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Partitioning and formatting your logical drives – Adaptec Storage Manager User Manual

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Step 4: Building Your Storage Space

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To specify a size for the logical drives, or to make other changes to
the configuration, click Modify logical devices. See

Step 6 on page

53

for more information.

Note:

Some operating systems have size limitations for logical

drives. Before you save the configuration, verify that the size of the
logical drive is appropriate for your operating system.

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Click Apply, then click Yes.

Adaptec Storage Manager builds the logical drive(s). The
configuration is saved on the Adaptec controller and on the physical
drives.

6

Repeat Steps

1

to

5

for each controller on your system.

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Continue with

Partitioning and Formatting Your Logical Drives

below.

Partitioning and Formatting Your Logical Drives

The logical drives you create appear as physical disk drives on your
operating system. You must partition and format these logical drives
before you can use them to store data.

Note:

Logical drives that have not been partitioned and formatted

cannot be used to store data.

Refer to your operating system documentation for more information.