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Chapter 5: Management with the CLU
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Making Logical Drive Settings
To make Logical Drive settings:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Logical Drive Management and press
Enter.
2. Highlight the logical drive you want and press Enter.
3. For the following items, accept the existing setting choose a new one:
• Highlight Alias and type an alias into the field provided.
Maximum of 32 characters. Use letters, numbers, space between words
and underscore. An alias is optional.
• Highlight WritePolicy and press the spacebar to toggle between
WriteBack and WriteThru (write though).
• Highlight ReadPolicy and press the spacebar to toggle though
ReadCache, ReadAhead and None.
• Highlight Preferred Controller ID and press the spacebar to toggle
between 1 and 2.
4. Press Control-A to save your settings.
Initializing a Logical Drive
This function sets all data bits in the logical drive to zero.
To initialize a logical drive:
1. From the Main Menu, highlight Logical Drive Management and press
Enter.
2. Highlight the logical drive you want and press Enter.
3. Highlight Background Activities and press Enter.
4. Highlight Start Initialization and press Enter.
The initialization parameters appear.
• Initialization pattern – The default 00000000 is best for most
applications
• Quick Initialization – Yes means only the first and last sections of the
logical drives are initialized. No means the entire logical drive is
initialized.
Warning
When you initialize a logical drive, all the data on the logical drive
is lost. Backup any important data before you initialize a logical
drive.