low-level format on a hard disk and run the RAID subsystems diagnostics. You can initialize the adapter configuration, which resets the configuration values to the factory defaults. You can also synchronize the primary and backup copies of the adapter configuration information.
Exit Select this choice to leave the Main Menu.

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