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MegaRAID SAS Software User GuideChapter 10: Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations
| Running a Consistency
Check
Figure 194: Group Initialization Dialog Box
2. Check the virtual drives to run the initialization on or click Select All to select all of
the virtual drives.
3. Click Start.
You can monitor the progress of the group initialization. See Section9.9, Monitoring
Rebuilds and Other Processes for more information.
10.2 Running a Consistency
Check
The Consistency Check operation verifies correctness of the data in virtual drives that
use RAID levels 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60. (RAID 0 does not provide data redundancy). For
example, in a system with parity, checking consistency means computing the data on
one drive and comparing the results to the contents of the parity drive.
You should run a consistency check on fault-tolerant virtual drives periodically. You
must run the consistency check if you suspect that the virtual drive data might be
corrupted. Be sure to back up the data before running a consistency check if you think
the data might be corrupted.
To run a consistency check, first set the consistency check properties and then
schedule the consistency check. This section explains how to set the properties,
schedule the check, and run the consistency check.