User`s guide

Chapter 6: Modifying Your Direct Attached Storage ● 68
Verifying Logical Drives
To ensure that there are no data problems on your logical drives, it is important to verify them.
When you verify a logical drive, Adaptec
Storage Manager checks it for inconsistent or bad data
and then fixes any problems. (You can also choose to verify a logical drive without fixing it.)
Logical drives without redundancy (for instance, RAID 0 logical drives) do not need to be verified.
In Adaptec Storage Manager, logical drive verification can occur in different ways, depending
on your controller:
● Automatic verification—If your controller supports build initialization, Adaptec Storage
Manager automatically verifies all new redundant logical drives. No manual verification is
required.
To see if your controller supports build initialization, right-click the controller in the
Enterprise View and click Properties.
● Manual verification—If your controller doesn’t support build initialization, a Warning-
level event notice appears in the event log prompting you to verify a logical drive before
you begin to use it. To verify a logical drive manually, see Ve rif y ing and Fix ing a Lo gic al
Drive on page 68.
● Background verification—If your controller supports background consistency check,
Adaptec Storage Manager continually and automatically checks your logical drives once
they’re in use.
To see if your controller supports background consistency check, right-click the controller
in the Enterprise View, then click Properties. To enable or disable background consistency
check or to set the checking period, see page 69.
Note:
If your controller doesn’t support background consistency check, Adaptec highly
recommends that you verify your logical drives weekly, following the instructions in Verifying
and Fixing a Logical Drive on page 68.
Verifying and Fixing a Logical Drive
Note: To verify a logical drive without fixing it, see page 69.
While Adaptec Storage Manager verifies and fixes a logical drive, you can’t complete any other
tasks on the controller. Because the verification can take a long time to complete, you may
want to schedule it as a task to be completed overnight or on a weekend.
To verify and fix a logical drive:
1 Ensure that no activity is taking place on the controller associated with the logical drive
you want to verify and fix.
2 In the Enterprise View, click the controller.
3 In the Logical Devices View, click the logical drive.
4 In the menu bar, select Actions, then click Ve r ify w ith f ix .
5 To begin the verification immediately, click Ye s .
To schedule the verification, click Schedule, then set the date and time. You can also
choose to set the verification as a recurring task. (For more information on scheduling
tasks, see page 82.)