4.6 Scanning In Drives

Disk scanning is a process in which a newly installed drive is introduced to the disk array system. You need to scan in a drive when:

If you do not scan in the drive on such occasions, the system will not be able to see the drive, rendering it useless.

Scanning in a drive

1. Display Physical View under the RAID View window by clicking on the Physical View command button under the introduction or selecting Physical View from the navigation panel.

2. In Physical View, double-click on the channel corresponding to the SCSI ID of the drive to be scanned.

3. Click on a drive icon and choose Scan New Drive.

4. Choose the channel number and ID where the new drive is located.

5. Click OK. The system will ask for a password and then scan for a drive with the specified ID. It will then either display a successful confirmation message or an error message.

6. Repeat steps 2 through 5 to scan additional drives.

RAIDWatch Manager will add a drive icon to the relevant channel if the scanning process is successful. The new drive can now be added to an existing logical drive or used to create a new logical drive.


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