Promise Technology Pegasus R6 - Redundancy Check on a Logical Drive

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• Quick Initialization – Check the box and enter a value in the Quick
Initialization Size field. This value is the size of the initialization blocks in
MB.
• Full Initialization – Do not check the box. Enter a hexadecimal value in
the Initialization Pattern in Hex field or use the default 00000000 value.
5. Click the Confirm button.
6. In the Confirmation box, type the word “confirm” in the field provided and
click the Confirm button.
Pausing and Resuming an Initialization
To pause or resume Initialization:
1. From the Admin menu, choose Background Activities.
The list of background activities appears.
2. Mouse-over Initialization and click the Pause or Resume button.
Stopping an Initialization
To stop means to cancel an Initialization:
1. From the Admin menu, choose Background Activities.
The list of background activities appears.
2. Mouse-over Initialization and click the Stop button.
3. In the Confirmation box, type the word “confirm” in the field provided and
click the Confirm button.
Redundancy Check on a Logical Drive
Redundancy Check is a routine maintenance procedure for fault-tolerant disk
arrays (those with redundancy) that ensures all the data matches exactly.
Redundancy Check can also correct inconsistencies.
To run Redundancy Check on a logical drive:
1. From the Admin menu, choose Background Activities.
The list of background activities appears.
2. Mouse-over Redundancy Check and click the Start button.
3. Check the boxes to the left of the logical drives on which to run Redundancy
Check.
4. Check the options you want:
• Auto Fix – Attempts to repair the problem when it finds an error
• Pause on Error – The process stops when it finds a non-repairable
error
5. Click the Confirm button.