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4.3 Viewing the Connected Drives
Prior to configuring disk drives into a logical drive, it is necessary to
understand the status of the physical drives in your enclosure.
Figure 4 - 5: View and Edit Drives Page
Use the arrow keys to scroll down to “View and Edit Drives” to display
information on all the physical drives installed.
Drives are listed in the “View and Edit Drives” table. Use the arrow keys
to scroll the table. First examine whether there is any drive installed but
not listed here. If a disk drive is installed but not listed, the drive may be
defective or not installed correctly. If so, please contact your RAID
supplier.
IMPORTANT!
• Drives of the same brand/model/capacity might not have the
same block number.
• The basic read/write unit of a hard drive is block. If members
of a logical drive have different block numbers (capacity), the
smallest block number will be taken as the maximum capacity
to be used in every drive. Therefore, use drives of the same
capacity.
• You may assign a Spare Drive to a logical drive whose
members have a block number equal or smaller than the
Local/Global Spare Drive, but you should not do the reverse.