ASUS GUI RAID Manager: Basic Operations at Startup
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Working with Windows
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3.6.4 Using the Logical Drives Window
The Logical Drives window is where you perform management
on the logical drives of the disk array system. Logical drives are
combinations of physical drives, which are used to create logical
volumes.
These volumes (or their partitions) can then be
mapped to various host LUNs.
The Logical Drives window allows you to create logical drives,
delete existing ones, and rebuild failed drives. It uses unique
colors to distinguish between logical drives. When a physical
drive within a logical drive fails, the system notifies you by
darkening the color of the affected logical drive. The logical
drive will remain in this state until either a spare is detected and
rebuilding is automatically started, or the drive is replaced and
rebuilding is manually initiated.
While rebuilding a logical drive, the GUI RAID Manager reports
the progress of the rebuilding process by filling in the color of
the logical drive accordingly. After rebuilding is complete, the
logical drive will display its normal color, signifying on-line
condition.
To facilitate management of the Logical Drives window, the
GUI RAID Manager supports drag-and-drop operations to
establish certain associations. For example, to assign a particular
physical drive as a spare to a logical drive, just drag the desired
physical drive over to the logical drive window and drop it into
the target logical drive.
To display the Logical Drives window, you can either click on
the Logical Drives command button or select the Logical
Drives command from the Open menu. A window similar to the
following will appear on the screen: