Adaptec 7220ss User Guide

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Creating and Managing Arrays and Partitions
After expanding an array, you can either add a partition or expand 
the last partition to use the new free space. You can also delete one 
or more partitions and expand a partition into the space.
Viewing Partition Status Information
You can perform three functions related to partition status. You 
can
View partition status. See 
.
View partition statistics. See 
Reset partition statistics. See 
Viewing Partition Status
You can view the following information for any partition:
Array state
—Online, Offline, Critical, or Fault-tolerant.
Array type
—RAID level (0, 3, 4, 5, 50, volume, or mirrored). The 
term mirrored is used for both RAID 1 and RAID 10 arrays.
Array drives
—Number of disk drives in the array when fault-
tolerant. For example, if you create a 3-drive RAID 5 array and 
lose one disk drive, the number will still display 3.
Name
—Name you give to the partition.
Serial number
—Unique number the controller assigns to each 
partition.
Target ID:LUN
—Target ID and LUN presented to the host.
Partition size
—Size of the partition (expressed in MB).
Percentage of total array
—The percentage of the total array that 
this partition represents.
Write-back caching
—Status of the cache for the array.