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Asus PIKE 2008/IMR User Manual

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Chapter 2: RAID configuration

Viewing and Changing Virtual Drive Properties

Access the Virtual Drive screen by clicking a virtual drive icon in the right panel

on the WebBIOS CU main screen. The following figure shows the Virtual Drive

screen.

The Properties panel of this screen displays the virtual drive’s RAID level, state,

capacity, and strip size.
The Policies panel lists the virtual drive policies that were defined when the storage

configuration was created. To change any of these policies, make a selection from

the drop-down menu and click Change.
The Operations panel lists operations that can be performed on the virtual drive.

To perform an operation, select it and click Go. Then choose from the following

options:
• Select Delete to delete this virtual drive.
• Select Locate to make the LEDs flash on the drives used by this virtual drive.

This works only if the drives are installed in a drive enclosure that supports

SAFTE.

• Select Fast or Slow to initialize this virtual drive. A fast initialization quickly

writes zeroes to the first and last 10-MB regions of the new virtual drive and

then completes the initialization in the background. A slow initialization is not

complete until the entire virtual drive has been initialized with zeroes. It is

seldom necessary to use this option, because the virtual drive was already

initialized when you created it.

Before you run an initialization, back up any data on the virtual drive that you

want to save. All data on the virtual drive is lost when you initialize it.