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.
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
can
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View partition status. See
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View partition statistics. See
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Reset partition statistics. See
Viewing Partition Status
You can view the following information for any partition:
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Array state
—Online, Offline, Critical, or Fault-tolerant.
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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.
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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.
lose one disk drive, the number will still display 3.
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Name
—Name you give to the partition.
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Serial number
—Unique number the controller assigns to each
partition.
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Target ID:LUN
—Target ID and LUN presented to the host.
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Partition size
—Size of the partition (expressed in MB).
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Percentage of total array
—The percentage of the total array that
this partition represents.
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Write-back caching
—Status of the cache for the array.