Container, Configure drives – Adaptec 48300 User Manual
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concatenation
Joining of physical or logical drives in sequential order.
configure drives
Process of preparing a disk for use by the HostRAID controller. When a
disk is initialized, the HostRAID controller records the RAID signature
on the disk.
configured array
An array that is ready for data reads and writes. Arrays can be
configured by
container
See
D
dead partition
See
.
degraded
A redundant (for example, a RAID 1) array in which one or more
members have failed. The data is intact but redundancy has been
compromised. Any further failure would cause the array to fail and
result in data loss.
dirty data
Data that has been written to a
, but which has not been “flushed”
out to its final destination.
disk
A nonremovable platter in a disk drive, or removable media used in a
CD drive, floppy disk drive, or Zip drive. See also
disk ID
Unique disk identifier that consists of the channel number, ID, and
LUN (channel:ID:LUN), for example, 1:04:0. See also
.
domain
All the devices that may communicate with each other.